Recent content by Feldon

A happy tale of a UK community saving its pub (or should that be a pub saving its community?)

This Australian prodigy is just incredible. Been playing since he was six. Now at 14 he’s developing a voice as good as his guitar playing. Here he is a few days ago impeccably shredding Bill Withers’ Ain't No Sunshine while on tour in the US.

Good on you @livo for exploring a problem through direct experience and being willing to share it here for others, newbies in particular, to benefit from. It's in the great traditions of this forum.

Speaking of classics (or should have been classics) this Australian band Country Radio might have been up there with CCR if they'd gotten airplay in the US, or gone to California where Poco and Eagles were fusing country and rock with success. They had great vocal harmonies and rich...

You are travelling a path that most of us have trodden at some time in the past. There’s a couple of things you can do. First, if you are keen to keep using an airlock, you need to smear the O-ring with a tiny smidgen of a food safe lubricant (homebrew shops carry the right stuff). You see, if...

“It’s impossible”, said pride. “It’s risky”, said experience. “It’s pointless”, said reason. “Give it a try”, whispered the heart.

Meant to post this yesterday on the 48th anniversary of its broadcast. It’s A Long Way To The Top - one of the coolest rock anthems ever, led by the late, great Bon Scott of AC/DC. This performance was broadcast on the show Bandstand from the studios of TCN 9 in Sydney on 21st Feb 1976. An...

I remember back in 2010 when you guys first came on this forum asking what we brewers wanted from a mill motor. One of the issues people raised was the need to deal with the occasional small rock that had found its way into the malt. It could jam the rollers in the mill. That was one of the...

A staged reduction in beer tax properly set and administered can lift sales of beer (which have been in decline for years) resulting in an overall net increase in tax revenue for the government, despite the tax per unit volume of beer being less than before. And to conflate tobacco tax with...

Bulk buy!

Talk about BS. No one is claiming that one incremental tax increase in February is sending craft breweries broke. It's the cumulative effect of relentless tax increases over time, AND the punishment of beer drinkers vs. wine drinkers. Independent Brewers Association (IBA) demands liquor tax...

going, going, g...... Much-loved Aussie beer brand Hawkers enters administration after 10 years Nathan Schmidt, News.com, 12 Feb 2024 An Australian beer company has entered into voluntary administration after almost 10 years. A popular Australian beer company has entered voluntary...

Bulk buy anyone?

Maybe an underworld homebrew resurgence is already underway? Is the sharp rise in the number of stolen kegs a signal that hundreds of thieving newbies have taken up homebrewing? Melbourne's Multitude Of Missing Kegs Will Ziebell, The Crafty Pint, 6 Feb 2024 ...the number of kegs to have gone...

On this day in 1986 Dire Straits fifth album ‘Bothers in Arms’ went to No 1 in the UK where it spent 14 weeks (10 weeks consecutively). And here in Australia was at No 1 for 34 weeks. With its success Dire Straits became the first band to sell over one million albums on those new, shiny fangled...