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Well its all done! 2.4 volumes .. more or less.

that's sad. HWMBO broke one of his crystal pilsner tulips the other day, just banged it on the tap and that was that! what about a white wine glass? you could try David jones??

well ... i am sad to say, i've never had a so called sparkling go below 1.010! i don't know how one is expected to get 1.005! Anyway, answer the question silly bint!, 1.048 - 1.010. So higher ABV than an ordinary.

well my aussie pale has morphed into an ordinary bitter but lets pretend its a sparkling .. how many volumes? 2.8? 2.1? None of the above?

Some people have reported probs. with infections doing this. The theory is that the cube cools quickly enough that bacteria survive around the handle of the cube and that its better to just no chill in the cube at ambient T.

You know that Designing Great beers book .. I though it was weird .. this obsessive compilation of the parameters in competition beers. Like the author has aspbergers. Doesn't really tell you much except how american amateurs interpret styles, and who cares about that? We want to know what the...

I was a partial man for awhile .. very confusing. Try the belgian pale from classic styles. I got lots of compliments on that one.

Process them first via a chooks bottom! They love 'em and DrSmurto swears it makes them lay like crazy! But I compost most of mine. Its raining! Hurrah! You can use a teeny bit in spent grain bread.

Looks like a nice stout to me! I agree with the others. Swap fuggles and goldings ('cause i don't like fuggles :) ) And do a 90min boil. 'cause Jamil always says to boil pilsner for 90mins to drive off DMS and that way it will be a tad bitterer because it wont be quite so concentrated at the...

looks right to me! 1lb of xtal is pretty typical. e.g. http://www.cornells.com/content.cfm?s=5&p=29

I am aware that there is a vaccine (2 actually) for HPV. It does not preclude the need for a pap smear however and certainly not for those women who aren't vaccinated. Apart from prostate cancer, HPV causes oral cancers. The incidence of oral tumours caused by HPV is on the rise. And apart from...

The most important plastics to avoid are poly-carbonate and some PVC, which have bispenyl-A as their plasticiser. Polycarbonate doesn't have recycle # of its own, it falls under 7 (other) and PVC is #5. So the conservative thing is to avoid #7 and #5 recycle numbers and that means those spring...

Men! They invented the blood test because men are so squeamish! OK .. prostate cancer, world wide, compared to cervical cancer is an itty bitty killer so if you have your test or not .. no big deal really, in terms of the population, could be bad for you as an individual though, and it only...

Oooh I love a good graph! So there's no point in chilling longer than 30mins!

I always boil, or sometimes pressure cook, my starter, malt and all. Before adding the yeast ... obviously! :)

Hmph! I've been decanting because of stuff people have been saying here .. gonna go back to pitching the whole lot again!

Oooohhhh! I knew brewing outside was a bad idea! Not feeling the AG love here!

Do you use bleach for sanitisation? Bleach + phenols (from yeast) = band aids (chlorophenols).

My cooper's yeast is sulking today :( but usually it takes off fast but is well behaved. Doesn't bubble out the airlock like belgian and german yeasts! :