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A good help with understanding yeast is the book 'yeast' by Jamil Zainasheff and Chris White, certainly made me more aware. Its made me want to buy a white lab coat and have pens stuck in my top pocket. I also bought a clipboard. Its a regular occurance to see me slide my glasses up my nose...

Congrats on the bairn Leeds! Mine is five soon, i still manage a brew every ten days. That beer has inspired me, where did you get the French hops? I think there'll be a run on that book now!

47 years, three spent brewing, wife and daughter (4) who is my life. I build O gauge model railway locos under instruction from a very talented old hand. I run a coffeeshop gallery http://www.cofro.co.uk and try to produce the best espresso available! On Tuesday nights I learn karate, am getting...

i sincerely hope not, he's still alive. I'd mash 'em anyhow. 'smoked moc's dad stout'.....ok i may be on me ale again. :o

I wait til I've bottled or kegged the ale then take some of the trub and pitch that directly into the next brew. I bottle/keg whilst boiling my next brew. Every Tues/Thurs depending if the previous ferment is over. The yeast is'nt waiting about then and theres always enough. I've only ever...

God I'm not THAT bad....just like Shane MacGowan so far! :drink:

I'm drinking far too much, too strong, too often.....to be honest. Had a bender on Sat night til 4 am with a mate who does wine. We were on my 6% that is made with some sugar too....head was minging..only just recovering now. I'm going to have some time off and brew some 4% stuff. Don't want to...

I really don't like the typeface, very much early eighties look about it. Sorry!

Shame, you could have picked me up on the way shocker! Always willing to help a brewer out!

Its funny, i thought had cocked mine up, it tasted funny to me. Then I tasted Leffe for the first time in ages and it had the same strange edge taste to it. Glad I did'nt dump it! It was a slightly oxidised/metallic taste, do you know what I mean with Leffe, perhaps I'm describing it badly. It...

Less likely to suffer booze related cock ups at that timd. Though i'm sure i'm not alone in having a brewday continue to the early dawn...yes..sampling as i brew! Large espresso Wendy! i did a similar with captured chimay yeast, what do you plan?

ditto gurtpint, i found the wlp better in my english ales, esp old thumper, lovely. i tend to use us05 for all my US pales. love the snpa. Made it with what must be new zealand (?) cascades last time, totally different, massive grapefruit taste and aroma. Unless the hops were mislabelled...

looks a proper English Ale, I know i'd love it, what yeast? have fun!.

Wow! I would LOVE to try that out. Howabout a tasting at £5 per member of here and give the cash to your dad? I'll bring stilton and those expensive marmite biscuits! They're darned lovely with decent Port. But its probably best savoured by less ignorant drinkers than me!

Exmoor gold is a beaut! I have brewed this many times. I tend to vary it slightly each time too. Its evolved into my 'nampara gold' uso5 yeast and late hops.

Brain Donor, Julian Cope's metal band, mad stuff, excellent!

Bad Brains! Oh yes. Zounds, curse of zounds too.

I think "dog" is Newcastle Brown?

Lets go brewing, dude!

Don't use beersmith meself, wondered if it may have US gallons on it? Its an easy error to make.