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I don't still live where I was born but am still living in the same county and only about 20 miles away. All my homes have been along the A3 and in Surrey the county that my family have lived in for generations. However when SWMBO finally retires I would like to move to Wiltshire where the...

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Letting Putin say he has achieved goals is appeasement. That never has worked out well in the past. French attitude to dictators hasn't worked out well in the past either. Homegrown or neighbouring ones.

Ropes

Add and check is much what I did before. The issue is temperature. The hotter the liquid sugar is added to the quicker it dissolves. So it seems that it might be a good idea to add the sugar at the end of the boil but the gravity will be off if measured at say 80°C and not the 20° that the...

Johnson has drawn so many lines under transgressions lately whatever he is writing on must look like someone has scribbled over it.

Leaks are a pain. In my setup I used to run lines around bends but I found that doing this causes JG fittings to leak if there is a line under any tension going into them. I switched to straight lines with connectors to go around corners which seemed to solve the problem.

The error is not to leave it connected, but not to clean I thoroughly after use and again before you use it the next time (next keg). Remove the tap and dismantle it to clean it as thoroughly as you can. I generally run some line cleaner through the tap first for a new keg followed by water and...

Call me pessimistic but all this talk of windfall tax and financial assistance will just make the energy companies ramp up their prices even more so that they can net the financial assistance to help pay for the extra tax. Whichever way you look at it, it's the cannon fodder tax payer who will...

I think it must do. That or some sort of collective delusional thinking that the public have the memory of a goldfish. I say this as I just can't understand how Johnson and his cronies expect to get away with the lies and deceptions we have seen over the period of this Tory government.

I have only made the one beer with dextrose but I will be using it again where I think it's needed. An interesting article which I will sit down and read in full when I get a chance. Has anyone used non-fermentable sugars to improve body/head/mouth-feel? I read that the addition of maltodextrin...

Have you tried de-scaleing the machine? If you live in a hard water area then mineral deposits in the machine's plumbing might be impacting the tast which may be exacerbated by the addition of milk.

Can anyone point me at a good calculator to help me with the addition of brewing sugar prior to fermentation? I made a wheatbeer a while back and had difficulty extracting sufficient sugars from the grain to give me the alcoholic content I wanted. My solution was to add brewing sugar prior to...

Because far too many Tory MPs have publicly nailed their colours to his mast and know that when his career is over so is theirs.

If you look where Rayner sit in the commons you would see that this must be just more Tory lies. As deputy leader of the opposition she sits behind the big desk like thing with the mace on it and her legs would not be visible to the government benches. Edit: the above is a comment on the...

If you mean they are effectively condoning his lies and deceptions, then that's a good point. We the public don't know which way Tory MPs voted so best not to trust any of the ba***rds.

Wider (As the dentist said to the actress)

Doesn't the reciept of sufficient letters to the 1922 committee automatically trigger a vote? If not then the vote may have been bought in quickly by Johnsons allies in the 1922 committee before the rot set in too deep so that Johnson could hide behind the years protection that winning the vote...

Clearly the Tories are in a real mess. The two by-elections on the horizon will, if the Tories do badly, will further compound these issues. Any honourable politician would have resigned by now, and you would expect that if by-elections go badly that to happen after the results are in. Don't...

I suppose I am an anti fascist as fasciam equals hate and oppression in my opinion. However I would never join an organisation such as those mentioned here. Why? In my experience organisations from benign clubs to groups of activists tend to be dominated by a few individuals. They are not...