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I alaways acidify my sparge water to a pH of 5,5. What I noticed was that I get better coagulation of proteins in the boil vs. not acidifying my sparge water. The end result is that my beer doesn't have any cold haze anymore.

My wife and I sold our CD collection a couple of months ago. We only kept a few. I still have my collection of vinyl from the 80's, and my daughter (20 in a couple of weeks) only has a collection of vinyl. It gives a kind of rest, putting an LP on the turntable. That is something for the...

For Duvel, the M41 is good, because it finishes really low. Use a combination of Pilsner malt, wheat malt and 10% white sugar (sucrose). This is for the colour. Bitter to 30-33 IBU with noble hops (or EKG). The impression I got from Brugse Zot, is that it does not attenuate so low as Duvel, and...

All kidding aside, I know already from a whole time ago that sexuality is a spectrum. It is maybe possible to put some labels on some parts of the spectrum, but labelling every part of the spectrum would mean to invent an infinity of labels. Labels are jargon. My experience is that jargon...

Isn't that an arborsexual?

I thought you meant New Wave 😋

I was only one year old, but it was definitely published in what I would call "popular history books", or popular historical overview books. I knew about Donald Campbell from a quartets game featuring all kinds of speed record breaking vehicles (featuring several from Campbell?). And I liked to...

I think that was actually the gist of Roe vs. Wade, that what happens between a doctor and his patient, is nobody else's business.

It's not a theory, it's a hypothesis. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Hm, I looked at their specifications, and it states 4.5% ABV. Indeed, not really Imperial.

10 l of a St.-Bernardus 8 clone, using St.-Bernardus yeast. Total 719L

When my wife was a kid she had to take yeast for vit B supplements. She lived in Roeselare/Roulers. These came from the Rodenbach brewery.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder of course. I consider "pop" mainstream radio music. And I don't really like mainstream radio music. I mostly stopped listening to it in the summer of 1982, when I discovered hardrock and heavy metal. Trying to find music from friends (tapes yes, we don't...

Indeed no, it should have been @Sadfield. Was confused by the funny faces :-)

Sometimes I need to satisfy my sweet tooth. I did like Leroy Stout (my wife too). I am more impressed that there seems to be a market for it. I don't think it is brewed in big quantities. I would actually suppose that Hercule is sold in larger quantities (the hamburger chain Jilles likes to...

Bought at "In de Vrede" in a cardboard box of 6. It's more expensive per bottle, but it is more practical.

Can you really define Belgian beer? I have 395 different Belgian beers checked in on Untapped. There are the beers distributed by AbInbev, which poisons everything it touches. There are the medium sized players like Duvel and John Martin, who like to buy smaller players, but at least let them...

30 gram of molasses seems an awful lot for such a light beer. I once attempted a St.-Bernardus 12 clone, and added 50 gram of molasses, and it was on the threshold of being too much liquorice. Luckily it got less in time.

Well, I use a perforated plastic bucket and standard cooking utensils, and I started in 2015. The only high tech I have is my pH meter. I use digital thermometers, but I could as well use standard thermometers (which I did in the beginning). The people I know love my beers (they ask for it, I...

In my first brews (which were even smaller) I used nothing but EKG. A packet of 100g went a long way then A 10l cooking pan should be enough for your boil (I used a steam cooking pan, without the lid of course) Add your first hops when lautering your mash: first wort hopping helps decreasing the...