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You lot take the most stylish pictures... That's a sticker on the radiator by the way, not a tiny dragon flying out of the beer!

Just finished my last shift at work, I'm now officially retired, so it's time for a glass of mead to celebrate! I've never kegged mead before, very rarely do I make it sparkling either, but this is a bit of a revelation. A darn fine beverage if I do say so myself! (Whoever said kegs breed...

That had so much potential, Sylar was a great villain and his character arc was very well thought out, it's a shame that the writers were evidently replaced by a bunch of talentless hacks in the later seasons. Supernatural was much the same, probably one of my all time favourite series but the...

I could never get on with the Resident Evil games, I've given them many chances but for some reason they never really hit the mark for me. They always seemed like a poor man's Silent Hill (love and still occasionally play the PS1 original version and the PS2 sequel).

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I use Hilltop Blossom honey as a standard in all my meads nowadays, it's relatively cheap (£2.50 for 720g bottles on Amazon, the big tubs tend to split open in transit so I go for multiple smaller ones) and yields good results. I've used the super expensive stuff, Manuka and the like, and the...

If your beer is fully finished fermenting then there shouldn't be any sediment since you're force carbing rather than priming, what little yeast is left in suspension shouldn't be noticeable. I've only just started kegging after many years of bottling and it's a nice change not to have to...

Skyrim, modded as much as possible with (mainly) immersion mods, on the Xbox one is largely all I play nowadays. It's certainly something that appeals to the colossal geek in me and allows my mild OCD to run rampant, I can seriously spend hours arranging and sorting various magical swords and...

I'd second Tesco Ashbeck, I've used it in dozens of batches of mead and it's generally yielded excellent results.

Better than expected, I do like a good stout and one that has pronounced coffee notes moreso, but there have been too many that taste like I'm knocking back a slightly carbed, boozy, glass of espresso. This is quite nice, decent coffee flavour, albeit a tad too sickly, light carbonation and...

I was a big fan of lagers in my youth, specifically of the eastern European variety, not swill like Carling, Fosters etc. But nowadays I'm more of an IPA or the more 'traditional' ales kinda guy. Generally speaking I tend to gravitate toward the stuff that's barely changed in centuries. 'if it...

Posse

I was watching that earlier, would it even work that well? Seems like it would taste a bit grim. My experiences with similar stuff have never been particularly good.

I'm fairly certain we all did, when the first wave of scaremongering began we all got something that matched the listed symptoms exactly but it manifested as little more than a cold. Several times since we've all had similar symptoms on a few occasions, seemingly less severe each time. None of...

My day job is cleaning, my wife has nurses coming into our home every day due to long standing illness, so our place is essentially the germ nexus of the known universe. To put a basic question terribly bluntly, how comes we don't got the covid? I mean, none of us are sickly folk, we have kids...

After the disappointing beer earlier, I've moved on to an old favourite...

My first ever pimped kit from my first ever keg. Yorkshire bitter. Not hugely impressed, I've been doing all grain only for the last six years so it's entirely possible that my tastes have changed, but it's a tad too bitter and has a very 'kit' taste. I think it was a 'Ritchies Simply...

Oh, I had a spectacular one recently. I think it was around mid May, I decided to make a load of sparkling melomel, I'd already brewed a few gallons and instead of pasteurising and bottling as I normally would, I just went ahead and back sweetened in beer bottles before capping and putting it...