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I've heard reasonable things about them. At the end of the day, a kettle is only there to keep your beer from spilling onto the floor while you boil it. Even things like triclad bottoms are mostly unnecessary. That's a mighty big pot for 10 gallons, though. Are the dimensions such that it...

That's a bit of an oversimplification. Over-sparging can lead to problems, but I can't for the life of me imagine a mechanism by which high conversion or lauter efficiency would be a bad thing. We tend to talk about efficiency as if it were one thing, but most of the time we'd be better off...

Sorry, dude... it was funny the first, second, and third times, but the fourth time is where I draw the line. ;)

I think I've been using grep wrong.

Here's a post from a month earlier, presumably before HBT was even open to the public. :cross: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f11/asdsdasda-1/ I've long suspected that TxBrew actually is Hermann Hesse, and the literary merits of his early writings here only go to confirm that...

Very cool question. Here's my take on an answer (the Bukowski version): Singing does weird things to a language. Specifically here, it minimizes or even erases many of the sound differences between American and British English. There are some technical reasons for this, but I'll leave them...

No, it's not linear. Generally speaking, your beer will produce gas faster than it can dissolve it back in. In other words, you'll hit a peak PSI significantly above equilibrium at some point before priming is finished. That peak pressure isn't necessarily the point of highest risk for bottle...

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If you're not going to bother with a blowoff tube, there's nothing easier to keep clean than a sanitized piece of aluminum foil.

That's the rub, though, eh? Despite a few centuries of positive scientific interest in the topic, we're nowhere even near "provably consistent". If you're interested, here's a reasonably balanced article about the state of the art in psychophysics. The author is relatively optimistic about the...

1500W will do that well.

1500W is really not enough to manage strike/sparge water for 5 gallons. If your insulation is good enough, you'll get there eventually, but it'll take hours.

That's awesome! I'm still a long way from decided on how useful this is for beer (or, more accurately, whether the flavor profile is undisturbed enough for the benefits to be worth it), but I'm thrilled that this is working so well for mead. This should demonstrate my ignorance about...

Interesting question! I'm not a mead-maker, but yeast need nutrients for more than just cell division. I'm not sure what they would or wouldn't be able to get from the honey.

He sold half his stock in one weekend? Sounds like $7 wasn't charging enough!

Indeed, and that's why things like the BJCP style guide and hops catalogs are useful. Even if people have different physiological responses to the same stimulus, there are broad trends between people (it's not a coincidence that just about everyone likes mangoes) and between substances (cascade...

The argument here (and I'm certainly not an expert on the science behind it) is that it's not the same as music because it's not just about association. Unlike with sound, the electrochemical analog to a smelled stimulus is substantially different for different people. That's the wrong...

At a sub-species level, absolutely...which is why sub-species taxonomies are usually a complete train wreck. The remarkable thing about inter-species hybrids is how rare they actually are and, when it happens, the offspring is generally sterile. To a significant degree, nature imposes its own...

With biological classification, though, we're aided by the remarkable self-categorizing nature of genetics: a horse can't impregnate a grasshopper. Clearly we can make distinctions, and that's why the BJCP style guide is so useful. But the distinctions are made on the basis of perceptual...

Thanks for the examples! The human experience of semantics doesn't work like this, though, as AI researchers learned very painfully early on. We don't rely on intensional definitions to identify things in the world but rather encounter them as conceptual wholes. You might go ahead and...