Just wanted to share…
I have just made a quicky website for Golden Ticket Brewing: http://www.goldenticketbrewing.co.nz/
And I’m drinking my MashUp clone… The clone that was brewed before everyone cloned it! (the picture isn’t very flattering…)
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Where we are at
We have bought a new house – move in day is 2nd December…
Bank is still faffing around with paperwork…
Property Managers are still faffing around with finding us new tenants…
We have, at least, gotten rid of a lot of junk we don’t need – Garage sales and giveaways have helped this a lot! 
Brewing and trains are on hold (for obvious reasons – most of them are packed!) but my next trains project is going to be a modular one
Whats happening
Taking a leaf out of Owls books I figured I would do a brain-dump. I’ve quit facebook (still keep it there for the chat to friends though), and g+ is, tbh, quite bland.
At the moment we are going through the rigmarole of selling-as-much-as-we-can and trying to buy a house. Being faffed around by the bank and insurance companies has not made it easier at all…
I haven’t done much brewing lately for the same reason, trying to reduce the number of full bottles of beer I have to shift. I believe that I have enough to last me through the summer, and come autumn I will start on my winter beers.
Gardening should be happening in more force, but I really don’t want to plant a heap of stuff if we just have to up and leave it. Done that enough times now.
More later, maybe?
Eye of Newt brewing
I thought I would share a bit about where I am up to with my brewing. I will go more in depth on this later (when I can take photos)
Kit:
- 20L HLT
- 56L Mash tun (might be overestimating on the size…)
- 60L Kettle
- 22L fermenter
- 18L secondary fermenter (trial)
- Stir plate (in progress)
Brews:
- Spy vs Spy – first brew, extract
- Gingy – first made-up recipe, extract, Ginger-infused Ale
- Punky – first all-grain, Pumpkin Ale
- Fairytale Princess – first own-recipe, all-grain, Blonde
- Midnight Stout – all-grain, own-recipe, first Secondary, Chocolate Oatmeal Stout
- Peculiar Brew – Old Peculiar clone, own-recipe *upcoming*
- SMaSHed – SMaSH IPA, own-recipe *upcoming* (debating making this a 90min IPA, just to meet the target!)
Coming up
Watch this space…
New theme
New topics
More beer
Less old articles
More posts
Less memes!
New Greenhouse
I built my new greenhouse of of windows and plastic sheeting from Freecycle, and roof trusses I bought on TradeMe.
The walls were screwed into 2×4 on the corners, meaning the U shape held the whole thing up.
I have chosen not to attach it to the garage wall as this would mean we need approval from our property manager/landlord.
The roof trusses are screwed to beams across the top and nailed to support beams across the top. They have also been screwed down to the windowwalls…
There is a solar panel on the roof that currently powers a fan to keep air circulation going inside. I’m aiming to get a couple more to mount on the garage roof to charge a battery and power a hydroponic system…
So far the temp has been 25 outside, 40 inside (mid-morning, full sun) and 28 outside, 35 inside (mid afternoon, mostly in shade). A few leaks/etc to deal with and it will be warm and toasty… Also going to be getting a water tank to hook up to the garage spouting soon I hope.
Layout progress
With my Granddad visiting from the UK he brought with him all the parts I had ordered off ebay and shipped to him… including the peco platform sides/brick wall sheets/etc…!
So thusly I built a station platform and started to lay some track! The platform edges are mixed stone in some places and brick in others, to hopefully give the impression that it was partially rebuilt at one stage
Goods shed construction complete
Just needs painting…
Model Railway Inspiration
Just thought I would share a couple of photos I use as inspiration when building my model railway… Continue Reading »
Linkage
I made some marmalade a while ago. This link from the Evil Mad Scientist Labs is what I used for the original recipe, followed by modifications to the recipe with things like ginger, cinnamon and brown sugar… NOM NOM NOM
http://www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/marmalade
I would love to get our herbs and spices sorted out in our kitchen – we found out a while ago we have 3 packets of mixed herbs.. fun and games. Another one from the Evil Mad Scientist Labs on how they sorted theirs:
http://www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/spice
More links will be coming later. Perhaps I should work on getting a weekly thing going on – I’ll decide that next week 