Northwest Dive Club

Along these lines, I have a question. We were going to start our next batch, and I couldn't find one of the carboys. It has apparently had cider in it since spring, and I totally forgot about it. Can I salvage it or should I just chuck it? Did it still have an effective air trap? Have you sampled i...

An update: The gallon growlers are still bubbling away but I didn't account for head space when I correlated cider volume and fermenter size so I had wound up with a bit more juice that I put in to a 1l bottle with an air trap. I racked it off into a 750ml flip top bottle on Friday night and capped ...

Can you force carbonate cider? Yes, that is probably the most workable method. Several years ago I demolished the interior of the Copper Gate Tavern in Ballard and was able to salvage about a dozen corney kegs, the C02 regulators from the soda guns, and a bunch of the tap hardware. I gave it all to...

Interesting. It must have very limited endurance and the potential for CO2 buildup with the constant flow breathing system.

It's still bubbling away in the closet. I've found the Whitbey Is. Critter's thread of cider making over on homebrewtalk.com . 800+ posts since 2008 isn't quite as prolific as Jan and no cartoons though. It looks like a bottle carbonated cider is going to be too complex for this batch but I'm still ...

KUOW just ran a story about Boeing's Minuteman test silo in Seattle yesterday. This is a more modern missile program (still in use) than the Titan silo in Royal City but is also an interesting bit of history in our back yard.

Good news, I've got obvious fermentation this afternoon. Hopefully it is by my intended yeast strain.

Did you make a yeast starter before you pitched it? From what I read that seems to a beer brewing step that is skipped for cider and wine making which have different sugars available to the yeast. I just used boiled water that had cooled to 105F to proof the yeast per the instructions on the packag...

So it's been 24 hours since I pitched the yeast. Shouldn't I be seeing visible yeasty action by now? No bubbles/suds on the must and no action in the water traps yet. I'm thinking that I'll be getting some more yeast tomorrow if I don't see anything happening in the morning.

So it's been 24 hours since I pitched the yeast. Shouldn't I be seeing visible yeasty action by now? No bubbles/suds on the must and no action in the water traps yet. I'm thinking that I'll be getting some more yeast tomorrow if I don't see anything happening in the morning.

Well my hot water tank is 3 feet from the outside spigot in an unfinished basement. So it looks like I have yet one project on my list. :rawlings: Moen makes some great frost free hot/cold mixing valves for outdoor use with your hose. I've installed several and really like them but they do require ...

but based on the fact that it's full of oil, I'd say really deep. Yes, but is that "Super Lemon Wedge Trimix" deep? Only if you drain the oil and replace it with Lemon Pledge. Didn't they teach you anything in your class? I wouldn't recommend attempting this procedure at home unless you a...

EC-1118 is good stuff. It took my sack mead to 20% abv after 5 years. :) I hope it will be ok with the cooler temperatures in our house during primary fermentation. I'm running a space heater in the kitchen tonight to help it get started but that isn't going to be happening long term. If there are ...

Well the pressing was today but I had a change of plans. The Asian pear in the yard didn't yield enough to be worth pressing but I acquired a case and a half of apples that pressed into four gallons of juice. It's had some campden added and is waiting to have it's specific gravity checked tomorrow b...

Perhaps someone should update the site listing for the oil dock or create a new one. This thread has more useful information that the title would lead one to believe.

Careful with the ginger, it's potent. Isn't that the point? :eek: I really like ginger, Rachel's Ginger Beer is my favorite. I went to pick the tree this afternoon and was rather disappointed. Guess I'll be hitting up the neighbors with unpicked fruit. Anybody in the Shoreline area got fruit that n...

I know there's a few home brewers around here but is anybody making cider? I've got a tree full of asian pears and friends who are getting a cider press this weekend. I haven't done any brewing or cider making on my own before but have helped friends brew a few times and have a pretty good idea of t...

FWIW the Time's Colonist (major paper from Victoria) posted an article today after the second fatality was recovered.

Dusty mentioned the dive shop in Port Townsend as being a place to visit. I think he is selling the community short, Port Townsend is a place worth visiting period and somewhere that has a distinct character compared to Squim which is more in the domain of sprawl and strip malls. It is one of the ol...

It was one of those days you were happy to say, "I caught crabs!", although something is lost in the translation when you send your hubby at work a cryptic message like that, I learned. I gave my ex herpes and chlamydia for Valentine's Day once while she was in med. school and she still h...

Will there be signage at the protected sites? They posted a very nice poster size PDF (illustrated with Janna's photos) on the site he liked to. If anyone have access to a tabloid sized laser printer I'm pretty sure that it would be suitable for laminating and posting. If WDFW doesn't have plans to...

Don't people know the place isn't a dive bar? If you want to wear your dry suit inside you'll have to go visit Diver Dave up in Sitka.


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On the weather front some folks have already described some of Western Washington's meteorological features. Outsiders need to understand that "rains all the time" really means that July through September it's really sunny but during the rest of the year it is frequently cloudy/overcast/gr...

Anybody ever dive the old ferry pier on Fox Is? It's gone now. Workers begin removing derelict dock on Fox Island By STEVE MAYNARD — Staff writer A dilapidated ferry dock on the north side of Fox Island dating back to Puget Sound’s historic Mosquito Fleet is being removed as part of a state cleanup....

Laurynn Evens is working in Singapore now, she probably isn't a viable option.