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Sorry all...current batch has turned out a few % stronger than anticipated, hence my drunken rantings. i don't even remember typing half the **** i've posted recently

...and bitter at 10 minutes to 35-40 IBU :rolleyes:

yes especially that citra, fk it right off (to me!) serious though, here's an recipe that i do all th e time.. 95% base malt 4% carared (or any light crystal really) 1% caraaroma

you sir have an amazing amount of patience. can you give some more details this mead stuff, how long / what temp does it need? no! i'm not searching...no one else does these days so you can all go get fkd! just the basic rumdown wil be fine thanks!

go tropical! **** the kit off, soak some grainz, boil some hops, add teh yeasts...simple really

And if you are careful there should be far less blood

made a bigger sheave to slow this bad boy down...didn't run any grain through as it was after 10pm last night and i live in a block of units wonder how it will take the mrs to find out where the chopping boards have gone?

keep going...

get some grain in that bitch, now!

Some things i've done with success that could work for you... 1. Prime the pump backwards through your return hose, and lift the end of the hose as high as you can go. Pour water in slowly until air stops bubbling back up through your MT (use a funnel) 2. When beginning to run the pump...

thanks for the kind words :) I can share the gear drawing for sure, however it will only work if your rollers are the same diameter as mine. This site might be a bit better as it lets you play around with different gear designs http://woodgears.ca/gear_cutting/template.html Mark that's...

Sure, the mill rollers are made from some hardwood plank cut out with a big hole saw then threaded onto some M12 rod The gears were drawn up in cad then printed to scale and glued onto the ply. Cut them out carefully with a jigsaw

This is what i knocked up today...if you squint it looks pretty. It is an old GMC 1/3hp drill press set at 500rpm and reduced further (but not enough). The only thing i had to do really was to chop the column to the desired height. I braced up the back of the cabinet with 12mm ply then just...

I have a small length of silicon hose that jams onto the barb to get the wort to return close to the bottom, although I couldn't find it for the maiden voyage Just thinking aloud, but I could even make a small copper sparge ring to sit on the bottom of the malt pot. When the malt pot is...

What temp is it sitting at? I'd take a reading now and tonight / tomorrow

truman...****! wipe your ******* urn out

yeah, although I was trying to take the piss about another thread that was going off last night

good work bribie! are you going to pitch now or wait and risk infection???

Ok so heres some pics of all the bits I was pretty disappointed with the cheapo element. Probably my own fault for running it full stick during mash ramps, but upon sober inspection the next day it looked like a jack russell turd and still has scorch marks on it after a sodium perc & caustic...

Here's an option for getting around the opening in the bottom of the malt pipe - don't have one. This is just some fittings mounted through the top plate thing - a chopping board with a bunch of 1.5 mm holes. It is then retained with a couple of s/s rods that span between each handle. I gave...