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@strange-steve what are your thoughts on phosphoric acid for alkalinity adjustments? Any effects on flavour or anything like that? I'm ordering an all grain kit from get er brewed, and they only have this or lactic acid. As my water is very alkaline, I want to avoid lactic as you've said large...

:shock: I assume that's being thrown by the late additions? Something that bitter would numb my tastebuds for a week.

Tried some of this over the weekend, since we had a heatwave, and I've essentially made Strongbow. Weirdly, it was nicer before carbing and conditioning, which leads me to suspect that carbonic bite may be an issue here. So not perfect, but not bad for a first attempt by any means.

Well, you live and learn. I always thought that was one of the few things brexiteers had got right.

jjsh is right, they certainly tried to introduce rules on the appearance of fruit and veg. Brexiteers aren't completely wrong, the EU had some daft laws. Still, anyone who's set foot in any of the three countries I mentioned earlier knows they didn't pay the blindest bit of attention, so I'm...

Every right winger claims the BBC is biased and leftist, and every left winger claims the opposite. This alone leads me to suspect they do a reasonably good job of staying neutral.

I have to say, I'm a fan of Corbyn and Corbyn's Labour... but Diane Abbott is a bit of an embarrassment. That said, alsch890 has a point. She got slated for getting police numbers wrong once. Didn't May do the same thing just last week?

Yuhp. Italy, Spain, and France have no truck with this nonsense of selling only the perfect platonic ideal of a carrot and binning the rest. Their veg is wonky as my grandad's route home from the pub, and tastes twice as good as ours does.

I love that Morrison's are selling the wonky veg. I already rated them pretty highly, they've gone up further in my estimation.

Agreed. I suppose it doesn't look as nice, which is probably why they don't do it. My biggest gripe with supermarkets is the food waste. Tonnes of food thrown away because they think the public can't handle the sight of a misshapen carrot. I'm going to cut the damn thing up, who cares what...

They've chosen an unnecessary source of microplastic. They can't very well ban car tyres. It's not going to solve it on it's own, but it's all a about incremental steps, isn't it? It's an improvement. And you can't refuse improvement just because it's not an immediate, perfect solution. My...

Wow. They're brewing some mad stuff, I'll have to see if I can find some if their beers.

^ That's exactly who I'm talking about.

I said I can have a difference of political opinion without holding a personal grudge against the person with a differing opinion. I also said that UKIP MEPs took public money in order to do a job they had no intention of doing, and that makes them a bunch of crooks. Those two statements are...

Care to elaborate?

They didn't need MEPs to accomplish that. It was a domestic referendum that did the job, and it always would have been. I make no secret of the fact that I disagree with UKIP and with brexit. But I can (and do!) have a reasonable debate with someone who had a different opinion than me about...

If you're being paid by the public to do a job, I damn well expect you to do it. They allowed the public to pay them a wage and a pension and expenses, and didn't do the job they were paid to do. They're a bunch of thieves, as far as I'm concerned. It's like a vegetarian taking a job in an...

44 people who don't turn up to meetings at an organisation we're leaving.

:laugh8: You probably could if you tried. It's like a bloody haversack.

And booze. Brunch exists so that we can claim that it is acceptable to drink before midday- don't waste that opportunity!