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I did this kit with two jars of unhopped malt extract from Holland and Barrett, some dark brown sugar, and a tin of black treacle, then added a pot of cold-steeped coffee before bottling. It came out about 6.6% and took an age to condition, but it's now a really nice pint!

For a start, he's not a comedian. He's a vlogger, and describes himself as "a professional shitposter". He didn't "tell a joke" he taught his girlfriend's dog to raise it's paw, like a Nazi salute, whenever he said "heil Hitler" or "gas the Jews", and then gleefully videoed the results. I'm...

I can't believe I won, this is amazing! Thanks so much! Details have been pm'd to you.

Anyone tried Lallemand Windsor? I like the look of the flavour profile.

I currently have no temperature control. I would love a 308! Count me in, please!

Given the letter of the law, I suspect that will be illegal. If you're exchanging goods for money then you're selling them, to my mind. But the law is a complicated and not particularly nuanced beast- it may well be the case that by calling them a "gift" and calling the money a "donation" you...

I put the can in a large stockpot and heat to make it runnier, then pour in the FV. Use some of the hot water to wash the can, and pour that in the FV. Then add the rest of the hot water from the stockpot. Give it a good stir to dissolve the LME, and then add the sugar and do the same. Then top...

It also offers the tantalising prospect of two egotistical man-children with nuclear weapons having an argument in person. This can only end well!

The date applies to the tin too, but you can ignore them relatively safely. Tinned food is sealed inside the tin, and then cooked in the tin at very high temperatures. This kills all the germs in the tin, and as it's a sealed environment no new ones can get in. However, manufacturers have to...

Is the extract in a can? Tinned goods practically can't go off unless the tin is damaged. So if the tin is in good condition, in theory it should be fine. The yeast might be, but you're better off with a fresh one, and the herbs will probably be in no fit state to flavour anything.

I'm still trying to figure out what I did wrong. If I'm right and it's diacetyl, I'm wondering if it could have been the temperature? I brewed this back in January with no temp control. Too cold for the yeast to reabsorb the diacetyl? The weird gone off fruit smell I'm still unsure about. Any...

Now I know more about beer styles, I've realised most British beers marketed as IPAs are really just ordinary or special bitters at the hopper end of the ibu scale for that style. In Greene King's case, not even that hoppy. American beers marketed as IPAs do seem to actually fit the style...

@AdeDunn There's a British bitter kit that get er brewed do, "bitter to the end". Think I'll be trying that next. @Spapro Thanks, that's really good of you! Happy to pay for postage. What's buckshee?

I don't know. I'm flipping between the two. Maybe it's both?

Wait. Maybe not. The further down the pint I get, the more convinced I am that it simply doesnt have the IBUs for the alcohol content. Hence the gone off fruit smell?

Well I'm slightly disappointed with this. It's cleared beautifully, carbonation is spot on, but it's got a strange vanillary flavour which I can only assume is diacetyl. Which I can't understand, because it had two weeks in the FV and I couldn't taste it when I tried some at bottling stage. Its...

Now there's an idea for a TV show. 'The Soap Opera and "Reality" TV: two genres that should never have been'.

The Simpsons is the classic example, but Futurama, Family Guy, and American Dad all frankly went on long enough to run out of decent plotlines. Why can't they just let these things die a natural death?

Here's Hoxton Square this morning, mid-blizzard. Looking decidedly slushier now!

This is true :) but you can achieve the same colour with different grains.