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Moving from a position of being self-employed to working for someone else is something of an adjustment. Going from having control and respo...

An SMT board I designed and built at home I think I was in third year of secondary school, what we now call year 9. It must have been as...

Beer is a solution. It is an aqueous solution of various carbohydrates, ethanol, alpha acids and volatile aroma compounds. Beer remains a ve...

I originally wrote this post somewhere in the spring of 2017. At the time we didn't feel it was appropriate to publish. Time has moved ...

It is often difficult to accept defeat. Indeed, when one has been working on something for a long time it can be almost impossible to actual...

Getting micro-brewed beer onto keg taps in outlets is no easy task. It occurs to me that in actual fact this is a far greater barrier to gro...

"Is that a problem?" replied Luke to the lady's question. "Well yes, I can't be in the same room as cats, and they kn...