Search results

But all ten opinions will be worthless unless the person giving them has imbibed from the sacred font of truth. And what’s all this about fun??

Unbeliever!! Do not mention the works of the apostate Palmer. Verily he hath consorted with the very DEVIL.

Yeah, the scales have fallen from mine eyes. There is but one way to excellence. I cannot make excellent beer without recourse to the scriptures. Truly I was led astray by mine own senses telling me, 'that's excellent'. My friends did tempt me by saying 'that's excellent.' One friend did...

That’s interesting. I will definitely give it a go, now.

I’ve recently got back into baking and I’m much more confident now as a result of my brewing experience. As you say, there are parallels. Use a base grain, add some speciality, temperature control, get your fermentation right etc. In keeping with the iconoclastic overtones of all of this, I’ve...

A very valid argument. We should all do our research first and, only if that fails, come on here to receive the divine wisdom of the chosen few. There should be two new forum rules 1) make sure you have researched thoroughly before posting a question. Post it humbly and with trembling...

'Sometimes its best to do your own research than throw out questions on the forum'... that's the spirit, forums aren't there for you to ask for advice from like minded people with a bit more experience than yourself.

Yes it's easy to get hung up on the minutiae, as was said previously, 'I was under the impression that 300 years ago the beer would have been pretty awful but there were 47,550 publican brewers and 780 common brewers. So with all that competition the beer couldn't have been all that bad. Could...

Looking at Homebrew Company, is their Hook Head Irish Pale malt similar to MO?

Do GEB charge postage regardless of the value of the order? Bearing in mind I think I could save more than that just on hops.

I am getting together the ingredients for some brews, a couple of which will be very US hop heavy. I used to use Malt Miller but have recently found his hops very expensive plus I don't order enough to get free delivery. I changed to Brew UK but the order came with split bags of grain (to be...

It’s like I used to say when I was advising on major risk... the chance of a serious car accident per journey is very low, but you would be daft not to strap the kids in all the same.

Like others, I've used grains and beer yeast in bread, but for an extra beery dimension, I have used the waste from yeast starters in place of water. My wife hates beer and loves the bread...

I think that's very wise. There was recently a discussion about the need for rigorous implementation of standards in how we brew and this comment was made 'I was under the impression that 300 years ago the beer would have been pretty awful but there were 47,550 publican brewers and 780 common...

I think that’s the brewing equivalent of the princess and the pea... if you can spot that gramme you’re pretty special.

Mispost.

First point, boasting is never gracious and doesn't impress anyone. Second point, I've no problem with Father Dominique ironing out a few inconsistencies with a bit of technical know how. I doubt very much that the backbone of the Trappist brewing was built on scientific zealotry. I'm bowing out...

Every brew, I try to get the best out of my endeavours. What I think is important to achieve that aim is obviously different to you. As for beer 300 years ago, who knows? It will have been very different and some of it may have been great. Doubtless some was god awful, but then so is 90% of the...

I'll be using third generation 1318 yeast so hopefully that will go well. Have you seen the 1g 10 minute addition on the recipe and have a view as to whether it's a typo?

And just to be clear, I'm pretty confident those wonderful Rochefort monks got the science right by that luck we call artistry.