I’ve got a pride of london festival porter thats 5 days in the FV, might be time for some dry hopping action 🙂

drinking wise tonight i have some Tuborg driving beer to start with and then we shall have to see what tickles my fancy 🙂

Those toshi straps look lovely and great value too.

which male would you suggest Hora?

EDIT – You’re not allowed to go.

“I was quite angry at the mannerism of the cyclist on the road. My point of view is that he was on my side of the road – that’s not the way you drive so I find that quite disrespectful.”

of course he was, thats where he should have been (assuming they were travelling in the same direction)!

Hopefully she will slide away into nothingness and have learned a valuable lesson from this.

there was clearly a bit left, chocolatier’s tax 🙂

raceface evolve xc is 38mm, not sure if that helps though…

edit, its not. post read fail.

quick q for the extract brewers – what size of stock pot is big enough for boiling up the extract? I gather you only boil up a relatively small volume i.e. a few litres, but a bigger pot helps avoid boilovers. any recommendations on size / materials I presume stainless steel is best.

26 years and 8million pints and Im still learning

wow, there’s hope for all of us! i’ve brewed probably just over 100 since June. great hobby and very rewarding.

all this talk of hitting it with a bible/ruler/brick is making me squirm! it doesn’t hurt as such if you hit it but its not a nice feeling…

i have one on my left hand after breaking my hand years ago. seems to come and go, but my mum said to hit it with a bible! dont really fancy that.

which coffee to butter up a tradesman?

i’d secondary ferment in bottles / keg for two weeks at the same temp as the primary fermentation, then move to a cool place. If you dont leave enough time for the secondary fermentation you could end up with a flat, yeasty brew.

Cheers

Hi Clubber, its an Acoms techniplus transmitter like the one in the link here[/url], but its only the transmitter and 2 crystals, no receivers or servos etc.

my email is in my profile if you want more info, i’ll not take up any more of your thread!

yeah sorry clubber, its a transmitter. i can’t for the life of me remember what it was but i’ll find out and let you know.

apologies also for the hijack too, but i’m afraid i can’t answer the question on your OP 🙂

bit of a hijack but in the off chance that anyone wants a 27mhz controller i have one that i bought recently for my nitro RC car that never made it back to life. I can’t mind the brand but its basically in as new condition and i think it has 2 red crystals with it.

cool thread btw, although this hobby seems to eat money more than MTB!

any recommendations for a 2.4ghz 4 channel heli only? this thread has reignited my desire to get my wee blade mcx replaced as i think the 5 in 1 unit is gubbed on it.

Cheers

or are we talking

more than

higher than average blonde perma-tan female contingent

*plans a route through dollar on the next sunny day ;)*

Indeed, alloa high street has its characters, but I tend to filter them out unless they are so loud you can’t do that – the loud exhausts might be the folk driving through quickly so they dont get weirdos wandering out in front of them 🙂

The alloa high street does have a bit of bustle about it despite the small %age of bams. I get what you mean about alva and menstrie though, they aren’t really a destination (not that alloa is a buzzing metropolis but I think i know what you mean)

as always OP i’d come up for a visit if you are planning to move to the area, glasgow isn’t far. You could get the train through and if you dont like what you see, the return train will head back within the hour 🙂

see here for some views:

personally i’d stay this side of the forth for a slightly easier commute, the kicardine bridge is ok but can get busy.

IMO the nicer bits of alloa / alva / menstrie are just as nice as tillicoultry if dollar is outside your budget. bridge of allan is nice too and there are some more affordable bits in the area.

Cheers

i hadn’t until now! so it begins, aaargh! 🙂

you monkeyfcuker you 😉

I would love a stowa, but as a chirstmas present i couldn’t afford it even putting money towards it.

the kemmner does give exactly the look i want. Unless someone with a stowa was to sell me one cheap…. 😉

cheers rusty. a bit of googling has turned up the kemmner marine which ticks just about all my boxes!

so, STwatchworld,

I’ve always liked the design and styling of the Stowa marine original after seeing it displayed on here and i’d love to own one, but couldn’t really afford the £700 price tag.

photo for reference, not necessarily my ideal watch!

Does anyone have any suggestions of cheaper (£100-£200) watches that pay homage to the styling cues of the stowa marine? the bits i like about that timepiece are the leather watch strap (in brown is my preference), the clean face with the lack of chronograph dials etc, lack of bezel and the fact its not too chunky.

you guys have good taste – any ideas?

the dog has been found safe thankfully.

bump for the morning crowd.

good price, looks like only medium left in stock 🙁

bitlocker only available on win7 enterprise edition AFAIR.

the good thing is you can reuse your recycled bottles if you build up enough of a stock to bottle multiple batches of beer.

oh and samurai – the best place to find bottles is on the shelf of your local shops 🙂 find a beer you like in a 500ml brown bottle and buy them, enjoy them, rinse them once you are done and scrub the labels off (sometimes easier said than done)

i bottled a festival razorback IPA in July, I think its just coming into its own now.

My first brew was a woodfordes wherry and it was ok, but you could taste that yeasty homebrew taste. It didn’t last long enough in the barrel to mature much.
My 2nd was the IPA which i’ve bottled and pretty much left alone in a cool garage for months, except the odd tester. That had the HB “tang” but its almost completely gone now and i have a light amber beer with good carbonation and a lovely grapefruit nose.

my 3rd brew was a woodfordes Nog, bottled at the end of sept with the intention of using it for a halloween / bonfire party. its going to be a christmas / new year brew at least as it has got the homebrew taste at the mo, so i reckon a nice cool condition in the garage will work wonders. Its bad enough at the moment that i’ll serve the IPA that i made back in july. Not quite a bonfire beer but no point in serving something i’m not happy with.

To be honest i wouldn’t really touch a brew after barrelling / bottling for at least a month, possibly two. The hardest things about home brew is developing a. patience and b. a good rolling stock 🙂

dark, treacly, spicy loveliness

i have to admit carving a tumshie was a test of strength and persistence that started about a week before Halloween.

shit the bed, incredibly clever stuff but a nightmare for IT folks.

i thought when you put a mask on and asked someone for something that was called robbery.

at least i went in and told a shitty joke for my tangerine.

i was never the biggest fan of alloa but i shall defer to davidrussell as i haven’t really been there as such since the arrival of the railway. and civilisation

i’m not sure i’d go as far as civilised 🙂

Its just like all areas, you have your bams walking about with no teeth looking like they just ram raided sports direct and followed through into symingtons jewellers, but on the whole its fine. i’d definitely visit an area before moving there though, even if its just at night to see what the streets are like at night – far more revealing than a trip during the day.

if i have too much coffee i can’t sleep. i’ve never had too much sex yet so can’t compare.

hi,

i moved to alloa in 2007 from stirling and i think its a good place to live (you get used to the jokes about trolls at the gates to middle earth etc) 🙂

tullibody has some nice bits too and some not so nice bits (dont know the area name specifically but its towards the alloa side on the left hand side)- been up the woods at the back of there and its like beirut.

Alloa itself has good and bad bits, we’re in the good bit (naturally) at the north end of town. avoid the area known as the bottom end / mar policies as thats where some of the bams live apparently. The only thing with tullibody is that it doesn’t have much of a high street and its not really a destination as such. Alloa itself isn’t exactly a metropolis but it has a reasonably busy high street and a good butchers and a few pubs that you can leave without going out in a body bag.

The other big plus for alloa is the rail station with regular trains to glasgow / edinburgh (takes about an hour to each from alloa)

Lots of good riding from the doorstep and central enough for places like carron valley, fife and the lothians. Also just 2 hours short of fort william / the highlands for superb riding.

all in all a reasonable spot to bide!

indeed dabble, i found the SLX were really powerful too, easily one finger braking. A bit of a learning curve getting used to short levers though as i used to try and grab a handful of brake when there is no lever there!