Recent content by bonnybunch

I tend to get this with most of my bottled beers, dry hopped or not. I always assumed it was something yeast related although I carb with table sugar - maybe that has something to do with it?

I regularly cold crashed for a week before I started using my fridge for lagers and never had any problems with carbing.

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I always get a lot of coconut aroma from Sorachi Ace

Curses! Hoisted on my own petard! I notice the phonemes under your name, whenever I have to deal with the International Phonetic Alphabet at work I always find myself getting really thirsty... just me?

I'll bite... surely that should be 'pedantry' or 'pedants' :drunk:

So I brewed my first Berliner Weiss yesterday, mash hopped, 15 minute boil then cooled to 100 and pitched my homemade lacto starter. The starter had an extreme lacto smell and a white bubbly pellicle. Before I went to bed I checked the carboy and there was a nice scummy surface beginning to...

First attempt at a sour coming soon - Berliner Weiss. Wanted to attempt this for a while but my lacto started kept going moldy. Not this time though, currently have 4 on the go, mold free (as I type).

Damn, looks like I missed a lot of good places the last time I was over. Raptor IPA is fantastic, although I didn't try it in the Czech Republic - I had it in my local in England a couple of summers ago, they have a good line in exported Czech micros.

I've been on a few beer drinking trips around the Czech Republic, great beer and great times! In Prague I'd highly recommend U Medvidku (http://www.umedvidku.cz/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=58&Itemid=55&lang=en) Their 1466 is glorious, go upstairs to drink, you actually sit in...

What's the OG of this? I recently made a 1.070 Imperial Bitter with 1lb Caraaroma and it came out pretty sweet and overpowering, I'm hoping it will fade over time and balance out a bit. Compared to Crystal 120 Caraaroma definitely dominates the beer a lot more. I agree with chuckstout, raise...

There's a language school here so I spend most of my time teaching Russian oil execs how to speak reyt and arguing with my southern colleague about how best to pronounce the word 'bath'.

Ayup! I'm a yorkshireman living in Russia [Barnsley & Western Siberia], good luck with everything, I've had a lot of good advice from this site and am enjoying the fruits of my labours now in a country stricken by bad beer! Next up: Russian Imperial Stout (of course!)

You have no milk in the fridge but 1kg of lactose powder in the cupboard

Champagne bottle on the kitchen top, a serious pain, but I get a pretty comprehensive crush and it's a pretty good workout!