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Lots of moaning abut the Daily mail on another thread. I've no idea how accurate the article about travellers is but this steaming pile in the Guardian made me laugh this morning. I see one guy holding up both hands and two or three holding phones up to take pictures but try as I might, I can't...

I'd describe myself as a social liberal, a fiscal conservative and a civic nationalist. I've just completed my third political compass test and the results have moved fractionally to the right of my earlier goes but are still very close to previous results: Slightly more libertarian than...

Excited? Resigned? Have other plans? Meh?

Vote Labour. Get Jacob. You know it's coming. I do love the law of unintended consequences...

Nope, not for brewing... I hate cleaning the toilet and to add insult to injury, every time I did it, there would always be a fuzzy brown stain that wouldn't budge at the bottom of the U-bend and even after cleaning, everything below the waterline would reacquire a mucky colour again in a week...

The ladies get it:

Gerard Batten who briefly led the party in an interim capacity has been confirmed as the new leader. I don't agree with him on everything but I did like his speech in Hull recently.

All this grief over the "gender pay gap" in sports could easily be resolved by simply removing gender from completion, abolishing separate men's and women's records and allowing everybody to compete together. No more hand wringing over the prize money at Wimbledon and having organisers put into...

I'm finally getting around to growing some interesting fruit and veg in the garden. The steep south facing slope at he back of the housenow sports loquat, persimmon and peach trees - although I think I may have to move the peach to somewhere where I can keep it dry in winter. I have a...

A few weeks back, I walked into my local Morrisons to see the 1.5l bottles of Copella Cloudy Apple Juice reduced to 50p. I could only carry six because I was on my pushbike but I had a dozen or so standard packs of apple juice in the house and a TC brew ready to bottle so I figured I'd just...

It seems to be accepted wisdom that you can freeze bread dough without killing the yeast. Has anyone tried it with brewing yeasts? Seems like it might be a good option for those using specific strains.

Not really brewing related but this has just flagged up on a site that I use and I thought it might interest some on here. https://www.flavourly.com I have nothing to do with the company and I'm not familiar with the products but I'm sure someone will recognise the brews.

I put on two kit brews last week. The golden ale went off like a train and appears to be fine. The stout never really started fermenting and at 4 days, it had developed a slimy surface film that just screamed infection. I immediately moved the two buckets apart and after waiting another three...

This doesn't really fit anywhere on the forum but it's still interesting and unusual: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjfsPnm8aTo Don't bother with the channel (Some of the content is good but some is a bit extreme) but it's easy enough to find more of her stuff by searching YouTube for "The...

Corbyn's nemesis... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFWohmXsUVY&t=4s

I know a few members have been struggling to find Lowicz Raspberry syrup. I just picked up a bottle in the Polish section of my local Sainsbury's in Kidderminster. I think it cost me £1.39. Don't bother looking where the squash/cordial is - it's with the other Polish stuff at the end of an...

For when you absolutely, positively have to grab a sample of yeast in the pub, at a cider farm or at a festival. https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01M1ID5ND/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20

I've been doing a bit of pondering about AG and you all chill your wort post boil using various contraptions. Now I haven't gone and tried my first AG brew just yet but I have just grated 1.5kg's of ginger and boiled it up with a bunch of lemons for a ginger beer and I shall be leaving that to...

Been brewing kit beers, turbo ciders and kit/country wines for decades but have never had a go at all grain beer brewing. I know there is an initial outlay in terms of equipment but I keep on reading about how much cheaper AG brewing is than kits or extract brewing. A quick look around the...

In Morrisons today and they have fresh ginger on sale at £2 per 750g net - I had two. It's very fresh and just the job for brewing after a quick wash to remove the inevitable sulphides. I can heartily recommend brewing a traditional batch that will brew out mouth cringingly dry and doing a...