RedEyeReview is reporting that Michael Douglas is going to possibly be feeling the squeeze of a further divorce payout, his ex is suing for 50% of the earnings from the upcoming Wall Street movie because he is playing a role that he played during their marriage.
Categories: Movies,News
Tagged: divorce, marriage, michael douglas, movies
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- August 26, 2010 – 5:27 pm
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- By Jo Pettitt
I was out on an evening stroll and a creeping plant took my eye. It was wrapped around an old telegraph pole. I instantly hoped that it was a hop plant. I took a leaf and what I think are some baby hops for identification. Any pointers appreciated.
Categories: Brewing
Tagged: help, hops, identify, plants, request
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- August 2, 2010 – 9:46 pm
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- By Jo Pettitt
“It is, quite simply, a wonderful beer. It is exceedingly pale (21-22 units colour), with just a hint of colour in its cheeks from the dash of crystal malt. It has a massive orange fruit aroma from the challengers, balanced by biscuity malt. “Juicy malt and tart hops vie for attention in the mouth while [...]
Categories: Brewing
Tagged: AG9, All grain, Challenger, Coniston Bluebird, Northern Brewer
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- July 26, 2010 – 6:46 pm
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- By Jo Pettitt
My original hop filter was a length of 15mm copper pipe with a series of 3mm holes drilled into it. The design seemed to be fine for my first 6 brews but on the 7th and 8th it kept getting blocked up by the hops, both brews consisted of a large number of Challenger hops [...]
Categories: Brewing
Tagged: equipment, hop filter
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- July 26, 2010 – 4:56 pm
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- By Jo Pettitt
Had an interesting brewday, I followed the recipe in Graham Wheeler’s book. The expected specific gravity reading differed from that of BeerSmith but this may be down to differences in efficiency, I didn’t have enough time to investigate. I added 83g of Torrified Wheat, used caster sugar and not granulated and went for S-04 yeast. [...]
Categories: Brewing
Tagged: AG8, All grain, Brakspear Special
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- July 20, 2010 – 12:19 pm
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- By Jo Pettitt
My new pump for recirculating mash and boiled wort. It is from Solar Projects and takes a 12v DC input, adapter from Maplin. The pump runs with a rate of 6L a minute and slows down if a decreased voltage is used. It’s a tiny unit and there’s a beer bottle here to show that.
Categories: Brewing
Tagged: equipment, pump
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- July 16, 2010 – 12:47 pm
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- By Jo Pettitt
Just took delivery of this fancy Foker 3120 8.8kw cast iron gas ring. Hoping to get a Brakspear clone knocked out on it on Monday after the upgrades are carried out for brewing outside.
Categories: Brewing
Tagged: Brewing, equipment, foker, gas ring
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- July 16, 2010 – 10:02 am
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- By Jo Pettitt
Red Eye Review is a site that I have worked on with some of my previous colleagues from the TV and software industry. It is a film review website that tries to give fair and impartial reviews of the latest films. The site was built around the D6 release of Drupal and makes use of [...]
Categories: Site
Tagged: design, drupal, Site
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- May 12, 2010 – 11:23 am
- Author:
- By Jo Pettitt