Recent content by rclarke

I actually use non-branded soda crystals, I said pbw, just in case folk didn't realise thats what pbw essentially is!

Genius idea :)

It has been a hot dry few weeks here in the North of England, do you conserve water when you brew? Care to share your tips/tricks? I'm cleaning my corny keg this morning, and half filling it with water, then inverting it for the soak so it gets a good clean without filling to the top. Ideally...

Yes it's quite possibly such tiny amounts that it practically has very little perceptible impact, which probably explains why when I googled it before, seemingly no one else is worried about it or suffers I'll effects. That said, it may be because it's better practice to use a manifold with a...

Actually this is no different from old fashioned breweries who do open fermentation. When we pitch yeast into wort during brewing, it gives the yeast we choose a competitive advantage over naturally occurring yeast in the environment. The yeast we pitch is carefully selected and cultivated, so...

So I usually have two beer styles on tap in my fridge, currently a lager and pale ale, I even plan for three kegs to be carbonated and dispensed by one regulator and gas line split twice. I don't mind all being carbonated at same levels, however it just occured to me that since the gas lines are...

Hi Gareth + Leeds lot, I used to live in Pudsey, just up the road in Birstall nowadays!

Out of interest, how do you store hops, individual sealed bags? I've always fancied saving left overs for a small batch, but was worried about keeping them fresh until I have enough left over to use up in a brew.

Do you find you spend time obsessing over getting every single detail correct when following a recipe, and meticulously noting everything down, slip-ups etc? Or after some months and years into the hobby do you adopt a more relaxed approach just go with the flow and expect some beers to be...

I usually look for the ones honestly pointing out the problems, not selling solutions, not that's there's anything inherently wrong with solutions, the lord knows we need them. Its just that there's slightly less chance that they have been compromised by commercial interests. Upton Sinclair —...

Oil prices will definitely increase as supply declines, just like the last fish in the sea is worth millions. Oil has a plethora of essential used beyond powering private motors, the bam is to protect those uses as much as halt cc. I'm not arguing for or against ICE, EV, wood powered motoring...

There will come a point whereby the obvious pitfalls of scaling inhibit future investment and subsidies, and if that's not enough to put off potential owners, the volatility in energy markets eventually will. This is why I said at the outset that unless owners are sufficiently wealthy to not...

You've also got to factor in the distribution and refuelling infrastructure. Neither EVs nor Hydrogen ICE are ready for scaling with current technology due to their limitations. Just because we could at some point in the future doesn't mean we should. As you say, you can't get there from here.

I appreciate not everyone has interest in this field, although the ramifications are so serious, it would be mad not to show some concern. It's worth watching, here are the highlights in the hope it will convince some to give the podcast a chance: Presently, 99% of our Hydrogen comes from...

Whilst theoretically possible to build a nuclear power plant and use it to produce hydrogen, there is a reason why this isn't happening already, and never will. It's not commercially viable. By the time hydrogen prices reaches parity with oil, the economy will have collapsed no one will have a...