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hypnoticmonkey

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  1. If you want someone to take them off your hands...
  2. Technically, I suppose so. IME most people don't get caught up on the distinction. Home winemaking supplies are sold in homebrew stores, its discussed on homebrew forums etc. You're right, but colloquially homebrewing is often used as a catch-all. I've tried a few, there's not much there any more. Good luck though!
  3. You need: - something to brew in - something to keep nasties out - some way of making it all sterile - something to store your brew in - something to transfer it all around The something to brew in: go to the supermarket and get a 5l bottle of water. The plastic bottle will work. Something to keep the nasties out: an airlock. Really unless you want to faff about with homemade contraptions, you'll probably want to buy one. Something to make it all sterile: there are ways you can do that with watered down bleach and lots of rinsing but, seeing as you're buying an airlock anyway why not buy some specialist brewing steriliser Something to store the brew in: really best done in bulk, but your plastic bottle is not advisable for long term storage imo. So we're talking wine bottles. You'll need 6 for a 5 litre brew. You could buy them empty, but why not buy 6 bottles of wine and "empty" then over a few nights? Something to transfer it: you'll need some tubing to siphon it off. If you're placing an order with a homebrew supplies store, you can get some piping there. There's also a contraption you can get for trying to keep the sediment out, usually for about £3 or £4. Also worth saying we should respect Moley's wishes not to get dragged back into this forum... I'm also not sure how long I'll be here either. Boating is a vague distant interest of mine, but not one I've pursued before beyond a couple of holidays. I mostly came here to find Moley, which I've done but it's nice to see people interested in my hobby, so I started this thread on others requests. I might stick around, I might not, but I'm happy to answer any questions while I'm here
  4. It has been suggested that some users may enjoy a thread specifically for homebrewing. Its a hobby I used to do a lot of around 2009-2013 but haven't don't for best part of a decade. @Moley pretty much taught me everything I know about winemaking. I'm currently brewing a few things, if anyone wants the recipes let me know. Here's what I've got on the go: - Wurzel's Orange Wine (WOW) with red grape juice instead of white - Apple Juice and Black Grape Juice - Rose hip and lavender (experimental sparkling) - blackberry and cherry - rhubarb and plum Each one is one gallon, so 6 bottles per batch.
  5. Someone once said to me that if you ever want evidence that machines will not rise up and beat us, just look at how frequently they fail. I've always thought that this misses the point that this could be evidence that they've already started to rise up and beat us...
  6. Wurzel's Orange Wine still going strong - I've got 2 batches on the go at the moment. Although it's impossible to find White Grape Juice these days...
  7. Definitely an interesting read, this thread. I don't have a huge amount of experience in boating, but I've been on a handful of boating holidays and always had boats that didn't have bow thrusters. When you speak to others on the water I always picked up a snootiness about them, like it wasn't "real boating". I kind of get it that if I can start out with 0 experience and manage fine controlling and manoeuvring the boat without them, then they're not entirely necessary. Although, I've always taken the view that why make life harder for yourself if you don't have to? As I say, never used them myself, but I'd be interested to try. Hired a boat for a week in Ireland last year that was a lot bigger than I was expecting. The number of times that week I heard people saying "boat that big, I'm guessing you've got thrusters?" and it was always, "no..." followed by pained looks on the faces. Managed that fine without though!
  8. I think it would be a lot easier if they'd been on there since day 1 and everyone was very familiar with boat life. Myself, it was only a holiday and we had only been on a few boating holidays previously.
  9. Gosh, can't say the same for mine! Nearly 2 and still not sleeping brilliantly... although a lot better than she was! You did well asking the boat yard to measure up the space too... we didn't do that and the only space we had for her to sleep was in one of the smaller twin rooms, so we didn't even have the nicest of sleeping quarters!
  10. Great summary! I think it was a bit harder for us as she was 9 months and starting to crawl which presented us with a lot of other issues. She was also going through a huge sleep regression... but I'm guessing at your point you weren't really getting much sleep anyway?
  11. Bit late to this thread, but I'm sure a report would be very helpful! I did a week on the River Shannon in Ireland last year with myself, my partner, my then nine month old and both of the baby's grandmothers. Having a baby on a boating holiday was not an experience I would like to repeat!! I'd love to know what went well for you.
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