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DOUBLE BREW DAY!!! Bit of an experiment with this purely to test how 2 different hops work in a saison. As i only had one packet of yeast and 32l is a bit much for one pack, I made a small starter and let it build up for 2 days prior to brew day and the gave it a good stir and split it between...

AG 136 Chocolate advent calendar - first taste test hmmmm, not exactly what i was expecting. Almost no chocolate from the cocao nibs has come through, but the vanilla has survived nicely. So its a little imbalanced in that way. Still a pleasant pint of beer and i am very impressed at the...

So if you have flu like symptoms don't go giving granny a hug and a big wet sloppy kiss. So exactly the same as if you had regular non piggy flu like symptoms...... Ffs

I like drinking beer and this keeps the costs down and hides my rather large drinking habit from swmbo. Seeing 20+ beers on the weekly shopping would get me in trouble. A quarterly purchase of grains (whilst a big initial outlay) soon recedes to the nether world of her mind and I can drink in...

2 bottles on my name please @Alastair70

140 all grain brews in (and a good number of headgerow wine batches) using some free to me plastic fermenting buckets and a £60 cheap Chinese tea urn. Glass bottles were free ( well the liquid inside originally wasn't :-) ) Only things I have bought additionally were a set of plastic bottles...

Beers in many breweries in Yorkshire are fermented in open squares. They're alright. A small opening in the top of your fv will be fine

Hot mash nearly always equals a high fg. Just bottle it and leave it a few weeks. It will be fine. It WANTS to be beer. All grain NEEDS to be beer You have to do something ridiculously stupid to have to ditch it

When you say a joist what does this mean exactly? Do you mean a false bottom or similar to keep the bag off the elements and the base of the kettle? No, he means that if you are making a 100l brew, you will probably be using a significant amount of grain. I use 4kg for a 21l brew, so you could...

Have long leads to each element and have them plugged in to 2 sockets :-) Don't, by the way, was joking.

gone a bit futuristic anime with my latest label - but why not. Using a new Lora i found on civitai for making T-Shirt artwork and it really is brilliant at doing labels!!!

I'm in !

It's not much different from other cars. My Volvo renewal was 60% higher than last year, even though I've still got max no claims and no endorsements My mum has the same thing with her little Suzuki Insurance is just way higher at the moment as explained here...

So do certain BMW and Mercedes. It's all part of the euro4 or 5 emissions regulations. Fairly common amongst those with a bit of spanner experience to just remove the swirl flaps and carry on regardless. Doesn't impact mot emissions and keeps the car safe from ingestion of plastic + metals bits...

Does anyone else feel the need to paste that in to text2talk with an Alabama hick 'murican' accent and play it back on half speed for the full stooopid effect?

Life is a series of risks, driving is one of them. I would suggest that you are many times more likely to come a cropper from a collision than your EV battery deciding at random to self combust is spectacular fashion whilst driving along a motorway with your kids on board And I bet you put...

Interesting article https://www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-21-misleading-myths-about-electric-vehicles/?fbclid=IwAR20yHN_aaXgWNp49ERuWsInUvYK0vYr8P6nlJssYk9wXwPQsj_or5HYK3M

I also left out a quote significant bit of the environmental calcs. To produce a gallon of petrol at the pump takes approximately 5kw of energy, or roughly 12% of the energy you get from a gallon of petrol. So whilst the carbon calculations I gave are based just on burning that petrol, you...

Absolutely, the longer you keep it the more it tips towards the EV... But most people buy a new car on a 3 year deal and renew it at the end of the term for another new car. So based on worst case short term scenario, it's still even stevens

In what way? If you can charge at home and do an average of 7000 miles per year...take the corsa as an example from the monthly prices quoted on the previous page over a three year lease. Should get 45mpg from the 1.2 petrol. Manufacturer quotes 52mpg, but let's be realistic It's about £7 a...