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I've just started drinking our first cider brew, the Mangrove Jacks pear and strawberry cider. We bottled on 13-01-14 and the flavour is great, Mrs. BLWNHR is very happy (thank goodness). We used the full sweetener sachet and the result is what I would call off-sweet. Mrs. cracked a Rekorderlig...

Yeah, it dyno'd at 180rwkW/320rwNm on the old motor, this new one has a better custom-grind cam and should be good for about 60rwkW more. We've got off the subject of beer and brewing a bit, haha. Perhaps I'm better to get a basic kit, do a few brews then look into something more elaborate.

Haha, no problems. They are rubbish mobile phone photos from last weekend. It's been off the road for 5 years after an oiling failure spun a bearing, finally got it back going again and am running the new motor in. The other shot is of the next project that turned up from the US (via WA) in August.

Will do, thanks. I may be able to source grain from them. We had a dinner last month and they all said using fresh grist makes a huge difference to the flavour. On their commercial level they have a 4 hour window to use it or it's binned as they reckon it loses too much flavour. Yeah, I read...

No joke. :unsure: I've never been banned and this account was started nearly 2 years ago, I've logged on as I've had the time. The trouble with the my commercial brewing process knowledge is it's based on 100+ million litres/year capacity which is enormously different to 100 litres/year. Once...

Hi all, I've been a member for a while, reading and taking it all in, unfortunately I've been too time poor to get into home brewing. Fortunately I've just sold my business and I'll have nights and weekends again! The Mrs. is a cider fan and wants to get into brewing that and I'd like to get...