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    • About
    • Flying
      • Learning to Fly, part 1
      • Running a teeny tiny YouTube Channel
    • Links
    • Craft Beer Brewing
      • The road to my first all grain brew
    • Motorbike
      • Lochinver Bike trip June/July 2013
      • IAM – why?
      • IAM – The Test
      • HID headlamp
      • LED strips as instrument backlights
      • Tayvallich Bike Trip
      • Lochinver Bike Trip, late August 2012

Mike Calvert: microlight pilot, BMAA aircraft inspector, motorcyclist, home brewer and all round tinkerer!

  • Friday at last!

    Man, 5 day weeks should all feel the same, but this one has dragged by, so all in all I’m delighted it’s finally Friday 🙂 Still got to get through the day, and I’m pretty sure I’ll be even busier over the weekend than I have been at work, but even so, roll on home…

    December 14, 2012
  • Top marks to Hein Gericke

    Since it’s all too easy to moan about poor service, let me instead talk about GOOD service – Top marks to Hein Gericke – Have a set of motorbike trousers from them, but the knee armour presses on my knee caps and hurts like hell after a very short time. Took the trousers into the…

    December 12, 2012
  • Chin up

    Ok, so it’s Monday morning, and officially Monday mornings always suck, but to every cloud there must be a silver lining, yes? For me it was finally being able to ride my motorbike to work after a week and a half of having to leave it in the garage and go take the train instead…

    December 10, 2012
  • Saturday Lie-in

    Well, after a long and fairly intense week at work isn’t it nice to be able to chill out with a few beers on a Friday night and then have a long lie on Saturday morning? Oddly, it’s not as great as I’d like! For one thing,it feels like half the day is already gone,…

    December 8, 2012
  • Random late night meanderings

    Should be in bed, but having spent a large part of the evening kegging and bottling my latest brew, and then even more time labelling up the bottles I’d filled from the previous brew so I could finally put them away, I felt like a beer (that and the shelf of beer bottles was getting…

    November 20, 2012
  • Christmas Porter

    Hoping to create a gently spiced porter style beer for Christmas. Grains – Pale malt, crystal, wheat, and a good dose of roast barley. Loads of challenger hops for bittering, and some styrian goldings for aroma Malts are still pretty cold despite bringing them in from the garage 3 hours ago… so upping the mashing…

    November 20, 2012
  • Hello world!

    New to the world of blogging, have a wealth of craft brewing stuff to chuck on here, some cooking stuff, some motorbike stuff, and who knows what else…. Basically, this blog is to help me keep track of all the content I create about these and other subject is one place.

    November 20, 2012
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