Thread: Euro Mount Tips

Originally Posted by Preacher

At the risk of telling you to suck eggs, get everything off the head that you can.

Then remove the Auditory(sp?) bulbs with pliers/screw driver and drill out with a wafer style bit before the first "boil", usually will be messy, use a cheap drill.

Some people do it after the brew but I personally find you get a much cleaner end product if done before. Then BEFORE you brew get in with a metal coat hanger and scramble brain pan, amazing how much you can get out just by doing this.

I almost feel that it almost "hardens" the menigial membrane against the interior skull if just thrown in a boil. Also the less heat the better, to a point. You want to remove matter/oils etc but too much heat and natural seams start breaking down and splitting. Low rolling boil and and water blasted .

Just my personal observation and technique though. I prefer the Euro mount myself so have done a fair few now, have not had issue with the above. FYI check WHITEBONE CREATIONS on YouTube he has a bunch of good stuff for skull work.

I usually have done. These last 3 I have done have been really painful. The atlas joint is covered in yellow ligament or something on one old cull I took in that even post boiling. Ive never had issues liek this with so much meat really sticking to the skull. Also pre boiling I had popped the earbuds out with a screw driver and coathangered the brain. Not idea why this happened. I may have to rewatch the whitebone creations videos again. Ideally I'd live to find some dermestid beetles here in NZ.