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I think much (not all) of that first quote is about Calcium in general rather than specifically Calcium Sulphate Specifically the reduction of mash phosphates (the badness of which is debatable because thats one of the mechanisms by which wort pH is reduced to desirable levels and I would have...

The issue much preoccupies the minds of the big boys - they aren't in the least frightened of "craft" beer.... they are frightened of Coles and Woolies market domination. They aren't frightened of coles or woolies brewing their own i dont think, its as simple as the fact that there isn't anyone...

But look into who's niche it is they are creeping?? Are they ripping off moondog's marketing schtick or maybe just the already over populated and quality diluted offering from another major. Aby the time coles is brewing something that could stomp on the toes of good local, innovative craft...

These beers dont, and aren't particularly intended to push into the craft beer market - they are intended to pressure the big brewers and push into the mega beer market. A previous poster talked about there only being two brands of cornflakes on the supermarket shelves - coles home brand and...

Just the one ... but I really know how to use it

I would be checking your settings... My PIDs can run a few different ways, including running PID control via their own internal relays (low power, not suitable for brewing purposes generally) - I thik maybe you have your PID set to control via its internal relays rather than by outputting a...

about 1.5 million litres.... but I may have an unfair advantage and I was being paid to do it :P

He's got a point.. My wife and I are both avid beer fans, we deliberately and frequently seek out new beer, generally craft beer. Over the years we have learned a few things - one is that Australian micros cant bottle for ****. They're getting better in the last few years but really, the point...

Maybe try starting out with The Practical Brewer from the MBAA - I think its a fair bit cheaper and is still pretty damn thorough.

When you sign up, they send you a CD with the revision material on it - studying just that will get you a pass if you really get it into your head properly, but if you want to do "well" then you need to be ontop of the trade journals as well as getting your hooks into one or two of the well know...

I've seen pictures of chain attached to stirrers before..... cant remember the source material though. Older belgian brewing systems maybe?? I seem to recall that it was mostly used in direct fired mash/kettles, or kettles with bottom steam jackets only, not for stirring the mash per sel but for...

hop aroma fades.... it just does. APAs, IPAs etc are all best consumed in that 6 week period (or around about that timeframe anyway) you are talking about. If your hop aroma wasn't starting to tail off a couple of months after hitting the bottle - there's quite a few brewers both commercial...

eco - nomical not particularly supposed to be environmently better, supposed to not cost you $150 in unrecoverable cash when you ship one somewhere that you dont have high expectations of it returning from. As Tallie just said..... Eco kegs are slightly different than some of the other one...

the way i mental out step mashes is to sort of integrate it. My system gets around about 1degree per minute, so when Ai am designing a mash i mentally incorporate a "rest" at halfway between the two steps So in my mind when I am designing a mash i might actually get mash in and rest at 50 -...

And that shows to anyone who actually has a clue of any description, just exactly how much you know about it.

As I understand it the UC David "Master Brewer" program, which seems to be much admired in the US - is part of their "extension" program. So its not in the same stream as their degrees and diplomas. What I know for certain is - that it is at least (possibly more) a preparation program for the...

I'll disagree with some other posters and say that the IBD courses are very thorough indeed - the lower level exams themselves can seem perfunctory, and they are very persnickety about the wording of the questions. BUT - if you look at the syllabus.... what you are expected to learn is very...

Quality implications aside - I have no intentions of entering or creating an argument further argument about a subject that people can research perfectly well for themselves - the volume argument has been touched upon and needs to be emphasised. You wont "get more beer" except in specific...

That last minute conversion is exactly why i tell people to do the stirred ramp to mashout step with BIAB. Its about conversion efficiency and the fact that with a lack of a proper grain bed to run off/vorlauf through, any unconverted starch might not only decrease your efficiency, but get...

Why do people want rules with hop additions when its plain as the nose on your face that anything after a 30 min addition is just the ******* devil's work? Take a guess, look to heaven, dance 3 times anti clockwose around the brew pot without your undies on and have a go - brew a lot and see...