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It's a little known fact that Ozzy was fluent in Klingon. Heghlu’meH QaQ jajvam

What you need is MO low colour. I don't know if you have an equivalent among US malts. I certainly wouldn't start faffing around with crystal and wheat. You might try matching the colour by mixing local pilsner and pale malts and you'll probably get a very decent beer. You should be able to get...

This from the Prince of Darkness! What a paradox. I've got a live album, can't remember which as I've got so many, where he signs off "Goodnight andmay God bless you all". I always laugh when I hear that.

Mine too.

I'd like to add that some of the hops grown in the Alsace region are delicious. Aramis is like a hop from an English bitter, but also unique. Triskel, Strisselspalt, Barbe Rouge and the rest are lovely to brew with. But they're not really IPA hop bomb hops.

No offence taken, @corkybstewart . The English tradition is to down around 8 pints (of 20 oz, not 16) or more at an all-evening session. This goes a long way in explaining the appalling reputation of "Brits abroad". I suspect that as English beers have grown stronger, the kids are drinking...

You're better equipped than the average bar, then. What do you do for beer in your parts? I find the beer either very-uninteresting-to-horrible or far too strong when it's of the Belgian persuasion. There are some decent beers in the North East, around Lille, but I don't get up there all that...

I could never understand why people downsize. Now that in retired I need more space for all the projects I've now got the time to do.

Now we're talking. I'd love to have a cave like that.

No, no, no, Duncan. They're wonderful bottles. I use a collar, as shiwn in post #15 above, which takes the flip-top mechanism. Or, if I'm bottling something really special, I'll use a cork and cage. Corking beer and cider is common especially in the north of France and Belgium. It's not a wine...

No, that won't work. Unlike a Champagne bottle which is crown-capped before being disgorged and corked, a beer bottle doesn't have the flange to take a crown.

Kegland are creating a problem that didn't exist and then offering you, the customer, an expensive solution. True. Silicone rubber is many, many times more permeable than butyl rubber. BUT. The joint is extremely small, perhaps less than a millimetre of highly compressed rubber and the...

They seem very expensive to me. Don't recall ever seeing silicone seals over here, where we use a lot of swing tops. Here's an example. Don't know if they ship to the states. https://lajocondienne.com/fr/12-cave?page=12

I've used these for beer bottles. Just keep them in a cardboard carton to exclude the light.

I didn't know you had Aldi (and Lidl?) over there. Nothing wrong with French lemonade, was it Lorena?

They're called galettes and they form the main course in a crêperie, in Britanny, anyway. Our favourite is in Rochefort en Terre. Well worth a visit if you're in this neck of the woods. https://www.cafebreton-rochefortenterre.com/se-restaurer/ The best in Rennes used to be Ouzh-taol (à table in...

Sounds like a fun evening. I had never heard of fouées, and, as we're coincidentally watching High Plains Drifter, would have got the wrong end of the stick. Did Pascal survive the attentions of that giant caterpillar about to attack his right foot in the first photo.

I went the stainless steel fermenters route and have gone back to plastic buckets for the simple reason that its easier to see the level of beer through the plastic. I like to brew a couple of litres short and then liquor back with mineral water to hit my target OG. I don't care if the volume is...

Back in the day, 90 minutes was the norm. I often mash overnight.

Don't know how it is over there, but here, people are daft enough to buy empty, flip top bottles which I presume are for decorative purposes or to be used for table water. If you go to the lemonade section, you can get a much stronger bottle with quality lemonade in it and it;s cheaper than the...