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Thanks all for your rapid responses - I feel reassured. Still feel a bit of a twit though ... 'numpty' is probably a bit on the gentle side but I don't want to get banned fromhere!

Silly me! I had totally forgotten about the disconnects. That makes perfect sense - thank you AG.

So ... I put my first brew into the new keg yesterday. I had expected to be doing it a week ago but it was still bubbling a bit in the FV so I left it for a while longer. Then I did a quick taste of the sample I took out to blend the priming sugar brew and it acually tasted a bit sour so I...

When I was at school I was cr@p at all sports. I was delighted to discover that by joining the Air Training Corps (the school had its own squadron) you could void having to go out and geet cold, wet and muddy doing cross country rus and rugby, and shoot rifles instead. Started on .22s, and if...

Pah! Only two winders! I still have my dad's three-winder Westminster Chimes clock... If you look on the right you can see a little 'chime/silent' switch. Useful to avoid waking light sleepers overnight.

I expect 95 of those 100 households will still have their central heating going while they are out.

We don't eat meat but there is always a jug of veg stock in the fridge. All the cooking liquids go into it then it gets reduced down, enriched with seaweed etc. ALso, when the supermarlkets do the half price whole salmon at Xmas/Easter, get one of those, boil up the bits after filleting it...

Dig it up and make plastic? Or just leave it in the ground...

When I was just eighteen I got a holiday job in a pub. Sometimes folk would ask for a Guinness and cider. I developed the knack of opening a half-pint bottle each of the Guinness and Stongbow, holding bottle 1 between thumb and forefinger of my right hand, bottle 2 between forefinger and middle...

Thanks for that... I'm only brewing from kits atm so probably don't need timers and recipe support ... <cue ominous laughter> not yet mwahahaha

I ordered one! They seem to be suggesting ubidot by default, but do mention several other sites. Depends if you have a faavourite or not, I suppose. Did you have a particular reason for moving from brewspy to brewfather, jayk34?

Ouch! I'd never heard of that, John. Although the Scottish system used electric heating elements, like you'd find in an immersion heater or kettle or wall mounted instant hot water heater, rather than induction heating. I'm going to have to get onto my mate who has a bee in his bonnet about...

To be sure, on my old (gonebust) supplier's tarriff gas was one fifth of the price of electricity per kWh. I'm pretty sure that's going to change come April and thereafter.

I am surprised that in the current discussion I have heard no mention, here or on the Media, of boiler replacements based on induction heating. Seems to me that you should be able to replace an obsolescent gas combi boiler with an electric induction unit that would immediately give you water at...

On Gumtree . 20L Braumeister Beer brewing system (brand new in box/never used) | in Thames Ditton, Surrey | Gumtree This is nothing to do with me, but I wondered if somebody might find it interesting. According to the ad, it's 2045 Euro on the Braumeister site.

That's a great idea eyuptm but sadly I haven't seen the inside of a pub in ... I don't know how long. The MrsVC doesn't like pubs :-(

Thanks all for your very helpful and reassuring replies. I was getting a bit concerned about whether I would be using all my CO2 too quickly if I didn't have the fridge setup. (Still trying to find local CO2 supplies in bigger bottles, but that's another story) I think I will put the keg in an...

Greets All, So I have my new shiny keg from BKT which I am about to be sterilising and filling Real Soon Now (about a week). I came into this thinking "a Keg will be a great alternative to bottles"; I have the behaviours of a bottle brewer and I have a beginner's keg kit of keg + reg +...

Ooh, Red Rebellion IPA please!

Fratton would be a bit of a haul for me, I'm in Netley. (SO31 postcode covers a b.i.i.g area!!) And the geography here doesn't help. When Rishi was pushing his Eat-out-to-Help-out scheme I took a look on the gov.uk web site for restaurants near me and saw a great looking Thai place I had not...