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Nirvana definitely earns the "shaped my life" distinction because in gradeschool all I listened to was cheesy pop music (e.g. C+C Music Factory) and commercial hip hop (e.g. Vanilla Ice) with the odd power ballad thrown in (e.g. "I Remember You" by Skid Row.) But in Grade 9 (or, "ninth grade"...

I used to use BRY97 all the time, and I still really like it, but I've kind of moved away from it for this reason. It does great work, but it's sloooooooow.

You can try one of those "balloon" type rigs that capture fermentation CO2 and save it so that only CO2 is sucked back during cold crash. Never tried that myself, so don't know how well it works. I'm inclined to think that you'd need a pretty good seal on your bucket lid for it to work properly...

I think a lot of us have been disappointed with homebrew hop character and have jumped to the conclusion "well, I guess I just didn't use enough hops!" at which point we splurge on asinine amounts of hops and dump them in, only to be even more disappointed because the results are no better and...

I hate to be a downer, but I say this based on a fair bit of personal experience and frustration: if you're bottling your beer from a bucket, don't even bother with IPA. If you move to kegging, there are lots of little tricks you can use to vastly improve your IPA, but with bottling there is...

On a semi-related note to this thread, I have long felt that beer gets overly scapegoated for weight gain. I've spent tons of time in the last 25 years hanging out in large groups of beer-drinking dudes. I can't count the number of times in these groups I've heard conversations that go...

^^ what I was going to say. I never leave beer sitting in fermentors for any longer than absolutely necessary. Once fermentation and dry-hop (if applicable) are done, it's over to the purged keg as soon as I can manage. Doesn't mean I necessarily start to drink that keg any sooner, it just...

I have a pair of 10lb tanks. IMO, having at least 2 tanks is almost essential. If not essential, then extremely damn convenient. First of all, the obvious: it gives you some redundancy. If a tank gets unexpectedly drained by a leak, you can still pour beer until you get a chance to head...

This is a pretty balanced take on it, IMO. I used to rip the lid off my buckets to take the customary pair of grav samples, then move the beer to an open-topped bottling bucket, where it would sit for the full duration of the bottling process, etc. Or, when I first started kegging, the...

Cool PR stunt, but it doesn't prove what Tesla's marketing department thinks it proves. I say "marketing department" because I refuse to believe that Tesla engineers actually think this demonstration would impress anybody who paid attention in high school physics class. The Ford probably...

I've been wondering about this, too. It's one of those things where I'm sure lots of people will have science-y explanations of what "should" happen but I'm wondering what has actually happened for anybody who has done it. I'll try it eventually.

When recording alone I use Toontrack EZ Drummer, which is basically a program for creating MIDI drums in a DAW. You don't tinker with the drum lines beat for beat, but you can select from a range of different kits, change the complexity of the parts, change the velocity of the parts, etc...

This statement seems to be ignoring the psychology. People fear the unknown, especially when large amounts of money are involved. This creates market inertia. I wouldn't be surprised to see sales of e-vehicles rise steadily as more and more of the old guard moves on and the younger generation...

On my most recent batch, just before adding the Citra dry hops I did a smell test on them and my immediate thought was that they seemed a bit stale and cheesy. I paused and considered leaving them out, but ultimately dumped them in, which was a mistake. I'm fully aware that dry hops need to be...

IPAs are definitely more difficult than most styles to do well. If your fermentation took off like you describe, then you definitely didn't under-pitch. I highly, highly doubt you over-pitched, as that is not easy to do. I can't say definitively that whatever specific issue you're...

In my experience, dry hops almost always do more harm than good unless you've got a really good process in place for avoiding oxygen on the cold side (i.e., closed transfers during packaging, no cold crashing unless under CO2 pressure, no opening fermentors to pull samples, etc.) I've done at...

It will be perfectly fine, if maybe a tad more fermentable than you were expecting. Recently I did a ~12 hour mash on a known recipe and my supposed 6.2% ABV beer ended up at 7.6%, with an FG of 1.004. Oops, I guess? Still tasted great though.

Hope it works out for you. And your English is easily better than 90% of the gibberish you see from native English speakers on the internet and social media, so don't sweat it.

The recipe looks pretty good to me; the malt bill is similar to the approach I use on blonde ales where the goal is to have a simple, drinkable summer type beer that both beer snobs and Coors drinkers have a chance of liking. I'd be careful with the wheat on beers like this; I find it makes the...

Personally, I'd be more inclined to just let the keg ride and do it differently next time. If you want to dump hops into the keg, make sure they're in a bag or something so they don't clog up the flow.