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'Designing Great Beers' is a very useful book. It gives a compilation of ingredients and techniques used to brew specific styles that others have used , rather than a 'to make x beer do y' instruction manual. A book you might find interesting for your needs is 'Brewing' by Michael Lewis and...

I am curious as to your reasons for feeling this way. Care to elaborate?

I've recently upgraded to Libreoffice 4.1.1.2 and it seems to run Bru'n water fine, but admittedly I've only plugged some numbers in off the top of my head to see if it was working, rather than an actual recipe. I skipped over 4.0 so am not sure what the actual issues were so I may be missing...

Nice one!

+1 to fruit or honey - have tried both over the past few months and have been happy with the results. Tried raspberry and passionfruit (separately) for the fruit and both were pretty good! Quite keen to try mango but can't get any decent ones locally. Have fun experimenting and let us know how...

Thanks for posting that Indianhead. I've emailed a national veterinary poisons service here in the UK for any up to date information I can share with the forums, but they haven't replied yet... Indeed, there are many many things that can poison your pet and awareness is very important, but my...

I live in a small fishing village in rural Scotland, no one good tours here ha ha! But I will keep an eye out to see if they are touring again as it would be worth the trip to the big city!

Ahh, apologies! I'm in the uk, forgot you guys on that side of the pond are a bit fruity with your definitions of billions and trillions! :P EDIT: I retract that! Turns out my maths is crap! The joys of calculating yeast numbers on my phone when I should be working! :)

Sadly I don't think they will tour in my neck of the woods :( You are one lucky bugger if you've seen them in concert! And re chocolate poisoning, I agree this is a much bigger issue as it will affect any dog if they eat enough cocoa solids whereas only a small subset of the canine...

Absolutely, and also take care when composting etc after brewing. The risk is very small though, but there is not a great deal of info in current veterinary literature, so I think a healthy dose of caution is sensible. Ps mmj are awesome :)

Apologies if I've misunderstood what you mean, but a 1L starter does not end up as 1L of slurry (at any rate 270 millions cells/ ml multiplied by 1000ml is 2.7 trillion cells!) The only way to know for sure is a manual cell count via microscopy, but there are others ways of estimating. For what...

Hi, While I think its very important to be cautious and informed, the actual incidence of hop toxicosis is very rare (thankfully). I've been a veterinarian for 14 years, with the majority of the last 10 spent in emergency practice, and have yet to come across a suspected case. (This has been in...

Nope! Nothing wrong, I do it all the time for primary fermentation!

Just bottled a raspberry blonde myself, looked exactly the same! Hopefully all will be ok!

You can dry-hop cold, but apparently it effects the extraction rate of the hop oils. Another option would be to dry-hop for 7-10 days and then cold-crash. Try both and let us know how it works out!