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Hate to break it to you but this whole forum is based on the production of chemicals namely ethanol, with hopefully not to many esters and aldehydes thrown in ;).

what about getting in touch with the guy in the store and tell him the crush and the out of date yeast were a pile of pants. I would expect him to replace both for nothing after wasting a good deal of your time with this rubbish.

By instantly dismissing decoction mashing without having tried it would we not be guilty of the same crime ;) Not that im calling anybodys legitimacy and parentage into question (SI or decoction mashing just doesn't move me in that way :D ).

Hops were used in beer for their anti-microbial properties to stop beer spoilage. With improved sanitation we no longer need them, would you advocate removing them from beer?? Just because we have access to good malts that brewers of old didn't, doesn't mean that processes that they utilised to...

Surely the decotion mash would add different levels of complexity to the beer? (I can't see how it wouldn't to be honest). Im not saying for one second that im going to rush of and change from single infusion (im lazy and it makes good beer). But there is many things that used to be done in...

One very important thing having a frost free freezer will significantly (adversely) affect the viability of your cultures (over time) these freezer are constantly arseing about with the temp something the yeasties won't like.

step up the culture volume a few times which will dilute the glycerol to neglible levels (if your'e worried), should be ok unless of course you believe in homeopathy where the toxic affects will be magnified many many times fold :confused: ;) or you could just use the glycerin you buy for...

Hydrometers are used routinely to measure suspensions (ie the amount of clay in silt etc) so i don't think particles need to be dissolved/solvated to cause an increase in the hydro readings. Also you could argue that the larger trub clumps (those likely to fall out out much quicker) are less...

Stick your hydrometer in porridge see what sort of reading you get even with the oats not dissolved in the milk!! Im guessing it would be pretty high :D .

Yes mine would be very similar at that stage, it seems to be it that it has to be left overnight to produce the big fall (there must still be lots of much smaller proteins in solution which take longer to fall out keeping the gravity high at about 45-60 mins).

That surprises me i can't imagine the trub settling out not affecting the gravity to some extent. Do you have quite a lot of sedimented debris at the bottom of the trail jar? Maybe its something im doing thats producing excessive amounts of proteins that are giving me 'falser' gravity readings...

Was thinking about this the other day. I've noticed that when i take a sample of the boiled wort and cool it down to 20C i get high hydrometer readings. But when i let the same sample sit overnight which allowed the trub to completely fall out of suspension the reading was way down, is it...

It does have a flavour all of its own . you could try making carolines ale which is just MO and goldings, nothing else!!

Great post :cool:

:D :D Just for arguments sake should that be an old nike or old reebok :D :D . This thread is like a return to aristotlean logic what with the whole all #7 are this but not all # are that, 'you, you are number six, i am not a number i am a FREE MAN' What about some emperical science here...

Ive also read somewhere that some tannins in the runoff actually helps in the protein precipitaion process (ie combines with the proteins to form large complexes that are water insoluble and hence drop out of solution therby reducing haze). So maybe its not a good thing to be too anal about the...

I wouldn't worry too much i imagine a few husks getting into a 5 gallon batch isn't going to impart any detectable off flavours. But i reckon if you keep batch sparging and spending 45 mins recirculating each time there is a good chance you'll throw in the towel with AG (i know i would if i had...

When copying a recipe with hop pellets and you only have whole hops how much do you up to up the weight percentage wise, i think i read somewhere its 10% is that right????

Nothing except you should be ordering irish :mug: .

mines 9 inches but its not a record :D (bit outdated since the demise of vinyl)