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😂I read the title and thought this thread would be about yourself! There will be no diastatic power in chocolate malt anyway. And the...

Yes, but that is at least still 4 to 5 weeks in the coming. This year I have no powdery mildew, so I hope I have a nice harvest at the...

Also, PVC is not usable for temperatures > 50° C. You should use HDPE or silicone tubing.

"Malting at Home" by Francois Dyment was the best I could find a few years ago. He has a website too: Brewing Beer The Hard Way

Mine go in at flame out for between 5 and 10 minutes. Then I drain wort to FV to overnight chill while it's still hot.

Indeed, your beer color (actually the malts used) influence the RA, but the RA is not a predictor of beer color. In mathematical words...

I think there is something else regarding RA. Isn't that also an attempt at calculating the additions needed to obtain the perfect pH...

Humm ... I'm going through a bit of a disillusioned period with this "RA" business: I knew I'd seen stuff discrediting Kolbach's work...

Think I've just answered that one?

I think it is difficult to give a better summary than this. How much do you know about weak acids and bases and chemical buffering...

"Real scientist": Chris Colby has a PhD in biology and undergraduate degrees in biology and chemistry :-p. About the link: it links...

Well I was actually quite surprised that Google only came up with 2.7 million results. I only scrolled down the first couple of pages...

Roughly, in a perfect world 800g of ice will chill 1 litre of water from 100C to 20C (according to my circa 1964 physics 🤔)

It’s economical on the water, but you still need energy to freeze them. On holiday, no means to calculate how much ice you really would...

https://beerandgardeningjournal.com/easy-aqua/ You need to search a bit, but this is one of the simplest and pragmatical articles about...