An Ankoù
Landlord.
Yeah, but @jof , that's not science, is it!I'm with @An Ankoù.
Start from "oh, that sounds interesting" and test it out.
Make 2 brews and taste test them to see if it makes any difference.
Get others in your family to try them side by side too.
Then we can have a civil thread saying something like "I could taste batch b was less bitter, but the Mrs & her sister couldn't tell the difference"
If you're that worried, repeat with different beer styles.
Proper science is going to the pub on a Saturday night, having a gentlemanly (and gentleladily) discussion about the hypothesis under consideration while getting truly lashed and enduring constant entreaties and threats from the barlord to moderate the "technical" language and then beating ten bales of shi'te out of each other at closing time, on the way home while roundly abusing the locality and soundly thumping anyone with the temerity to interfere. Wake up next morning without the faintest recollection of the point at issue, but content in the certain knowledge that the matter has been properly discussed and voted on.
Ah The joys of science. Not for the faint-hearted or weak of knee.
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