Where I am today

[buffalobob]

Knee deep? You want to be knacker deep, mmmm mmmm I love sausages and onion gravy.

[Easydrinker]

Venison sausage recipe duly posted a month ago, in the food section.

Now, a bit of late night, possibly drunken weirdness.
I possess a brown paper bag of whole cloves, around the size of a Kg of sugar.
It will last my lifetime.
I can tell how warm it is indoors, from the depth of smell that greets me when I step inside.
The cloves just exude in the warm.
And these are old cloves, more than 10 years by now.

Today I took delivery of some ground Aniseed, in a plastic zip lock type bag.
Smelliest envelope I have ever receieved.

Competion in the spice cupboard me thinks.?

Robert.

[Easydrinker]

This thread has fallen quiet.
So, today I phone a next door farm, over an invoice issued a month ago, and it's late payment.
The farmer speaks to his mother, (who writes the cheques), she 'phones me.
With a little garbled information, speaking to mother on the phone while searching, I find a very wet cheque in a very wet plastic bag, which had been blowing around for a month!
Bejasus!
I quietly explain to mother that we have a post box, and that she doesn't need to leave items under a rock!
WTF?
But it is kinda cute, that she uses old ways.

Robert.

[Mash]

Nice. Very nice. Not much hope for a online transfer then

[Elecrafter]

Well.... My Tomato and Lentil wash has been distilled, and I didn't do the best job as it was my very first attempt with my newly build Boka. Lots learned and some very useful hints from ED. Yesterday I tasted the jars and couldn't really tell the difference in the middle of the jars. All had a strange sort of flavour. Well strange to me! So I put one through a carbon filter (at 40% abv) in the afternoon, then re-filtered it through another new filter overnight. This morning I tasted it again, and its turned into a quite drinkable neutral with very little after taste. I have started to filter the next jar along and will know later in the day how it goes.

Slow progress on the spirit, but the Hugh Fearnly Whittingstall Ginger Beer is still bubbling away nicely. I did a 2 litre Pop bottle as per his recipe a few weeks ago. That disappeared in a single day, so have a DJ full on the go now. Although he says to ferment in the plastic pop bottle, and this indeed works (too well) and had so much gas in it I lost half over the floor when I opened it. The DJ is glass, so I have an air lock on it for safety, but will transfer it to pop bottles later and add a teaspoon of sugar at the end to re-gas it. Certainly is a half decent recipe, quick too.

Slow but steady progress here. Thanks to all those who have commented and help me so far. I am learning.

Ele.

[DorsetScott]

I am still in the office. Unfortunately supporting retail and payment systems is key worker material.

Did a spirit run on my second gen cornflake whisky last night, kept a feints jar this time as per EDs advice and will sort the cuts tonight.
Got another batch to spirit run so will add the feints and see if I can discern a taste difference.

Also should have the results of an experiment tonight. Brewed a stout a couple weeks ago, and kept 4 litres back for a yeast experiment. Having completed it and ended up with about 3 collectable litres of finished product, I split it between 2 plastic bottles and froze it. Freezer "distilled" this a couple of times and now have about 500ml of what I'm hoping will be a rather strong stout which can be drunk more like a spirit than a beer.
If not, I've learnt something anyway.

[gaza the instructor]

Well not a lot going on here,. I keep spinning a coin beer or exercise,
Nuff said

[Easydrinker]

Well not a lot going on here,. I keep spinning a coin beer or exercise,
Nuff said

With limits , both are good for you!

Robert.

[Northern Stiller]

Hi Everyone

Been away for a while been checking in periodically to see what's going on and it's nice to see some new faces.

I finally got round to doing my first batch of the year find this time of year best warm enough for my ferments and cold enough to clear the wash in a reasonable time.

I made a new purchase a thermometer I can check over the internet tried it for first time yesterday it seems ok but time will tell didn't really change when tails starting coming through although it can be only .1 °c change so maybe not sensitive enough.

Some one bought me an Alexa for Christmas (bastard) So in my usual way I've gone overboard and started connecting everything to it. Mrs Stiller not impressed and calls her the bitch as she tends to ignore her.

Hope to be on here more unfortunately I'm classed as a key worker so still have to work and not from home.

Keep Safe

Lee

[Mash]

Good to see you back Lee.

There are a few of us who are key workers - shouldn't moan, but it does somehow seem a bit unfair.

[Mash]

Good to see you back Lee.

There are a few of us who are key workers - shouldn't moan, but it does somehow seem a bit unfair.

[phantom]

Meh! being a "key workers" with no key work to do is a pain.......

[myles]

I spent the day stripping 120 litres of rum wash. Added to the previous batch that I had stored - I now have 56 litres of low wines ready to do a spirit run.
I salvaged the yeast from the fermenter, washed it a bit, and put 1 gallon with some fresh wash on a heat pad with an air stone to re-activate it from its cold sleep. If it is OK tomorrow I will wash the other gallon of slops and warm it up also.

13 kg of demerara sugar was dissolved in 20 litres of fresh hot dunder, and put in the (cleaned) fermenter with 2.5 kg treacle and made up to 100 litres ready for the yeast. The other 12 kg of demerara gets added later with another 20 litres of water.

Washed out 3 more 160 litre fermenters, and packed away 87 kg of malt in poly drums to stop the mice.

[Easydrinker]

Keeping farmers silage fields free of moles, may or may not be "key" work.
Silage cut and incorporating mole hills/soil is condemned as poisonous.
It is a job that I can do in splendid isolation, while getting my daily dose of exercise.

Robert.

[Easydrinker]

Meh! being a "key workers" with no key work to do is a pain.......

I thought that you drove/delivered stuff?
Big scale?
That's pretty fecking key...
It means other folk CAN stay at home, or at least local.
Garden sheds are as important as ventilators to some at the moment; people that deliver any kind of item are doing a cracking job.
There may be fewer garden sheds in the pipeline, give it a couple of weeks and trucks will be filled with ventilators, but anything still manufatured is wanted or needed.
And truckers, wholesalers, retailers and small couriers all deserve a round of applause.
Soapbox away.

Robert.

[phantom]

Meh! being a "key workers" with no key work to do is a pain.......

I thought that you drove/delivered stuff?
Big scale?
That's pretty fecking key...
It means other folk CAN stay at home, or at least local.

yes, but if there's no loads being moved there's nothing to do - about half of us have been stood down because of that.........

And there's not enough "essential" stuff coming through the system to warrant all of us being in..........

[Easydrinker]

Buggerty bugger!
Had really expected to make it to next weekend before lambs fell out, but no, the first twins are here, and the rest of the flock also think the current good spell of weather might be useable,
It sounds like 'Old Macdonalds Farm' outside.
We usually have a tame family member vet on site for lambing, but not this time.
Hopefully it will all go well.

Robert.

[Jennysgin]

Oh dear :/ Good luck with the lambing ED

[32_16]

I can work from home which is good and bad... good as I have a job and get paid, bad in as I have to do my job to get paid...

But it meant I was at home when my new boiler arrived today - a 50 litre s/s milk can.

and a four day weekend means a cleaning run, sacrificial run, stripping run and spirit run can happen

Happy easter!!!

[Jennysgin]

Wine yeast has arrived!
I'm a happy bunny

[Jennysgin]

But it meant I was at home when my new boiler arrived today - a 50 litre s/s milk can.

and a four day weekend means a cleaning run, sacrificial run, stripping run and spirit run can happen

Happy easter!!!

Awesome!
Have fun with your new toy 32-16

[Easydrinker]

I accept that courriers/ logistics companies are working their asses at the moment.
Today I entered into what I expect to be a long battle over 5Kg of Citric acid.
I have re-ordered from a different seller, that claims to use Royal Mail.
I'll include a screenshot for your amusement.
Look at the times bottom right and the one top of the listing.
La-La land, and a system in meltdown.

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Robert.

[Mash]

Bonkers. I know they are working hard, exposed and dealing with zillions of items, but sometimes .........

[Mash]

DPD certainly aren't scoring many points on this forum - it was them that 'lost' my grape conc for a few days.

[buffalobob]

They hid a small package in my front garden instead of posting it in my letterbox to make it more fun for me