Pendle Witches Brew Recipe Wanted

[steve_flack]

Isn't it in BYORAAH?

[spearmint-wino]

If you can hang on till I get home later I can post it up. It was my second (first succesful) AG. Nice, nice beer

[mitch]

From BYOBRAH

OG 1050
FG 1008
IBU 30

23l

Halcyon Pale Malt 3.9kg
Crystal 0.245kg
Torrefied Wheat 0.245kg
White Sugar 0.485kg

Mash 90mins at 66C
Boil 90mins

Start of Boil:
Fuggles (4.5% AA) 80g

Last Fifteen Minutes of Boil:
Fuggles 20g

[Andy]

I never had a paypal account before I opened one

[Andy]

On the flip side - when I didn't receive the correct goods from a seller, paypal refunded me in full. Had I paid by cheque then it would have been money lost.

[Garth]

'tis swings and roundabouts with the 'ole PayPal imo.

yes it's good as you can be refunded when things go titties up, but I've heard some horror stories.

I use it almost daily and have done for a few years now and up to now have had no problems but it's a chance you take with t'internet dealings.

mind you the fees for a seller are daylight robbery, 'skimming the gravy' some might say, when people pay with funds already in their PP account you as the seller still get charged and it's costing PP themselves nowt......it's Dick Turpin with a server....

[Wez]

......it's Dick Turpin with a server....

LOL - I like that, i'll use that at work tomorrow

[Vossy1]

I don't know how this works, but I recently sold some expensive fishing alarms to a bloke on E-Bay, and this is what he said happened to him.

He sold 2 items at £500 a pop. The funds cleared Pay Pal, he posted the items.
2 weeks later he got an e-mail from PP saying his account was £1000 overdrawn, which theoretically isn't possible.
He contacted them and it turned out that the items had been paid for with a stolen credit card. It hadn't been reported as stolen at the time of the sale, but had subsequently. The credit card company had reclaimed the funds from his PP account...the rest is history.

Apparently this is a quite common scam, which most of us know nothing about...why would we It's organised crime as most of the time the owners of the credit card are in cahoots with the e-bay buyers...

As I said, just reporting someone elses sad dealings, and if true

[Graham]

Isn't it in BYORAAH?

Still haven't managed to get a copy though (no paypal account for e-bay)

Daab, you are making me feel very guilty, If you can cope with Lotus WordPro, you are welcome to a raw copy of BYORAH, 'cos WordPro was, I think, what it was written in.

Indeed, I now require peer reveiw of anything that I do or write. When I first wrote (sorry rit) those early books it was just me in my shed and it was just my experiences and just my methods; with help fom commercial brewing books, commercial brewing supply companies, plus Dave Line, and lots of others. I had very little contact with the rest of the world, but the Interweb has changed all that.

There are lots of people out there with lots of home brewing experience, but, unfortunatley, there are also a multitutude of views on any particular subject. I have to encompase those veiws, or certainly those that have merit, but I will stick to certain of my guns because I think that I am right about certain subjects, and nobody has yet conviced me otherwise. Of course, there are certain points, well actually lots of them, where I have been forced to have a re-think. I am blowing my own trumpet now, but in my view I have never let a reader down. My recipes always work. (Oh dear, that has opened me to lots of flack). There are new authors now, probably better - who knows.

I have learned so much from this forum, about practicalities mostly, that I am indebted to it. You are welcome to whatever I can help you with. If you want a raw copy of BYORA, you are welcome.

[Graham]

I rambled on a bit previously, but the offer still stands, nevertheless.

Peer review for my next writings, is another issue, but it would be uesful to me.

Sorry that I rambled on - just back from the pub

[Graham]

- just back from the pub

early night for you Graham

Yes, I'll have to find a pub that closes at a more reasonable hour. Trouble is that once I am in one, I don't leave until they throw me out.

[Graham]

That's very kind of you Graham, i'd love a copy, if Office 2000 Premium can handle Lotus WordPro then I will be able to view it.

I don't have any Microsoft Office type stuff, but if it can import files with a .lwp suffix, then it should be okay. Failing that I'll see if it will import into Open Office, which, apparently, does a fairly good conversion job with Microsoft Formats.

The new stuff will certainly be witten in Open Office, cos CAMRA want copy in Word format.

I have had a major computer failure and I have a lot of work still to do to restore things back to a workable state. I'll have to download Open Office again, and as soon as I have done that I'll give it a try.

[Graham]

hmm, I checked the discs I am currently using and they don't have it, i'm almost certain i've seen some Lotus options on another disc but I can't check because if I stick the disc in it will tell me that i'm currently using a different version blah blah...

I could down load Open Office myself, i'm told it's pretty good and i've been considering it anyway (as long as it's still free ) although a full version isn't that expensive iirc (a lot less than the price of BYORA on Amazon at least ).

Open Office is free. It is just difficult to find your way round the Open Office site. Some people sell Cds for convenience sake, but almost everything associated with Open Office can be downloaded for free from the OO website - if you can find what you are looking for.

[Graham]

If something is free I can usually track it down , i'll have a look a little later, thanks for the heads up.

If you are happy with M.S. I wouldn't concern yourself too much.

I've just exported a chapter from Lotus into .rtf format, and imported that into Open Office and it's gone straight in, with the exception that the page size is wrong (teething trouble). It means that I'll be able to export it in Word format without too many problems, which I'll have to do for CAMRA anyway. It seems that .rtf will work on its own as long as MS's idea of .rtf is the same as everybody else's, which usually it isn't.