Jim's Beer Kit

Rookie wrote: ↑

Thu Oct 24, 2019 1:00 am

Good news from the cardiologist, my wife's healing well enough that he doesn't need to see her again for a year.

Excellent news

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I've not planned this particular brew day in yet but it's definitely on my to do list.

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It's allegedly almost a routine op these days, so they tell me
I was thinking thinking hop tea, you ever tried that rather than a dry hop?

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Hi all Rather than start a fresh thread I thought I'd add to this one. First off, @Rookie, I hope your wife's recovery is progressing well? I'm due to have a valve replaced myself when the doc says my condition has reached the stage that requires action. Not looking forward to it but it's something ...

Got a couple of issues so I'll log them on Jimbob's site rather than bogging this thread down.
Does seem to work well though

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Got it going.

Simply moved the sub folder out of the extracted one and all seems well

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Did that but just got cx_Freeze:Python error in main script With a load of text underneath. Top line reads Traceback (most recent call last): Then details a python36 folder that should be in my program files directory, but isn't. That's why I was asking if python needs installing before this would w...

Forgive my ignorance but should this run on a standard windows 10 machine or does something else need installing first?

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Other versions of these systems have a recirculation pump

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Can't help with a recipe but some of the more infamous breweries "allegedly" use the pressed extract that Rob (malt miller) sells to achieve the grapefruit flavour in some on their beers

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Will be using fresh grain to start with. Was thinking about 5%, how does that sound?
Got plenty of other malts to play with depending how this goes

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Really old thread revival here

Has anyone tried using good old plain pale malt in bread making? Not even whizzed up, just chucked in when the beepy addition noise goes off on the bread maker.

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Wish I had taken Fil’s advice to the letter, as not wanting to mess about making a collar I attempted to drill the sides very high up on the freezer to miss refrigeration pipes. BIG MISTAKE, one second hand freezer down the tip! After buying a another freezer off gumtree, I followed his advice Hidd...

It took a few days before I got my reply

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Good work that man

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