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[petesbrew]

:lol:


Hey today I was in an op shop and found a "Hudson" brand pressure cooker that actually had a weight on it, plus the original guide book taped to the side for : $9.50
It's got a perfect flat bottom so good for electric plate. I've bought it for doing slants.

I was reading the instruction book + 150 tried and true recipes so decided to try it out in the kitchen first - bought some cheapo lamb chops, and assembled a convict stew with lamb, stock, onions, swede etc and cranked the thing up. When it was shooting steam I put the weight on and turned it down, walked away and came back about 10 minutes later and nearly burst into tears. Suddenly I was 7 years old again in my Mam's kitchen with the pressure cooker going "fut fut fut fut" and exactly the same aroma filling the kitchen.

Hey funny how something like that can reach out over half a century and just whack you right out of the blue. Thanks for what was actually a very happy childhood, Mam. :icon_cheers:

Nice.
I've got my mum's old ginger beer recipe. I still have to give it a try, 1) for a trip down memory lane, and 2) to see if it was alcoholic :icon_cheers:

 

[Dave70]

Teddy Bears' Picnic.

 

[peaky]

A good example of trolling, BribieG.
Scroll down to comments 6, 56 & 91 plus all the bites he gets inbetween.
http://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-advis...r-1226058733592

:lol: Yep, that's a good one. He must laugh his ass off when he reads some of those bites!

 

[Lecterfan]

Well, of course the taste is another issue BUT the smell of 120 gms of POR flowers being chucked in at 20 mins is bluddy bewdeefool.

 

[Lecterfan]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ds7OfXXi-c

 

[argon]

Haven't had a beer for about 10 days now (i must say i feel pretty good and have droppd a couple of kgs) and I've got 6 full to the brim kegs and 20L of a comp beer ready to be packaged on the weekend. Holy shit i'm really not looking forward to a bottling session... haven't bottled a batch in close to 18months... it's really gonna give me the shits. Can't stretch the budget to get myself a keg as i have zero (or less than) in the bank account, otherwise i would. Bottling and me just don't get on... sounds like i need to invite some mates over to clear some keg space.

 

[bum]

streamofconsciousnessftw!

 

[Pennywise]

Felt the same way bottling a Scottish /80 a few weeks ago. Dredded it for a week before I kicked myself up the arse to do it, thing is, because I knew this beer would be lasting a while I didn't seem to mind. Biggest PITA was the different size bottles I have

 

[argon]

Felt the same way bottling a Scottish /80 a few weeks ago. Dredded it for a week before I kicked myself up the arse to do it, thing is, because I knew this beer would be lasting a while I didn't seem to mind. Biggest PITA was the different size bottles I have

Thinking of bottling from the keg a Belgian Blond I have and then just kegging the Northern English Brown... seems to make more sense bottling a heavier beer than bottling a quaffer/session beer. Like you said better to have a bottled version of a bigger beer so it can get a bit of age on it... added advantage is i can get a higher carb level bottling (relative to the rest of the beers on tap) which would be good for the Belgian. If only i had a CPBF.

 

[Dave70]

Leffe Blonde -$2.92 per bottle.

http://www.graysonline.com/retail/im203435...elgium?spr=true

Hoegaarden - $2.08.

http://www.graysonline.com/retail/im202292...elgium?spr=true


Hardly worth breaking out the rig at those prices..

 

[haysie]

its great being attacked via PM from other homebrewing Aussie communities that dont even talk how to homebrew but rather what we do.
edit. cummunity singular not plural

 

[Lecterfan]

I must say I am terribly excited to mash in tomorrow...first time using oats, first time using cocoa, first time ignoring the fact I have an exam on Thursday and spending Wednesday doing a ******* monster of a porter! :icon_chickcheers:


edit: just realised if I'd mashed in at 8pm (after all the grains were crushed) I could almost be done now - but no, I got pissed instead.

 

[argon]

Got home last night and decided to filter a TTLL that had been conditioning for a couple of weeks. Set up the gravity filter into a purged and sanitized keg. Usually takes about 20mins to complete. So left it and went upstairs to start dinner. Came back downstairs 20mins later to find the filter on the ground with the filter in line connection sheared off, the gravity connector pulled out of the fermenter tap and the beer in line from the keg dangling on the floor still attached to the keg dribbling out beer onto the floor. Probably lost about 5 or 6L minimum to the floor.

Filter must have toppled over off the bench some how and just ripped everything apart. Ther was beer everywhere, dripping out if the fermenter, the filter and the keg... All at once.

Guarntee this will be my best ever beer. :angry:

 

[Pennywise]

You have my condolances

 

[Pennywise]

its great being attacked via PM from other homebrewing Aussie communities that dont even talk how to homebrew but rather what we do.
edit. cummunity singular not plural

What, because of the export thread? Bit silly init

 

[brettprevans]

I wonder what
50% ale
50% caararoma
40 IBU would taste like?

A lot of crystal so hop has to be huge. Maybe citra?

 

[Dave70]

Hangover prevention.

Did an overnighter to a little country pub a week back. Spent the day hammering along forestry access roads and fire trails on the bikes.
The entire gaggle consisted of about fifty blokes, give or take, so there was much merriment that evening.
After drinking my fill of limited draught beer, I made the inevitable shift to spirits. Luckily (or not) Turkey and dry was on sale. This also served to ward of the biting cold.
Considering I'd split two large pizzas with a mate earlier in the evening and nearly killed both, I was surprised to find I was still peckish before turning in for the night, so I raided the pubs generously stocked communal kitchen and fixed myself two bowls of coco pops and half a liter of whole milk in a large glass. Or it might have been a vase.

In the normal run of things I never touch garbage like sugar disguised as breakfast serial, but the remaining pizza was only lukewarm and quite inedible (despite us leaving the box resting on the oil heater) but I awoke the next day feeling fresh (ish..) and ready to roll. I actually felt good.
Could have been the coco pops.
Or the milk.
Or the fact that it was the first time since having a baby six month's ago that I've strung together a solid six hours of sleep.
The research continues.

 

[Pennywise]

Or it might have been a vase.

:lol: Gold!

 

[argon]

Hangover prevention.

Did an overnighter to a little country pub a week back. Spent the day hammering along forestry access roads and fire trails on the bikes.
The entire gaggle consisted of about fifty blokes, give or take, so there was much merriment that evening.
After drinking my fill of limited draught beer, I made the inevitable shift to spirits. Luckily (or not) Turkey and dry was on sale. This also served to ward of the biting cold.
Considering I'd split two large pizzas with a mate earlier in the evening and nearly killed both, I was surprised to find I was still peckish before turning in for the night, so I raided the pubs generously stocked communal kitchen and fixed myself two bowls of coco pops and half a liter of whole milk in a large glass. Or it might have been a vase.

In the normal run of things I never touch garbage like sugar disguised as breakfast serial, but the remaining pizza was only lukewarm and quite inedible (despite us leaving the box resting on the oil heater) but I awoke the next day feeling fresh (ish..) and ready to roll. I actually felt good.
Could have been the coco pops.
Or the milk.
Or the fact that it was the first time since having a baby six month's ago that I've strung together a solid six hours of sleep.
The research continues.

It's totally the sleep... i once had a bender away from home when my boy was 3 months old... 5 or 6 hours sleep after a massive day prior and felt fresh as a daisy next day.

 

[Pollux]

I'm also backing the sleep.........

The first night our little one stayed with my inlaws my wife and I both got 12hours of solid sleep, we woke up the next day feeling 5 years younger...