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@Nubiwan True. When I was a boy I followed Formula 1 very keenly. It goes without saying, my colours were uniform red. Well, at that time, basically the only Italian top person in the team was the chief engineer Forghieri. Later, not even that. Not one pilot, not the chief engineer. There was a...

In Italy cycling is the second most practised sport (at all levels) and is probably the second most viewed sport in television. It's a national passion second only to football. And yet, since the mist of times, the most important competitions are private tournaments. I don't understand why you...

Why not giving the right answer to the wrong question? ;) Besides, blade grinders will probably lose quality over time. It's not for everybody to sharpen blades. Burrs take much longer to wear out. They get dirty, but can be easily cleaned with rice.

@Brewdogbrew The phase at 170 °F is very short and has no influence on the overall mash, also because it is very close to enzyme denaturation so its effect is to stop the enzymes action. The sparge phase is not really part of the mash schedule. It's just something that you do in order to...

I use a Fido jar and put the beans in the fridge. I am not convinced about expelling air. This creates a vacuum, which in turn "encourages" beans to vent out aromas. For the same reason, I am not convinced about venting CO2 emitted by the beans, which for what I understand will just encourage...

Actually, I think "this sort of reaction" happened exactly because the fans do not understand that football "has already become a financial farce". People reacted as if we were in the 1970'. I don't think it's a farce, it is sport-businss, not unlike cyclism, or Formula 1, which underwent this...

It wasn't me but @TheBluePhantom . My suggestion was to compost them...

I suppose the OP has fresh cherries. I see now from Wikipedia maraschino cherries are sold in the US preserved, bleached and coloured with an awful vivid red. All those I saw are basically black. They are preserved under spirit or under syrup. Same for amarene and marasche, which are two other...

If you are vegan, maybe you can try carrageenan. It should more or less work as gelatin. I don't know about how it works at very low temperatures, though.

They are delicious to make Maraschino, the brandy. Those cherries are not good for normal consumption. I wonder where you bought them. https://www.etilika.it/liquore-maraschino-luxardo-070-lt You could ferment them and then find a friend who has a distiller and who knows how to make fruit...

Yes, but then came back to Italy :)

If you brew espresso, a burr grinder is necessary. Burr grinders fracture the bean along its natural fracture lines, blades "cut" them, which means breaking more cells, losing the fermentation gases which means losing more aroma. The espresso machine will then make "explode" the cells in the...

Not all yeast strains are born equal. Some flocculate more, some less. What yeast were you using? I would not rule out that, while with certain yeast strains cold is clarifying enough, with others a fining agent is useful (at those temperatures it would probably be gelatine and it would work...

I doesn't come actually with a storage solution (at least not my kit) but that means nothing, the dry storage is recommended for long-term storage. If you use it in everyday lab operations, you keep it in storage solution. If you put it apart, you rinse it with water and store it dry. When you...

Yes, I didn't object on being served the amount I paid, but in being served it in a less-than-intelligent glass :) , which, as you say, is annoying. Truth be told, when I ordered Guinness the glass was the same, but there was a cap of foam, so less beer. I almost never ordered a Lager (never...

I was in England during one University year as an Erasmus student. I never understood this idiocy of filling the glass to the brim. One had to immediately drink a bit of it or before arriving to the table the beer would have been on my jumper. Why should a simple thing as serving a glass of be...

@Qhrumphf I don't want to enter into this economic-political-philosophical discussion of the relationship between capital and labour. Many wars have been fought for that. Let's say that what you call the "parasites" risk the billions, and what you call the "employees", in this football world...

@NotSure I wasn't clear. My question referred to the temperature at which you store the bottles. It is not unheard that fermentation can restart and yeast can begin, slowly but tirelessly, digesting complex sugars that they did not touch during the first fermentation. When this happens, it is...

@soccerdad A firm produces a product because they think there is a market for the product. There is no responsibility for customers whatsoever. You can build bicycles, and then you decide to move into cars. You can ditch the bicycle business and concentrate on cars. The fact that your customers...