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You're also not the only person who likes Verdant in British beers. I've read and seen quite a few people who like it for British beers (though they're definitely not in the majority), so it's a common enough opinion.

I tend to ferment most English ales at between 16C and 18C (and often let the temperature rise up to around 20C near the end of fermentation, being careful it doesn't get too high), whereas with the hazy IPAs I've done with Verdant (and I have another one with Citra, Galaxy, and Amarillo planned...

I definitely agree that Verdant does not make me think "classic" or "typical" English ale, but I don't recall him ever saying anything about bitters or classic traditional flavors. Verdant has a pretty unique flavor. But since it is related to London Ale III, it does share some of the same...

I also don't think anyone who's suggested using Verdant in an English ale was suggesting to use it in a bitter. "English ales" refers to all the ales in England, which is a pretty huge category. Milds, stouts, porters, brown ales, barleywines, old ales, strong ales, pale ales (all bitters are...

One of the benefits of making cider at home if you like dry cider is that it's more difficult to make sweet cider as a homebrewer (since apple juice is mostly simple sugars and the yeast will devour almost all of those simple sugars unless you specifically stop them since you don't have the...

I have a pack of Windsor yeast in my fridge that's past its expiration date. I've designed a London porter recipe around it that uses coffee, vanilla, and cinnamon, and I've called it "The Late Lord Windsor." Late... but not expired. No, wait, it's expired... but not dead.

Yeah, thanks to everyone's helpful replies (especially Tony B and Jose Diaz), I've bought an aquarium pump and plan to try this using my cooler. I do still plan to use ice, but instead of the 30+ pounds of ice total that I use now, it'll probably be less than 10 pounds. I do think that even if I...

I definitely would have been using a wort chiller from day 1 if I had something like that.

I ended up buying one with essentially the same specs as Jose's (which is also very similar to Tony B's). It arrived pretty quickly and I found that the typical silicon tubing used in homebrewing for transfers, racking, and so on, fit perfectly over the smallest outlet adapter. I imagine I'll...

A "section that pulls out to help with dishes"? I'm trying to imagine what that might look like, but whatever it is, I'm pretty sure I don't have it.

That is DEFINITELY an AI article. The whole idea of singels, dubbels, and tripels being "singly," "doubly," and "triply" fermented is just... bizarre. That makes it sound like triple distillation, but just a tripel is fermented three separate times. Even that image with the caption ""Foamy!"...

Yep. Like a thin flat rectangular sheet of metal with holes for the water to come out of at the end but with no threads or fittings to attach anything there. Works great as a normal faucet. Not so great if you want to attach anything to it.

Hi Zad. I'm in Japan, but I did take a look under the sink just to see if there was anything like that down there, but it was jut the pipe from the sink going down into the floor. I kind of feel like I've hijacked the OP's thread, though I do really appreciate all the helpful replies. The water...

Ahhhh, right. In that case, that could actually work pretty well... And come to think of it, I've heard about that method before. I'd just forgotten all about it. Thanks! I had just misread that part of Jose's post.

Looks like I overlooked this response and only noticed Tony B's and BrewZer's. While I don't think BrewZer's idea is possible (given the shape of my faucet), your idea and Tony's idea of using this kind of pump, whether a fish tank pump or a pond pump, seems like a real solution that I hadn't...

That's interesting. I've never heard of pond pumps before and I'm not sure I understand what they are, but from the photos I'm seeing online, this does seem feasible. It's something I've never considered before. I'm not sure what the Japanese for "pond pump" is, so I just searched the Japanese...

And how would I attach that? I would think the super thin flat shape of the faucet would make attaching that an impossibility.

I used a wort chiller for years, but I don't use a wort chiller now because I have absolutely no possible way of connecting it to my faucet. The house I live in now has one of those super thin flat faucets with no threads or fittings. It's just perfectly flat. That's not to say I haven't been...

Although kegging CAN carbonate faster than bottle conditioning, I find that bottle conditioning is typically faster than the "set it and forget it" method of keg carbonation where you just set the regulator to the bar/psi you need to get your desired carbonation. I'll admit that it does depend...

Kind of hard not to know that (although it's 1.0% and not 0.5%), considering how every single homebrew shop in Japan (of which there are very few) has "It is illegal in Japan to produce alcoholic beverages exceeding 1% according to Tax Law whatever-the-tax-law-number-is!" written all over their...