Haha thanks for the congratulations! Now time to sit and wait. Anticipating the first sip :D

It’s on the list, but not something I’ve researched much yet. Do you recommend?

Did you add them raw or boiled them down or something? And what was your best flavour?

What exactly are Americans getting for the tax they pay in now?

Surely chocolate teapot is th classic. Although that tastes good - I’d wager Trump does not.

I was wondering why dem presidents aren’t doing the same thing.

The only reason I could come up with is that dem voters, averagely, seem to have some sort of standard. They do advocate for improving fellow citizen’s lives. They do think their president should be held accountable (on the most part, but there’s definitely more accountability that could be put on dem presidents too).

Jump to the right wing republican voters. They’re either blindly following trump (they see him as some sort of role model), or they just think trump will allow them more of the freedoms they want (guns for example) and don’t really care about their society as a whole. I also strongly suspect there are right wing groups that believe Trump will screw everything up, put the country in turmoil, and allow them to seize some small control of their own.

I have never claimed the US to be reliable, I’m trying to say that ‘trading with the US’ was one of the ideas being touted during the referendum.

Also, they are certainly less reliable now than then.

The trade bloc point is tricky though.

Any rational brain can see that the benefits of being in the EU massively outweigh the drawbacks.

At the same time, we can see from our voting history that a huge chunk of us do not think rationally when it comes to politics. We’re all guilty of it. But some of us at a minimum can reflect on our knee jerk reaction and allow our calmer heads to prevail.

Unfortunately, it seems many of us have a knee jerk reaction that is never re-evaluated until we’re faced with the hardship it causes.

I feel like, because of the above, there’s still a small appetite for rejoining the bloc. Those who voted to leave and are being hit hard by leaving have no way to say we should rejoin whilst saving face.

Labour haven’t been elected to rejoin the EU, and it’s likely that any longstanding improvement to our country they can make will take more than one term. If they start looking at rejoining the reactive right will ensure they don’t get that second term and we’ll be stuck back where we were with the Tories.

Even some small word saying something better than ‘it could have been worse’. It really cements how pathetic our country has become.

This is all my knee jerk reaction however. I’ll l probably say something more sensible tomorrow.

I also concede that we have no other choice. We shot ourselves in the foot with Brexit thinking the US might be reliable and now look where we are.

I’m just annoyed at our whole ridiculous situation right now.

Personally I’d like it if ministers showed some backbone.

Great tips thank you!

Thanks for the tip. Our ideas of cheap are different though haha

P.s. just attached the sediment pic in a comment. Image upload is acting flakey today.

Sediment pic (the bottle had been on its side):

Thanks.

I have glass bottles but was sick when it was bottling time and it was just easier to use the plastic ones. They’re basically my emergency bottles.

As for the temp, it seems that with this kit it needs to be on the cooler side (18-21c). The room I was doing it in is fairly cool but not that cool and it creeped up to 23c for probably about 10 of the initial 24 hours unfortunately. When I noticed I got the wet towels out which helped a lot.

After that it says to keep is between 15-21 on the online instructions, and 14-18 on the physical ones. I avged about 16c throughout the brew phase so got that okay.

With the warmer weather coming, I’m concerned I won’t be able to keep this cool enough without some extra stuff (was thinking an old freezer unit for insulation, and some kind of wet blanket or ice pack rotation).

It’s almost as if neither of the parties that will win through FPTP (first past the post) care about the people, and care more for satisfying the rich.

Due to FPTP, I can only vote labour as for my views they’re the slightly lesser of two terrible parties.

At the same time, neither of the parties that benefit from FPTP will think about changing it and even if they did most of the population would fall for the propaganda machine anyway (see Brexit and decades of awful Tory government / the nonsense that the right are spewing out but gaining popularity)

Yes: “Start now, getting everything that you can reasonably afford, as quickly as you can”

If you think the answer to that question is yes then I think you’ve misunderstood their point.

I fear the day density arrives

Here’s me wearing whatever jeans are cheapest and fit my apparently weirdly shaped body. I wish I had the opportunity to shop jeans by brand :D

No off brand heads you can use?