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It sounds like your council is being really great, but it seems to me rehoming people (victims or perpetrators) is barely a sticking plaster on society's ills and a very expensive one at that. We've had some crap neighbours who've been evicted and I imagine the council who paid their rent has...

To answer your question about bottle conditioning, in order to have carbonated beer, you need C02 which you get in two ways. 1. Artificial carbonation with C02 from a cylinder. You can do this with bottles, but it requires a lot of equipment and financial outlay. 2. Bottle conditioning. When...

Are you a surgeon DocAnna? It's all very neat!

I'd be a bit concerned about the packet of hops. Someone with better knowledge than me might be able to give you a definitive answer, but if they're not vacuum packed, I wouldn't use them unless you know when they were packed and how they've been stored. I really don't know why Youngs are so...

I seem to remember when making Ribena wine years ago from CJJ Berry's recipe one of the instructions was to heat or boil it before use. *Possibly* to drive off preservatives. Edit: I've just looked at the book and he says to disolve the sugar in water, add the Ribena, bring to the boil and then...

If you need to cut the door about to get the kegs to fit, once you've removed the seal and the inner skin, use a bread knife to cut the foam. If you remove the skin, take time to do it with a Stanley knife you might not want to take the whole skin off if you need something left to stick the new...

I've used both. Polypins with a beer engine and bag-in-a-box sat in the fridge. Polypins are great and as I've mentioned before, there's an excellent thread about their use on another forum. However, I was never as satisfied with polypins as bottles. I've only used bag-in-a-box once and have...

I too have just moved to kegging and remain undecided about it for ales (though I've yet to properly go through the thread that I think Jocky wrote). Just as @Hoppyland said, you might not need a fridge for ale if you have, say, a cellar that is a constant low temperature, but if you want to...

If it's anything like Windows 10, if can **** off. I want XP back.

A good source for a used router is Freecycle. If no-one is offering one, make a wanted post. It's free to join Freecyle and everything offered is free. If anyone's done this with two Sky routers (the most up-to-date one) and the older, black square one, I'd be grateful for any guidance. I tried...

Actually, that's very true. Though from what the OP said, I half-though he had contacted the seller and been told it was too much trouble to weigh accurately

With only 9mm plasterboard to attach a chain to, I build myself this to stand my 1.5kh bottle in to stop ot toppling over.

I think you need to check and a calibrate your scales. It's unlikely anyone would give away half a kilo of grain (even on a 25kg sack). If you're weighing grain, you're weighing grain and it's not really any more trouble to weigh accurately. If you've spoken to your supplier and that's the...

Whether you believe that or not depends on whether you believe everything the Leave campaign told you or not. I can't see someone like Johnson, Gove, Rees Mogg or the rest of them on the government side of the House wanting to give more power to the electorate.

Oh, please. Someone's been paying too much attention to right-wing American social media posts.

The best thing is to find a job where you work longer hours but fewer days! On a more serious note though, I've always brewed outside and on particularly cold days in winter, struggled to reach a rolling boil, so started splitting brew days, mashing one day and boiling the next. This worked...

The quickest way to test this is to connect the pump cable to he heating socket (or vice-versa if you think there's a heating problem). If you get the same result, it's the pump. I managed to diagnose my broken controller in about 30 seconds. It took Grainfather weeks to come to the same...

That depends I guess. It could be the bottling plant fills both kinds of bottles or that the breweries don't want to give up the crown cap because of aesthetics, or simply down to cost. However, I'd imagine that crown caps seal onto twist off bottles much better when crimped rather than...

Personally, I wouldn't be reusing bottles with twist off caps because they're made of very lightweight glass and shatter easily if over-primed or the beer picks up an infection (as I know from experience). If I did, I definitely wouldn't reuse the cap as you won't get as tight a seal as you...

Who was unelected? Certainly union officers are elected on a regular basis. And strike action ot any other kind of action. Do you realise that unions are special interest groups, act not just for their memebers, but for all employees and for that matter society in general, unlike the special...