Recent content by Cwrw666

A lot depends on what type of house you live in. If you've central heating then you should have no problem, but contrary to popular belief there's still about 40% of households that don't have CH. I've never lived in a house with CH. So Autumn winter and spring I brew in our airing cupboard...

A problem a lot of garages have is that they can spend quite a lot getting one of their mechanics trained up for EVs only to have them move elsewhere as they now have a very marketable skill. I suppose this will go away as more and more of them get trained up to match the rise in EV numbers.

I've got quite a few LPs but only listen to those I've already recorded onto my computer as MP3s. Sometimes listen to CDs but mostly to cassette tapes. Always one awkward bu**er isn't there.

Just bought and read this new book by Tommy Barnes. A worthy successor to his first book (A beer in the Loire). He's a bit of a comedian so I hope his recounting of his brewing disasters is somewhat exaggerated for comedic effect.

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 added it to next brew. Also worked ok. With cider I've also just slung the sediment from 3 or 4 bottles into the next brew and that also worked ok.

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 be fairly brave to test that out.

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 stainless steel.

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

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 pouring it then putting it aside. Bit pointless really.

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 out well with cold water and finally rinse it out with a kettle full of boiling water. If that makes me a bleach queen, so be it. But it works

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 was a Peugeot 305 van bought new and ran til it was scrap. That was in the early 80s.

That would be very useful for the punter but would almost guarantee the end of cask ale. Why? Because the drinkers would stop buying while the pub is left with half a cask of unsellable beer. Not good business. They'd just switch to all keg

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 were still viable. And today they don't even let kids use scissors in school...