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If you're going for "real ale", your best bet is to get a kegging system and keg condition. Unfortunately, most of us lose the "real ale" distinction even when we cask condition because, without an expensive beer engine, homebrew kegs have to serve under bottled CO2 pressure. Bottled "real ale"...

If you cut the Light DME down to 2.5lb, and lose the munich, you have what is almost a Witbier. I think that the high gravity you've got there wouldn't be balanced with the low hopping. Even better, if you can rustle up a couple pounds of raw soft white winter wheat for the mash, you'll be...

Yeah, that is kind of a silly poll. The debates have not been about what the text of the amendment is - a five year old could find the text in five minutes - but on what was intended by the amendment and how it should be interpreted in a contemporary context. (Beerrific: awesome.)

The oxygenation from the plastic bucket could be to imitate the oxygen leaching in the barrels lambic is traditionally fermented in. I'd be worried about flavour leaching from the plastic at that timeframe. (I believe the micro-oxygenation helps develop a good brettanomyces profile, perhaps...

Duvel tulip. Trois Pistoles goblet. Chouffe . . . glass. Miscellaneous curvy pint-pilsner-wheat-everything glass. And, for the wacky value, we have Pauwel Kwak.

If you're bottle conditioning, you can boil some hops with your priming solution DME (a bit more dilute than usual to help extraction). That way you're not diluting any more than you would be anyway.

You've got a lot of it if it's a yeastcake - make an imperial Wit. Unibroue makes a fantastic beer, it might be Don de Dieu, which is a big Wit grain bill with a little bit of candi sugar and it comes out around 8.5%. Imperial Wit, Tripel Wit, whatever you want to call it.

Give me more info. What hops? What's the OG? How much of these hops? If you can describe the flaw in more detail, we can help you figure out what it is.

I use it. It's great. "Oakes" is one of my favourite tasters. I've only rated, like, 20 beers - but I'm working on it.

Is it extract?

Welcome to the boards! I think you'll find this is a great resource - I bet you'll fit in fine.

Fluids at colder temperatures will hold more dissolved gases, which come out of solution when they warm up. Fermentation created CO2 in your beer, which stayed in solution because of cold lager temperatures. Cool, eh? My understanding is that if you bottle without warming it up ever, it will...

What about a weizenbock?

At least you're okay. Do premiums really go up regardless of who's found at fault? Oh, come on. Short of Pat Buchanan I don't think there's anybody who doesn't see the economic and cultural benefits of legal immigration. It's pretty sad that people try to see a causal link b/w the guy having...

It's surprisingly hard to mix wort thoroughly with top-off water. It's also very very hard to miss your OG with extract: you are adding a precise amount of sugar to a (fairly) precise amount of water, no two ways about it. Don't worry too much: the stirring-up it'll get in fermentation will...

You can make better beer by boiling unhopped malt extract with hops yourself. If you boil a no-boil kit, you'll have to add new flavour/aroma hops yourself, because the volatile aromatic compounds will have been driven off. I don't have experience with these kits, though.

I love that we're having a troll war about global warming on this forum. Maybe we should move it over to fark. Nonetheless, here's a good response to the articles suggesting our current phenomenon is due to fluctuations in the sun's output. I apologise if Sci-Am is less trustworthy than...

+1 on dates or figs as natural yeast. That's how they've been doing it for millennia. It might not taste "clean" like a pureculture cider, but it'll be delicious.

This amazes me. You don't happen to be a Fox News viewer? ;) (Hint: phenomena is plural. "the phenomenon was renamed"/"the phenomena were renamed") link

My God - you're a superhero. That's amazing. Will you come talk to my grade six class and sign autographs?