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yeah the guy from security sells the take aways in plastic bottles... awkward!

I emailed them yesterday about hop pellets, as in CZ they have some other varieties, see what they say... I went to this place too they have beautiful beers, especially that dark grizzly one that tastes like nowhere else. http://www.berounskymedved.com/produkty.html They actually make their...

Hi everyone, I went past Czech Republic a few days ago and met some locals that gave ma a good address, it's a brewing university and research facility, they do as well have products ready for shipping. So I guess this must be most welcome here... http://www.beerresearch.cz If any of you...

Hi there, I'm trying that cooper's wheat beer can again, this time with the exact recommended enhancer, nearly at the end of fermentation and it tastes amaising. But shall I add a few galaxy hops, as I still have some left over, to make the taste more flattering? Or shall I keep it original...

I was not using bleach on the ones that got infected, only quenching with boiling water, I learned afterward that it takes time for the sterilisation process to be effective. Hard to tell how much bleach I'm using now but I think it's plenty enough.. Thanks for that link, I like it. .z

Haha sure, I'll think about it! I meant household UV filtered water. As howtobrew.com says that the rinsing water has to be boiled or I read that somewhere, which make sense if like me you have only tank water. I'm completely paranoid with contamination these days and I surely sound funny but...

No. Here only tank water, this means bacteries from bird shit.

I will. I'm as we speak experimenting my own technique that will serve me for years hopefully without bothering anybody! Just about the drying, I have read that there are large quantities of bacteries in the air, so I guess the longer the bottle is exposed to air, supposing the foreign...

I will think about your crushed beef bone powder sometimes. Thanks..

Thanks. But I like to keep things simple, this way I save time. Gelatine? What does that do?

Cooling, heating, this requires electricity, and a lot of it. How about your carbon footprint, do you think of that sometimes? Are we still brewing like in the 90's here or what? I'll look into bulk priming as I have been thinking about it for a while now, thanks for reminding me of that!

Hi there, It seems that I've been having a lot of yeast in the bottom of the bottles on my new batches. Me think that it should be due to summery temperatures causing the yeast to reproduce a lot. Shall I use 3.5g per 23L instead of 7g? Thanks in advance. .z

howtobrew.com says that you don't need to rinse... And you say I have to, this is confusing me... Anyway my question was about drying or not. My uncle who is a biologist (and a brewer at his time) said that bleach will not killing yeast particles, now its about how much chlorine you can drink...

Hi there, Last winter is has been really easy to get my brews to term and the sanitizing aspect was not really an issue, now the summer is on its way and I keep getting infections in my batches. Just a quick dip in boiling water is not good enough anymore and I am now soaking all my bottles and...

one month sounds realistic. Got a fair few to drink up before then! heheh Thanks again.