Jim's Beer Kit

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Legal druggies ... just the job ...

Collider beers will be available to buy in 330ml bottles (£32 for 12) and 330ml cans (£30 for 12) via the Collider webshop.

Humm, bit steep though. Think I'll stick to visiting Jack from down road for his stuff.

... I'll make it my mission to visit it along with two others of "the four" ... Not such a wild target: Three of them (including the Old Swan) are in the same locality ... All Nations, Madeley (Telford) and the Three Tuns, Bishop’s Castle, both Shropshire; and the Old Swan, Netherton, Dudley, West ...

And if you ever want a tune on a 19th C. sounding church organ, it's got that too (and a musician ... when he's not being the landlord). I'll make it my mission to visit it along with two others of "the four" (in Shropshire, so not far for me to walk). Fortunately, I've ticked the Cornish one (when ...

Guy: Have you tried this?

https://github.com/jimbob88/wheelers-wort-works/wiki

It is an "updated" version of BeerEngine and may handle some newer stuff a bit better? I've only tried it on Windows 10.

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While trawling brewing forums I came across this (American forum too): https://youtu.be/ApgCsrHGgU0 An entertaining 30 minutes, and plenty of tips for the home brewer ( :? ). Well ... it sort of emphasises what's important. One of the last remaining four brew pubs in the UK during the 1970s. Odd, I ...

Is this the friends of Graham group? https://github.com/jimbob88/wheelers-wort-works It's still a work in progress but might be of use? Cheers Tom Ahhh ... that will be what I was remembering. It's what I installed to try it. Thanks. ("Friends of Graham" is a fictitious name I invented for the post...

I think Beer Engine got recently updated by a "Friends of Graham" group? So, not all that "old a bit of software"? But I recently had trouble writing for an early version of Excel (spreadsheet), and then seeing all the alignment and indexing fall apart moving it to Excel 365. On Windows 10, so don't...

Heck, the things I must do for you (Mashbag)! (To be honest, I had to read my own explanation a couple of times before it twigged again ... but then me 'ead was shifted to a different astral zone a while ago, I'm surprised anyone can understand me). Textual diagram (saves on my drawing abilities): H...

I also did this little illustration: How many think the S.G. of water is "one" because the gravity of water is "one"? You wouldn't be alone if you did, I did once, and so did the guy who wrote this in a very authoritative manner ... This from a rather well-known Web-site (okay, Wikipedia then). It's...

[continued] ... Pick a "taring weight": With it at 16.6°C it's half-way 'tween the blue and green weights; I'll go for blue (13.5°C). This is the same as picking a 13.5°C configured hydrometer: Pyknometer Calculations (FULL) test.jpg Hit the Tare button (display zeroes) and replace weight with the s...

I'm forgetting, I'm missing a great big chunk of explaining in what I'm recording here. So, for this topic I'll reverse the translating from here to the "HBT" forum and copy from the HBT forum to here ... [continued] ... Using the "Full" version of my spreadsheet I got the details to create three "t...

Another side-line! ("Mashbag" may approve of this bit!). If you haven't a hydrometer or pyknometer even! You could try this (which might not be particularly accurate!). It's a demonstration of how simple pyknometers are using "Specific Gravity", and questions why we bother with hydrometers these day...

The "LITE" version got an update to allow it to work with Density as well as Specific Gravity. Pyknometer Calculations (LITE) ii.jpg This is using the three-year-old earlier demo using isopropyl alcohol. The Density of 0.786 g/ml confirmed what I had was 99% alcohol. Remember that when working with ...

The "Simulation" page of the "Full" version allows situations to be tested. It is not required for real time operation as that is all carried out on the weighing scales. But the page does detail the size of "Tare Weights" that will be required. Instructions for building the weights follow later. The...

The "Full" version has the "standalone" capacity ... the spreadsheet is only used to calibrate and after that the SG can be read directly from the weighing scales. It only works with 100ml pyknometer bottles (it may work with 10ml bottles, but you will need very accurate, and expensive, weighing sca...