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In the past I've put the next brew straight onto the yeast cake. Worked ok. Also just taken 3 or 4 spoonfulls from the yeastcake and...

Our car at least (doblo) has a light that comes on with 20 miles left to go. I thought that was normal practice. Of course you've got to...

Maybe a couple of weeks later than ideal but I finally got my twine up ready for this years crop of Centenial and Fuggles. Ignore the...

No I use it over and over again until it's looking a bit brown. Followed by a good rinse of course.

Pretty sure soda crystals are not caustic soda. The packet says it's sodium carbonate. Alkaline but fairly mild, also good for cleaning...

Post drinking I rinse out the bottles then fill with a strong solution of soda crystals - removes every trace of yeast without needing...

Me too. I have labelled bottles before now and they look great for the 3 seconds between taking one from the crate, de-capping and...

I label the crate

We had one when I was a kid. It blended in well with the tin bath and the open fire only lit in the evenings.

I use a splash of bleach in a couple of gallons of water after cleaning the fv after bottling. Then before re using it again I rinse it...

The Mrs had a little generic hatchback when we first met. A sunbeam I think. But first car I actually had after passing my driving test...

That would be very useful for the punter but would almost guarantee the end of cask ale. Why? Because the drinkers would stop buying...

If I had to choose between a pint of fresh ale through a hand pump or stale cask ale through a hand pump, I'll chose fresh. So many...

I remember we were given pickled ascaris worms to dissect in biology class when I was at school and being told to be careful as the eggs...

Bear in mind that in parts of eastern and northern Europe the yeast of choice for some farmhouse ales is just bread yeast. Biggest...