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

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 US-ians, sorry about that. As to the rest of your points - I disagree to all of it, especially regarding dryness - I refer you to the post I linked, as he says it...

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 UK. I just googled the flavour profiles of them to look up the difference and wrote down what the supposed differences are to try and put some reason as to why...

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 the Nottingham, it will give you a drier finish which is essential for the English Ale style, and give a small amount of fruit and esters, compared to S-04 which...

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 tried a few different popular online systems, and one stuck out far far better than all the others I tried. Brewfather. 1) It was newbie friendly, as someone...

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 being sold commercially, would equate to an increase in people making their own. Depends on what the driving factor for the closures is. I've heard that...

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

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 do also add protafloc near the end of the boil which also helps)

I have only used the brewzilla, and none of the systems you listed, so they may work differently, but in mine, whirlpooling causes the solid matter to form on top of the false bottom, not on the bottom of the vessel, which I think is what you are thinking will happen based on your questions. As...

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 long term trends, but here's what I've noticed in London since starting this year. Physical brick&mortar stores, at least in London, are WAY under-represented...

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 efficiency do you have to manually adjust it to in order to get it to show 1.032 instead? Were you relying on the brewzilla temp sensor or using a secondary probe into...

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 session beer and I served it at a BBQ and my friends drank me dry of about 30 bottles. Edit: I just realised Simply might not be available in the US, sorry.

I suggest you look into the Bermondsey Beer Mile. it's a walkable route of about 15-20 breweries or brewery bars. Particular highlights are Anspach & Hopday, it Ain't Much If it Ain't Dutch, Cloudwater, The Kernel & Small Beer.

Sorry for the small tangent as this hasn't anything to do with carboys, but with so many people agreeing on using PBW & Starsan I'm wondering if I'm doing anything wrong - I've only been using VWP as both a cleaner and a steriliser, is that OK?

My sample size is a fraction of yours, at only 1 single brew compared to your 40, but I suspect that the largest contribution is the low recirc flow, I also did a very slow recirc, based on what I had read in several places (using the valve to control it, not the pump strength), to the point...

I just meant 'right' in as much as it matching the beer I was trying to make :)

brewfather, when I selected brewzilla 35 as the equipment profile, automatically set the efficiency value to 78%, which resulted in an estimated OG of 23L @ 1.046, but what I actually ended up with was 24L (boil off was lower than expected) @ 1.054 - in order to get brewfather to show 1.054, I...

OK, well. first grain brewday overall went well. There were mistakes for sure, but they weren't huge. Biggest one was pH, perhaps my overconcerrn about pH and trying too hard to chase it and messing it up with a combination of a miscalibrated meter and bad decisions. Smaller mistake was...

Not as long as you rinse it after no, but temperature would. Most pH meters calibrate to 25C and any measurement taken at a different temperature will be innacurate. (PSA: pH meters claiming ATC or 'automatic temperature compensation' does NOT mean it's correcting the reading to the...