h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Stop badmouthing bananananananas or I will send the boys round.

Then you'll be sorry.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCkerYMffMo

PP.

Nope, not unless I hold them right up to my nose.

My mother likes half a banana sliced on top of her Fruit n Fibre breakfast (same breakfast every day). I consider myself an expert in bananas due to being her personal shopper and caregiver, but I only get her up twice a week, the paid carers prepare her breakfast on the other 5 days. I have found half-bananas (unbagged) inside the bread bin, inside the fridge in a small bowl, even just left on the kitchen worktop.

And don't get me started on how many of the carers can't even spell banana correctly in the care log

GB

I hate the smell of bananas in the supermarket, they have the same smell as those unwashed people you sometimes encounter on public transport - a sort of sour smell

Deb

Actually, reading that back it sounds really snobby . I don't mean public transport is for unwashed people, I mean it's the only place I've (VERY occasionally) encountered the smell.

Deb

You should queue at the checkout at Lidls!

I don't think bananas smell too bad in the skin - it's as soon as they're opened that they pong. A bit like oranges - more pungent when peeled.

That reminds me of a form mistress when I was at school who would sniff out peel in a bin (we weren't allowed to eat in the classrooms) and demand to know the culprit. We weren't a very kind class to her.

{Arrives home - off the bus after doing the weekly shop at Lidls}

So where is everybody?

This PH thread could easily turn into "The idiots Pastey has to deal with at the brewery"

So, today's PH...

Woke up to an email from a wholesaler I'm using with the subject line "Faulty cask"
Darn, I thought, a beer's gone out and doesn't taste right. This is never a good thing, especially when it's to a new pub.
However, opening the email, there's text from the wholesaler asking me to advise, but no other text. The pub hasn't said anything. There is however an image attached. I open it, and it's a picture of the bottom of one of my casks. Right, phew, there's something wrong with the cask itself. Although there doesn't seem to be.
I look at the other email from the wholesaler, and that's forwarded from the pub. This one says "I tapped the cask, but the cask itself has a fault... see attached pic."
Okay then, we're getting somewhere. The pub tapped the cask, and noticed a fault. They then took a picture of the fault and emailed it to the wholesaler, who passed it on.
Opened the photo up in Photoshop so I could get a good look at it... Nope, can't see anything wrong with it. Anything. At all.

So, I've spent a good while this morning trying to figure out what's wrong with this beer, then with the cask. Simply because the two emails I've received don't actually have any real details in them.

I now actually think I know what the problem's going to be, and it'll be stupidity.
The casks I use look similar on the top on the bottom. They're moulded plastic, and at one end there's a hole for the tap to go in. At the other end, that same hole surround is there, but the hole itself isn't cut out. What I reckon has happened is this pub has stored the cask upside down, and thought "Oh, this is faulty" rather than turning it the right way up and seeing the keystone bung for the tap to go in.

I will update on stupidity when I find out.

So yeah, the PH? Emails with so little content you've no idea what they're actually on about!

Are you doing a festive beer?

<BB<

PH Update: They had the cask upside down.


I'm doing a Rum Porter, should be in casks later this week!
Will also be doing a ginger pale ale too. Test batch this coming weekend with any luck!

Rum porter!

I'm booking my visit.



Petty Hate: Security questions.

In the past we could change or reset our password without all this hassle. Now, we get asked dumb questions that:

1. I have no recollection of ever having provided to them
2. I can't even answer now - proving that I can't have ever supplied them in the past.

Things like:

"What's the first movie you saw at the cinema"

or

"What's your Native American name?"


I've a good mind to answer the last one with "He who smashes Apple Store windows by night"

Love that name

Well Icy, you know where I am

Not all the beer drinkers here do.

He said hintingly....

PP.

Beer Nouveau brewery, Temperance Street, Manchester

Thanbk you.

I don't even get close very often

PP.

I am hating myself at the moment for not having put the Christmas decorations away properly last year. I spent ages rummaging around for stuff for the Advent wreath(s).

They came out nicely in the end, though, one on the table in the dining room with real candles and one with battery-operated lights on the front door.

Our decorations are still in the front room from last year, they didn't even make it into the loft.

Christmas? CHRISTMAS???