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The provided ingredients are to make a Bitter or Mild style, if you want to make it a "Special" you should use more light dried malt - up to a total of about 1.2kg. Instructions should be under lid of tin, or here...

Yes. The stout Nozzle is designed to foam a stout which is usually quite low carbed. This is undesirable on most beers.

A most unscientific and failure prone way to approach the issue. If you have never tasted DMS you are unlikely to recognise it at trace levels. There are also so many other factors, flavours and aromas in play that you are pretty much guaranteeing a number of failed brews. No one has suggested...

While it is a good idea to be a bit anal about cleanliness and sanitisation while you are starting out and until you get a good grip on it, I think you'll be fine. I often dip my hands in starsan and let it soak a bit for things where I can't help but touch something that will contact the beer -...

Dang! Not again! I missed the last End of the World, I think I was drunk.

If only everyone was like you, Mick! My point is that elderly drivers tend to drive slowly, more carefully and less often, so if it weren't for the car industry pushing more profitable but planet-destroying SUVs deaths due to their reduced capabilities would be pretty much non-existent...

The smell is often described as "creamed corn," which you can easily pick up on a pilsener boil if you are one of the few genetically qualified to smell it. It can be rather unpleasant in some failed brews, though there is not solid evidence that it is due to boiling with the lid on. It is also...

OK. All jokes aside - I would say sorry to offend, but I actually like stirring people who make silly claims... AFAIK there is no mandatory testing here, only the voluntary system of appraisal of one's state by a doctor or geriontologist. (I hope I spelled that right.) We have had a number of...

My father is in his 80s and diagnosed with alzheimer's, but he was really upset when they restricted his licence (we asked him to check because he got lost.) I would wonder about the mental state of someone who thinks they drive better at 69 than they did when younger, too! :lol: Long before...

The reason people are commenting is it is unusual to get a yeast that will ferment out that high an ABV and you will find the fermentation will stick as the alcohol rises. Champagne and Red wine yeasts can get up to about 14% and while there are yeasts for distilling that go higher the resulting...

I recently made the change to kegs, and I love the ability to just pull a glass of clear clean beer whenever I feel like it - but if you go visiting you really need to fill some bottles or some kind of "party keg" or the like. It's a bit hard to get the freezer into the car...

Your higher reading is from the hydrometer being floated by adhering gas bubbles, so spinning it should work just as well.

No. Treacle is a less refined mollasses extract (in fact, I believe golden syrup is actually manufactured from refined sugar these days.) Treacle is quite bitter once the sugars have been fermented out of it, and I would avoid it these days. You can get the flavour without the persistent...

??? It's not just a clever name, then? Of course you do. The only time you reduce the need for aeration is when using a starter up towards the optimum number of cells. Double pitching rehydrated good dried yeasts seems to work OK with the aeration or pouring into the FV but fermentation will...

I don't have any experience with the PBs you are referring to, but I still have a couple of beer machines that I use for experimental batches and pressure barrels. These stopped leaking when I started using food grade lubricant on everything, but the gas charger leaks the gas out of the bulbs in...

The bombs are from religious bigots who are no more religious than you, though they are often carried by the mentally weak victims of same. Very few religious people support terrorism, or even agree with their outspoken leaders and you are far more likely to be killed by an atheist to this day...

Don't bother repeating yourself, most likely people are ignoring you, which is quite wise. One of the greatest evils in this world is religious bigotry such as you display. Most religious people are quite peaceful and happy to get along.

I don't have a problem if anyone is gay, or religious, or both. Hypocrites criticising others bothers me though. If one chooses to be a religious leader, I think they should lead by example, but this seems all too rare...

My first kegged stout isn't ready yet, but your result gives me great hope. What recipe did you use for your oat stout, fuzzy?

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