Recent content by jof

I can see this pushing the tiny convenience stores back to the pre 80s 'open all hours' model, where you no longer pick your own goods. After all that's what all these online shoppers do now, it's just replacing a mouse click with asking the assistant for the items.

It's not that straight forward. In school days trains would often be a few minutes late & occasionally cancelled but less so than now. Quite rare to have train failure as mechanically simple trains & if a door stuck, the guard would walk along & give it a kick. The only time we failed to get to...

I'd get some jam jars and experiment with small batches. Look online for start points. E.g. I based my first trials on sloe gin. It worked great for gooseberries, but way too much sugar for blackberries & blueberries, so next attempt I'll 1/2 the sugar. Batches also take 3-6 months for me, so...

If you have a house that's got central heating & some insulation you should be fine. I wouldn't worry about it at the start of your home brew trajectory, as it's something you can fine tune or invest in later if you want to take the hobby further

Yes, easy to put in a demi John or old water bottle. I've done a couple of experimental brews on this scale & when I made something with a lot of trub, I just about got 3l out of it.

I find brambling cross quite modest in how it contributes to the flavour. You could supplement it with the EKG you have left.

Well if fishnet floats your boat then who am I to pass comment 😁

I'll have you know I got my mrs a cassette tape player for Xmas so she could play the old tapes we still have knocking around from our youths

Good point Clint, as we all know that Americans think that the only place in the world is America.

But alas Sony charged too much for the license, so the cheap version won.

Cider again tonight.

I have to say I try to use real hops & not the pellets. I have used them in veg bags, but recently I've been putting them in loose, but leaving the false bottom in the boiler during the boil. What I've found is using too much protofloc is what clogs the tap (sorry, I'm not an AIO devotee)...

Ok, I see fuel cost savings. but what hasn't come out so far is insurance cost and maintainence costs. I don't think maintainence costs will be clear for at least another 5 years as we start to see independent mechanics that are able to fix electric cars After all, even with ice cars,once your...

You know bacon cuts are available in streaky, middle & back depending on the ratio of fat/meat. With streaky bacon being best for generating crispy bacon. Although the rind has been trimmed off of most pre packed supermarket bacon - maybe this is what foxy means. But it's worth occasionally...

No, because if you do that with a diesel you are into the pain of manually re-priming the pump somehow. (Well one of them has a blood pressure type squeeze bulb on the fuel line adjacent to the fuel filter, so I'm guessing that's what it's for)