Recent content by nottsbl

Since its a popcorn thread, just have to join in (a gallon of home brew under my belt...) - I am startled that in an age of zero hours contracts, most claimants of child support being in full time work (i.e. many full time jobs can't house, feed and clothe a family) many working people being...

He won 0.2 % of the UK adult vote - the Tory membership is tiny, aged 70-90, on the brink of death and as nihilistic as you would expect life long members of a cult to be, faced with their imminent extinction. A recent poll showed they would be happy to see the UK economy tank, their own...

I think the scientific method would be to read Richard Dawkins, Bertrand Russell, etc (no need to rehash their arguments, just read the books - read, summarize their arguments and then refute if you can); It really boils down to - what created the universe? a God; who created this "God"? gosh...

I worked in IT from the '70's onwards. Liquid lunches were par for the course. I once had to demo a new accounts system we'd built to an accounts manager at instant notice on a friday afternoon. I'd drunk 6 pints and stunk of beer and was slurring (body chemistry - 6 pints at night, just...

I'm sure it will be excellent. i think I blundered into a thread and then went all stream-of-consciousness about a memorably bad pint I had some years ago. But it was memorably bad.

I've found the original tube this thing came in (this will totally undermine everything I've written so far I'm sure, but truth will out, so here goes). It came in a cardboard tube that I kept to put glass bottles of potentially volatile beer in; the tube says - semi colons my addition, if i...

Exactly.

I see your point. I've often wished I'd been honest about this sort of thing - for the very simple reason that if you say its great, you are taken at your word (which is fair enough really) and put on repeat, as a present. This applies to all areas of life (I currently have a low-level...

Yes I guess so. I suppose the reason I took it so personally is that I was owed a "good" present, got a bag of turds instead, and had to smile and like it. So if it gets newbies into brewing that is a good thing. Assuming they've just beamed down from a non-beer planet. If it is bought as...

I don't know, I don't think so, I was really reacting (viscerally) to the whole marketing concept behind these types of beer and the fact that the one I brewed - of this type - was remarkably, memorably vile. But maybe Muntons have cracked it. But if they have, I don't think it was something...

Yep, someone "gifted" one of these to me a couple of years ago as they knew I "made beer". Truly, truly undrinkable. I spent 6 years in the middle east in the '80's drinking what was basically prison juice, I have brewed bad batches which I have mixed with good beer (anything to save it) this...

This was the tune played by the british army bands after the final british surrender to the yanks, as they filed down after the negotiated end of hostilities (brits kept personal arms etc). It reflected the feeling, after a century of victory against the french and various colonials, that any...

blimey, sorry expatbrewer for triggering this response to your very reasonable and interesting post. I'm guessing (I may be wrong!) its due to time differences i.e. anyone posting in western europe right now is in the early hours, on a beer forum (why discuss general problems online on a beer...

You do realise that most of the BBC's functions have been outsourced for years? including licence collection. it is effectively about 70% outsourced - nearly all of its "creative" output [did you know "question time" and HIGNFY" were independent programs bought in by the BBC?- but 100% funded...

The history is: - the tories pressured the bbc to keep the over 75 exclusion - they then cut the bbc budget and told them to recoup the cut by stopping the over 75 exclusion - the bbc are complying - every moron in the country is now asking why and blaming the bbc [the bbc are a complete...