T-shirt suggestion win October 2
I recently ordered a few t-shirts from the great guys at redmolotov.com. In the suggestion box on the details form I wrote:
"Do a "KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON" t-shirt :)"
...and they have!
Not only that, but they sent me an email:
"As you may have noticed, we took your advice and produced a design based on the WW2 "Keep Calm.." poster. As a token of thanks for your suggestion, here is a discount code to give you twenty of your British pounds off your next purchase."
Thanks guys - that's awesome :)
Brewing Calculator for Android September 24
My friend Arthur has started writing Android applications and as I couldn't find a home brewing calculator for Android I asked him to write one.
Behold, the just released Brewing Calculator - available on the Android Marketplace for £2.
At the moment it has the following features:
- Strike temperature
- Water heating time
- Dilution
- Batch Sparge Volume Calculator
I've made a couple of suggestions already, namely that the tabs are replaced with buttons allowing more features to be added and support for US measurements (which will be coming soon apparently), but as it is it's a great start and a useful app to have :) SRM measurement via the camera would be awesome but hard to calibrate ;)
Thanks Arthur :)
Third all grain brew September 14
Did my third all grain brew yesterday, my first using a recipe and no kit.
This is a St Austell 'Proper Job' clone - an English IPA - which I will be dry hopping in the secondary with Cascade.
This was also the first time I've added gypsum to the mash to up the calcium levels in the liquor for the enzymes, and the first time I've put the 90 minute hops in with the first runnings - apparently this can give you a hoppier tasting beer.
Writeup of the brew day with a couple of photos is now in the brewing section.
Beer bottle labels September 8
I've bottled my second batch and made labels for around half of them. It makes a huge difference :)
It's quite a simple label - I didn't draw the goblin - I found it on the interwebs somewhere, and the font used is from dafont.com. The whole thing was put together in The Gimp and printed using gLabels.
BrewTroller August 24
My efforts to automate my home brewing have begun. I ordered a BrewTroller kit and it arrived on Friday so I spent the weekend assembling it.
The finished article.
Very pleased it worked first time. Thought it wasn't working until I adjusted the contrast on the LCD, then all the text appeared :D
I've done a write up of the build with more information and pictures.