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Some suggestions: 1. Does secondary fermentation improve beer? 2. Does leaving beer on yeast for prolonged periods have dire consequences for the beer? 3. Does beer get you drunk or is it just a coincidence?

Cell membrane - plants and animals have cell membranes, only plants have cell walls! Edit: Plants, animals and fungi have cell membranes, only plants and fungi have cell walls (on the whole)!

Mainly there be tin and pasties mixed together by the knockers. Oh and the blood of a chough!

That is a great review and fair - it's definitely not to everyone's taste. My old local had it on draught a few times (The Portcullis in Clifton, Bristol), and I absolutely loved it - insanely hoppy. Their beers do tend to be extreme in hoppiness, or technique (e.g the tactical nuclear penguin...

I think this is a great idea. The main reason being that this site, being the wonderful resource that it is, contains a mountain or two of information. If someone new to brewing just wants to pick up list of highly recommended (by experts) recipes with brief descriptions and get cracking, then...

Using a pressure boiler effects the speed of the chemical/physical reaction by increasing the boiling point of the liquid inside it. A higher temperature means (usually a faster reaction). I have used it for what I presume to be an isomerizing reaction - conversion of alpha to beta acids with a...

Using a pressure boiler effects the speed of the chemical/physical reaction by increasing the boiling point of the liquid inside it. A higher temperature means (usually a faster reaction). I have used it for what I presume to be an isomerizing reaction - conversion of alpha to beta acids with a...

Hi all I use http://www.the-home-brew-shop.co.uk/ which I have found to be excellent in terms of cost, quality and service. They offer free delivery for orders of over £65 which again is a plus. However there are many times when I don't need £65 worth of ingredients and so would have to pay...

I couldn't resist trying one of these last night. My recipe: 1. 3 shots Tescos Finest Gin (not the best, not the worst, didn't want to waste the good stuff) 2. 1 splash of noilly prat 3. A tablespoon of hop tea, made from 2-3 buds of hallertauer hersbrucker hops (going for a citrusy finish)...

Hi all A friend kindly donated an old keg to me (probably 10 years old) - white plastic not cornelius. It looks to be in good condition, but I have never used a keg before, as I usually do small 1 gallon brews and can put up with bottling. However I would like to give kegging a go, but...

Aaah! The Grande Bier D'Alsace. You can get them in France I believe.

As alluded to above, Martini's are an art form. In my experience make sure that everything is REALLY cold before you start - freeze the glass you'll pour it into or put cold water and ice cubes in it 10 minutes before you drink. Same with the shaker. In my opinion, Bond was wrong (the heresy)...

I had something very similar happen to me and a Belgian I've just bottled. Again my trub was thick (about 1.5 inches in a gallon demijohn), it wasn't clearing after a month and there were still bubbles going up the sides. I figured that it was a very slow breakdown of the trub into edible sugars...

Don't drink and drive. Simple.

Let me know how this turns out. I love the aeropress for coffee at work, but I'd imagine you may needs to chop/grind/blitz the hops up first to increase their surface area. Anyway - happy experimenting

I like the idea of using hbt as a journal, but if you're looking for something more personal that just runs on your computer I'd recommend Dokuwiki: http://bitnami.org/stack/dokuwiki . It's a simple text based and fully searchable wiki which I have found extremely useful. I've organised my...

You might want to bear the following in mind if using Agave for any health reasons: http://www.thatsfit.com/2010/02/15/debunking-the-agave-myth/ Although health is the last thing to think about with regards to Apfelwine!

Has somebody been sick into it by accident?! :drunk:

Has somebody been sick into it by accident? :drunk:

Thanks for the safety concerns - very well worth taking on board. Pressure cookers are scary things when you think about them. I don't think the high sugar/protein is an issue in my case. I tend to do late addition DME brews so only add a very small amount of malt (3-4 tablespoonfuls in ~3...