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A couple of pints of Devon Dew from a 10 litre bag-in-a-box I bought from Summerskills Brewery this morning – and it’s the best drink I’ve had since my own beer ran out a fortnight ago.

Possibly my favourite of all those bottle conditioned beers was White Shield Worthington, at one time brewed in the small plant inside the Bass Museum, now owned by Coors. Available at Morrisons then, sadly no longer brewed at all I think. It was one of my Dad’s favourites, along with Bass Red...

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I hope you can read that. I don't seem able to enlarge it.

Another *** Bit from 2007 is the following list of Bottled Beers, whose gravity I checked prior to drinking them. Abbreviations: B = Bottled (pasteurised). BC = Bottle Conditioned. D = Draught (from pub). T = Tin. FG = Final Gravity measured by me. OG = Theoretical Original Gravity...

How kind, I can't wait!

How have I managed without one for all these years! :?:

Do you have a photo of your venting arrangement?

These two strong beers slipped down nicely last night. Fullers Golden Pride on the left is a mighty 8.5% ABV, which I would describe as raw alcohol cleverly disguised as beer, and St Austell’s Tribute XXtra at 6.8% ABV, a special beer brewed in memory of their Head Brewer, Roger Ryman. Roger...

You've got that spot on. I got The Big Book of Brewing the month it was first published, and haven't used malt extract since!

Pity you didn't discover Dave Lines' original book 'The Big Book of Brewing'. That was the one that introduced Mashing to many, including me.

Thanks everybody for your experience with rye. My interest was aroused because of the, to me, much improved flavour of Hicks Special Draught, and appearance of the word ‘rye’ on the listed ingredients. Anyhow I contacted the Brewery via their website, said how much I was enjoying ‘Hicks’, and...

Clive Custler.

Unfortunately I now have neither the equipment nor the patience to do small brews – it’s all or nothing! What I might try is just replacing ½ Kg of the 1.5Kg of crystal malt with rye crystal malt. That should be barely detectable in 30 gallons. I’ve got a long time to think about it anyhow, as...

I see that St Austell Brewery have re-branded HSD - which officially stands for ‘Hick’s Special Draught’, but is universally known in Cornwall as ‘High Speed Diesel’ - as plain ‘Hicks’. Available from Tesco’s in bottle-conditioned form, it is a magnificent drink, and lists Rye as one of the...

It was the battery swelling. New one on order. Thanks everybody.

My mobile phone looked a bit odd this afternoon, it seemed to be swelling. I showed it to my Grandson, who supplied it, and he said it could burst into flames or explode any minute, and put it out in the garden. As it had lived in my trouser pocket for years, that was rather worrying! Has...

I found that duct tape gave a temporary fix in a similar situation. Hot glue doesn't work.

My original attempt at controlling the temperature of my FV involved an Ice Bank the size of a large wardrobe used to cool milk in a Dairy. This was replaced by the shelf cooler I acquired when Hall’s Brewery closed, which just had a single 10mm dia. coil for Lager, or whatever. When that...

Great pictures which show all there is to the units. As I understand it, the recirculation ports are just to keep the cylinders of beer engines cool, a refinement to prevent the first beer pulled up at each drinking session being warm.