Recent content by IainM

London dry Blood orange Pink Rhubarb and Ginger Lemon Cheers!

Your wife is right, the stuff you get at restaurants as a meat alternative, or in tins from the supermarket, is green jackfruit. It's nice, but the fruitiness is very subtle and would get lost behind the vegetable taste (I don't know if you've had som tum, the Thai salad made from green papaya...

Yup, a lot of yeast, but if you want a 12% stout bottled, carbed and ready to drink in 2 weeks, it's the way to go.

You can always Slash their tires.

I did one of these last March, and it was great. For the first mash I did an overnight mash, which helped get a bit more efficiency, as well as dry out the first part a bit so the end beer wasn't too sweet without resorting to dextrose. I had 4kg pale in each batch, plus some cararye, dark...

West coast IPA please

Mine had a blemish that looked exactly like a cat's bumhole, so I had to really.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005001704355150.html I ordered this one on AliExpress, as I was buying some others bits anyway. Don't know if it's any good, but at that price I can't complain.

Sounds like a manufacturing error. I've got the same one and it's been going strong for years. Contact Hambleton Bard. In my experience their customer service is pretty good.

I've never had trouble with the credit card method.

Very very few, but converting people isn't the point. The point is to build camaraderie and foster an us-vs-the-world good-vs-evil narrative. To alienate from the outside world so that they become more dependent on the sect.

Lucky freedom

Do a starter it'll be fine.

Bargain, and good kit, but you're looking at 5 hours per brew. If you do it your beer is going to be so much better than kit beer.

It's a blend of two strains that were classified as Brett, because they formed a pellicle I think, but were reclassified as saccharomyces. The are apparently fruity and tropical. It also has a classic brettanomyces bruxellensis. The smell when I opened the liquid pack was fantastic, just what I...