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There's a couple of decent bottle shops in Morpeth, I'm sure.

How come Russia are allowed to take part? I thought they were banned from everything for the doping stuff.

And PJ has already confirmed that they're not planning on revisiting the contract brewing arrangement any time soon.

A lot of other breweries are having their sexist and homophobic behaviours called out at the moment too.

Nice one! I find mine really useful even without calibrating it.

Did a spot of bottling last night. This is a 3.8% blonde ale fermented with kveik. Pilsner, wheat and spelt malts, about 25IBU of Magnum and then fermented as warm as I could get it, around 30C+. Samples were tasting alright, fingers crossed its good. If it's not then that's 0-3 on brews with my fancy new kit. Next up I'm brewing a witbier for this competition.

Brew York are a great brewery, but they're definitely of that new wave of breweries that get by mostly on gimmick beers. Try and seek out their 'normal' beers if you can, they do a great American Pale and West Coast IPA.

That sounds really nice! I had a bottle of my last brew, the weissbier, last night. Unfortunately it's a bit shit. Fermentation temp ended up a bit high so it's just all clove. Still drinkable at least and I seem to have done a better job of bottle conditioning this one. The last beer was flat as a fart.

They don't invest millions in the club. They suck out as much as they can.

Yeah, what a wanker. Did he forget about the brand they own that gets all it's names from the circus?

Rent a Lindr machine and then get a few bag-in-ball type kegs. It's essentially a wee draught machine with a built-in chiller and air compressor. No gas or chilling required, you just hook up the keg, wait an hour or so, and then pour. Generally it's used with kegs that use a bag-in-ball set up as it's compressed air so it'll ruin traditional kegs, but if it's a one day event then you'd probably get away with traditional kegs as the event will be over before the beer is spoiled. https://www.nationalmobilebars.co.uk/pages/equipment-hire

Does anyone know what the actual start times are? Turned on at 8pm last night as that's what the IndyCar site said, then at a few minutes past the hour a timer popped up saying something like 32 minutes to go. Turned it back on around then and still nothing. Think it was about 8.45 they finally ended up getting going.

I lived in Northumberland a few years back, Rehills and Coppers in Newcastle are both incredible. I used to make the 30 mile round trip a couple of times a week to buy beer at Coppers. An incredible selection of beers and the prices were great. Could never quite believe how many beers I'd walk out with for the money I paid.

Can highly recommend a proper Erlenmeyer flask for yeast starters. You can stick them right on your hob and then right into an ice bath and they'll handle it no problem. I brewed on Friday night, a weissbier this time. Pretty smooth brew this time, my plate chiller had me down to pitching temp in 10 minutes which is incredible. Ended up a bit low on volume and high on gravity, which I've only just realised is because I forgot to add some water back after the mash was done. Literally hit me earlier this afternoon, 48 hours after brewing.

Given that the other 6% IPA they're putting into Tesco is £3.50, you're technically getting the low alcohol beer for free.