Whats your project for the xmas break

[RuddyCrazy]

G'Day Guys,
Well my youngest daughter decided she wanted a breeding pair of green tree frogs for xmas and my instant thought was that old fish tank :handgestures-thumbupleft: Found out it this morning out the front of the shed where the weeds and I mean weeds :scared-eek: stopped one's path.

So today's task was nuke the area :laughing-rolling: well with a pair of snips and a post hole shovel :laughing-rolling: and got the area all cleaned up.

When SWMBO came home the whole idea of the frogs was put on the back burner so the first pale ale was opened. :obscene-drinkingchug:

Well if my bogan bar is ever going to get made time to cut down some redgum and set them up for drying using the fence posts I have here and lets visit this one next year :handgestures-thumbupleft:

As my still hasn't run for so long it time time to strip it down and give the tree a citric acid bath then the inline thumper can go on with the 500mm packed just to see if I have to move the still so it doesn't hit the roof line :laughing-rolling:

Well as I'm getting out of using longnecks and going into corny/beer kegs next year it may be time to setup my mashtun again with that overhead spray and fire up my flash boiler so I can use steam for mashing local grains and fix the drain on the mashtun to a 3/4" bsp fitting so the fluid can flow thru that magnet pump I have here.
Putting a 3/8" one was a failure :angry-banghead:

Got visit from Crow pending and go back to work on the 9th doing scaffold so it does look like the 2 scaffies want to upgrade from their T-500's :laughing-rolling:

Cheers Bryan

[Wellsy]

Will be trying to sample most of my stocks over the break to make sure nothing over oaks.

It may take some time but I think it needs doing and I am definitely the man for the job.

With So much heat I will also be including a lot of water mixed in amounts the sample, the water will have been mixed with barley and hops of course but water is water and very good for you

[RuddyCrazy]

Well for a change of tack called into the hardware store and grabbed a 20kg sack of feed barley :handgestures-thumbupleft:

So let the malting begin :laughing-rolling: :laughing-rolling: :laughing-rolling:

with the high temps next week it won't take long for the grains to dry in my hotbox infact I may even get a light toast going :laughing-rolling:

Cheers Bryan

[Yonder]

Getting my right arm back! Total replacement of my right shoulder 2 weeks back. Damned sling is making me nuts but only 4 more days. :angry-banghead: Thankfully, I put up 6 gallons of bourbon in September knowing it was coming. :handgestures-thumbupleft:

[iOnaBender]

In between ferments and runs, some time on the workbench! :laughing-rolling:

Cheers

[BigRig]

My xmas project was actually a pre - xmas project. Final touches done today on my alfresco, outdoor kitchen, pizza oven and brew shed. Massive clean up today and stopped for some beers this arvo.
I have my first washes down for the summer. Will be 10 days on 27/12 hopefully ready to run. Not back to work until 11/1.