Look What Santa Bought Me

[Dogger Dan]

I really did think they were coming to my house

Dogger

http://www.canoe.ca/LondonPDF/121005.pdf

[501]

hehe
Bring em mate !

[yardglass]

hey DD,

if you're still having troubles with that conical fermenter, just locate the bloke that welded those together, he should be able to sort it out

[grabman]

where the ...... are you going to set them up DD?

Will Mrs DD let you put them in the basement?

Just imagine having to crack all the grain for a mash by hand

[Dogger Dan]

As an aside, I did see the four from Toronto go down the road. They spent Thursday night in a small town 15 mins away from me called Kirkton and I stopped in to see them. These bad boys handle 374 k
(yep 374 thousand litres) of brew at a go each. That is to say each fermentor handles 1 million bottles of beer.

A power crew had to go with the trucks to shut the power off and move the power lines out of the way to get these fermentors through. It really was an awesome site.

Dogger

[db]

Just imagine having to crack all the grain for a mash by hand

or even worse - cleaning out the tun afterwards!..

[undercover1]

That's an ad we don't see in our newspapers often- "Snowshoeing made easy". And on the front page!

[Dogger Dan]

Oh yeh,

Did I not mention, its winter agiain

Dogger

[grabman]

looks like it's always winter there!!!!

mind you hard to know what it is in Perth at the moment, middle of December and still only around 20C during the day, bloody strange.

[Hillbilly]

But great for brewing!

[grabman]

true Hillbilly!!

I've got a few on the go at the moment!

Must get together again soon, I'm about to build my brew bench, have all the materials, just need a welder to put it all together. Then I'll have an all-grain brew setup on wheels! Any welders out there in Perth??

[undercover1]

Which reminds me, DD, you'll need this to keep up over the next few months:

Test cricket is played between two teams over five days, with three two-hour sessions per day. (Sessions are usually interspersed with a 40-minute break for lunch and 20-minute break for afternoon tea.) Each team has eleven players.
Before play starts on the first day, a coin is tossed. The team winning the toss chooses whether to bat first or to bowl first. In the following, the team batting first is termed "team A" and its opponents "team B".
Team A bats until either ten batsmen are dismissed (team A is "all out"), or its captain chooses to stop batting (called a "declaration"). This batting period is called an "innings". There is no limit to the length of an innings provided there remain at least two batsmen who have not been dismissed (when ten are dismissed, the eleventh cannot continue by himself) and the five days have not elapsed.
After team A's first innings the teams swap roles, with team B batting its first innings, and team A bowling and fielding.
If team B is dismissed with a score 200 runs or more behind team A, team A chooses whether to "invite" team B to bat again for its second innings (called "enforcing the follow-on"), or to bat itself to gain a bigger lead. (If the whole first day of play is abandoned without a single ball being bowled, whether because of rain or otherwise, the follow-on requirement is reduced to 150 runs.)

If the follow-on is enforced:
Team B bats its second innings.
If team B's total score from both innings is less than team A's first innings score, team A wins the match.
If this is not the case, team A must bat its second innings to attempt to score more than team B's total. If it succeeds in the remaining time, team A wins. If it is dismissed before this occurs, team B wins (though this is very unusual - teams that enforce the follow-on very rarely lose. This has happened only three times in the entire history of Test cricket and each time the losing team has been Australia; the most recent one being the India-Australia series in India in 2001.).
If time runs out before any of the above occurs, the match is called a draw.

If, after each team's first innings, the follow-on is not enforced or cannot be enforced:
Team A bats its second innings. If time runs out before the innings is completed, the match is a draw.
If team A's total score for its two innings is less than team B's score from its first innings, team B is the winner. Otherwise, team B must bat a second innings.
If team B's total score over two innings is more than team A's, team B wins the match.
If team B is dismissed before reaching team A's total, team A wins the match.
If neither occurs before the scheduled end of the match, it is a draw.
Finally, if both teams are dismissed twice with the same combined totals, the game is a tie (as distinct from a draw, as described above). With the comparatively high scores in cricket, only two ties have occurred over the entire history of over 1,700 Test matches. Both matches are regarded as amongst the most exciting ever played.

The decision for the winner of the toss to bat or bowl first is based on an assessment of the relative strengths and weaknesses of each team and the conditions of the wicket. Most of the time pitches tend to become hard to bat on as the game nears its conclusion, and players bat more poorly after the fatigue of four solid days of cricket, so teams usually prefer to bat first. However, sometimes the conditions at the very beginning of the match particularly suit fast bowling, so if either team has particularly strong set of pace bowlers, the winning team may choose to bowl first (either to take advantage of their own attack or to disallow the opposition the use of a "green" wicket whose erratic bounce will help seam bowling).

The rationale for declaring an innings closed prematurely may be confusing for cricketing neophytes, but it is often a sound tactic. Remember that to win a game, the losing side must be given the opportunity to complete two innings - if they do not do so, no matter how many runs they may be behind, the game is a draw. Therefore, a team with a large lead will declare to give themselves time to bowl at the opposition and take all their wickets

[Dogger Dan]

Thanks UC1

There are the Olympics in Feb to look fwd to as well

Dogger