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Next up one of my last remaining bottles of homebrew, a 6.4% IPL. Not my best, it was a user upper brew and I overshot my efficiency plus the yeast chewed through it more than I'd hoped for. Not bad though.

Two chefs brewing flat white to start Sunday off right Excuse the glass, I was farting around with some Instagram 'latte art' 😅

Work tomorrow morning so I'm behaving myself. A bit of Bond in the background. Best have a rum to congratulate myself for being good! El Dorado 12 anos. It's very sweet which means they've added sugar to make taste better. Good thing it worked!

Oops missed one out 😅

Life has been busy this year. Hopefully I'll be back on form in the next few months 🤞 But for now, another beer or two My wife bought me last months beer52 subscription for my birthday and it's the Netherlands month.

A Hammer and Sikkel porter for breakfast this morning whilst I make some green tomato chutney. A little bit of roast, a little caramel aroma and goes down smooth.

You don't even need to use contactless anymore. With Google and Apple Pay you can just tap with your phone. Building on that, there's now apps where you can spend your crypto and the merchant gets paid in fiat currency with minimal transaction fees. Visa and MasterCard are on their way out. Oh...

Get out of the past and stop asking what if questions. It doesn't matter what came before, we can't change that, and what ifs are just hyperthetical noise. Live in the now! The Tories are robbing us blind and syphoning the profits to their rich pals. That's where you'll find the money.

Hostile takeover. Magic money tree. Money printer go brrrrrrrrrrrr. Perhaps just add it to the ever increasing deficit. But hey, there's always money for more bombs!

What actually needs to happen here in the UK is nationalisation of all public utilities and services. That way they can all start actually working for the benefit of UK economy and not putting money into the pockets of shareholders. In this scenario there is no need for a rich tax or any...

AHH the classic 'I used to be left but then I grew up' scenario. One of my friends told me the same story and said one day it'll happen to me too.

Lots of strong viewpoints here. A lot of infighting and not a lot of ideas of how to fix anything. You'd all do well in Westminster 🤣

It was two big tins of puréed Alfonso mango (world food aisle at Morrisons) into 10l of wort. Dumped it straight in after sanitising the tins.

I recently brewed another mango IPA, this time using tinned mango puree. I thoroughly cleaned and sanitised the tins before opening and added them to the primary rather than the secondary later on. The results were fantastic and I'll be using this method from now on. The only 'issue' I had was a...

Do they hook them directly up to the Budweiser tap?

I think we've both gone off topic here tbh. We shouldn't be discussing the poor or work shy, it's divisive and detracts from the issue. Instead we should be talking about how economically illiterate this £350 'support' is and how it affects each and every one of us. This £200 off energy per...

Well there's no helping some people. My wife and I call them Deanos. The keeping up appearances, buy now, pay (more) later type.

This goes on the assumption that people have a choice between essentials and luxuries, as opposed to the choice between one essential and another essential. Heat or eat should never be a choice someone has to make. Conversely, if Sky or Netflix decided they were going to add 50% to their...

It couldn't be run any worse than it already is, could it?...... 😂

At the risk of sounding like a loony lefty (I'm actually quite centrist these days). I believe that any service that is a necessity should be in public ownership. Water/Gas/Electricity etc would benefit greatly from not having to make profit for shareholders, and instead any revenue flowing...