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That's probably more of a comment on the cellarmanship in the pubs you frequent...

Well that's one aspect you're wrong on. Elections always boil down to "do we want more of this, or do we want change?", so the "plague...

Extra dark crystal compared to what? 14% of dark would be getting too much.

Actually the polling data suggests that the best predictors for winning elections are leader approval ratings and which party is most...

You might want to give this a go, the Fuller's London Porter recipe pretty much from the horse's mouth ...

Actually pale ale goes way back to the beginnings of brewing - sun/wind-dried malt is pale, and seems to have been widespread from early...

Here's some fun reading. http://zythophile.co.uk/2008/06/30/ipa-incredibly-poor-article/ Ron Pattinson was having a wee rant about the...

Generally higher if anything but they seem to have got more sophisticated in recent years - Marble Metric (ie canned Pint) is an example...

It sounds like you're into this kind of stuff so, if you've not had proper mole poblano then you're in for a treat - chicken (or...

For me, not so much, I take my chilli in more of a mole direction, some chocolate/cocoa, generous with chipotle etc rather than the...

You know less than you think, or at least need better books - historically IPA was typically one of the lower ABV beers in a brewer's...

Well I order plenty of WCIPA and I know that Greene King IPA is an actual IPA, as does anyone who knows their beer history. It's...

Some commercial krieks go up to 400g/l, but they are using their weird local cherry which is all stone with not much flesh. For stuff...

There's some more details (and pictures of happy yeast!) at A visit to Timothy Taylor's brewery Mash for an hour at 66C, then an hour...

Yep, they've been tweeting the odd one and I've been collecting them over at HBT. On page 2 of that thread is a homebrew version of ESB...