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It's not just about phones though. Everything in the world will become increasingly "connected" as time goes on, if you want self driving cars, air taxis, drones / UAVs doing all sorts of stuff, autonomous vehicles delivering your shopping, and so on then it needs a good communications...

I've made this. The instructions are wrong. It will never get to 1.014 with 500g of lactose added. I can't remember what it got to but if it's stable at 1.030 after 16 days then it sounds good to bottle. Great kit, was really pleased with how it turned out though I made it as is, no extra...

A caravan with a lot of stuff in it including the kitchen sink 😁

I try to get as much as possible, probably because I'm tight and hate wasting beer 😁 On a beer without any dry hops added I'll just use a normal siphon trap and gently lower it into the brew as the level goes down so I'm always taking beer from an inch or so below the surface. As it gets near...

The more malt extract the better the kit usually. I don't tend to make kits that you need to add additional sugar to these days (one can kits). For an IPA either the Festival Razorback or the Young's American IPA are pretty good. As for cider, I've done the odd kit in the past but never been...

Few things I remember about Bejams. Massive packs of fish fingers, must have been 100 fish fingers in a sack. Four litre tubs of fairly bland vanilla ice cream, raspberry ripple may also have been available. Finally little plastic tubes of frozen orange juice concentrate so you could "make"...

To be honest after they got taken over by Marston's I'd assumed they just brewed it wherever but I guess if you take something like that over it makes sense to keep the facilities as well. Hobgoblin is ruined anyway, I remember having a few pints of it not long after moving to Tewkesbury after...

Potentially you could be seeing yeast autolysis caused by high temperatures or large temperature swings but by all accounts if this happens the flavors generated are pretty nasty. That said with the small amount of yeast cells in each bottle the impact could be less so maybe. Could just be...

Luckily it has been many years sine I had the misfortune to frequent either a Slug and Lettuce or Yates, too old for those place now 😁 Suppose it's not that much different to places having happy hours to get punters into the venue earlier.

A few pictures from the "We grew up in the 80's" exhibition in Worcester museum recently. I had both of these growing up. For those moaning about the cost of games today you'll see the price sticker on the Asteroids cartridge is £32.95 which in equivalent money today would be around £200...

I'm led to believe that the juice from cooking apples can give you the sh*ts quite badly as can eating them uncooked. I expect the same to be true if turned into cider but maybe not. I think you can add a quantity with other apples to add a tartness to the overall cider but you don't want...

At the point you dry hop the headspace on it will be full of CO2, this is heavier than air so will stay sitting on the wort. Just release the pressure, briefly remove the lid, put the hops in, put the lid back on and pressure it back up again from a CO2 cylinder, purge and pressurise a few...

BrewKegTap sell them: 8L Oxebar PET Keg Personally I want the 4L ones as these would be perfect to take up the difference between a 23L kit and a 19L corny.

Tempted by this as a Christmas brew but had a few MJ kits where the description doesn't really match the end product. Decisions, decisions 🙂

Unfortunately these types of kegs are a bit rubbish at keeping the gas in. It is often something as simple as a few rough bits on the keg neck that stop it giving a good seal, fairly easy to rectify with a bit of sandpaper stuck to a flat surface. But they leak in other ways. There are many...

Welcome! I grew up in Benners.

Atari VCS (Woody) was where it was at. Rest of the Christmas holidays after getting this, dud, dud, dud, dud.......

I'm a card user for most things these days. Have been for a long time especially since the advent of cashback credit cards, the current one I have gives me 0.5% back of everything I spend on it though I see the Chase debit card now offers 1%. I just do my monthly spend on the credit card then...

Don't they all take payment in Bit Coins these days 😁

Serving pressure is the same as carbonation pressure. I aim for around 2 volumes of CO2 in my ales or a bit less. My keg fridge sits at around 6°C. Pressure I need is about 8 psi. I use this: Keg Carbonation Calculator - Brewer's Friend Typically I'll burst carbonate so I'll stick on 40 psi...