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My Mrs works in a Tesco express who have a policy that customers must have either a mask or an exemption card, and what I don't understand is why people get so angry when asked to put on a mask or show their card. They get genuinely furious and I really don't get it. They're effectively saying...

That's really interesting, thanks for the info. There was something familiar which I couldn't quite place, I think I called it spicy and aromatic, and now I see it was ginger! I love ginger but always been afraid to use it because it could easily be overdone. One of my favourite quotes from Brew...

I reckon most of the Abbey/Belgian/Trappist yeasts will get you in the right area. T-58 probably isn't a bad call, Jamil uses WLP500 (Chimay) in his version, CSi use WLP570 (Duvel) in theirs which is probably what I'd go for.

I have a bottle of that to look forward to also acheers.

It's something that is created when a chemical found in malts, particularly lighter malts, breaks down during the boil. To make sure it's removed, a vigorous boil for a decent duration is really all that's needed, and this is more important when using pils malt as a base.

Today's beer is a delightful sounding Brett Saison courtesy of @SteveH... Aroma Intensely fruity with a noseful of pineapple initially along with some over-ripe orange, an interesting floral/aromatic lemon zest aroma, noticeable but not overly prominent brett funk. Appearance A light...

This is one of my favourite facts: the word "helicopter" is made from two separate words, but not "heli" and "copter" as you might expect. It comes from the combination of "helico" meaning spiral (as in helical) and "pter" from Greek meaning wing (as in pterosaur).

That's interesting, thanks for the further info. I've often seen DMS described as a creamed corn aroma but I have no clue what that's like, to me it's like tomato soup or ketchup which sounds terrible but it's not too bad in a lager actually.

Today's beer is a pilsner kindly sent by @Leon103... Aroma A sweet and pleasant graininess, the hop aroma is herby and earthy, a hint of DMS on the nose but personally I don't mind that in a lager. Appearance Very pale straw colour, a little haze (could be because I served it a touch cold)...

Strange fact: A teaspoon of matter from a black hole has a mass of about 2 billion metric tonnes.

The double-slit experiment is one of the first things that inflamed my interest in physics, amazing stuff athumb..

Could you nip back there and see if my brett quad has conditioned yet?

Good plan, as long as your past self has kept his hands off it while it conditioned acheers.

Sort of but it wouldn't really be programmable, in that you can't just put a specific time and date in and away you go. One of the more popular proposals for backwards time travel was given by Kip Thorne (who was the science advisor for the film Interstellar) back in the 80s: If wormholes...

This in itself doesn't preclude time travel. I believe that many of the proposed, theoretically possible methods have a fundamental limitation in that you couldn't travel back to any point before the "machine" was built, which would explain why we haven't yet had a visitor from the future.

Recipe details as below athumb.. Vow of Silence Belgian Tripel Recipe Specs ---------------- Batch Size (L): 20 OG: 1.079 FG: 1.011 (°P): 2.8 Alcohol by Volume (ABV): 8.9 % Colour (SRM): 5 Bitterness (IBU): 33 Grain Bill ---------------- 5.500 kg Pilsner (82%) 0.120 kg Melanoidin (2%) 0.065...

Thanks Sam, I appreciate the review thumb.

Set it across two scales and add the two weights together?

It happened to me once many years ago, I put it down to a combination of a high watt density element (from a kettle) and a lot of flour in the malt (it was a wheat beer) which settled and burnt onto the element. Like you I pitched the yeast anyway and hoped for the best but after a week I dumped...

We had the Pfizer *** given in an old leisure center, not sure how the logistics of that worked.