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Poultry and Pets => Chicken Chat => Topic started by: wolverine on May 21, 2011, 06:47

Title: chicken people are more helpfull than homebrew people
Post by: wolverine on May 21, 2011, 06:47
everytime I post a question on the chicken parts of this forum I usually get an answer/reply in a very short time. sadly the homebrew section is disappointing. almost dead infact it's been days now and still no replies.
Thanks chicken people for being so quick  :)
as far as home brew goes I'll just have to buy a book :(   
Title: Re: chicken people are more helpfull than homebrew people
Post by: gracie on May 21, 2011, 07:11
Maybe they have had a few too many.  :tongue2:

Guess it is quite frustrating though when you want the answer to something, maybe it's more of a weekend site. Don't know what I'm talking about really, just an idea

I find when I post on here alot of the time I even have to delete the kiss I put at the end, (habit from texting)
Title: Re: chicken people are more helpfull than homebrew people
Post by: DD. on May 21, 2011, 07:20
I think that comment is very unfair.

This is not a home-brew forum and is targeted at the home-grower and poultry keeper. Comparatively there are very few home brewers than growers/keepers.

Most of those who post in there are frequent posters in the main forums and are very helpful there.

I assume this is one of the posts you refer to:

http://chat.allotment-garden.org/index.php?topic=77089.0

36 views, no replies in 6 days. I suppose you could have had 36 replies of "no". I can't believe that if someone reading that had had said experience that they would have ignored it.

I suggest that for this type of specialist question, you go to a home-brew forum. I doubt that if someone on a home-brew forum wanted to ask a question on tomatoes or chickens, that they'd post on there.
Title: Re: chicken people are more helpfull than homebrew people
Post by: arugula on May 21, 2011, 07:32
I suggest that for this type of specialist question, you go to a home-brew forum.

If Wolverine does, I hope they don't know that he said they were less helpfull than others....  :unsure:  ;)
Title: Re: chicken people are more helpfull than homebrew people
Post by: DD. on May 21, 2011, 07:42
All tarred with the same brush now!
Title: Re: chicken people are more helpfull than homebrew people
Post by: wolverine on May 21, 2011, 07:59
sorry guys  I assumed that it was a home brew sub section ? there is a home brew link in the jump to window?
as far as not knowing the answer to a question which you find hard to believe
it is equally hard to believe that 17 people on the home brew section have never bottled a wine before.
Anyway all I was saying was that I was so happy when I saw the home brew section as the chicken forums have been invaluable in my early hen keeping days I don't know what I would have done withought them and was just dissapointed that the home brew section wasn't as active
sorry if I got your back up but that's true.  
Title: Re: chicken people are more helpfull than homebrew people
Post by: DD. on May 21, 2011, 08:03
It is a sub-section, but there for the benefit of  the minority of the membership, as I said before, in the main we exist for growers & poultry keepers.

I'm not a betting person, but I'd put all my money on there being a time when you'd not bottled some home brewed wine.
Title: Re: chicken people are more helpfull than homebrew people
Post by: wolverine on May 21, 2011, 08:09
ok sorry I was mistaken I thought it was something it was not.
Shame though it would be nice to have all my advice coming from one comunity.
might just by a book for this project and learn the old way
trial and error  :)
Title: Re: chicken people are more helpfull than homebrew people
Post by: DD. on May 21, 2011, 08:16

Shame though it would be nice to have all my advice coming from one comunity.

I shudder to think how many sub-forums would be needed to cover everything under the sun!
Title: Re: chicken people are more helpfull than homebrew people
Post by: asd1 on May 21, 2011, 10:37
I have posted on the home brew bit before and was recommended a good book and then bought all the equipment from wilko. I guess it depends very much on the question and who is active on the forum at the time. Don't give up hope there may be an answer soon you never know
Title: Re: chicken people are more helpfull than homebrew people
Post by: wolverine on May 21, 2011, 13:05
I have posted on the home brew bit before and was recommended a good book and then bought all the equipment from wilko. I guess it depends very much on the question and who is active on the forum at the time. Don't give up hope there may be an answer soon you never know

can I ask what the book was called and was it helpfull?
Title: Re: chicken people are more helpfull than homebrew people
Post by: GrannieAnnie on May 21, 2011, 13:17

Shame though it would be nice to have all my advice coming from one comunity.

I shudder to think how many sub-forums would be needed to cover everything under the sun!

Don't let this one degenerate into one of "those" posts, so that wolverine feels he isn't welcome here.  And if you remember DD, in the beginning, this was just allotment growing, then us garden veg growers joined, then the poultry people came along, and look at us now, we talk about everything under the sun!

It's just that in the main its veg, fruit and poultry.

I don't get into the homebrew section much wolverine, as I rarely do anything by the book! lol   I make what I like and I do it my way, so I'd probably get shot down in flames if I went onto the homebrew bit too much!!    :lol: :lol:

Oh and DD, we know someone who likes sub forums don't we?  and sub sub forums and ......  :lol: :lol: :lol:
Title: Re: chicken people are more helpfull than homebrew people
Post by: DD. on May 21, 2011, 13:53


Oh and DD, we know someone who likes sub forums don't we?  and sub sub forums and ......  :lol: :lol: :lol:

Indeed we do!  :lol:
Title: Re: chicken people are more helpfull than homebrew people
Post by: DD. on May 21, 2011, 13:55
I have posted on the home brew bit before and was recommended a good book and then bought all the equipment from wilko. I guess it depends very much on the question and who is active on the forum at the time. Don't give up hope there may be an answer soon you never know

can I ask what the book was called and was it helpfull?

Pound to a penny it was this, I seem to recall it being mentioned. We don't homebrew now, but 35 years ago when we did, the was the "bible".

http://www.amazon.co.uk/First-Steps-Winemaking-C-J-J-Berry/dp/1854861395
Title: Re: chicken people are more helpfull than homebrew people
Post by: elrohana on May 21, 2011, 14:05

Pound to a penny it was this, I seem to recall it being mentioned. We don't homebrew now, but 35 years ago when we did, the was the "bible".

http://www.amazon.co.uk/First-Steps-Winemaking-C-J-J-Berry/dp/1854861395

It still is!!!!!  *fervent fan*
Title: Re: chicken people are more helpfull than homebrew people
Post by: asd1 on May 21, 2011, 23:05
The book we have got I'd called drink your own garden it's by Judith glover. Hope this helps
Title: Re: chicken people are more helpfull than homebrew people
Post by: hillfooter on May 22, 2011, 06:31
ZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...................Errrrrr...... someone say sumat? ???????????????? mine's a large one.... Hic........hic  :blink: 
A little wine ?????? .....   
no one replies to your posts????????
hic hic

HF
Title: Re: chicken people are more helpfull than homebrew people
Post by: hillfooter on May 22, 2011, 06:36

Shame though it would be nice to have all my advice coming from one comunity.

I shudder to think how many sub-forums would be needed to cover everything under the sun!

42  :dry:

HF
Title: Re: chicken people are more helpfull than homebrew people
Post by: bantam novice on May 22, 2011, 08:43
So what's the ultimate question HF?  :lol:
Title: Re: chicken people are more helpfull than homebrew people
Post by: DD. on May 22, 2011, 08:44
"What do you get if you multiply 6 by 9?"
Title: Re: chicken people are more helpfull than homebrew people
Post by: GrannieAnnie on May 22, 2011, 08:49

Shame though it would be nice to have all my advice coming from one comunity.

I shudder to think how many sub-forums would be needed to cover everything under the sun!

42  :dry:

HF

No that's not enough HF!  The ones I'm thinking about had 469 last time I looked and that was about 3 years ago!  :lol: