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Most of my family were teachers, several good friends are teachers and I myself taught (admittedly not at school level) for over a...

The article blames increased production costs for brewing Brewdog IPA, not wage costs. They could instead stop chucking ridiculous and...

Teaching functional maths and English to 16 olds who have, for whatever reason, failed it at GCSE seems like a pretty sensible thing to...

A bit ridiculous to be getting angry about a proposal that nobody of any significance has said as far as I can tell. Move towards being...

But they don't have to stay in school. There are a number of options at 16. School, college, apprenticeships.... In fact, those things...

If they say it is a lager yeast that CAN ferment at 20-25 c it should ferment at lager temps, and this would be best. The only reason I...

I have, waiting for their reply but I wanted to ask people who had actually brewed this their opinions on what they would do again if...

Why not email them and ask?

Yeah, realise it is a big generalisation and the thing us Brits find it hard to get our heads around is the scale of the US. Would love...

Is it a good idea to drive to Brewpub? Downside of US is that public transport is often non existent, or at least that is my impression...

Sounds like a great place to live... Affordable, nice housing plus vibrant arts scene.

Kits presumably contain the minerals that were used to produce them, so I guess you ideally want fairly low mineral content water. I...

As I understand it, if you are brewing a kit you only need to use Camden tablets if you have noticeable levels of chlorine (or...

I would be more worried about skunked beer if I were using a glass carboy. Never understood why people use them.

Alternative with DME is to cut a corner of the bag off (to avoid steam getting in the bag) and gradually pouring it into the boiled...