Recent content by Sadfield

For beer gas, go to the people who use it on a daily basis. Go around your local pubs, bars etc, buy a pint and ask who they get their gas from, or if you can tag one on to their order. You'll likely get one for £10 to £15 without having to buy or rent a cylinder. Then just return and replace...

Exactly. If your water has low alkalinity it isn't going raise your kettle pH. At no point does he say the water has to be acidic, lower than pH 7. Which is what acidifying is.

Because that paragraph misses the 'other' percentage. Defined further in the document as: ‘Other’ central heating includes the categories: other central heating only, district or communal heat networks only, renewable energy only, solid fuel only and wood only.

Keep checking. I looked for some Chevalier when I first got the email and they only had a handful of 500g bags, so didn't bother. Checked again and now I've just order 10kg, and could have got a full sack.

Much, much closer to Maris Otter, than it is to Chevallier.

For clarity, Brunwater is adding acid to lower the sparge pH (5.5), which different to adding acid to reduce the sparge water alkalinity. I've never seen any reference in any brewing book or text about targeting a specific mash pH, or done it in any brewery. I don't have water as hard as that...

The best use for corny's IMO. I either open ferment until the krausen begins to drop, then transfer off the trub to a purged corny, then batch prime* with sugar for bottling at a convenient time. Or, I ferment in a closed FV (or another corny), close transfer, carbonate and bottle with a beer...

It was so good, that they wrote songs about it in these parts. Phil 'Fast Fret' McCavity, he taught me all I know about playing the guitar.

Am I the only one who wants to slowly raise that basket to form perfect, square columns of lard?

Exactly, Brett isn't any different if you clean your kit properly with a Alkaline cleaner, and then sanitise. As per the the quote from Wyeast. Corny kegs should be stripped down for thorough cleaning.

You'd hope, if it was critical and not just avoidance of legal liability, that they'd issue clear warnings and instruction on their products.

I found this on another forum, and haven't had an issue with Brett in FV's or kegs. So far.

Aurora makes a nice Saison. I'd be using the Taiheke with a bit of Citra and Chocolate Malt in my Chocolate Limes American Brown Ale. like the sweets, lime upfront then bitter dark chocolate on the finish.

Bathtub Biryani. That's what I do when I've a spare 25kg of Basmati knocking around.

I see it as, there's three ways HMRC could deal with homebrewing. 1) A simple rule, applied with discretion. 2) A complicated rule with a huge list of exceptions, applied to the letter. 3) Make it illegal without a licence. Any deviation, going on a picnic, entering comps, etc. is fair and...