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A very good list is forming here cheers folks! I may as well come clean, my next book is going to be about beer and I'm forced to suffer for my art and travel the country in search of very good beer. What a bind eh ;) I'm hoping that I can meet up with some of you and share a pint or two of your fav...

I've been trying a few new beers lately, there is a seemingly never ending supply of new flavours and a few duds so what beers can you recomend? What should I be looking out for? What are the best beers of Britain? I'd have to say my recent favourites have been - Arbor Ales Black Eyed PA , Old Engin...

Hmm... sorry we missed that. Yep, Mikes right and you could get away with boiling a couple of litres.

I've stood on Princes Street (Edinburgh) and its been a bright sunny summers day, yet it was still pouring with rain. I couldn't even work out where the rain clouds were comming from, most odd. Yes, all weathers and as gregorach says sometimes all in the same day.

Thanks very much, I enjoyed it too glad to hear you got so much out of it. We are planning another in July.

I made an alexander and knotweed wine and it turned out pretty well. Used the same recipe as below but 2lbs of knotweed and alexanders.

Yep I've got one a roberts as well, FIP is good for background music its a French one, then I think Kolvradio is interesting, as is a polish one er... spa radio or something, I love the fact you can play podcasts too. The future of radio I think.

Ha, no that wasn't me in disguise! I wrote booze for free as a guide to for a beginner. I added a massive glossary of brewing terms, terms that I've kept to a minimum in Booze for Free. The reason I did this was so that you can use it to understand all the other books out there too. Each recipe I’ve...

Selfsufficientish.com is 8 years old this month, happy birthday eh? Shall we have a competition with prizes and that?

A clip made in April of 2011.

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Go on say something nice about the last person who posted.

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Well, its after 12 noon so I should come clean. Yep of course it was a hoax but I don't think I really tried to hide that it wasn't. Happy April fools!

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When you put wine in a demijohn you also put in an airlock and bung it excludes air. Oxidisation occurs when you let air into alcohol, great if you want sherry not so great if you want wine.

Mind you some wines, especially ones brewed to a higher ABV will stay ok tasting for a while longer.