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Well that is one car and despite that Tesla for sure warn against constant fast charging and people I know with non teslas are seeing massive battery degradation in cars that are only a year or two old. Some brands are worse than others, but in some cases they're seeing as much as 10% battery...

Well I stopped off a new Tesla charger the other day for a quick charge. By my previous experience it would have taken a good 20 minutes or so to put on the 15% or so battery charge I needed since in my experience despite all the marketing and nonsense some people talk about when it comes to...

Thanks all. Have sent a few local breweries emails asking them if they can do a brewery experience and see what they come back with.

tacky? It's Christmas...ita all about tack. Just an outlet for small producers to get their wares out before Christmas. The German theme is just marketing..just like Irish pubs around the world. If they get people out and about into towns and cities where the local pubs and bars will benefit...

for me its the original olympic ideals...further, faster, stronger. Anything that fits into one or more of those is basically a sport. But some sports have been ruined by professional cheating such that they are now no longer a sport and more about exploiting loopholes in rules to win by any...

Depending on the size of your fermenter then as good fermentation control as you need can be had for less than £50...get an old larder fridge off Facebook Marketplace...I've had them for as little as a tenner before, ink bird for £20 and a 40w eBay greenhouse tube heater and you're off. And by...

Not heard of those guys before...look good will check them out and get a case of beer from them for sure. Thanks.

A good mate and brewing buddy of mine turns 50 soon and a few of us are looking for a nice gift for him and gift ideas are running a bit thin. I see some breweries do brewday experiences. Most breweries I’ve found so far that do these experiences brew more traditional ale styles, which I’m sure...

Not sure any cask ale translates well into bottles or cans. Even my beloved Timothy Taylors is rank from a bottle and I wouldn't even contemplate having it from a can, it's strictly from my local that keeps the best TT's I've certainly had anywhere. As for Doombar, it is what it is. My local...

If you run a lower temp in your rad you need a bigger rad - or alot longer to heat the room. It's all about w/m2 so a cooler temp requires a larger surface area to get the energy into the surrounding air. This was the problem with older heat pump systems that required refitting your rads for...

This is true...and if you have UFH then you are best running your boiler down at a lower temp as if not all you're doing is warming the water to a higher temp and diluting with cold water to bring it down. My house is a mix of UFH and rads, so not the most efficient from the UFH perspective, but...

I perfectly comprehend that walls lose heat to the outside world....but insulation slows down that energy transfer and that is the key point - the walls hold onto heat for longer and until your walls are warm you're not going to heat your room precisely because they leak heat into the outside...

UFH slabs are very very well insulated. UFH is more efficient because it operates at a lower temp, the water in my UFH is only at 35 degrees C vs about 60 degrees C in my radiators. It works by heating the concrete slab in the pipes are set within and exploits the thermal lag of the concrete...

Yes they are leaking heat but at what rate...if the leakage is very fast due to low levels of insulation then you're always going to struggle, but if the leakage rate if very slow because you are well insulated home then it will take several hours for the walls and floor to chill down, so less...

Well its about thermal mass and thermal batteries. If you keep your heating ticking over then you're able to maintain temperature very efficiently. If you turn everything off and everything chills down including your walls then it takes a hell of alot of energy to heat all that back up again as...

Can't link the YouTube short, but basically Its not temperature thats causing the astringency and harshness so tactics like cold steeping or adding at sparge is not tackling the root cause which is PH and mineral content...just good water chemistry I guess.

Nice. One thing that surprised me was just how tiny amount of black malt you need to make a stout/porter. I have a nice Stout recipe and take away the black malt and it also makes a very nice Hazy IPA, the addition of <10% or so of black malt completely transforms the beer to something...

I have a tp link mesh which has been great but I fear mesh systems won’t work with a lot of these fibre companies as they want you to pay a monthly fee for their mesh system . I’ll see when mine gets installed next week. But a mate of mine can’t use his so either has to pay a monthly fee for...

Got a nice dusting last night here in the East Midlands. Actually the roads were not the usual chaos you seem to get when we have adjusting of snow...all seemed to be very normal on the run into work. Of course by the time I drove back from work the roads were all clear with only a bit of snow...

Just signed up for BeFibre 150Mbps. Just done a ping test on my current BT broadband and got 55Mbps so should be alot better...though having said that my current 55Mbps seems to be pretty adequate for all our viewing including simultaneous streaming on multiple devices and achieving 4k streaming...