Zadkiel's latest activity

This interests me as it has triggered a memory of an old 'fact' as told to me by a serious brewer a long time ago (20ish years ago). I...

Enzyme use for the homebrewer? As I understand it, those used to be purely available to the pros - things like ALDC are relatively new...

Didn't notice until after I posted that your location is Tokyo - I've just got in the mindset when posting here that I'm talking to...

Honestly, I just know it tastes different, an S-04 brewed beer doesn't taste quite like the ales I've drunk my whole life here in the...

Are you actually trying to make an accurate English Ale, or making a US beer in an English Ale style? if it's the former then you want...

I only started brewing this year, and only did my first grain brew a few weeks ago, but when I was trying to create my first recipe I...

I'd be interested in any study on that too. As I said, my assumption would be the reverse, that less craft breweries and less craft beer...

I'd have thought, if there was any correlation between craft beer sales/brewery numbers and homebrewing, that it would be an inverse...

Covid was more the last straw than any radical change. As you said its a niche hobby. If you own a pizza place everybody eats pizza...

Same caveat as before, my system isn't the ones you listed, but for me, yes the filtering works great, my wort comes out very clear (I...

I have only used the brewzilla, and none of the systems you listed, so they may work differently, but in mine, whirlpooling causes the...

I'm in the UK, so none of this is relevant to you US folks, and I only started brewing Jan this year, so I don't know anything about any...

This is how I order mine crushed for my brewzilla Grain crushed like this, plus doing a manual sparge, gives me about 90% efficiency.

What efficiency value was selected in brewer's friend (not familiar with it to know how it's efficiency settings work) and what...

I made an extract brew with the Simply Pale Ale extract and 1.2KG of 'beer enhancer' that came out at 3.9% and it was fantastic. Great...