Recent content by afr0byte

Yeah, I'd emailed him. Good luck on the beer.

Cool!

They're sweetened with cane sugar...so yes...no need for lactase obviously

Assuming your meter was calibrated properly...probably lacto or similar, yeah

I keep mine attached to the fermenter. I'm not sure what the point of using ambient is.

Afaict, they're just like whirlfloc

I'm guessing that was just a placeholder number.

Again though, they're one data point and some of the time they're one person away from statistical significance. So it seems likely some people did notice a difference.

I'm not necessarily saying the experiments are dangerous in and of themselves. It's the frequent use of them as more than a single data point that is dangerous. Things like the oxygen versus no oxygen experiment or the direct pitch versus rehydration. It can be measured that you get more...

Presumably you mean the yeast book? It seems odd that the water book would mention it.

Ah, the dangers of the exbeeriment stuff. At least I assume that's where the vitality starter phrasing came from in his post.

I forgot to post this...according to shawn the water alkalinity from his well is about 140...so he probably adds a fair bit of acid in addition to a lot of calcium

That's the Duvel yeast.

Yeah, but it's supposed to be a Heady clone...it definitely normally has a fair bit of sulfate.

It depends. Some spring water might not be soft. Spring water doesn't imply low mineral though.