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I I have only tried the Dingemans for pale malt and Pilsner and both were pretty good but I normally use Crisp or Weyermann. However Rolling beers seem to have gone over to Simpsons for UK malt so my next pale will be MO or GP I will sticl with Weyermanns for Pilsner.

I buy my equipment and my brewing ingredients from Rolling beers down at Montpellier. They are really good in my opinion. I have bought at another supplier Braumark who are good but I bought some suff and there were labelling issues and I don't trust them know. Here is a link to Rolling beers if...

I vacuum seal my base grain in 2.5kg bags after the sack is opened . I use 2.5kg bags because I have adjusted my brewing so base grains is always 5kg per brew. Roasted malts are bought in much smaller quantities so are sealed in smalled amounts. I store the vacuum sealed bags in big flip lid...

New HiFi homebrewing! Spend mega bucks on equipment and think yourself into a fantastic new realm of flavour and aroma because you don't have the senses require to detect them, just like HiFi spend mega bucks trying to retrieve frequencies the 99% of the human population cannot hear.

That is where I may just have the advantage of some. I was until my retirement a cell and molecular biology scientist with a major American Pharma company. That data shows nothing I did not say in my inital reply, in fact the data proves my reply 🤣 . Relax just because someone did a thesis on...

🤣 Yes but the non scientist trying to interpret the data is 🤣 . This data is simply that data. There is not a single bit of that data that suggest that average beer drinkers can tell the difference between one and another. This is indeed the problem for nearly all popular aromatic alcoholic...

🤣 Merkins eh? Beer is the new HiFi 🤣 In another study people who blind tested two beers which where made the same way but one contained half the amount of hops than the other could, not detect a difference orally or olphactory ! Merkins the obsesives who must 🤣prove something... because their...

Do not take this personally but I am calling BS on volatile esters being blown off by fermentation... the late hops have been subjected to 10mins of boiling my scientific reasoning says any volatile esters are going to be gone before the yeast hits the wort in terms of significance... be...

With regard to Verdant IPA I would say try it it is very good and very easy to top crop a nice load of yeast for another brew. It is actually a good attenuator. I have used it for IPA, Bitter, Pale ale, Dark mild and even Scottish style ales and have to say never been disappointed with the...

Is probably the correct answer 🤣 I am going to keep the temperature down to the low end of its range though. I would not dream of using it for any English style beer except perhaps Fullers ESB which it should work well in. I have used Verdant IPA for many a bitter though with good results, in...

To be honest the hops, Columbus, Cascade,Mosaic and Citra will well out do any amount of esters produced by Voss looking at its profile. I was more thinking about a reason I should not use, poor clearing or conditioning time for example. Fortunately none of the replies indicate I should not use...

That could be interesting and the hops used will all have a citric aspect to their flavour. I think I will give it a go. The flavour profile shown on the Lallemand script certainly does not give the impression of over powering ester production.

All of the ingredients add their own flavours to the beer it is not just about making the beer dark. Re the invert sugar every brewer, if allowed by law, at some time has used a product to reduce the cost of alcohol production. Invert is such a substance and it works well, again adding a little...

Never tried that but I have made this several times and it is the mutts nuts of DM https://barclayperkins.blogspot.com/2010/07/lets-brew-wednesday-1952-lees-best-mild.html

Yes or no to fermenting an IPA with Voss?

Well it depends on the type of grain I suppose. If it is a base grain then my guess is that it will not have been on the shelf in the HBS long. What is fresh? Well the bag of pale malt I bought the last time was good for two years and they will have factored in a safety margin. Each to their own...

Ifit has been stored in cool and dry conditions it will be absolutely fine.

Paulaner weissbier is crystal clear when you pour it from the bottle... it is the yeast added to ferment the added unfermeneted wort that makes it hazy. I like my beer clear too but am now much less fussy than I used to be and if I am drinking beer that I have bottled and get a little of the...

I swear by a gap of 1.6mm using my Gorilla mill. I get a decent efficeincy (80% ish ) and never a problem when sparging .

So for some time now I have been washing my bottles using Puro Oxy for a ten minute steep and bottle brushing followed by rinsing three times with clean tap water and then flushing each bottle with Star San solution then draining the StarSan prior to bottling.The other day I was cleaning a...