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My other purchase from Sainsbury’s.

I popped into Sainsbury’s for a few bits and picked up a couple of beers. I quite like this version of Oakham Citra. I was however quite upset to see someone had stolen my beer name “Butterfly Effect”. 😉

Ah yes, definitely nothing to eat there! 😂. I used to play football just up the road. The persistent deluge of rain used to come at us horizontally across the pitch!

Oh no! Where are you staying?

You’ve probably got Dominos and Pizza Express within a couple of minutes walk 😂

Sounds familiar, is it Lord of the rings, Prancing Pony, Pipin Took?

After talking about strong ale I had to go out and buy some. I bought a few 500ml bottles of Fullers Golden Pride. This is the kind of thing I had in mind at 8.4%.

I have 2 more beers to brew before I’m fully stocked and I know one will be a cask batch of my best bitter but I’m not sure about the other. I was toying with the idea of a strong ale, between 7% and 8%, based on my brown ale. I’m having a glass of the brown ale now and imagining how it might...

I’m having a best bitter. It was supposed to be from keg but half way through the pint the keg kicked and messed up the half I’d poured. I have kegged another today but that might be a bit young so cask version it is. It’s too cold and wet outside so here’s a picture I took earlier 😉

It’s a shame pretty much everything in life seems to be joining the race to the bottom. It just reinforces my temptation to keep my car for as long as I can or as long as they’ll let me!

I kegged those beers this morning, the stout and the best bitter that’s going in a keg. I’ve still got the Pirate Pale and Czech lager to keg but that won’t be until next week. I just need to brew 2 more beers and a cider then I’m fully stocked again.

That’s one way to reframe all their chest-beating about investment & research! 😂😂😂

I have a 2010 XFR and haven’t really had much go wrong. The most expensive thing was the air con compressor which was over £1K but I think it’s not much different on any car and for a car this age you’d expect to replace the air con compressor.

My daughter has one. I’ve driven it myself and it is a very nice car - comfortable, responsive, easy to drive, well equipped, good-looking. Hers goes back this month because it’s reached the end of its lease and she’s quite upset to be giving it up so I guess that tells you something.

Possibly not, the top-tap King Keg is quite a broad barrel so a little pressure will be applied over a large area. You also don’t have as far to lift the beer. Again, go with the higher amount of priming sugar if you’re nervous and adjust next time if necessary.

Yes, it’s not too sensitive, anywhere between 30g and 40g would be okay for your first brew and then adjust up or down according to taste. Kits give you measures for bottling which is normally far more carbonated than for a pressure barrel / cask.

Those taps fitted directly on the corny keg are a bit more troublesome because there’s no beer line to balance the system. You could reduce the pressure further or you could buy a party tap - these have a kind of gun at the tap end and a length of 3/16 beer line to the beer ball-lock connector...

I use about 1.5g/l

I completely forgot to post about yesterdays brewday, I brewed another batch of my Pirate Pale as the keg currently on tap is about to kick. Today I brewed a Czech lager. I do have one of these on tap at the moment but with Christmas coming up I ought to have one ready in the wings. The stout...

We went for lunch with the grand-children and they again chose Toby Carvery. I couldn’t face another London Pride so I had a Sharps Atlantic. At home now having a glass of my cask bitter. Hmmmm, that’s better!