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 Topic: Apple press & mill |
Old-Chads-Orchard
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 Forum: Trading Post Posted: Fri Aug 23, 19 8:57 am Subject: Apple press & mill |
Have upgraded so my 3 season old Hydro press & mill are up for grabs - £2300
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/163828166554
Voran RM 1.5 apple mill with both single phase/220v motor (currently fit ... |
| Topic: prime beer bottles or not? |
Old-Chads-Orchard
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Forum: Recipes, Preserving, Homebrewing Posted: Mon Dec 24, 18 8:03 pm Subject: prime beer bottles or not? |
| got impatient, just tried one, not enough co2 yet, but it fizzed when opening and it tastes good, expect it will only improve, almost barley wine, quite sweet for a stout and 9.4% |
| Topic: prime beer bottles or not? |
Old-Chads-Orchard
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Forum: Recipes, Preserving, Homebrewing Posted: Mon Dec 17, 18 9:25 pm Subject: prime beer bottles or not? |
I have invented the tripple chocolate stout  |
| Topic: prime beer bottles or not? |
Old-Chads-Orchard
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Forum: Recipes, Preserving, Homebrewing Posted: Mon Dec 17, 18 9:24 pm Subject: prime beer bottles or not? |
| may leave it a couple more days and prime the bottles |
| Topic: prime beer bottles or not? |
Old-Chads-Orchard
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Forum: Recipes, Preserving, Homebrewing Posted: Mon Dec 17, 18 6:33 pm Subject: prime beer bottles or not? |
Beer is down to 1.003, however was loaded with sugar syrup to get the original gravity up (1.073), needs bottling now and is still slightly sweet to taste.
Is 1.003 enough sugar for a secondary ferme ... |
| Topic: Apple juice, filtered or not? |
Old-Chads-Orchard
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Forum: Recipes, Preserving, Homebrewing Posted: Thu Oct 11, 18 9:05 pm Subject: Apple juice, filtered or not? |
What do people prefer? does the sight of little bits of apple in your juice put you off?
I don't filter mine at the moment, however someone who wants me to do pressing for them have asked if I could ... |
| Topic: Stainless steel tanks |
Old-Chads-Orchard
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Forum: Trading Post Posted: Mon Oct 08, 18 11:08 am Subject: Stainless steel tanks |
Doing more juice so these are kind of redundant, the smaller batch cider is going into 120l barrels so have 2 x 300L tanks and 1 x 530l tanks for sale. All variable capacity lids.
£225 for the 300 ... |
| Topic: Cider fermenting |
Old-Chads-Orchard
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Forum: Recipes, Preserving, Homebrewing Posted: Wed Sep 12, 18 10:56 am Subject: Cider fermenting |
Interesting, May get a batch running now with the windfalls from the cider apple trees to provide a starter. What %age starter do you put in your juice?
Temperature in the shed is constant, was aro ... |
| Topic: Cider fermenting |
Old-Chads-Orchard
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Forum: Recipes, Preserving, Homebrewing Posted: Tue Sep 11, 18 7:42 pm Subject: Cider fermenting |
| Right, I have had very mixed results with my cider so far, tried natural yeast, liquid cider yeast and liquid champagne yeast, so far champagne yeast has worked best (although the apple juice was past ... |
| Topic: Cider Press |
Old-Chads-Orchard
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Forum: Trading Post Posted: Tue Sep 27, 16 9:18 pm Subject: Cider Press |
dusted it off as its apple pressing time, price reduced, no rush to sell however if someone off here makes me a sensible offer 
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/-/272392744870? |
| Topic: 1.2m compact topper / mower |
Old-Chads-Orchard
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Forum: Trading Post Posted: Tue Jul 19, 16 10:24 am Subject: 1.2m compact topper / mower |
| Wessex 120 3 blade mower, just had new belts but unfortunately one of the mower heads has a seized bearing so a fixer upper. Ran fine on my ford 1100 (with 12hp) for 2 years prior to the bearing going ... |
| Topic: Finding an architect for some basic building designs |
Old-Chads-Orchard
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Forum: Energy Efficiency and Construction/Major Projects Posted: Tue Mar 15, 16 2:54 pm Subject: Finding an architect for some basic building designs |
Drawings or designs?
drawings, have a fag packet idea on what I want, but needs to be able to be submitted for planning |
| Topic: Finding an architect for some basic building designs |
Old-Chads-Orchard
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Forum: Energy Efficiency and Construction/Major Projects Posted: Tue Mar 15, 16 2:53 pm Subject: Finding an architect for some basic building designs |
Is this for a building taht wikll have to go through planning and building regs?
Planning only due to location on land, we could site is so that we wouldn't need planning (agricultural use building ... |
| Topic: Finding an architect for some basic building designs |
Old-Chads-Orchard
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Forum: Energy Efficiency and Construction/Major Projects Posted: Mon Mar 14, 16 4:46 pm Subject: Finding an architect for some basic building designs |
I am after some drawings for a simple block built workshop/unit. Are there any online portals where you can either request drawings or browse & buy drawings?
cheers |
| Topic: Broadband to land with a barn but no house |
Old-Chads-Orchard
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Forum: Finance and Property Posted: Wed Feb 17, 16 7:04 am Subject: Broadband to land with a barn but no house |
| think the issue is thee has to be a house or a business otherwise it doesn't exist in the eyes of RM. Will call the council up and see how I register the barn as a business premises, however I expect ... |
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