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I always get marzipan from S-04. It's not unpleasant but I've never made a crisp, balanced beer using it. It always seems a little sweet and flabby.

Interestingly, for us, it's France if we could make it work, Scotland if not! I speak French but wife doesn't so it would be isolating for her, notwithstanding the tax, healthcare and pension issues. I don't want to derail a thread but it would be great to hear about your...

An Ankoù, especially in light of the current UK political situation I am extremely jealous of you living in France. My wife and I would love to make the move but it's looking so much harder post-Brexit.

Levelling up my @rse https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/health/2021/09/boris-johnson-s-social-care-tax-rise-north-pays-south-poor-pay-rich

Just finished Day of the Jackal, which was a lot of fun. Currently reading a History of God by Karen Armstrong. I don't have an scrap of religious belief but it's a fascinating insight into how the 'God' of Christianity, Judaism and Islam came into being and how worship has changed over the...

Interesting post, I have never tried brewer's clarex, is it easy to use and does it do anything else to the beer? In reply to @Fletch, I think 15 mins for protafloc is too long. The way it works, as I understand it (and I only understand it in really simple terms) is that the positively...

I use bread yeast as nutrient whenever I brew with kveik (last 5 mins of the boil)

bee.. beer? what sort of a forum do you think this is?

Thank you! I don't expect everyone to agree but it's pretty much my world view.

There have been some interesting posts in this thread in the last 24 hours so I thought I would post a few follow-up things: Regarding the idea that all the stands between the 'sheep' who have to work for others and the brave visionaries who go out on their own is a little courage and...

Thanks :) I wasn't meaning to make it that long, still, I don't wade into these sorts of debates much so I've just been saving up my words maybe!

I have a huge amount of time and respect for Prof Wolff and I have been following his Economic Update podcast for a few years now. I don't expect many in this forum to agree especially given some of the debates there have been recently but my 2 cents anyway! The problem with the (very...

Good question - FWIW there is some variability and indeed when I got my sample tested we were in the middle of a major drought and water shortage. I was concerned that the ions would be more concentrated or something (!) and/or that TW would be getting top-up water from other sources. In the...

I'm in South Oxfordshire and I paid for a Murphy's test, which was quick and easy and detailed, but the main thing is taught me was just how incredibly accurate the latest Thames Water report for my area was, so I will just rely on Thames Water from now on.

A good number of fridges are rated to +10 to+43 degrees which should be fine for a garage even if they don't specifically say they are rated for an unheated outbuilding. These are SN-T class I think. I use a garden office to brew and ferment with a £100(ish) panel heater, and also a solar...

Please do let us know how this turns out! I made my fave American amber (with lots of Columbus) last year with Lallemand Voss and it was a bit disappointing to be honest. The voss thinned out the lovely malty backbone and made it a bit one-dimensional. Hope yours works out better.

It's been mentioned but I would definitely go down the saison route. I brewed for the Malt Miller / Elusive wit competition a couple of weeks ago but my kit won't comfortably handle less than 30L, I only (currently) have 20L fermentation chamber space and I didn't really want 30L of witbier...

I was in the first Harry Potter film as an extra. You can see the side of my head (blurry) for about 0.00002 nanoseconds.

If it's mainly sodium percarbonate then this looks like it's an oxyclean-type thing rather than Starsan. If it's also got large amounts of sodium metasilicate then it will be a PBW substitute which has a similar application. I bet it's very similar to this: Chemclean 400g | The Malt Miller...

Great advice - but can you do anything to keep the pH low as long as it's low? Like I said before I just mix it up and if it's cloudy I dropper CRS into it until it isn't. I like to think that solves the problem, and I have not yet (touch wood) had an infection, but perhaps I'm missing something.