Recent content by Birrofilo

You don't expect that competition brings prices down and down, do you? Competition keeps prices at a normal level of remuneration of risk and capital, it keeps them stable. Without competition, prices would be higher. Here in Italy, in "deep discount" supermarket chains, beer, vodka and gin of...

Truth be told, he fell flat also in the semi-final ;)

IT'S COMING ROME!

When you have a strange foreboding for Sunday night...

Decoction would have the effect of having the starch "burst" completely (rather than have some which remains in the grains) and thus increasing efficiency. Also, the boiling would create melanoidins which will impart a twist on the flavour. Czech beer PGI "České pivo" is all produced with the...

A dive it certainly was, but not isolated, I saw four or five attempts of the same kind (one other also after the penalty). I understand the referee might have been fooled by that, but the replay at the VAR very clearly shows the real dynamics of the action. The VAR mistake is inexcusable and...

When I come home after a long walk (90-120 minutes at sustained pace, it's my training for the mountain), I drink a light, refreshing beer and I drink quite a bit of it (often an entire 66cl bottle). This has to quench thirst and it cannot be one of my homebrewed beers, which are typically a bit...

Astringency is the flavour you get when you over-infuse black tea, basically this is the basic flavour of tea in the canteen of the Hall of Residence when I was at a British University and they had this habit of putting the tea bags in the great cylinder and leaving it there forever. (At least...

Your can will have undergone a lot of maillard reaction by this time. Supposing there is no risk of metal contamination or botulinum, you already have an extract which is "good" for a dark beer, Belgian style, and you don't need to add candi sugar, even. ;) I don't know what the taste of it...

Superstitions prevent me from making any comment :)

I don't understand how a condom can be used as an airlock. I do understand that airlocks are not easy to find in Saudi Arabia, though. Best is to use hoses and buckets as shown a few posts above. Best wishes to the OP for the production and especially for his personal safety.

Are you drinking it "alone", with clean mouth, or with your meal? Some metallic tastes are produced by a combination of substances. A pretty famous example is given by most fishes with red wines. Other less known but quite "dramatic" examples are given by artichokes with red wines, or smoked...

For what I reckon, temperature during bottle conditioning has an effect (different temperatures, different effects) but very different from fermentation temperature. Differences in fermentation temperatures cause different production of aromatic compounds which are typically produced during...

@Miraculix @neale and @Others You who fill the bottle up to 3-5 mm under the brim, do you use the typical automatic wand by pushing it to the side of the bottle or do you fill the bottle without the wand, by just letting the beer flowing along the side of the bottle, in order not to oxygenate...