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Fermenting atm: * 9 gal or so of cider * 6 gal of apple wine * 6 gal of ginger and apple wine (last two are experimental, labelled as Witches Brew :lol: ) Maturing atm: 1 gal coffee wine (black as sin and about 6 months old) 1 gal red grape wine (M&S fresh grape juice, again about 6 months old)

Someone over at Metafilter had a similar problem:

http://ask.metafilter.com/58306/How-to- ... in-bottles


I tried the cooking oil + scrubby pad method as suggested there, and found it was very effective on the really stubborn jar labels.

Many thanks for the advice!

What a beautiful bag, funkypixie! I love Noro, but try to avoid temptation as it is quite expensive*. The colours make it worth it though! What colourway of Kuryeon? To bring this back to the selfsufficient direction, has anyone here tried spinning? A friend of mine who is an archaeologist got to tr...

Fee Fairy - garter stitch scarves have their own charm: I keep one on the needles nearly always, alongside more involved projects (am making a knitted waistcoat for my father at the moment, taking ages but I think he'll like it) The Yarn Harlot has a recipe for a chunky garter stitch scarf, but it's...

Hi 9ball, SG is 0.996, and the 19% I mentioned is our estimated final alcohol (as calculated here: http://www.rooftopbrew.net/abv_calculator.php ) On tasting a sample, the wine is definitely dry, which wasn't quite what we intended (hoped to make a sort of liquer-style sipping drink) but that's okay...

I've added you, hope that's okay!

Hi peeps, Back for more brewing advice after Stonehead's recipe for cider gave us a taste of how rewarding homebrewing can be. We found a coffee wine recipe somewhere on SSish forums and gave it a go. Our demijohn full seems to have stopped fermenting now and if I believe our newly acquired hydromet...

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What nickname did you have as a kid? Psycho Tomato (because I tended towards tantrums!) What did you want to be when you were "all growed up"? A doctor or scientist What do you do for work now? Still a student! Six years so far studying Engineering Who introduced you to Selfsufficientish ...

Good strong parsley tea is useful for starting your period. Helpful as an aid to scheduling / stopping worry over lateness etc. Probably a very bad idea if you are preggers though (for obvious reasons).

Joe, that map is indeed scary. I have a medium term plan to move out of the city to somewhere higher, but may be in for a wetting. Does anybody know if cities with weirs on their rivers will do any better? Belfast has the Lagan Weir which claims it can help protect the city in the event of flooding....

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If the tights only have ladders in one leg, cut off that leg. Save your unladdered halves, and match up two and wear them together (you get two unladdered legs that way)

9. See if your local college or University wants them. We quite often are short of old VGA monitors in the lab (they are used for students to learn on, and for machines that don't need a high-resolution display) 10. Turn them into a rubbish bin (looks a bit dangerous) http://doodlepost.com/archives/...