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Keep an eye on it as it may take less than hour. And 30 minutes is generally enough anyway.

Congrats. Possibly the first brewer ever to use an iSpindle in their first all grain brew! Maintaining a mash temp is tricky with small volumes. Nowadays I mash in my stove top brews below 60C with all the water in the mash. Rather than try to hold a temperature I just put it on the lowest heat...

NS is one of a crowd of hops in Punk. Not as easy to identify I think. But a beer that you can use NS in of course.

Thornbridge Kipling was my introduction to NS a good few years ago along with Marble Dobber and Marble Pint. Three excellent beers.

You use steel pots as fermenters, Les? What are these exactly? The sort of thing you might boil your beer in, re-purposed? I have some I could use for that instead of plastic, perhaps.

I always boil starter wort in a flask and cool it and then pitch yeast into that. Gives me peace of mind. Minimise the chance of infection. Wort and flask both get the heat treatment. I only have one flask though so occasionally I sterilise a jar or two and transfer boiled wort to them, on the...

I love mushrooms but they don't fit into an English breakfast. Whereas hash browns do, for me. Maybe because my mum would sometimes fried up left over mashed potato with a breakfast and that was good. I've never had bubble and squeak at home or made it myself but I might actually do that this...

Worked for me.

Sort it out. 😉

It's at odds with the approach taken when selecting yeasts for ales because lagers take a lot longer than ales traditionally and people want to make lagers as quickly as they make ales, and in the same way if possible - at ale temperatures. If the results are acceptable. How many lager strains...

One pesto jar? It's all you need. Hide it behind the big jar of mayo or something.

I just sprinkle and put the lid on too. It mixes itself in. It's not a critical decision though according to the info put out by Fermentis and Lallemand. I'm happiest when I'm pitching a lively starter and I think a lot of people miss out on this by always pitching a new pack of dried yeast...

Cheers. So it worked with the First Gold bitter. You used it in a golden ale with Tropical England mix I believe... PilgrimHudds Brewdays

Any thoughts on the CML Atlantic yeast, pilgrim?

Well that's good but we are allowed to express opinions I think. More a case of how we do that.

I'm not sure Guinness solved a problem with nitrogen? Just found a different way to serve stout, I think, which had ben a very popular beer for a long time previously. Maybe you mean it solved the problem of how to serve from the keg, and kegs can't have been around very long back then. Bottle...

So it's just an idea.

What is hazy yeast anyway? Is it a thing?

Sounds like an ale lager hybrid. Which makes sense given that Novalager is an ale lager hybrid... Two thirds ale one third lager I think. Genetically speaking.

The Chateau base malts are really nice, but difficult to get hold of in the UK. The HBC did sell them, not sure if they still do.