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How to Brew Beer in a Coffee Pot:
http://www.allaboutbeer.com/features/235coffee.html

http://www.allaboutbeer.com/wbf/

And as for stout - it's a shame you can't try the old Imperial Russian Stout although it died in the 80's, for which Courage's management should have been shot. It was live bottled and matured nicely so it was still available in some pubs (tucked away at the back of a shelf) until the late 80's at least (but I can't remember the exact date the last time I drank it).

I do remember it was in a pub in Morden which I think was called "The Sun" and still had a sign on the door saying "No Blacks or Irishmen" which sticks in my mind because it was exceptional even then, seems hard to believe now . . . times do change!

Sorry, please forgive this little trip down memory lane, I've just made myself quite nostalgic (understand that I'm not implying approval of the sign).

I think he'd be better off to use an evaporative cooler and use this rig to chill the wort.

Temperature sensors are good and all, but what would really rule would be a networked hydrometer or refractometer inside the fermentation tank giving you gravity readings. For non-homebrewers, the hydrometer reading shows the amount of dissolved sugars in your beer. This value decreases as the beer ferments (yeast eats sugar and turns it into alcohol), thus showing you when the beer is done fermenting. Normally it's a royal pain to measure because you have to extract small amounts of beer from the tank without contaminating the contents with airborne bacteria. However, with a hydrometer floating in the tank the whole time with some kind of sensors attached to it, you would know the instant your beer is ready to drink. Not only that, but correlating the slope of the hydrometer graph (fermentation velocity) with fermentation temperature would be a homebrewers wet dream. This is because certain yeast have ideal temperatures to ferment at. Too hot and the fermentation goes too quick, generating weird tastes and esters. Too slow and the yeast falls asleep. Armed with an rrdtool graph of temp and gravity though and your beer would always be juuuusst right.

Recreational coke use.

Serious coke use

Coke use rampant!

The international conspiracy money trail.

What coke did to beer.

These sites only touch on the truth. The true horrors of serious coke use were best documented by Charles Dickens.

I have to admit to recreational coke use. My wife enjoys it also, but she thinks that everyday is just too much. We've had some really great times that way, and she does not think it could ever be a problem. I've heard some horror stories, mostly involving gasoline, but I don't know anyone who has actually died this way.

Serious coke use is very different. It does indeed kill many people in all phases of its exploitation. Production and transportation is supposed to be the most dangerous activity.