I’ve always fancied trying my hand at a bit of home brewing but never actually found the guts to get myself a kit. Well, this time I finally went through with it and I’m now the proud owner of a starter home brewing kit!
I got the kit from the folks at The Happy Brewer in Bedford, it was very reasonably priced, and they were very friendly and happy to explain what was needed to be done to a complete novice. If you live near the Bedford area and fancy having a go yourself I’d happily recommend them.
That there is potentially 40 pints of Woodfordes Wherry, a very tasty beer sold at the local near the Sanger Institute - fingers crossed I’ll do a good job of it. This is the first fermentation step, in about 4-6 days I can move it into the barrel, then it’s a 3-4 week wait for the finished product. Will update with news on whether I killed myself (and anyone else brave enough to try it) soon! 
Last week I enjoyed some time up in Edinburgh for the International Workshop on Portals for Life Sciences (IWPLS ‘09), hosted at the e-Science Institute. It was a good workshop - there were good presentations, lively debates, and good social planning for the evenings!
I have to admit that quite a lot of the content of the workshop was completely irrelevant to me and went straight over my head at times, but I did enjoy it, and it’s good to hear what other people are doing.
I was there for two reasons, first was an interest in the content of the workshop, and second was that I was one of the people presenting a lightning talk! The content of my talk was pretty different to most of the other presentations - they were mostly about grid computing and development of portal interfaces for said grids - whereas mine was about the architecture I developed for the new Sanger Mouse Resources Portal.
It seemed to go down pretty well, it got a couple of laughs, no one fell asleep and quite a few asked questions at the end, so I was quite happy at that. Here’s the slides from the talk, just in case anyone would like to take a look. Copies of all the presentations from the workshop can be found here.
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