Recent content by schrodinger

All sold!

Thanks caney -- sorry, the other fellow got in just before you! All sold.

Wow, it's like Fair Oaks is the center of the Aussie homebrewing universe. How many more will come out of the woodwork?

Hi akx, Welcome to Oz. We're headed to Fair Oaks, near Sac. Used to live in Santa Rosa. You? I might be keen on the amp! Not so sure about the lightbulbs :)

It works great! It's basically an automated RIMS system. You put in milled grain and your hop additions, and 'program' a recipe with your desired temperature steps and times, and it does all the temperature control and transfers. You come back several hours later with a keg with ~10L of hot...

[Edit: SOLD!] I'm moving to the US and can't take this stuff with me. Here's the list: [price when new] item [2800] Picobrew Zymatic (including 1 corny keg, all parts and a few spares), new 07/15, used <1 yr [500] Kegerator with 3 taps and digital temp control (Pinnacle; 4 yrs old, used 2.5...

Sorry to revive an old thread... I just used this yeast for an IPA, and had a different experience: it fermented really slowly and bottomed out at 1019 (from 1065 og) after 9 days. The packet was fairly recently manufactured and I made a healthy 2L starter, pitched near high krausen. I've been...

I am from the US. I was raised to be suspicious of government doing things that the private sector can do instead. But many years living here and in the US have convinced me that the single payer system is superior in nearly every way. It is not perfect, but it is cheaper, better and more...

Thanks!

Yeah, rub it in. Down here we're still stuck with DVD rentals.

I see where you're coming from, Airgead, but I agree with motch on this one. At least the discussions here are usually relatively polite. Unlike most other forums I've spent time on, it's usually neither an echo chamber nor a screaming contest -- in either of which there's no chance of...

I totally agree the US is not transparent. But neither is Australia, or any other country. The idea of a totally transparent democracy is not realistic -- secrets are unavoidable and necessary when dealing with other countries. Any country would brand as a criminal anyone who released...

I agree America is pushing its own agenda and spying on its friends, but I think it's naive to single them out for it. Every nation, ever, has done exactly that, to the greatest extent possible. The US just happens to be the most powerful nation at the moment, so it has the greatest footprint...

No, what you're doing is the very definition of sophistry. Your definitions are literally accurate but not orthodox. "Conspiracy theory" and "propaganda" are universally understood to refer to things much grander and more sinister than minor schemes or polemics by one or a few random morons...

This is just transparent sophistry -- changing the defintion or interpretation of terms as a method of argument. We all know what we mean when we say "conspiracy theory" and "propaganda".