" Ditch's Stout " Master Class .....

[Ditch]

The Moment Before Beauty

Well, alright. F**k ye. It pleased my little mind, anyway

[WalesAles]

The Moment Before Beauty

Well, alright. F**k ye. It pleased my little mind, anyway

Ditch,
I`m gutted!
I posted the other night to get this thread to roll to page 101, but it didn`t happen! Damn Childish of me!
Congrats on the Great thread!. If the Mods had left it where it should be (Top of the Page as always), You would have made it to page 101 months ago!
There are a lot of new brewers who don`t even know this Thread exists!

WA

[Ditch]

F**k 'em, Wales, my man! If newcomers can't be arsed to read the forum? What do they expect? Personally, when ever I consider joining a new forum, I make it my business to first crawl through every post on the boards that interest me.

I'll read hundreds of pages of historical posts. All the Rules. Stickies. Sub Boards. The lot.

Probably why I have a tendency to appear to just explode onto a forum, brimming with confidence. Because I already know most of the people on there intimately. I've read what they've been saying for Years!

If Newbs here dug out this thread? They'd know a sh!t load more themselves. If not? What can I do?

[WalesAles]

Correctamundo!
These new people don`t look for anything on the Forum. They just open a tin and think they can make Good Beer!
Gets you down after a while answering the same questions which already have the answers in the Forum.
Rant over!

WA

[6470zzy]

Correctamundo!
These new people don`t look for anything on the Forum. They just open a tin and think they can make Good Beer!

They don't realise that they need to bung a chicken carcass into the FV

Cheers

[Manngold]

Correctamundo!
These new people don`t look for anything on the Forum. They just open a tin and think they can make Good Beer!

They don't realise that they need to bung a chicken carcass into the FV

Cheers

Haha.

Whilst I see the point that you make WA, I personally found the site a bit difficult to navigate at first (especially from a mobile/tablet). Also, for the most part there are a lot of newcomers that aren't necessarily sure how to start, and you regulars provide a really solid backbone of support. I can honestly say that I probably wouldn't have invested the time and money into it if it wasn't for you guys and the support that you provided me when I was just starting out.

For example, SWMBO is not happy that I just forked out £150 for a new bit of kit (my shiny new boiler for BIAB)!

Manngold

[WalesAles]

Haha.

Whilst I see the point that you make WA, I personally found the site a bit difficult to navigate at first (especially from a mobile/tablet). Also, for the most part there are a lot of newcomers that aren't necessarily sure how to start, and you regulars provide a really solid backbone of support. I can honestly say that I probably wouldn't have invested the time and money into it if it wasn't for you guys and the support that you provided me when I was just starting out.

For example, SWMBO is not happy that I just forked out £150 for a new bit of kit (my shiny new boiler for BIAB)!

Manngold

Manngold,
Anything costing above double figures for Brew Gear should NOT be shown to Mrs Manngold and secretly hidden in the Beer Shed!
I thought you knew that Golden Rule?
I don`t really mind answering the questions, it`s all good fun! As you say, we were all Newbies once and had to ask the very same questions!
Totally contradicting myself there. Ooops!
WA

[Ditch]

*Cough!*

Okay, lads; Isn't there quite enough here for anyone to plough through, without having to wade through personal, off topic conversations ....?

Steering things back then ..... I believe I've just about cracked yet another one of my favoured labour saving tricks, for use while knocking up this gear.

I'll likely be putting another kit on, next week. When I do, I'll have my 'equipment' made and ready, I hope. Then, I'll get the camera out and demonstrate.

If it works ~ and works reliably ~ I really do believe this could be the best thing since having two kettles available, when making two kits!

Sadly; I don't have two kettles. And waiting for that second load of water to boil, to rinse the second can out, really grips my sh!t! There's nothing I hate more than standing around, cooling my heels in mid flow.

I don't enjoy this process, any more than I do mucking the horses out. It's just a necessary chore. Sooner I'm done the better. And now, I do believe I might have shaved a few more minutes off it.

Stay tuned ~ and on topic.

[Ditch]

Err ..... Bear with me, guys .....

I knocked out a kit, this afters. That gave me an opportunity to further test my own theory. May well be just as well I took that opportunity! Could have cost me a potential kit otherwise.

Now, I've already taken fairly switched on advice about my new plan. Dean O', my talented friend, did point out to me that it simply may not be feasible. That said, he left me with such equipment as he had spare and to hand.

Doing a dry run, there and then, sort of seemed to have worked. However, it still left me haunted by misgivings. " Robust " would never, in a million years, be a term I'd apply to those results.

Fear not; Ditch, the pathologically lazy, Will devise a way of shaving further seconds from the tedium of having to do Anything, in pursuit of sitting around, drinking beer!

[6470zzy]

Err ..... Bear with me, guys .....

I knocked out a kit, this afters. That gave me an opportunity to further test my own theory.

I am afraid that you will have to elaborate........ is this the no crushie theory?

[Ditch]

...... is this the no crushie theory?

No, mate. Far in advance of that. This is sh!t that, on conception, seemed as simple as Doe, Ray, Me.

Then, I incidentally ran it past my Tesla Coil building mate. He pissed Straight over my fire

Brought me what I asked for, anyway. If only to prove what he knew to be true.

He was right, of course.

Now, I need to side step that and come up with Plan B .....

F**k it!

[6470zzy]

I take it that we are to remain in the dark on this one

[Ditch]

Not at all, mate. Not once I've found the light myself, anyway.

Like I say; My mate, Dean O' is very switched on this this department of weird, esoteric sh!t that goes straight over my head. Just saying that he made himself a Tesla Coil should say enough to anyone who'd have a clue what I was getting at.

And he gave me a crash course in the facts of things magnetic. Frankly told me he guessed I'd be pissing in the wind with my bright idea. He gave me some magnets and I promptly proved him dead right Complete and utter abortion. F**k it.

Head's been a bit busy, since then. Other irons in the fire. When I get time to though, I must revisit this situation and try to devise another way of coming at it. It's a f**ker and it bugs me. Always has. I need to find a way round it.

Don't go expecting me to point out what it is though. Ditch devises short cuts. I like doing it. But, first ye have to spot the area where a short cut would be good. I've spotted it. Now, I get to work on it. This sh!t keeps my mind occupied.

[tubthumper]

was it using the magnets to hold the can over the fermenter so you could sit down whist it was draining

[Ditch]

Yes, mate. No go. Seems magnets draw to themselves with a force governed by the density of that to which they attach. As I explained it to Pat, as we were standing there, me holding a draining tin over the FV ( ) .....

' If we stuck this magnet to ye tractor? Be a hell of a job getting it back off again. Because that tractor's one ton of metal. All that metal to attract the magnet.

But, slap it on this poxy little tin? Tiny, paper thin bit of steel. Nothing there for the magnet to be drawn to. Tin'll drop off into the FV.'

I know this too. Because, a completely clean and rinsed out Coopers tin weighs just over 100 grams. Magnet can hold it with some confidence.

Pour the malt out though and weigh That tin? More like 250 g. And that's with just the run offs left in there. Still far too heavy for the magnet though.

F**ked for that bright idea. See? But, Ditch isn't given to giving in! I already have a new idea taking shape. I mean; Why stand around like a dork, for five minutes? Ye could be filling the Jerry Can in that time. Sorting out ye Crushies while that goes on .....