Bitter_Dave

I think the law changed a few years back. No more pretending you are making perfume!

To be honest, the sorts of beers you like are never going to be carbonated to right levels in a pressure barrel. They are not designed...

In a pressure barrel a C02 cartridge is only going to push the beer out the barrel, not carbonate it. If you have to use a lot of C02...

Hi Robin welcome to the forum. A couple of thoughts. If you are using a plastic pressure barrel I'm afraid you are not going to get...

Interesting post NB. Not sure anyone here is claiming nationalisation is a panacea. But all else being equal, is it really worth...

Thanks for your reply Baron. I don't disagree that things were not great under BR in the past (as I said, partly because of...

If you don't mind me asking Baron, how much do you use the railways?

Up until a few years ago I used rail on a daily basis to get to work in the South and I can tell you it was absolutely grim + incredibly...

It's not working now. I believe Northern, LNER, Southeastern and more all failed and are run publicly, LNER much better than when it was...

The idea that nationalisation will increase wages in the long term is far from clear. After privatisation wages in the rail industry...

I've had two cheap plastic bottling sticks (I think they were made by Young's) - never had problem. Maybe you were just unlucky with the...

Equivalent beer today would probably be about 30p Welcome to the forum Rob

Useful to have a second fridge at Christmas (just don't butcher it!). Welcome to Jsmid. Temp control fridge was the best brewing...

Yup. Find a spot that doesn't fluctuate too much a constant 18c is better than a 19-21c next to the radiator or in the kitchen.

Wow, that's impressive list! I don't think I have all that many records that are valuable (except a couple of early Beatles records I...