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I always no-chill, and I like very hoppy, but not excessively bitter, beers. I pretty much always use my own recipes. My method is broadly this: I use a relatively small amount of bittering hops at the start of the boil. Typical would be 10g Warrior (alpha acid around 15) for a 20 litre...

This in the Guardian today: UK government stockpiles containing protective equipment for healthcare workers in the event of a pandemic fell in value by almost 40% over the past six years, the Guardian has found. Analysis of official financial data suggests £325m was wiped off the value of the...

Not necessarily. Sodium percarbonate breaks down to release oxygen, leaving you with a solution of sodium carbonate. This is also known as "washing soda", and is alkaline (though not nearly as "strong" an alkali as caustic soda, aka sodium hydroxide). An alkaline solution will feel slippery...

Should that be those under 45?? Warts and all? What else will there be other than warts? :(

Well, having seen the pictures of empty shelves, I've just been out and bought a load of toilet rolls. Call it panic buying if you like, it just seemed a sensible precaution to me. There's a big problem, though. I've spent an hour online looking for recipes for them, and I can't find any...

Yes, it will definitely add "body" or "mouthfeel", and make the beer feel less "watery", without increasing the alcohol content as it is not fermented. I'm not sure that there will be much effect upon head retention, though. As an aside, the only time I use it these days is in commercial beer...

Beautiful! Here's a pic of our dog Oskar at 11 months. He's 18 months now - enormous and gorgeous, and the best of friends with Barney (my avatar)

Interesting! Indeed it does make sense - complex carbohydrates fermenting in the gut should produce farts. But, for me, this overlooks the critical matter of the quality of the fart. Duration and loudness are clearly point-scorers here. But, in all seriousness, there can only be one...

Nope, but there are clues: WLPO Burton yeast: "A background sulfur note is common with this strain". Sulphur = "rotten eggs" = extremely pungent farts in my experience. But yes, you're right, it would only be fair if yeast suppliers included a "fart index", alongside attenuation and alcohol...

I don't think that's the issue. I reckon it isn't the yeast that causes the farting, it's the sulphur compounds that the yeast leave behind in the beer that does it

A long time since I made elderberry wine. However, what I used to do was freeze the whole cluster of berries (I organised enough space in a chest freezer for a decent autumn harvest). Once frozen solid, the berries would strip very easily from the stems - and could be kept frozen for delayed...

"So what do you think?" Nope, just keep it very short & simple, along the lines Chippy suggests at maximum. The good reviews will easily outnumber the bad if you're offering a good product and a good experience. Let your satisfied customers do the talking for you. Don't get dragged into a...

Get one with a spring in the tip so that the valve seals more tightly. Keep it clean, don't bottle your beer until the particulates have settled out and drips should be minimal in my experience.

Nope - not for me either. I totally agree with "thin" - a shame because it's nicely hopped. Nothing to do with the alcohol level, for me, just lack of body. I've only had it once when my son came to visit, but fortunately there were a few bottles. So I ended up stirring a small teaspoon of...

Come on guys, gotta keep up with the times, Less than 10secs to process each can: https://www.themaltmiller.co.uk/product/home-canning-machine/ So what's not to like? And, unbelievably, you can buy the canning machine for substantially less than £1200. Wow! I'll have to do the maths, but...

Nope, you are not talking knackers - what you say is almost spot-on. Lubricating a thread on a gas seal could only have one benefit: making the seal easier to tighten up. No gas seal relies upon the thread. Most depend upon a gasket (or O ring, much the same). But these should not require...

Well, there's always something new! After brewing hoppy beer for decades, and recently (5 years) brewing very hoppy beers with "citrus" style hops, I have never encountered the term "hop burn". I will search the term online, but I'd very much appreciate it if you could flesh out what it means...

Regrettably, my member seems to be well past the friskiness of youth. (I'm referring to my local Member of the Scottish Parliament, as I'm sure you'll have guessed)

Yep, I see that possibility. I hoped that "Hoppyland" was indeed a little amusing - also a little obscure since I based it on something from my long-lost youth. I liked the fact that it was the name of a short-lived, failed, theme-park trying to capitalise on the Hopalong Cassidy image...

Reading between the lines (Sorry!!) I guess that you're planning to put all of your beer into kegs. Unless they are pub-sized beer kegs, why not just carry a keg or two upstairs when you're having a session?