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I reckon that a lot of the time I reckon this is a wanky marketing gimmick or a little flourish that bar staff like to do if they're bored and/or secretly wishing you'd ordered a cocktail, especially with CPA. I'd say definitely it's the former in the case of S&W's label - the yeast used is...

There definitely are cask ales that are universally ****, or at least horribly overrated (Greene King IPA, anyone?), but the role of the pub itself is massive, compared to what's involved in serving a draught keg, which they can basically treat like a giant can of coke. An important factor in...

Yep, that was me. I reckon in that case it was the massive head space above the liquid that did me in. I'd only boiled 6 litres of water (was intending to wash some yeast), and hot gas obviously contracts a lot more than hot liquid. I would think that even with the head space above a single...

Is it not the case that lightly hopping (like 1 or 2 pellets/litre) can be beneficial in starters as the antibacterial properties create an environment that favours yeast over whatever other organisms might be floating about? Shouldn't be a concern if sanitation is sufficient, but maybe a good...

I've never heard that before. It's said that volatile hop aroma compounds can be driven off by a vigorous fermentation, which overpitching could cause. Maybe that's what Vinnie Cilurzo is getting at, in that perceived bitterness decreases as hop flavour decreases? Although the wording "yeast...

Would be good to know that. I'm sure I can work with it regardless, though. PM sent.

Yes please! That's legendary of you, Maheel, they look pretty sweet.

+1 You could go with exactly what the calculator suggests, but preserving the half used packet is probably more hassle than it's worth and there's little harm in overpitching (which you barely would be anyway). It's generally much better to overpitch than underpitch anyway (some styles...

It's a single-speed bike that looks, for all intents and purposes, like a fixie, but has a freewheel. Thus it spares the cash-flush but time-poor hipster the laborious task of actually learning to ride a fixie, while still imbuing them with all the credibility. Until they start coasting, of...

The urbane urban hipster is be able to boast a more complete involvement in the process if it can ride its faux-fixie down to the store and fill its Jansport backpack with just enough ingredients for its 400 ml batch. The video was tolerable until she started talking about the zombie...

As zanussi says, your plate chiller could clog very easily. If you go with this idea, you'd want to manually recirculate before you add the plate chiller to the loop in order to set the grain bed. Also, you'd need to run 2 pumps, one to pump wort through the plate chiller, and one to pump hot...

Or Heineken. Comes pre-skunked for your convenience.

If that works for your system then all good - no need to fix it if it ain't broke. That said, it's just more satisfying to control all your temperatures from one panel, don't you think? The relay in the MashMaster Fridgemate is rated to 10A...

After last Friday's meeting, everything you say is going to sound like cheap innuendo. :D I saw the cooler and noodle combo on here and thought about trying it. I've got a Keep Cold cylindrical cooler as my mash tun, which I think is basically the same as the Rubbermaid, except I've carved...

Genius! Thanks Nick. Although... could lead to pouring too fast, due to the flow being almost completely unrestricted? Could probably be solved by clamping the line halfway between the bronco and the keg.

There are a lot of fully sick set ups on display in that thread. Hoyt's takes the cake, obviously. I drooled over that the first time he posted it. No info that I could see on serving a keg on its side, though. Also, to contrast, I'm really aiming at the ghetto end of the spectrum.

Only 32"? That's just a slightly large workstation monitor. My brew cave (one day... one day) will have a projector with a 15' screen!

I'm going on a Christmas trip and hoping to take a full 19 L keg along. I'm going to try to keep it cold for the full 3 days in a cooler with copious amounts of ice. The cooler is wide and low, so fits a keg comfortably lying on its side, with plenty of room for ice. I'll use a keg with a...

Obviously (or possibly not) I was using the word "flavour" idiomatically. E.g., quarks come in different flavours, but I don't think anyone's ever tasted one. Perhaps I'd have avoided your wrath by using the word "type". Again, perhaps I should have used a word like "dissociates". Also, I...

Something to add to this, speaking from personal experience: I don't know what BacBan is composed of, but Starsan is mostly phosphoric acid. Don't do the above with Starsan. It's brilliant and there are a lot of good reasons why it's pretty much the go-to sanitiser. However, phosphoric acid...