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Well the whole point is I want a more accurate measurement over time as to what my power consumption is for many reasons...partly to look to how I can save energy and partly for other purposes. For example I could spend a couple of hundred pounds on insulation to prevent temperature swings in...

Can do and that is what I've been doing up until now...I know how long it takes to heat water up when the elements are running at 100% to bring water upto temp, I can make a rough estimate of the time the elements are on when under PID control, but I was just looking to be a bit more accurate...

For a number of reasins want to start monitoring my electricity usage for brewing. My rough back of the *** packet calcs tell me that despite recent rises in leccy prices I still think the costs are still quite low and a small proportion of the overall cost of brewing, but I'd like to measure it...

It's not the climate scientists that making any claims. It's the politicians...dont mix them up. There is the science part of the IPCC report authored by scientists and presents the current state of the science in an unbiased way as science should. This report gives a range of temperature...

My dad now has a host of health issues post covid turning him form a very healthy chap of his age, skiing, big home DIY projects motor homing around Europe, and now he's basically lost the use of his legs and becoming paralysed from the waist down and medical science is completely flummoxed...

Yes. Global warming is...it's now officially called climate change. The fundamental 'science' that started the whole global warming thing off (well actually it was stared off by politicians who then turned to scientists to gather evidence to support their claims)...the 'hockey stick curve', was...

Well there is not that many for sure because they dont sell well and pubs sell beers that sell. But most of the pubs round here usually have a 3.5-3.8% ish golden ale kind of beer on, especially over summer.

well most decent pubs bars and taprooms, in my experience, has a reasonably wide range of beers covering all ABV's including low and zero acohol options, and its getting pretty common now to be able to buy 1/3, 1/2, 3/4 and pint volumes. I'd say the market is regulating itself pretty well and no...

Yeah typical politicians meddling and exposing their utter ignorance and lack of understanding. How did the sugar tax work out? How has the Scottish ban on drink promotions work out? you'd think these people would learn from past mistakes but they seem unable to do that. Properly overreaching...

Definately fewer wasps around. Also noticed a decline in the big juicy house spiders and a massive increase in the harvester daddy long leg spiders...but also noticed a massive increase in birds of prey...which means there is an abundance of prey for them to feed on, which means an abundance of...

Populations of insects rise and fall all the time. I live in the country and go out at dusk around the country lanes with your headlights on and you’re driving through a dense cloud of insects. The mix and match of what insects make up that cloud may vary…the natural battle between predators and...

OK I meant that their fundamental motive was not to stiff the workforce...again overly emotive language used in the press article to paint a villain as every good story needs a villain and a victim and it doesn't get more villainous than big bad evil corporations, even if they are not big bad...

Well going off the instructions on the gelatine granuals I use, which are the Dr Oetker brand, it specifically says 'never allow gelatine mixture to boil or it will prevent a good set from being acheived', so I read that as don't add to boiling water as it also stipulates to add the gelatine to...

Putting gelatine into too hot water does impact its ability to turn things into jelly so the temperature does impact/degrade it...though in the context of the purpose for which we're using it for, which I believe is more to do with electro statics, It's a good question as to the temperature of...

They've not done anything at the expense of anything...any business serves to make a return and profit...they're not charities...employees are a resource just like anything else...that is a very harsh way to view things I know, especially if you're losing your job, but there are millions of...

my view/understanding is that I think the elevated temperature is to ensure the granuals fully dissolve in the water and don't just float around in suspension where they are serving no purpose. You want the granuals to fully dissolve so when added to the beer it distributes itself within the...

Business makes a business decision. Not sure there is anything to see here though newspaper articles always put an emotional slant on any story and tries to paint a villain and a victim. If the parent company has other facilities that are doing brewing activities then it makes perfect sense to...

Yeah, I like to leave parts in my handy bucket of Sanitizer. Over time they do develop a slimy film but a spray with sanitiser from a spray bottle easily washes that off.

I just use tapwater and always have a big bucket of it ready made from purging kegs and things....keep it for months and ph is always low enough for it to be effective. Usually only refresh it when it gets a bit mucky.

Yeah I guess it boils down to why people want to brew their own beer. Some probably do it because it's cheaper so I guess something like this is probably more targeted at people like that (once you've made the upfront investment of course). For me the biggest input from the brewer is in recipe...