First AG Brewday 08/04/07 - Rule Britannia!

Get advice on making beer from raw ingredients (malt, hops, water and yeast)
maxashton

Post by maxashton » Mon Apr 09, 2007 8:28 pm

Yes, you didn't see the several minutes of pounding and shouting bloody murder at the thing that came before.

maxashton

Post by maxashton » Mon Apr 09, 2007 8:31 pm

Inncidentally, if anyone's in Kettering way, stop at Sawyers and try a pint of Crazy Daze from Potbelly Brewery. It's absolutely FANTASTIC.

PieOPah

Post by PieOPah » Mon Apr 09, 2007 9:11 pm

DaaB wrote:A photo might help someone advise you :D
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I couldn't get a good enough picture of the 'plug' which I ripped out of the 'stand' that the kettle would have sat on (it was a cordless kettle)

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Post by Andy » Mon Apr 09, 2007 9:30 pm

Looks like a bog standard element to me - just plug a kettle element into the three pins... Do the red wires run to a light ?
Dan!

PieOPah

Post by PieOPah » Mon Apr 09, 2007 9:34 pm

Yeah the wires run to a light (recently ripped them out). The problem is, the 3 pins are too short for a plug to be connected.

eskimobob

Post by eskimobob » Mon Apr 09, 2007 10:43 pm

PieOPah wrote:Yeah the wires run to a light (recently ripped them out). The problem is, the 3 pins are too short for a plug to be connected.
Do you have a soldering iron? - If so, you could simply remove the IEC (kettle) socket from the end of the cable and solder the wires directly on to the element - the pins should definitely not get hot enough to melt the solder.

maxashton

Post by maxashton » Mon Apr 09, 2007 10:49 pm

notassuch wrote:Good going Max!

Your photos are rather good indeed. Very arty! :D
I found the pic of you snapping hop blocks with brute force a little too homoerotic. :wink:
Thanks!

maxashton

Post by maxashton » Mon Apr 23, 2007 7:47 pm

Just took a sneaky pint. Looks exactly as it does on the picture on page one, and tastes wonderful! Smooth as you like, nice and malty with a persistent head, and pleasant bitterness.

I'd take a picture, but i may have inadvertently drank the product.

Complete accident, mind..

PieOPah

Post by PieOPah » Mon Apr 23, 2007 9:35 pm

iirc you said to me in IM that you thought that you had ruined this batch. Glad to hear that all is okay :D

maxashton

Post by maxashton » Tue Apr 24, 2007 7:45 am

Yeah!
Very pleased, Pie. Really thought i'd ruined it.

mysterio

Post by mysterio » Tue Apr 24, 2007 9:44 am

Nice one, glad it turned out well. When's the next brew day? :wink:

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