Recent content by Barry L Brumfield

Upon her first experience at age 83 with intentionally skunked beer, my dear late mother exclaimed that her glass of Heineken "smells like a Polecat" (Southern Country for Skunk). She was right.

Now that is a very good comparison of the effect of light versus darkness on the beer.

All visible light can both modulate respiration and induce oxidative stress in fermenting yeast. Even non-UV visible light has a significant impact on yeast metabolism. The blue/green wavelengths of visible light dampen the amplitude of the ultradian rhythm of the cell’s metabolic process and...

Well said. I should have put the "it's a generational thing" in quotes. It was what my granddad said when he was perplexed by 'the younger generation", who at the time was my generation. Some of the best beer I've had in recent years was made by brewery owners in their late twenties and...

This thread is “all grain mashing”. In speaking directly to Dolmetscher007 I was making a contrast of all-grain enthusiasts to the average kit brewers. I’ve seen legitimate questions on here get shot down by those who are either just a know-it-all, rude, or threatened by any thinking outside the...

yeah but, consider that baby boomers have a history of decades of available good beer, and they can afford the best, so they would/should attain for quality in their brewing.

Thanks, it's good to hear from a fellow chef. But let me warn you, don't rock the boat too much. Much of what is posted on brewing forums is copied and pasted verbatim hundreds of thousands of times with no one questioning the legitimacy of the content or researching beyond a casual Google...