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You're not wasting your time, I guess you're just seeing it from a different perspective. As to your question, on an absolute basis, A). On a unit basis (per L, per capita), B). Think of it this way. Say there are 100,000,000 beer drinkers worldwide and HB'ers were 1% of that. Say we've...

Hell, I'm not suggesting that you compare CUB's carbon footprint to your own homebrewery... that's just plain ridiculous. I'm not trying to manipulate numbers either. But a discussion on environmental issues is a discussion on the global impacts, so you have to compare apples with apples. You...

Gents, looks like I'll be heading back down under ~start of October, anyone's got any desire to save on some shipping of gear/equipment, I should have a bit of room in the shipping container. You can ship to my address, and it should arrive back in Perth for mid-Nov... PM me if you're keen! Ant.

Yeah, true, the transport of glass will chew diesel, but so does marine diesel for importeds. TBH, and someone else alluded to this earlier, the mining of raw materials and actual production of the aluminum cans or glass bottles is a bigger player than transport. Even with all of this however...

But it does provide Annex members with a financial incentive to build the renewable plant. Without which, they wouldn't have, and the total global emissions would increase. It may be flawed, but it does get companies doing things for the purpose of reducing environmental impact far sooner than...

Actually, the efficiency does matter. In a world of increasing population, you get increasing consumption. In order to maintain current levels of global environmental impact, you need to improve efficiency. The sum of each individuals impact is the global impact... if everyone increases...

Top post OzMick, and you go right to the heart of the argument here by raising economy of scale issues. When you bring environmental impact back to a common denominator (ie look at the entire lifecycle of the process, factoring in growing of ingredients, associated transport of ingredients...

The Beer Geek Breakfast is bloody good with scrambled eggs though. It does leave you with a tendency to want to nod off mid-morning however. Great roast notes. Not sure if they can order any in, but the Struise Mikkeler Eliot brew (Belgian DIPA) is sensational.

Johnny Max actually made a 21% AG beer called Cause of Death. Just because it was said it couldn't be done. Sometimes its worth making a beer just because. Dogfish Head make a 21% 120 Minute IPA, which uses a fair but of adjunct, but is a well balanced beer. A sipper to be sure.

Looks like a great session folks... although I'm a bit concerned how malnourished the turkey appears (you call that a turkey? Looks more like a chicken! Hell, we cooked up a 22 pounder between 6 of us for Thanksgiving...). Glad the US beers made it in fair shape (next US delivery will be the...

Sorry for the unnecessary jibber-jabber, but I'll be getting sinkas to bring along some goodies from the US for the case swap. All sourced this week from fresh shipments brewed in October or November (unless otherwise noted), and recommended drinking in the following order: Dogfish Head 60 Min...

Struise Mikkeller (Elliot brew) is a collaborative gem that is worth hunting down a recipe for. It's an IIPA/DIPA brewed in a Belgian IPA style. 9% and a (claimed) 130 IBU (Magnum for bittering, Cascade and Amarillo late boil, Fuggles for dry hopping). Crazily enough, the candi, yeast and huge...

And Russian River and Avery make a beer called "Collaboration Not Litigation" which arose after they found they both brewed a beer called Salvation, and instead of one having to relinquish the rights to the name, they blend the two beers and put it out under joint name. Tasty drop too. And dig...

Anderson Valley Hop Ottin is a good value IPA, and only one that jumps out at me from that list. Justification... is that a new RR beer? :P

Quite the session on some big beers! Was this perchance the (Pizza) Port Hop 15? Didn't know Avery was making something similar (getting excited...)

Yep, that got chopped. Back for two weddings first two weekends of Dec, have some Dogfish Head 120 Min IPA and SN Bigfoot put aside for it.

Blue Moon has a big following here, beats the life out of me why. I've shared bottles of Celis White, Hoegaarden, and my very own HB wit with some folks who like it and they just think they have TOO MUCH flavour. It's just a bridging beer from Bud-world really. Fat Tire is well, also kind of...

If you can still get hold of it (was available last week), Port 's 2nd Anniversary Ale is a huge DIPA with the out of balance hop kick you like. Lost Abbey is putting out some amazing stuff too... Angel's Share, Judgment Day... mmm. I'll second the Rose de Gambrinus. There were a couple of...

One pack of 3068 for 19-22L is a bit shy of optimum; a starter or 2 smackpacks would help. A dose of oxygen would also help, although I'm not sure why 3068 would throw off solventy heat without it.

The fermentation temp looks good, and that would be your key driver for esters and phenols; 3-4 weeks is pretty short to be losing them! I've had my best results using 5kg malted wheat, 5 kg pils and about 0.5 kg torrefied wheat mashed at 66-67C. Could it be the additional 15% wheat dominating...