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  1. Bitter_Dave

    Greggs vegan sausage rolls

    It's not that funny or hard to understand. People who don't want to eat meat for ethical reasons but still think it is tasty. I don't personally know any carnivores in the sense that they eat only meat, apart from maybe my cats. And I don't think they miss the taste of cabbage, so it is not an...
  2. Bitter_Dave

    Greggs vegan sausage rolls

    Yes, and I'm afraid I wasn't a big fan. The first bite seemed decent, but it tasted a bit synthetic tasting to me after a few bites. But given it does not contain meat or dairy products it tastes remarkably close to the real thing, so hats off to them.
  3. Bitter_Dave

    Munton's Traditional Ale LME kit stuck

    The OG is unlikely to have been 1035 with the 1.8kg kit and the fermentables you've added. More likely to be 1045 if you filled it to 21 litres, but it can read lower if it has not been mixed evenly (not always easy to do with DME, but should ferment out fine). So your alcohol/attenuation is...
  4. Bitter_Dave

    Festival - summer glory advice

    Dead easy to measure half a teaspoon of sugar and put it in the bottle via a funnel. Get some cheap measuring spoons. Works for me.
  5. Bitter_Dave

    Hoptimum beer kits

    Clearly Muntons made kits, as others have said - they have the Muntons yeast. 1.8 kg kits are Connoisseurs kits rebadged. About the same price too, maybe marginally cheaper. The 1.5 kg kits I initially assumed were the Premium range, but they don't seem to map across neatly. Some might be...
  6. Bitter_Dave

    British homebrew podcasts/YouTube channels

    I tend to watch channels where they review beer kits these days, as that's what I'm doing at the moment brewing-wise. My favourite is Schnuz (easy to find him if you Google). He is a very likeable and entertaining chap and he must get through a fair amount of beer because he puts out a loads of...
  7. Bitter_Dave

    Covid

    Slightly unbalanced reporting of that document (confirmation bias?). You missed this bit: A reported reaction does not necessarily mean it has been caused by the vaccine, only that the reporter had a suspicion it may have. Each year, millions of doses of vaccinations are given in the UK alone...
  8. Bitter_Dave

    Covid

    I wasn't mixing up politicians and climate scientists. Most climate scientists as far as I can tell think politicians under-play the significance of man-made climate change, even if they debate things like the magnitude of its impact. It suits certain groups who want (man made) climate change...
  9. Bitter_Dave

    Covid

    So you know better than all those climate scientists out there? And they are all conspiring in this evil sharade, when reviewing each other's papers and grant proposals? (Scientists are only too happy to pick holes in each other's work by the way). Of course people should not blindly accept...
  10. Bitter_Dave

    Covid

    Is global warming a hoax too?
  11. Bitter_Dave

    Covid

    Agreed. I think people reporting this are at best exaggerating or distorting what GPs said when *asked* if vaccines did not cause any lung issues. Doctors can say little with 100% certainty - it's not how science works. Confirmation bias means people look for gaps in evidence to back up what...
  12. Bitter_Dave

    Covid

    No, didn't see that programme. Have you got some details, or even a link to it? I'd like to see it for myself. Why would a vaccine have regional affects? Could it not be the fact that Glasgow in particular already has areas of with poor health?
  13. Bitter_Dave

    Covid

    Let's get this straight. You personally *know* (not random people on internet, or second hand stories) people who were *told* by their GP their lung problems were definitely *caused* by the vaccines? I'm sorry, but i would absolutely astonished if a GP felt able to reach that diagnosis and...
  14. Bitter_Dave

    Covid

  15. Bitter_Dave

    Covid

    A friend of mine has been battling Long Covid for years now. He was super-fit and in his mid 40s when he got it. Got covid before the vaccines were developed. It has been extremely grim for him and he is only very slowly recovering. Someone else I know lost his dad to Covid, again before the...
  16. Bitter_Dave

    Small beer: Study calls on government to shrink pints

    I see very little choice out there with regard to proper session stength low ABV ales. Maybe it is where I live. I think I've seen a mild about once in the last seven years I've lived here. Sometimes I can find something at 3.9% but never lower.
  17. Bitter_Dave

    Small beer: Study calls on government to shrink pints

    I don't really see many beers available at 3-3.5% abv out there. Not sure what the answer is, but I think that's a shame as such beers used to be common and if well made could be decent (bitters, milds and the like).
  18. Bitter_Dave

    Small beer: Study calls on government to shrink pints

    Interesting piece of research that I can well believe is true. But unlikely to ever happen given the way 'having a pint' has symbolic importance in the UK, something Labour clearly realise. But I do think there should be more availability of relatively low strength (decent) beers.. I'd be well...
  19. Bitter_Dave

    Tips

    It has to be pretty bad service/food/haircut for me to not tip, but when I've been in the US the whole tipping thing is on another level! That said, I doubt this is real.
  20. Bitter_Dave

    What will this taste like..

    The kit is stronger than the real thing, but I think the recipe is supposed to be quite close in terms of ingredients etc
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