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steaky360

steaky360

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Its an excellent hobby!

@Scott you're spot on with all of your notes above - the wee metal thing is a blickman 'thrumometer' basically just a metal housing with a thermometer attached to it, allows me to dial in my wort temp. The flow control is on the grainfather itself (wee red valve you can see)

There are yeasts now which like 'hot' wort - 25-30 degrees. Kveik! Its amazing stuff, ferments really quickly. Its a struggle to keep the fermentation vessel hot enough! I use a converted fridge with a tube heater in the bottom of it to try and control temps.
 
Scott

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steaky360 said:
Its an excellent hobby!

@Scott you're spot on with all of your notes above - the wee metal thing is a blickman 'thrumometer' basically just a metal housing with a thermometer attached to it, allows me to dial in my wort temp. The flow control is on the grainfather itself (wee red valve you can see)

There are yeasts now which like 'hot' wort - 25-30 degrees. Kveik! Its amazing stuff, ferments really quickly. Its a struggle to keep the fermentation vessel hot enough! I use a converted fridge with a tube heater in the bottom of it to try and control temps.
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Love that, think I'll be finding my card to pick one of those up haha.

It's the Grainfather I've got too :D

I had my own engineered one that I used for a few years (same idea with an internal basket) but when the Grainfather connect was released I just had to go for it. It's such a breeze now, unreal.

I've got 3 fridges in the garage. Two large fermentation fridge with 3 tube heaters in the bottom ST-1000 controlled, one small fridge just for chilling/cold crashing.

I recently got the Fermzilla. What a bit of kit that is btw! Quite pricey to get the whole kit but it's absolutely fantastic.

In the loft I've got 8 corny's, a Maxi 300 4-product line chiller, 4 way gas regulation board and it all feeds down the cavity wall to my 4 taps in the kitchen haha.
 
moosEh

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Stephen M said:
Thought I would leave the worst until last. Since April 19 I have been nursing my Father who picked up Covid-19 on the way back from Australia, as did Mum but she was only ill for about five days. Dad was seriously ill for two weeks, his oxygen saturation dropped to the low 80s and had Pneumonia as well, our GP wanted him in hospital but as our local has such an appalling record Dad did not want to go I backed him up to stay. For about four days every time I had to leave him I expected to return to a corpse. Luckily he is a tough old stick and very spirited and is now doing very well. Still weak but eating well (Covid-19 effects the taste and for three weeks everything tasted awful), he is doing physio to build his legs up again, was in bed for three weeks and the quadriceps go quickly - the bigger the muscle the faster it wastes.
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All the best wishes to you and your Father @Stephen M!

My time is spent with working on site still (thankful!) and drinking the finest craft beer from the Huddersfield area (Magic Rock). I think I will dabble in a bit of streaming this weekend to change things up.
 
Stephen M

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Thanks for all the good wishes everyone.

Hopefully he will be up to watching a Livestream from the Berliner Philharmoniker on Saturday. They have started performing live again but with no audience at the Philharmonie and only a small chamber orchestra or a few musicians to enable social distancing, it looks quite odd.

This Saturday it is a collection of well known works arranged for solo organ or organ and the brass section, looks interesting. The year's subscription is €150 but there is also a free trial for anyone unsure: https://www.digitalconcerthall.com/en/home
 
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