Recent content by Bazza

Most household consumption is ~400L per day, depending on number of people. Work out how much you use in your chiller and decide whether to no chill or not. As the campaign says, every drop counts.

Why not? Says nothing in the BJCP about 'no hop aroma' for weizens. Hefeweizen is simply a wheat beer "mit hefe". Read the BJCP guide for weizens: "...hop character ranges from low to none" "...can add to the complexity and balance" "...hop flavour is very low to none" Some kits don't have...

But there is nothing stopping one dry hopping a wheat if you aren't religiously trying to follow a narrow description of a style is there? I often dry hop my hefeweizens with hallertau (or other soft euro hops like saaz) and they are delicious!

just looking at this post as I too want to make an altbier STYLE of beer (as I like the look of the description). TL's reply may have scared bluenose off (only four posts and all on this topic this day 23 Oct). I think it might be cos the replication of a particular beer STYLE is up to the...

I found it a bit too big a beer for a hot day. It must remind me of sitting with a bishops finger in a warm pub on a cold day.... Just me though - I prefer a wheat or pilsner on a hot day...

Oooh, that Bishops Finger is a nice one. Don't have it on a hot day though!

Thanks Ross, from your description it is likely to be normal then. Cheers, Bazza

Ross, I didn't taste it, but in its raw form it smelled similar in freshness to the grain I have already (which is all uncracked and stored airtight etc). Maybe sour wasn't the best choice of word....it just smelled quite different to a light crystal. Maybe very grainy is more accurate? What...

I've just used some cara-pils in an extract blonde (250g steeped for ~25 mins) and am a little surprised by the smell. Its sort of sour (?) smelling...is this normal? I've only been using amber, crystal, choc, roast wheat in the past and this is very different to what I've smelled before. Has...

I wear my flag on the inside...

Crusaders??? Let's try something different this year (like the blues!)

5 x 19L corny kegs, with 2 being empty most of the time. Just haven't enough time to keep all 5 going all the time...

Depends on how many other beers I have on tap at the time, but normal (nice) ones usually last 4 weeks or so, really nice ones go really fast (do they leak, I wonder?) and not so good experiments hang about for weeks and weeks....

Not sure if this is a problem, but I've always found that drinking beer with hot curries makes you drink quicker. I get pissed fast with beer and hot curries. Yoghurt, coconut and cucumber go well with curries..maybe put a beer in it all, blend it and call it a beer smoothie?

Yeah me too - been drinking my german hefe with thai curries this summer, love them!