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Strawberry is a difficult fruit to work with as it's so mild in flavour that it would take an unreasonable amount of fruit to get the flavour right, but at the same time it would get so thin/watered down as to be not enjoyable. Mango, however, is a nice fruit to work with. I did a mango wheat...

I've been bad with names my entire life. Always thought a cousin was named Ian. Mentioned him in front of my mom and she asked who I was talking about, so I said Uncle Victor's son. She got very annoyed and told me his name was Ivan. She also threw in "what the hell is the matter with you?"...

Have a [sort of] photographic memory. Most things are locked away perfectly, other things not so much (like names - go figure). Have partial control over what is remembered photographically, mainly based on how much importance I place on the data. When I was first married, the wife and I...

A lot of commercial PCBs are washed with water after assembly (solder paste applied, pick & place machines lay down parts, IR reflow oven solders everything, then wash). It's the impurities in the water that will cause problems. Wash & rewash with RO water, let dry naturally (no heat) and...

Speaking as a Canadian, I'm truly sorry that molson is establishing a foothold in Australia. ****** beer. Very ******.

Listened to a presentation from Dave Logsdon once. Someone asked about 3068 and how to get a big banana ester. He said that you can't oxygenate your wort at all (not even splash it when filling the fermenter) if you want a large banana component. I can confirm this because I verified it after...

First time trying LCPA and quite impressed. Nice aroma.

What I was getting at is you can actually get the cones. Much more difficult to obtain here.

....On a bed of Nelson Sauvin, Riwaka, and Motueka no doubt. You'll get no sympathy from me. ;)

My brother-in-law's smokehouse is one of these. He just moved it to solid ground. ;)

Is Centennial available there?

Not so **** hot. 2 survived, both Centennial. Alive but not much more than that. Will have to buy more rhizomes next spring. Dog leaves them alone now......ironically. ;)

The hop will grow up first and then start to send out side shoots/feelers once it has reached the pinnacle of whatever it is climbing. The side shoots/feelers will eventually fall down under their own weight, but in my experience there is no way that you'd get a hop to climb one side of a...

Vagina Blight? Isn't that what you brought in the cane toads for?

Tried that already. Kids got yelled at. Not kidding. Haven't tried that approach in 3 years now because of that reaction.

+1 Dad smoked, died at 52. Cigarettes weren't a direct cause of death but they didn't help. Wife's dad smoked over 2 packs a day. Died 4 years ago at 76. It was his 4th bout with cancer. Wife's aunt died a year later at about 60 years of age from smoking related cancer. Wife's mother smoked...

Add some macaroni and you'd have tomato orzo soup.

50's total ppm from rainwater sounds pretty good. At that level of total hardness, 20 IBUs would probably seem like 10. Honestly, the minerals were the thing that jumped out at me - they have one hell of an effect on perceived bitterness. Just ensure that you can accurately measure your...

I understand the reasoning for wanting to cull the entries so that a competition becomes manageable. I should explain the situation here and then maybe our rules and the reason for them will become more clear. In Canada we had a few regional homebrew competitions (literally only 3 or 4), and...

When I was in 1st year university we had to take a geology course which had the same grading philosophy.....multiple choice exams where every wrong answer negated a right answer. Back then we referred to that style of grading as "c__t scoring", but to tell you the truth, when it comes to...