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Just put on my 13th brew this year. That's 300 litres. That's 6 litres a week. Probably sounds excessive, but my eldest son has the odd beer, and my youngest had a party where they drank over ten litres. I might up it to 15 brews next year. I don't normally test the SG of my brews, but I...

Had a taste of the Kernel imperial brown stout last night. My son picked up a few stouts on a trip up north. 10%, so quite a strong beer. It was pretty good actually. Not sure I'd want to drink a lot of it. But not bad.

I haven't had a brew I haven't liked for ages. I have had some which have needed a bit of age to improve. I had a gassy one at the start of the year which tasted fine but had a massive head. I did use some of that in my slug traps. If you know people with gardens they would probably love you for...

Plus I would be happier with an out of date can than an out of date plastic pouch.

She doesn't drink real ale? Sack her immediately!

All my brews have been out of date this year, some by up to a year. They have all come out dark but have all been really good to drink. I'm doing my first in date brew for the year this week!

I have a Cooper's real ale that is bubbling very slowly. Slow for this time of year. This is my first brew in the garage. All others this year have been in the kitchen diner, although the temp should be similar, maybe a bit cooler in the garage at night. The air lock is still under pressure...

I've done Geordie mild a couple of times. Both times it produced quite a nice very drinkable brew. Didn't knock my socks off, but I thought it quite decent.

I assume you aren't using nucleation beer glasses? I have had a similar problem lately when bottling where the beer foams as it's going into the bottle from the fermenter. I think this is related to the time of year. I get foamy beer but I use nucleated glasses. The foam tastes nice so it's not...

I'm in a similar boat, and would probably favour a hybrid like the Yaris when my trusty diesel gives up. But I'm not in a hurry to change over. It gets 60mpg which is good for a people mover, and I pay very low tax. About £30 from memory. I don't drive into congestion zones, and don't drive much...

The older they are when they start on stabilizers, the faster you have to run, but you don't need to lean down as much. So it's swings and roundabouts. Mine were about 4/5. Balance bikes are a good idea but we never used them.

I've just done an IPA that was awful after two weeks, not alot better after four weeks, but drinkable after six. I'm hoping it will be pleasant after eight. Have to say that I've never seen a kit that didn't require you to add sugar. Maybe there are some that have sugar already added, but I've...

Had a pint of Cornish IPA in a pub on the river near Blackfriars yesterday. Lovely spot, but the pint was very happy, bitter, tasted young. Drank it but didn't think much of it. But at £6.50 I wasn't not going to drink it. Had one of my bulldog crazy batch bitters when I got home. Much nicer and...

I struggle to know when off peak is. I travelled up to London yesterday and paid full price as I arrived in London before 10:00. The ticket machine said it was peak so I assumed it was.

Just finished 'Catcher in the Rye' very underwhelming. I'm not sure what I was expecting, but it wasn't that. Thankfully it was short. Reading Michael Crichton's Sphere. So far so good. Crichton's books are a pretty easy read.

Baby poo brown VW beetle. My father influenced the decision. He thought he was making me safer by getting me to buy an underpowered car. But he basically bought me a death trap. Beetles don't do well in accidents against 4wd and big sedans. Fortunately I never had an accident in it.

I always use table sugar. I did use carbonation drops once, but didn't notice any difference and they cost more. I use half a teaspoon per 500ml bottle. I did use a small teaspoon in some of my early brews, but they came out too frothy. I did have a hand grenade brew many many years ago in...

I've worked for large government and private companies. Both are inefficient. But they do have economy of scale. Making a government company private doesn't automatically make it better. In fact it can make it worse. You can run a large corporation well or you can run it badly. SSE for example...

That does look sweet. I used to race when I was younger on light weight racing bikes, but I always found the maintenance to be expensive. I ride a tough old mountain bike in my old age, as parts rarely break. But I would love a gravel bike as a compromise. What's the maintenance like on them? Do...

I'm colour blind, which is a badly named term because often it's not a blindness but more a complication of being able to see more colours in something, hence having difficulty identifying. I understand why most people would call the plate blue, but there is some green in there. Not enough to...