Recent content by rowland

Hi, I'm wanting to create a beer for breakfast. I was inspired by an old man who gets up at 6am every morning, runs and swims for an hour and by 7am he is back home and he says he allways drinks a glass of porter after his exercises. I want to create a beer that will substiute for breakfast...

WOW Imperial Walker, Thanks for the nice post. Guys it's my brewing style and my logic, it makes sense to me. It's 3:30am and I'm about to hit the hay here after one more. In my opinion, there is a broad line between making good tasting beer and good tasting alcohol. It really depends on how you...

I'm not sure what to say to that. Sugar in my opinion is sugar be it malt, dextrose etc. There really is no reason why one sugar is better over the other in beer brewing except one type isn't as fully fermentable as the other. My understanding is table sugar is fully fermentable, some of the...

I like to get drunk, if the beer has 5% it tastes wonderful to me. Higher alcohol beers where I live cost $3-$6 a longneck and if you drink 20-30 of those aweek it adds up and I also like to help my friends pockets as well. I like to step lightly on the earth and reuse and waste less. I can't...

That was my first post in this thread, I introduced myself, said that I'm a new user and said what gives me a hangover. I said "live" yeast I believe I have a problem with, dead yeast I don't. (would you eat a live animal?, I prefer them dead and cooked, same with yeast, I believe the live yeast...

Is it possible after the beer conditions in the bottle to heat it up to kill the yeast as I feel this is one reason why I get hangovers, live yeast robbing my body of vitamines. Once the yeast is deactivated, I should then get the benifits of the yeasts vitamines...

I wouldn't mind a recipe for vegimite. That stuff is expensive now, around $5-$10 a jar. On another planet, there are probably aliens who brew beer just so they can eat the yeast and wondering if the leftover beer can be used for anything. Imperial Walker, I think it's pretty much just yeast...

I've wet my bed after drinking alot of water after boozing up. Nothing worse than than waking up at 4am wondering what that warm wet feeling is, but I've found it's usually pure water (ie no wee smell) that comes out of you assuming you didn't eat anything before sleep. (1) what temp do you...

I read on the internet that large brewers sell their yeast sediment to be used in animal feed. I looked further on the subject apparently the yeast contains alot of high quailty protien and very very nutritious. I want to use the yeast myself as a food source instead of tipping it out (I hate...

I just quickly rinse my primary out but straight away I begin another batch in it so there isn't any reason to give it a clean finish.

I left mine in the primary for 1 year and the beer tastes very good. When I first started I used normal beer yeast but the wort still tasted sweet after 2 weeks so I added champaign yeast, I then left on holidays and forgot about it. I also repitched the yeast and I'm waiting to see what this...

Hi, I'm a new user but I have been brewing beer for 3 years. I would have to say I and afew of my friends are irresposible drinkers. I got into homebrewing to save myself money. I get worse hangovers off my homebrew than off commercial. If I drink too much homebrew (2-3 litres) I will wake up...