What can you do?

[northernhord]

^ Pembroke is the unchallenged king of Brewing all things containing alcohol

 

[pembrokestephen]

We've got lots of growing skills too, so we're sorted

On brewing . . . I've kinda settled on a kit-plus approach now. I really don't see the point of boiling for an hour to impart just bitterness when a good kit malt extract has it already and all I need to do is boil for max 15 mins to give maybe some extra grain colour/flavour and hop flavour and aroma. Got an IPA ready to drink this week to which I added some crystal malt and flavour and aroma hops. Made a stong stout yesterday with a Brupaks porter-type kit done to 15 litres instead of 23 (1.070!!!) and flavour hops added.

What you up on the brewery front, PS?

Fairly quiet right now while I finish the degree, but I have 25 kg of LME syrup and assorted hops ready and waiting!.

I need to finish wiring up the temperature controller to my wort boiler, and build a wort chiller (I'm going for a counterflow model), then it's summer ale time. Lager can wait until I find a second hand fridge for fermentation and conditioning.

 

[Spion]

Fairly quiet right now while I finish the degree, but I have 25 kg of LME syrup and assorted hops ready and waiting!.

25 kilos? Have you gone commercial? That's about 35 gallons of 4% beer

 

[pembrokestephen]

25 kilos? Have you gone commercial? That's about 35 gallons of 4% beer

By the time I add delivery charges, it's 1/3 the price of getting it in 1.6 kg tins! The first one had to go back as Parcelfarce dropped it and it leaked sticky maltiness all over their van.

The driver wasn't happy, but oh! how I chuckled.

Commercial? Moi?

*looks all innocent at the Revenue man*

 

[el-ahrairah]

absolutely nothing of use after civilisation collapses.

i tell a lie, i can make a good fire.

yay me.

i was kind of hoping we'll always need poets.

 

[Pie 1]

I can:

Cook
tile
decorate properly
repace floors
sand & varnish old floors properly
repair a roof
build internal walls
bit of plumbing
wire electricity without killing myself (or others after I've done it)
Take photographs & print them without a computer or a digital camera.
repair a bicycle
basic car mechanics
read a map and navigate with a compass
Drink & appriciate many traditional alcoholic berverages.

 

[MsShirlLaverne]

^ You got Livestock then Shirl?

I've only got cats now

In the past I've had hens, ducks, goats, a donkey, a pony, rabbits, a pig and a couple of lambs kept from orphan to dinner plate.

For about 4 months I had a young buzzard in my house too.

 

[northernhord]

I've only got cats now

In the past I've had hens, ducks, goats, a donkey, a pony, rabbits, a pig and a couple of lambs kept from orphan to dinner plate.

For about 4 months I had a young buzzard in my house too.

A Buzzard did it not shite everywhere?

 

[Jessiedog]

(and we probably need ONE person who can kill stuff )

I am skilled in the art and practice of falconry and hawking and can train dogs, grow stuff, build a fire and cook a tasty meal.



Woof

 

[dilute micro]

cook
sail - up to two sails
hand sew
machine sew
carpentry
design web sites
art - painting with oils and acrylic, drawing
find the hardest way of doing something
speak a little Russian
and I'm a damn good shot with a gun

etcetera etcetera etcetera

 

[MsShirlLaverne]

A Buzzard did it not shite everywhere?

Yes she did, her name was Betty and she belonged to my lodger. She started off looking like a freek but she turned out beautiful. When my lodger moved he took betty and his cat with him. After a short while he asked me if i wanted the cat because he kept stealing Betty's breakfast!! I took the cat, his name was bagpuss and i loved him for years until he died
Not sure what's happened to Betty

 

[northernhord]

Yes she did, her name was Betty and she belonged to my lodger. She started off looking like a freek but she turned out beautiful. When my lodger moved he took betty and his cat with him. After a short while he asked me if i wanted the cat because he kept stealing Betty's breakfast!! I took the cat, his name was bagpuss and i loved him for years until he died
Not sure what's happened to Betty

Was Betty a big bird then, I always imagine buzzards to be the height of your washing machine or summut

It sounds medieval up their in Hebdon, I picture your ex-lodger walking round the shires in an oily full length coat hiding the buzzard inside the coat

 

[moose]

So when do we all move in together in a self-sufficient commune, then?
We could get pissed on homebrew in an immaculately kept house and wear jumpers knitted from buzzards.

 

[MsShirlLaverne]

Was Betty a big bird then, I always imagine buzzards to be the height of your washing machine or summut

It sounds medieval up their in Hebdon, I picture your ex-lodger walking round the shires in an oily full length coat hiding the buzzard inside the coat

My lodger was a vet who had a thing about birds of prey. Betty was huge by the time she left but very tame and lovely. When she arrived she was a bit bold with fluff but when she left she was fully feathered.
Moose, we could have buzzard knitted jumpers but I can't help with the immaclute houses

 

[northernhord]

^ hehehe

Buzzard Knitwear, ,we could sell it to passing hippies for £100 per jumper

 

[8ball]

I make a mean veggie curry.

 

[dilute micro]

So when do we all move in together in a self-sufficient commune, then?
We could get pissed on homebrew in an immaculately kept house and wear jumpers knitted from buzzards.

Someone needs to be put in charge. Who?

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

I can cook
I can wash pots *properly* so no one gets an iffy tummy (I'm a bit OCD-ish)
I can make curtains, so long as no one looks closely and realises the pattern is going sideways (it was expensive fabric from Laura Ashley as well)
I can fill you in on the latest episodes of Desperate Housewives
I can pitch a tent
I can flash SOS with a Maglite and blow SOS on a party hooter and get us rescued from mad lost drivers in the desert
I can say 'Cheers!' in about 20 different languages
I can give a taxi driver directions and order Dominoes vegetarian pizzas in Mandarin Chinese
I know lots of useless facts, which sometimes come in handy at pub quizzes, but my usefulness in a pub quiz is inversely proportional to my alcohol consumption, and given a pub quiz happens in a pub...

 

[Jessiedog]

^ hehehe

Buzzard Knitwear, ,we could sell it to passing hippies for £100 per jumper

Fuck me!

You have extraodinarily wealthy hippies over there.



Woof

 

[northernhord]

Fuck me!

You have extraodinarily wealthy hippies over there.



Woof

A Working class hippy is a rare thing, many of the ones ive met over the years have been well off

 

[dylanredefined]

I am a trained nurse so probably have useful skills there apart from paper work handing out pills and being nice to people who dont deserve it .
Also been in the ta so can dig holes and build bunkers and barb wire fences
, booby traps etc .Vague idea about guns and stuff .Proven ability to make a cup of tea anywhere ,anytime.

 

[Pieface]

I'm ashamed now. I was never very good at anything practical. I can't even change an inner tube on a back wheel cos the chain is too complicated for me.

I wouldn't be ashamed OU - most people are basically saying they can drive, cook and do DIY

 

[pembrokestephen]

Someone needs to be put in charge. Who?

Maybe dwy3r would like the job?

*runs and hides*

 

[Pie 1]

and I'm a damn good shot with a gun

Ooh forgot that one.
I'm not a great shot, but I can load & fire a shotgun & a Browning 9mm.