Tell us more about your kegging project, sounds fun!
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Tell us more about your kegging project, sounds fun!
Hey @DocAnna , I didn’t sit an entrance exam to be involved on this forum! Did you? I know the answer. That means you ARE good enough! Let’s not hear anymore of that kind of talk please (says he in a masterly, masculine, grown-up voice
).Just for the record, I always look forward to the things you have to say. Merry Christmas!
Tut tut now hit yourself a good kick up the arse, drown your sorrows and get the kegging sorted.
EVERYONE IS GOOD ENOUGH TO BE HERE!
The inference from this is that @The-Engineer-That-Brews makes better beer than you do. As a scientist can you show me the evidence? (No offence @The-Engineer-That-Brews but we seem to have a bit of a crisis of confidence going on here). I’m sure your beer is better than mine
Why not send a few brews out and ask for feedback?
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Its worthwhile for a few forumites to sit the BJCP only costs $100 here, probably similar in UK 50 GBP helps to evaluate your own beers too.
https://www.bjcp.org/exams.php
https://www.bjcp.org/exams.php
If you can drink it and you enjoy it then your flying and everything after its a bonus.
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Doesn't work like that when your swapping beers, one mans meat can be another mans poison.
Oh I know that but you need to be happy with your own brewing before passing it on to others never mind sitting the BJCP .
Yeah..your mates and others who only drink Boddingtons might not like your beer but trained judges judge by standards of styles...don't they?
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You would be surprised the helpful feed back entering competitions brings.
No matter how much you like your beer, and even though you believe you've nailed it, it's inevitable the next brew you will still be trying to beat it.
@DocAnna , the thing with forums, well you can say whatever you want 
No one is posting about the wet dog tasting, mediocre, uncarbonated piss water they've brewed up are they? Well unless it's for a laugh or to get advice!! I've had lovely brews and brews I have cleaned the toilet with. All part of the fun!! You don't need to 'prove' anything to anyone here.
Of course doctoring kit up is a lot of fun if you have the know-how, but you can make good beer with pots and pans and a bucket too. And you can make really crap beer on commercial kit (I've tasted many a ***** commercial beer!).
Some people love to enter competitions. Others just like to sit back and drink what they've made!
No one is posting about the wet dog tasting, mediocre, uncarbonated piss water they've brewed up are they? Well unless it's for a laugh or to get advice!! I've had lovely brews and brews I have cleaned the toilet with. All part of the fun!! You don't need to 'prove' anything to anyone here. Of course doctoring kit up is a lot of fun if you have the know-how, but you can make good beer with pots and pans and a bucket too. And you can make really crap beer on commercial kit (I've tasted many a ***** commercial beer!).
Some people love to enter competitions. Others just like to sit back and drink what they've made!
Ah! People do actually post about their no so good brews...true so better than average brewers may be being hyper critical about themselves and about what to the rest of us is a great beer but it's probably all been reported over the years on here... infections,non starters, oxidation,over carb/under carb...wombling free!!
Sink tippers..paint strippers..cabbage tasting...sludge!
I found realising your kits potential then starting with a forgiving style helps...not lager or a pressure transferred NEIPA with 1kg dry hop! Perfecting YOUR method and making the results repeatable are key...if you get 65% efficiency...all the time..that's fine and easily sorted if you want to. Chopping and changing methods all the time and having your numbers bouncing is no good. You will get anomalies but when only small variables change like,say for the next brew you change base malt variety or supplier your efficiency shifts well you have a good starting point rather than if you changed the malt and sparge method together..
Another thing for myself was to venture into basic water treatment...thanks Strange Steve! It does seem daunting but if I can do it...
Sink tippers..paint strippers..cabbage tasting...sludge!
I found realising your kits potential then starting with a forgiving style helps...not lager or a pressure transferred NEIPA with 1kg dry hop! Perfecting YOUR method and making the results repeatable are key...if you get 65% efficiency...all the time..that's fine and easily sorted if you want to. Chopping and changing methods all the time and having your numbers bouncing is no good. You will get anomalies but when only small variables change like,say for the next brew you change base malt variety or supplier your efficiency shifts well you have a good starting point rather than if you changed the malt and sparge method together..
Another thing for myself was to venture into basic water treatment...thanks Strange Steve! It does seem daunting but if I can do it...
Hey! Don't go looking at me... I'm just making it up as I go along!!
I'd be very surprised if my beer is any better than yours :-)
Dancing around the kitchen listening to Taylor Swift, enjoying getting the Sunday roast ready with a nice glass of my pilsner beer - home brew definitely has it’s positives! Happy Scottish Tier 3 everyone ☺.
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Is that a nice way of saying winging it
i do it all the time and still get decent beer 
Ya'all be gettin pished then?
Sadly rather hopeless at that - I have a tendency to fall asleep if I drink too much - much to the annoyance of the OH. I have really tried in the past as a student to reach that ‘pished’ state and failed miserably. Despite my penchant for home brew I’d far rather give it away than over indulge myself. This week we had painters and a remarkably tall joiner with us, they each left on Friday with a collection of beers, I didn’t really give them the option to decline !
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Sadly rather hopeless at that - I have a tendency to fall asleep if I drink too much - much to the annoyance of the OH. I have really tried as a student to reach that ‘pished’ state and failed miserably. Despite my penchant for home brew I’d far rather give it away than over indulge myself. This week we had painters and a remarkably tall joiner with us, they each left on Friday with a collection of beers, I didn’t really give them the option to decline !
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I also push my beers on the local trades! Two guys came to do our drive and on their first day they spent half a day prepping and half a day drinking. Needless to say they left the van and got a mate to take them home.
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