Where I am today

[Mash]

I split my sack up into 5 or 6 sealed buckets when it arrives. The bird feed fat ball jobbies hold 4.5kg very accurately.



Why...stops it settling down in the sack and keeps it mouse proof and airtight. Also make brew day easier... Just grab 4.5kg and add the adjuncts.

[Mash]

With the Swede on 1, 2 and 4.
With mash on all 5 points.
Sorry, was that a typo?
Just trying to join in and make friends.
Failing miserably.

Robert.

[Swedish Pride]

I split my sack up into 5 or 6 sealed buckets when it arrives. The bird feed fat ball jobbies hold 4.5kg very accurately.



Why...stops it settling down in the sack and keeps it mouse proof and airtight. Also make brew day easier... Just grab 4.5kg and add the adjuncts.

Sounds very organised, my shed is a mess of old paint tins, lawmovers, camping stuff and brew stuff, I'm chuffed if i don't fall over whilst in there, never mind organising stuff

[Mash]

No Chance. Mine is rammed with brewing / winemaking /stilling and all manner of eating related stuff.

[gaza the instructor]

Good man Mash, if you can't eat it, shag it or play with it.
The three hail Mary's and skip it.

[Easydrinker]

Base malt will never get a chance to get old with me, buying by the sack makes sense.
The other malts are used and bought in smaller quantities.
I don't have a local HBS and tend to favour Geterbrewed.
They ship up to 27Kg for the lowest price, so I add a couple of Kg of more special malts, or hops, to every full sack bought.
My Parcel Force guy hates me, with packaging it is 30Kg a time.

Robert.

[Curmudgeon]

I am off on jolidays for a week, trusting that there will be plenty to put through the still on my return.

If any of you happen to be in Albufeira in Portugal in the next week, I am definitely not the grumpy git with the accent, beard and headphones drinking rum and eating bacon sarnies, so don't try talking to me, err I mean him.

[Mash]

Hope he, err you, has a great time. Do they have internet connected bacon sarnies over there ?

[Jennysgin]

We have rum!
It's really very different to a basic sugar wash so has been rather interesting. Time will tell how well it's worked
I'm just deciding what to use to age it now as hubby prefers spiced rum...
*Hurries off to continue raking through various forum archives*

[Mash]

There is something there.. Search "kraken"

[Easydrinker]

I am off on jolidays for a week, trusting that there will be plenty to put through the still on my return.

If any of you happen to be in Albufeira in Portugal in the next week, I am definitely not the grumpy git with the accent, beard and headphones drinking rum and eating bacon sarnies, so don't try talking to me, err I mean him.

Have a good time, and if you see the grumpy old git, buy him a drink and he may cheer up!

Robert,

[Easydrinker]

We have rum!
It's really very different to a basic sugar wash so has been rather interesting. Time will tell how well it's worked
I'm just deciding what to use to age it now as hubby prefers spiced rum...
*Hurries off to continue raking through various forum archives*

Great news!
Hope you like it.

Robert.

[Easydrinker]

Today, and this week, I will be eating mostly liver!
Good job that I like it.
Local blood donor week is here again, and I often fail the hemocue, but usually pass the test tube test that follows.
Twice been sent away and told to not come back for a year.
Last time, they gave me a Caithness paperweight, (who needs one of those these days?) for 75 armful's in my time as a donor.
If you don't already, please consider doing it.

Robert.

[Swedish Pride]

the blood bus comes by work every 9 months, so far i think I've given 4 times. feals great when you get a text saying your blood was used at such and such hospital.
Good thing they don't make me eat liver or I'd not bother

[Jennysgin]

It's been a productive day today.

Not only have we sanded and primed the newly plastered hall/staircase ready to be painted tomorrow but there are new kale and rum washes started.
Also a cheeky wee spicy gin is just through the still

Cheers folks!

[Easydrinker]

40 iltres of new whisky wash cooling for yeast.
Bring on brexit.
Politics aside, I expect to get through OK.
And feck Trump and his new 25% tarriff on Scotch malt.
The man has no idea. History will or will not remember him, badly,
I will

Robert

[Mash]

Also a cheeky wee spicy gin is just through the still

Cheers folks!

Oooo how did you make it - soak and restill or sputnik?

[Swedish Pride]

mashed in 25kgs of mixed corn.
every time i do a mash I want to get a pump.
carrying buckets of just boiled water to the shed gets old and I get complacent, reckon running with hot water buckets in the dark is a good recipe for some skin grafts

[Mash]

LOL. Pop a whale pump on a length of siphon hose - cheap and FANTASTIC.

Never stand when you can sit
Never sit when you can lie
Never lift when you can pump.

[Easydrinker]

What a day!
Not knowing the 3 network was down, I sat for 90 minutes near Edinbrough airport, waiting for the text to say, "pick me up".
By the time I realised the network was dead, they were on a train.
By the time I got home and poked the phone, (a technique which seems to have worked for many today), they were 10 minutes away, in jet lagged floods of tears, expecting to come back to my dead body, (I am currently doing some roofing work).
The calls and texts that went on in the meanwhile must have involved everyone else that we knew.
Totally exhausting. I might have to port my number to a new provider.

Robert.

[Curmudgeon]

You should have faxxed them from the car and asked them if their pager had let them know they had an email about your text message.

[Swedish Pride]

LOL. Pop a whale pump on a length of siphon hose - cheap and FANTASTIC.

Never stand when you can sit
Never sit when you can lie
Never lift when you can pump.

I like the sound of cheap and fantastic.
google tells me a whale pump is about 50€, is a bit more than i value my skin at

Never heard of them before, I'll have a proper look in to them

[Easydrinker]

Not sure a whale pump can cope with near boiling water, and it will have cooled some by the time it reaches the shed, unless you insulate the hose?

Robert.

[Mash]

EasyDrinker: Most pumps are happy at not more than 85c. Solar pumps are also a good bet.

Swedish Pride: I have done quite a bit with pumps over the years - share what you want to do and I can give you a better answer.

[Swedish Pride]

I'm looking for a Egg-laying wool-milk-pig type pump.

Pump that can handle boiling water , don't have issues with running dry, can deal with solids and for next to no money, that should not be to hard to find could it