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The Mad Brewer @themadbrewer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

So it’s mixing different kegs together to get the appropriate strength?

The Mad Brewer @themadbrewer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I’ve been in semi hibernation when it comes to writing for a little while. Apart from regular article in Pellicle. I found pitching articles just painful and couldn’t deal with rejection. But yesterday I sent a pitch to somewhere I’ve not written for before and they’ve said they’re interested.

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The Mad Brewer @themadbrewer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Scouring of the shire was a four hobbit problem

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The Mad Brewer @themadbrewer.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Fun fact. I threatened to sue the Sun for breach of copyright for using my photographs. The money they then paid me was more than my actual court fine. I had to register as a freelance photographer with them to get paid and remain on their books to this day 😂

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The Mad Brewer @themadbrewer.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Do you ever come across hold music that’s just amazing? I’m calling a local authority and the hold music just makes me think of an early 2000s fantasy rpg video game ambient over world theme. Very specific I know but it’s brilliant.

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The Mad Brewer @themadbrewer.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

7 years ago was the weirdest day of my life. How time flies.

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The Mad Brewer @themadbrewer.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

All the right wingers attacking Hannah Green for raising concerns about drunk MPs in the chamber are saying ‘but the greens want to legalise cocaine!’ 1. No one is suggesting you should be allowed to doing lines at work 2. The MPs are already doing coke despite it being illegal.

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The Mad Brewer @themadbrewer.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Post work shandy in the back garden.

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The Mad Brewer @themadbrewer.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

I mean if I’m ordering a pint in a pub I want a pint and not 2/3 with a lot of foam. But this is a 500ml bottle being poured into a pint glass. No point pouring away the foam!

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The Mad Brewer @themadbrewer.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Hazy IPA so there’s still a chunk of wheat malt causing the fluffy head.

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The Mad Brewer @themadbrewer.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

It’s a G and C?!? Why have I never realised this before now???

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The Mad Brewer @themadbrewer.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Sometimes I don’t think think I know what I’m doing and then I pour an absolutely beautiful pint that I made myself and remember why I love my hobby.

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The Mad Brewer @themadbrewer.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Ah awesome! Thanks! More reason to drink more Abbeydale

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The Mad Brewer @themadbrewer.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Does anyone know of any pubs or breweries in the UK that are run as workers collectives/employee ownership models? Obvs micros and two person partnerships might be solely owned/operated by the owners so this is larger pubs/breweries where it’s all employee owned

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The Mad Brewer @themadbrewer.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Interesting! I do Schlenkerla with a cheese board. What % smoked malt did you use?

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The Mad Brewer @themadbrewer.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

I love a good rauchbier or smoked porter

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The Mad Brewer @themadbrewer.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

It transpires spamming him with spells was the way to go

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The Mad Brewer @themadbrewer.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Yeah Margit is just brick at the moment. I’m fine til the point he deploys his big hammer and then I’ve got no answer to him

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The Mad Brewer @themadbrewer.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

After a frankly harrowing experience playing though Dark Souls a few years back; I, for some reason, decided it would be fun to try Elden Ring and it’s just kicking my arse all over. Can’t even get past the first real boss fight.

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The Mad Brewer @themadbrewer.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

I tweeted about Jay Rayner making slightly sexist comments about beer on Sunday Brunch and he replied immediately apologising. Lovely chap.

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Bolt451 is the name of the scientist @bolt451.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction

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The Mad Brewer @themadbrewer.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

My Romanian rescue dog made her feelings about Reform quite clear.

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The Mad Brewer @themadbrewer.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Brewing up a Golden Ale. 3.6%, EKG. Gonna be a beaut. I’ve got a project ongoing that is giving me the excuse to make a whole lot of traditional styles and it s a palette cleanser of an exercise to get back to basics.

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The Mad Brewer @themadbrewer.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

North East Homebrew Club Xmas meet up.

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The Mad Brewer @themadbrewer.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

It’s pretty obvious and the point is you don’t *need* to know that to just click that option. All you need is speech 100

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The Mad Brewer @themadbrewer.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

If you do yes man you barely have to any interaction with the legion whatsoever. So now who’s lying?

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The Mad Brewer @themadbrewer.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Saying he’s doing to ‘make new vegas look bad’ is not correct. He’s not presenting it fully for the sake of brevity. You can beat laneus if you have speech 100 and just pick obvious options. Fallout 1 actually requires you to discover something in game, FNV does not. The main point stands.

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The Mad Brewer @themadbrewer.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

He considers FNV the best game ever made and has said so on many occasions.

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The Mad Brewer @themadbrewer.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Ah awesome, thanks! I don’t know how many kids in the UK today have had a foamy banana to be honest but it was a ubiquitous sweet when I was young.

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The Mad Brewer @themadbrewer.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Six years since I brewed my first beer for @pelliclemag.com Humorous but Foolish, a banana milkshake IPA.

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The Mad Brewer @themadbrewer.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

It’s a descriptor I use for hefeweizen. I never think it smells of real banana

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The Mad Brewer @themadbrewer.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

More questions for Americans: do you have these foamy banana sweets or is that just a UK thing?

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The Mad Brewer @themadbrewer.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

I would join in with Spotify wrapped but apparently I only listened to songs for 157 minutes all year. I don’t *think* that’s right as I have a playlist on when I’m brewing and that’s about 7 hours.

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The Mad Brewer @themadbrewer.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

I think he’s a self parody. Like I can’t believe he’s actually really like that. I have to think it’s a character.

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The Mad Brewer @themadbrewer.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

So if I’m writing for a US audience I should just say gallons?

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The Mad Brewer @themadbrewer.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Americans: would you just say ‘gallons’ or would specify US Gallons?

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The Mad Brewer @themadbrewer.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

In the pandemic my local cafe did a Sunday lunch delivery. Fantastic.

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The Mad Brewer @themadbrewer.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Who are some good beer related/homebrew people for me to follow?

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The Mad Brewer @themadbrewer.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

I do like the idea of infiltrating and just slipping in sparklers

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The Mad Brewer @themadbrewer.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Unpopular opinion: CAMRA serving warm, unsparkled cask at festivals is actually harmful to cask beer. And yes I know ‘not all festivals’.

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The Mad Brewer @themadbrewer.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Atomfall is great. It’s essentially Fallout: Lake District. This is the answer to all the live sevice slop we’ve been seeing. This the kind of game Bethesda and Arkane should be making and have failed to give us for so long.

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The Mad Brewer @themadbrewer.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

I mean do you believe everything in the submission? Taken to a ridiculous level can I just claim to have 200 pubs with staff on £20 an hour and all five star beers for £1 a pint. You gotta investigate the claims in the submission right?

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The Mad Brewer @themadbrewer.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

You know, Hallertau is bloody lovely and should be used in hop heavy beers more. Too often it’s consigned to a token amount in a lager and it never really shines.

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