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OK, I've just drawn some off through the spigot on the fermenter. It isn't clear yet, so I'll be leaving it sitting in the fermenter for a bit longer. Here are my tasting notes. Pehaps a shade darker than Newcastle Brown (as I remember it). Not strongly aromatic, but an aroma of coffee and...

Right, here's my adapted version: I didn't have the exact ingredients in, so I've missed out the oat malt and therefore upped the base malt and changed this from golden promise to maris otter. I was a little worried that all the adjunct might need more time to be converted by the amylases, so...

I have done plenty of swearing where the Royals are concerned.

This week's brew is a slightly tweaked version of Kirkstall Brewery's Biscuit Brown Ale, the subject of a thread on the General Recipe Discussion board. I'll post there with my findings once it's brewed.

I've scanned my copy of Brewing Beers Like Those You Buy. Line uses blended honey in only three recipes, Tennant's Lager, Kronenbourg and Chimay.

Yes, I agree, it certainly takes a lot of fresh hops to be the equivalent of dry hops. I did try a brew with these hops about 30 years ago and it was severely underhopped because I hadn't used enough. The beauty of fresh hops ought to be down to the fact that none of the volatile aroma...

Yes indeed. Many thanks to The Baron for this top tip. I've got some too now. I've yet to try them, but they certainly look like they will work well.

Some thirty years ago I lived close to a guy who grew up in Kent, and who had a hop plant which he had brought ‘up North’ when he moved up. He grew it over the top of his greenhouse to provide shade in the height of summer and to bring some hops into the house for the smell, to remind him of...

Well I've read your treatise from start to finish. What a comprehensive description of the problems and some ingenious suggestions for answers! A 'must read' that I would recommend to anyone reading through this thread. I don't think I'm going to get into needle valves and bubble chambers...

You make good points. You're certainly right that nitrogen is particularly insoluable in water, but beer is not just water. From what I can gather, the soluability increases in an ethanol/water mixture but whether this should be enough to alter flavours, I couldn't say. What I can say is that...

Yes, that's my experience too. My perception is that nitrogen actually changes the taste of the beer - I don't know whether there's some science behind that, but my tastebuds tell me it does. That change seems quite suitable in a stout though.

That seems true to me. This is what makes the politics of greed such a successful argument (in terms of selling it to the public). It's not a successful way to run society, it drives division and misery for the majority, but it's easy to appeal to the baser instincts of humankind. Politicians...

Interesting post. Humans are capable of both selfishness and selflessness, and I guess the former developed from plain old survival of the fittest. The latter from a more diverse set of evolutionary influences involved in the survival of the group and the development of critical faculties...

See how easy it is to write something you didn't mean?

Wow! The only person in the world who doesn't have prejudices. Goodness!

You betray your own prejudices, not mine. I am just someone who is prepared to speak the truth about the purge in the Labour party and the motivations of those who are delighted to accuse.

Ah yes, the closed mind that still likes to join in debate, but refuses to learn anything from it.

I read the OP, and it isn't referring to Diane Abbot's mathematical abilities.... yet you have sought to dredge it up. It's clear as glass that the current Labour leadership is engaged in a witchhunt against left wing members and MPs and that they are assisted in this objective by an Israel...

Just like many politicians.... yet she is singled out as 'clueless' by you. For example: Stephen Byers, At the time fhe minister responsible for standards in British schools, interviewed on BBC Radio Five about government plans to improve numeracy in schools, was asked to multiply eight by...

And yet she won the Spectator's parliamentary speech of the year award. I suggest, rather than referring to the biased media, you look at her voting record and see how many times she has been on the right side of history. From my point of view her voting record, while not perfect, is much...