Edinburgher gets cracking!

edinburgher

Some people on the forums seem to think that the heaters only work for up to about 10L of liquid, others more. Personally, I don't fancy wasting about £30 on a wine kit plus sugar only for it not to work again, but I believe you, Ed, and if you haven't had a problem that's good enough for me (you did quite a few bottles, right?).

I only made beer using a heater, but it worked like a charm (held my primary fermenter at 18.2 degrees for a week when I was aiming for 18).

Fish tank heaters are specifically designed to heat large volumes of liquid and 25l is *tiny*, I wouldn't even keep a fish in 25l of water!

Remember that they only need to heat the difference between ambient temperature and ideal temperature. So if you're fermenting at 18 degrees, you only need to raise the temp from room temperature to 18 (negligible in a well insulated home, 3-4 degrees in a cold one).

Piece o' cake.

Busy day of work, housework and catsitting, considering an early night

• Various eB@y items at £59.50, 2 days to run
• £9.33 to Freedom Fund
• £10.54 to 2017 (will need to save this much a day for 1173 days (not including interest, cashback, additional sales, gifts)
• Posted eB@y item
• New running shoes have been dispatched
• Completed *hilarious* VO survey asking about politics and my sexual inclinations :rotfl:

Need to pick up my peppermint bark mould tomorrow, thanks to MWC for the idea :money:

PositiveBalance

edinburgher wrote: »

I only made beer using a heater, but it worked like a charm (held my primary fermenter at 18.2 degrees for a week when I was aiming for 18).

Fish tank heaters are specifically designed to heat large volumes of liquid and 25l is *tiny*, I wouldn't even keep a fish in 25l of water!

Remember that they only need to heat the difference between ambient temperature and ideal temperature. So if you're fermenting at 18 degrees, you only need to raise the temp from room temperature to 18 (negligible in a well insulated home, 3-4 degrees in a cold one).

Piece o' cake.

That's a fair point. When I googled it people had discussed the very same thing on forums and were coming up with stats. saying it would be too much water for it to deal with about 10L, but it you've tried and tested it and given it the Ed seal of approval, that's as good as the Which? one for me, so I'll buy one now *Zips over to Bay of E with debit card between teeth*

Busy day of work, housework and catsitting, considering an early night

edinburgher wrote: »

Need to pick up my peppermint bark mould tomorrow, thanks to MWC for the idea :money:

What on earth do you need that for?!

Pearla*Merle

edinburgher wrote: »

Completed *hilarious* VO survey asking about politics and my sexual inclinations :rotfl:

I'm so jealous! That sounds amazing. I got the most mind-numbing lottery-related one today. I was verbally abusing it by the end

edinburgher

Dull day at work, but home to hang out with Mrs E and watch Fawlty Towers

• Mortgage offer received
• NSD
• £10.54 to 2017
• Sold eB@y item for £8.89 profit
• £8.89 to Freedom Fund
• Completed VO 'Hot Topics' survey to increase chances of future offers
• All 6 remaining eBay items have bidders, prices starting to pick up on a few

Tilly_MFW_in_6_YRS

Love Fawlty Towers and sadly used to be able to recite episodes :eek::rotfl:

Good to hear mortgage offer has arrived, hope all goes well and you are able to release more cash for other stuff.

Best wishes, Tilly x

edinburgher

hope all goes well and you are able to release more cash for other stuff.

Our payment has actually gone up by about £15, but we have taken 6 years off the term (17 as opposed to the 'natural' 23 we had left).

Oh, and my peppermint bark mould arrived, bargain at £2.29!

Tilly_MFW_in_6_YRS

That's brilliant news

slowlyfading

You're doing fab, as always

gallygirl

Tilly_MFW_in_6_YRS wrote: »

Love Fawlty Towers and sadly used to be able to recite episodes :eek::rotfl:

"No Mr Fawlty, ees hamster" :rotfl:.

PositiveBalance

edinburgher wrote: »

Our payment has actually gone up by about £15, but we have taken 6 years off the term (17 as opposed to the 'natural' 23 we had left).

Oh, and my peppermint bark mould arrived, bargain at £2.29!

Well done, but seriously - what's that peppermint bark mould all about?!