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Surely there's a point where common usage becomes correct language: "I will" used to be frowned upon in favour of "I shall", but no longer. If this were not the case. language would not evolve. As for a native speaker showing us the right way, a native speaker of German can only dictate the...

The celebrant would need to be a 20-a-day man?

I thought I was the only one left who did mash hopping.

Hi @kohalajohn . If you want to spent lots of money on a sparkling, shiny brewery you can do that, but you don't have to. Good beer is made from good ingredients and technique, not stainless steel. Having said that, understanding of processes has come on in leaps and bounds in the last couple of...

Dig spent grain into a bed of earth or mix with contents of compost heap. It quickly rots down, but if you just chuck it on top, it stinks. Used to use it in bread until I discovered that crushed caramalt works a million times better.

Back in the day, wild yeast was perhaps the best way to go. But nowadays we have specific cider yeasts available in sachets. My last batch used MJ M02 and it worked out great. As for sulphites, I used to hose the apples down in a large trug and the give the a wash with MBS, but I stopped doing...

And a bottle of peppermint cordial.

Mulder and Scully would now all about that (see The Twitter Files),

I thought it was just me. While I find some male voices smooth and mellow, I find many female voices strident and nasal as if the speaking voice is affected. The Wise One believes this to be down to my fundamental misogyny, but I'm beginning to find many British female voices to be more and more...

I watched Coronation St on a black and white telly in the 60s when Mini Caldwell and Ena Sharples tought me everything I needed to know about milk stout. Are they still going? Never watched Emmerdale. Enjoyed Stranger Things and find Resident Alien amusing. That's about it, for me. Not really a...

I wish it were the same here. I hate TV with a passion, but The Wise One loves watching the news and a film in the evening. I was joking about East Enders; I wouldn't truly recommend it to anyone. It's truly horrendous.

The reason I mentioned it is because, in England, among the chaverati, it's known as "Wife Beater". Your "Happy Wife Beer" made me think of it.

"Happy Wife Beer" I love it even if it does sound a bit Chinese. I suggest you steer well clear of Stella Artois clone, though. 🤣🤣

You should watch a few episodes of East Enders. Even I can't understand some of it. Mind you, after 3 or 4 episodes, you'd end up lobotomised. (With an s, not a z),

You make a good point with facade and façade. I think the difference is that facade is now a word in the English language while kölsh isn't (yet). I'm finding this a fascinating and instructive conversation and I don't insist on any of my opinions, I'm just throwing in my grain of salt as we say...

Quite so. English is no longer a single language, it is a family of languages. For those branches that are living, they will continue to evolve and diverge. To say that US English is bad UK English is to say that UK English is bad American English. That is ridiculous. The english of England...

Spot on.

Can't disagree with the logic of the main paragraph, but have to take issue with the final comment, where koelsch is an attempt to render a closer pronunciation in English, which doesn't have ö, or ø for that matter, as part of its character set. As for rendering German ä and ë as ae and oe...

None of this makes any sense to me. And pectin haze is the very least of your problems. You need at least 20 litres and a decent press to get anything like 9L. Voss doesn;t have a clean nature- if by that you mean tasteless It has quite a character. Why bottle the cider and seal the bottles...

I'd go along with that except that I wonder about their reluctance to approve using cask breathers. It makes me think that the process of oxidation through aeration should have already started. A bit like letting a wine "breathe". But that would start in the glass anyway. Yes. I've now...