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The bottom line is that some vitamins are fat soluble and others aren't. Fat soluble vitamins (A, D, E & K) can be stored in the body's fat reserves. Water soluble viamins can't be stored and need to be ingested on a daily basis. Vitamins B & C fall into this category and are both seriously...

Well Jimmy, it's you and me on this one. I have a can of Canadian Blonde wort that's a little out of date so I'm going to experiment with a lager yeast (as I already have the next few batches planned for my other, heated fermenter). To take the experiment up a notch I'm even going to reuse the...

Ahhh! Thanks Dave, that's the sort of logic that I was missing. It was, as you said, "a bunch of chocolate malt". I didn't realise that I was getting no extra fementables out of this process. So, I'm really only risking infection. Ahhh, I'll give it a go, I've got 2 fermenters working anyway...

:rolleyes: OK, now that the AHB Comedy Festival is over ... back to the question. Other than risk of infection, what effect might this have on my brew? Have some of those sugars turned back into starches becuase I didn't "finish" the enzyme conversion? Surely the taste won't be affected too...

Yeah, but she's blonde. :lol:

I started with a concentrated stout wort - so plenty of hoppy biterness in there. The mash was just adding some choc-malt flavoured fermentables. Coupled this with a commercial milk stout booster (dark crystal, corn syrup, lactose). The 2nd thing I taught her was "no sugar" (just after...

See, I am forgetting the basics. :P It was a mash (ie 90 mins at 60-70C) to turn starches into sugars, not just extracting flavours.

Haha! Great thread!! Well, I'm involved in public hospital funding ... so that explains that mess then!!! Worse than Warren's sock drawer. The current deadline (though we don't like to use that term in the health sector), just distribution of operating budgets. No rush, haven't they heard of...

Nooooooo! After not brewing for a couple of years, I've apparently forgotten some basics. Last night I showed my brewing apprentice (girlfriend) how to do a mini-mash to make a stout kit taste better. After the steeping process we happily sparged and finally racked to the fermenter. It was not...

:D that made me laff :D VB for me! It's just piss in a can. Somebody had the lack of nouse to bring a 6-pack to one of my parties ... it was executed for crimes against brewing (its chaperone was lucky not to suffer the same fate). Closely followed by any of the Carlton & Tooheys stables...

Thanks NRB Sorry, I realised after posting it was the wrong forum but didn't think I could move it. I have a second fermenter so it might be time that I started doing some secondary fermentation. Just need to get make my summer stockpile first.

Thanks Ross Looks like a great recipe, but at this stage I'm doing kits & bits with no racking/secondary. Though you've got me thinking about how to use the vanilla beans. I actually think they'd go quite well in a stout to juxtapose the chocolate/coffee flavours (I'd probably forego the...

The Cooper's Cerveza marked my recent return to brewing after a 2-year hiatus (no, not a hernia). I choose this because: my girlfriend (read: brewing apprentice) is a Corona fan the supermarket is a LOT closer than my closest HBS I cook a lot of Mexican meals I replaced the kit yeast with a SAF...

Yeah, the Brigalow cider takes a looong time to condition, and the saccharine adds to the immature sickly taste. I found the William Tell kits produce a more drinkable cider in less time and the addition of 1 litre of quality pear juice to the fermenter gives a less tart flavour (dedided to try...

I think the old logo would look much better on merchandise and is much more suitable for screen printing. My sister works for a company that specialises in screening onto glass and ceramics. She does the layout work so would be able to advise on this and get mates'-rates. Not to put a downer on...

Hi Ross I am intrigued by your mention of Vanilla Mocha Porter. Care to share?

Hello Brew Buddies From a young age I helped my dad make beer. He had been making it siince the 60's when it was highly illegal (because the govt hadn't worked out how to tax it). Thus he had all the skills required for AG brewing. By the time I was big enough to sterilise a bottle the...

Haha! Who'd have thought a guy called Shawn would love a good stout!?!? Back to the topic, I do a mini-mash with cracked chocolate malt to add to a can of stout wort (Muntons Imperial Export is excellent). This gives a nice brown creamy head. I also add a stick of soft liquorice and 50g ground...

Funny you should ask. Just yesterday I went trawling the Asian import shops for my fave homebrew glasses as I've just started brewing again after 2 years off (where did those glasses go). My choice looks like a Dog-damned milkshake glass, but I love it. It holds about 400ml so I get 2 full...