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I have been brewing now for a couple of years, making English style bitter, because that is what I like best. The point of this post is that the single biggest discovery I have made to improve the drinking pleasure from my beers and also bought bottled beers is SERVING TEMPERATURE, followed by...

Here in the UK, if I make home brew cider I can make up to 70 hectolitres (1539 imperial gallons or 1846 US gallons) per year, and sell it to whoever I like, without any liability for exise duty whatsoever. I might have to tell them, and pass food hygiene laws, but what the heck...... If I make...

Engineer #8 is soooooooo like our electrician at work..... Understanding Engineers #1 Two engineering students were biking across a university campus when one said, "Where did you get such a great bike?" The second engineer replied, "Well, I was walking along yesterday, minding my own...

What do you get if you make a three burner kerosene blowtorch and aim it at a stainless steel coil full of water, put it in a boat, tie it up to a pole in the middle of a pond, and set light to it?.....A 15,000 RPM 120 MPH world record, that's what! Turn the sound up, and the 5th lap is...

I have been visiting LA from the UK for the last 3 weeks (with the Jaguar CX 75 concept car) and happened to pop into a BevMo liquor outlet to try to find a decent warm beer, because that's the way we like them :) I was Gobsmacked to find a really good selection of European beers including...

I am visiting LA soon but cannot buy stuff on the internet and have it delivered to my hotel because of international address hassles. So giving up on the net, does anyone know where I can get the following items in LA, so can just buy them when I am there? Heating elements like these just...

It looks like I am going to be chaperoning the C-X75 Jaguar for its USA debut in L.A.! I am going with an experienced car show tech. who has done the US shows before, so I am sure we will have a good time during our odd moments of freedom. Thing is, he is a Lager drinker, so I need to know where...

You saw them here first as they are not on telly until this evening in the UK. They feature "Captain slow" from BBC's Top Gear... http://www.youtube.com/londonprideads#p/a/u/0/rpYdrvZLH50 Over here Fullers have recently released two new beers. "Trafalgar" and "Bengal Lancer". I have tried...

I helped make this baby, so I am justifiably proud that it is now wowing the peeps at the Paris motor show! It's called the C-X75. It is nearly as nice to look at as a pint of Fullers ESB! Please notice it will have two jet engines that drive generators that power the four wheel motors. Also...

Total madness for the rich with big gardens. Whatever will they think of next! They even have fireplaces and oak beams http://www.drinkstuff.com/products/product.asp?SearchField=pub&ID=7293 There are three sizes, called The Hogshead, The Barrel, and The Firkin and it looks like they are...

Well I resisted for a day or two, but mines on it's way! Go here and watch the video http://www.kinektdesign.com/products.php

I thought I would inform any Fullers fans out there that they have a recent addition to the range. It is called Bengal Lancer, and is a 5% IPA. Here is a link. http://www.fullers.co.uk/rte.asp?id=296 I have not managed to find it yet, but am seriously looking in all the supermarkets. I...

Here is a link to a Picaxe controlled DIY control system. It will do tons of stuff depending on how it is wired and programmed and is dirt cheap! Check it out if you are at all electricaly geeky.. http://users.tpg.com.au/adsl2y58/userfiles/html/fridge.htm

Is there a farming and agriculture based radio station out there in the same vein as the home brewing ones?

I need to get a handle on how much heat a fermentation produces so I can work out how much cooling power I can get away with. My cunning plan is to use one or two of those Peltier effect membranes that heat one side and cool the other side when a DC voltage is applied, and reverse the effect...

Here is a set of pictures detailing my build of this mammoth cooler. It fits in my 22 Imperial gallon brewpot. I have more pictures of the making of the former, but I am only able to post ten pictures. perhaps I can creep more in later. Here is the assembled cooling coil array. It has six...

I've just bought some fantastic stainless and brass hose clamps that are ideal for the 1/2" silicone tube. The generic name for them seems to be "Unex" and they come in two types. One has a nice big hex hand knob so it can be fitted and removed in seconds with no tools and the other has a...

I have just tested this pump, and at 120 RPM got a flow rate of 4 USGPM or 15 litres! I hope no one minds me re-posting this here as I put it in the wrong place initially ("peristaltic pumps" in the equipment section.) And I do not know how to rename the title or move it, so perhaps a...

I own two really sturdy 27 gallon (100 litre) stainless pots with 6 mm thick bottoms, but I have no idea what grade of stainless they are made from. They are reputed to have had lanolin in them (from the cosmetics industry) They are both with the ex missus at the moment, and have been used to...