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I have a collection of Thomas Hardy's Ale, most early 2000s. Sublime beers. Paid $25+/330ml and worth so much more to me in the enjoyment I get in drinking them. An aged barleywine is amazing.

The Family Law Act was changed in 2009 to include and define de facto relationships, including same ***, so that they are legally the same in the eyes of the law when it comes to the way they are dissolved, much the same as a marriage. Interestingly, you can be in multiple de facto relationships...

The boycotting is not prejudice, it is choosing not to support a company whose values don't align with yours. Social media in 2017 turns this benign approach in to a circus. I don't donate to the Salvation Army or any other religious organisation as their values don't align with mine.

Every case swap we make hop doobies - hop flowers mixed with tobacco. It's a tradition.

From a quick perusal of that blog link, I can't see in the final experiment where he has done a control. There is a final IBU concentration post dry hopping but where is the IBU of the base beer without dry hopping? If so, the result is meaningless.

Questioning, scepticism is a good thing. As long as you follow that through and spend time doing some decent research and reaching a conclusion. EDIT - this is the basic premise of good science, we question the results, we treat the data with some scepticism buy ultimately reach a conclusion. We...

Do you actually know what it is that you added? Are you storing chemicals in unlabelled containers? That's a particularly lax approach to safety, I hope you don't have any kids who can access your brewing area. A teaspoon is a volume measurement so I don't know how much in grams you have added...

Here is a good review on dry yeast from a colleague. For use in wine but it's the same manufacturing process so the same rehydration science is applicable. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ajgw.12189/full

Sulfite/sulfur dioxide is added to wine for 2 reasons. To protect the wine from microbial spoilage, which in combination with the low pH of wine provides protection (sulfite exists in 3 forms depending on the pH - sulfur dioxide, bisulfite, sulfite). The other reason is it is an anti-oxidant. It...

I've only very briefly skimmed the discussion on H2O2. A few points from a scientist whose research area involves H2O2 and O2 in juice/wine; similar situation holds with wort/beer. Firstly, the reason why O2 is used and not H2O2 is that O2 can't react with organic compounds. This is what is...

Lupilin should be a golden yellow, almost orange, not yellow. The outside should be papery and starting to just brown up at the tips. Picking early and you'll get much less of the aromatic oils and more grassy/vegetal characters.

It's difficult to tell if a hop cone is ready to pick by looking at it although. You need to give them a squeeze. If they sound like scrunching paper then they are ready. Also, pick one and rip it in half, there should be plenty of golden yellow lupilin inside it.

I've posted a partial 360 view image on the South Australian Brewing Club's Facebook page of my hop plantation. I can't seem to upload that type of image to this forum but the Facebook page is public so you can all see it. It gives a great perspective on just how much the hops have taken over...

Chinook has gone berserk, Victoria suffered due to storm damage and blocked drippers.

I have a standard twin underbench filter for drinking. Sediment then carbon. I don't filter the rainwater for the entire house, just the drinking tap. Grew up on rainwater. Dad used to put a drop of paraffin oil in the tank if there were noticeable numbers of wrigglers but it was never filtered.

I enjoy the HopFather as I do Hop Thief 8. Does it scream hops? No. It's an easy drinking, typical JS beer with some hops there in balance with the malt. Why would anyone expect anything different? $54/case. Tick.

I find lamb shanks, rosettes and flaps (ribs) as well as pork hocks in the dog food/offal section of my local Foodland. Also find things like chicken carcasses, meat scraps/bones that are great for stock making etc. All sold cheap. I often buy up all the shanks and rosettes each time I'm there...

Barrels are not gas tight so using CO2 isn't going to protect the beer against anything. I'd err on the side of caution and wait till you have enough liquid to replace what you take out. Or light a sulfur candle in it......

Tentative pricing for water analysis is ~$100 but that is just a very early ballpark figure I've heard. If that is even remotely accurate then I think that's a very good price.

They can be modified to use JG fittings and beer line that you probably already have if you are a kegger. Search ebay for the same type of filter but designed for under the sink. I use one of these caravan setup filters although use standard garden hose and there is not issue with taste/smell...