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To avoid stress - don't do a starter, it just consumes the sterols which means that the yeast needs oxygen for your main brew, and if it doesn't get that oxygen then it will be stressed. Depends a bit on how strong your main brew is of course. And generally 200g in 1.5l is a bit on the high...

Usually a sign of stress or fermenting too warm.

General advice with kveiks (ei not ie) is to add nutrient below 1.060 or so eg : https://escarpmentlabs.com/blogs/resources/crispy-brewing-with-kveik-mind-the-ph-gap In general, we find that kveik require at least 180ppm of FAN, compared to lager yeasts which routinely use about 30% less FAN...

Unusual managing to have 4 yellows in a line - I got it down to two words after the second line, but guessed wrong. Wordle 1,228 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟨🟨🟨⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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You can do anything you like. A better question is - why would you want to ferment a porter under pressure? The normal reason for fermenting under pressure is to reduce esters and other flavour compounds, whereas normally one would want those things to be present in a porter. But it's your...

More oxygen allows the yeast to keep dividing after its sterol levels are down to "normal", but what's there is enough for typical homebrew fermantations. Eg https://www.lallemandbrewing.com/en/united-kingdom/resources/whats-new/lallemand-premium-dry-yeast-for-quality-consistent-fermentations/...

One of those, 5 left after the second row, but took 4 guesses to get it... Wordle 1,224 6/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟨⬜ ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

No yellows today... Nice Connections today to celebrate their 500th, although it needs a bit of knowledge of US English. Wordle 1,222 6/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩 ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

As I say, it's become a lazy substitute for good brewing... Sterols are not about nutrients other than oxygen. The reason yeast need oxygen in fermentation is not to "breathe" but as a chemical building block for sterols, which are key chemicals for building new cell membrane and hence yeast...

Guessed wrong - don't think I've ever had 3 greens and 2 yellows in one line Wordle 1,220 4/6 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩🟨⬜ 🟩🟨🟩🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

That's OK, some beers are just like that, they don't all have to be session beers. But personally I'd be looking to reduce lactose not increase it, I find there are few beers that are improved by lactose but it gets used as some kind of universal band-aid for poor brewing. Strikes me that all...

If you're prepared to go to a "garage" to fill up with hydrogen, then what's the difference between that and going to a garage to fill up a BEV with electricity? There are already cars on sale like the Zeekr 007 in China that can add 285 miles of range in 10 minutes, and the vast sales of BEVs...

You dwarfs have been warned before about feeling Happy....

Not often that a green and two yellows leaves you with a single possible answer : Wordle 1,218 5/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟩 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Please spare us the ignorant political rants on this thread. The new government haven't had a Budget yet, so they've not changed any taxes. The Expensive Car Supplement was introduced in 2017 under Teresa May, and its extension to electric vehicles was announced in November 2022 under Rishi...

I don't think I've ever built a word letter by letter from the start like that. One of those where the bot wasn't crazy about my rows 2 & 3, but they got me a green each time in a way that made it relatively easy to work out what was going on. Some of the bot suggestions were really random like...

Mostly blackcurrant - and there's only one "b" in Bramling! Nothing to do with brambles or the bird, Bramling is a village near Canterbury that was the origin of the Goldings parent of BX. Going back to @DeniqueCoelum - it's always a bit of a lottery the whole wild yeast thing. It can work, but...

Ei (formerly Enterprise Inns) were bought by Stonegate a few weeks before lockdown. Cellarmanship is part of it, but also with brown bitter a lot of it is simply throughput. I've had a beer that was singing at 7pm when the pub was thronged, and then when I went back at 10pm both pub and beer...

Brewdog lost £30.5m pretax in 2022. (and their 2023 accounts are 3 months overdue which isn't normally a good sign)