Recent content by toledo

After messing around (or up!) a RPi2 the bullet was bitten and a thin client Dell Wyse 5020 purchased from eBay. Looking today there are unused ones of these very cheaply available... Anyway, after sorting out the boot of the device and Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS it was time to install Home Assistant...

Thank you, @MrRook - the haze has descended and the beer looks good. A cheeky bottle at the weekend confirms that this is delicious, best one yet. Restraint prevails so the crates are yet to be further threatened by more consumption: it can only get better :cool:

Hotpoint RLA36 for me too, both taps on the door (which is steel skinned so use hardened cutter/drill bit), two 19 litre Corny kegs inside plus the glass half shelf at the back for 500ml PET bottles. Plenty of 3/16” line length so careful not to have the door jam.

These Muntons kits are good from my very limited experience... Having followed the instructions to the letter this IPA has now been PET bottled, after an initial gravity of 1.066 and very rapid airlock activity post pitch which lasted about six days. Shortly after dry hopping (the hops smell...

Thank you for your kind words and welcome. I'm definitely padding through slowly and learning as I go along, it's a journey of discovery. My intention is to start with hopefully simple brews from kits which get me into the swing of things, and hopefully I can pick up enough of an approach to...

Hello from Bath, where the water here is harder than the stone used for the local buildings and it's most definitely cider country. (In fact there are three types of cider: sleeping, singing and fighting... but that's another story as I'm here for the beer.) Being a blow-in from the Midlands...