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Could they be paying someone like Lallemand to dry their yeast for them, like WLP were doing?

I’ve had good experiences with Saturated, LAX, Apres Ski, Einstein and Olde English. A single sachet of Olde English took my impy stout to 11%ABV!

I fell into the same trap. Then got the next case super cheap after I phoned to leave. Then I left it too late to cancel so skipped a month, I’m taking the December box to get my Christmas stocks up then telling them I’ve had to stop drinking as it sounds like that’s the only way they’ll accept...

Tacky. The Edinburgh one is crowded and full of tatt! Also, hotel prices shoot up when the market is on - I was in Edinburgh to see a band last Saturday and when we looked at hotels the Premier Inn was nearly £200. I paid less than that for the Radisson Red in Glasgow in October last year...

Yeah same here, on a Friday I can easily listen to a new release 4-5 times during the day if it’s the only new release I’m interested in that week

TBF, that’s a critics list rather than the biggest chart songs of the year, and so about half of it isn’t mainstream pop music either - MJ Lenderman and Waxahatchee (who is excellent BTW) both have fewer than a million monthly Spotify listeners for example; Fontaines DC are an Irish rock band...

I made this point every time I’ve phone to cancel. The beer price point is somewhere between supermarket craft beer and bottle shops, but the beers are no better than the Northern Monk etc beers in Tesco. I then got the “if they aren’t work £3 a can, are they work £1.37 a can?”. Deal done 😂

JTE and Molly Tuttle 😎 I usually have a lot of alt-country/americana but only Isbell made my top 15 this year.

Obviously nobody has told them that, you click through about 5 different screens where they try to entice you to stay, and then at the end it says that if you really want to cancel you need to phone them.

Nah, cassettes are back in fashion again! Quite a lot of bands are releasing tapes again!

Haha, no I’m like the opposite of mainstream pop 😂 Carol Hodge has less than 1,000 monthly Spotify listeners - I saw her support Ginger Wildheart (lead singer of 90s Britrock band The Wildhearts) back in January and became a little obsessed, she’s an outstanding songwriter. If you like British...

You’ve never heard of mine and I’ve never heard of yours 😂 Sounds like a good swap

TBF I do have pretty obscure music taste. It’s mainly American punk and British independent stuff with a couple of outliers. You’ll have heard of No Doubt as well - they were massive in around 1996, they were number 1 for about a month with “Don’t Speak”

Let’s see everyone’s year end stats then! I’m on Apple Music, and here’s my top 15 artists and albums. The Alexa in my daughter’s room is linked to my Apple Music account and I blame her for Taylor Swift being number 2 I’m also one of Peat & Diesel’s top 500 listeners:

It’s difficult to get out of the subscription once you start though. I took a free case back in April and every time I phone up to cancel I’m enticed to stay with a big discount. I’ve decided I’ll phone them in January and tell them I’ve stopped drinking.

What do you mean it doesn’t do what it says in the tin? I track gravity and temperature all the way through fermentation and it works very well. I even tested it against my hydrometer the first couple of brews (before I broke my hydrometer yet again) and it was within 0.002 of the gravity at...

Sounds like you have a faulty USB socket on yours. Mine works absolutely fine. Get in touch with wherever you bought it for a replacement.

Juice box is the best NEIPA yeast I’ve used.

I’m of the understanding that some of the CML yeasts are repackaged WHC, taken from the 500g dry yeast blocks that they sell. I’ve used Saturated, Olde English, Bond, Einstein and Apres-Ski and been happy with all of them (apart from a single sachet Olde English refusing to carbonate my 11%...