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  1. Birrofilo

    Competitive Alcohol market but prices never come down

    You don't expect that competition brings prices down and down, do you? Competition keeps prices at a normal level of remuneration of risk and capital, it keeps them stable. Without competition, prices would be higher. Here in Italy, in "deep discount" supermarket chains, beer, vodka and gin of...
  2. Birrofilo

    The [Horribly Unpopular] Soccer Thread

    Truth be told, he fell flat also in the semi-final ;)
  3. Birrofilo

    The [Horribly Unpopular] Soccer Thread

    IT'S COMING ROME!
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    The [Horribly Unpopular] Soccer Thread

    When you have a strange foreboding for Sunday night...
  5. Birrofilo

    Explain decoction like I'm 5

    Decoction would have the effect of having the starch "burst" completely (rather than have some which remains in the grains) and thus increasing efficiency. Also, the boiling would create melanoidins which will impart a twist on the flavour. Czech beer PGI "České pivo" is all produced with the...
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    The [Horribly Unpopular] Soccer Thread

    A dive it certainly was, but not isolated, I saw four or five attempts of the same kind (one other also after the penalty). I understand the referee might have been fooled by that, but the replay at the VAR very clearly shows the real dynamics of the action. The VAR mistake is inexcusable and...
  7. Birrofilo

    What do you drink when you come home?

    When I come home after a long walk (90-120 minutes at sustained pace, it's my training for the mountain), I drink a light, refreshing beer and I drink quite a bit of it (often an entire 66cl bottle). This has to quench thirst and it cannot be one of my homebrewed beers, which are typically a bit...
  8. Birrofilo

    Help differentiating oxidation & astringency

    Astringency is the flavour you get when you over-infuse black tea, basically this is the basic flavour of tea in the canteen of the Hall of Residence when I was at a British University and they had this habit of putting the tea bags in the great cylinder and leaving it there forever. (At least...
  9. Birrofilo

    Alright this is gonna sound crazy but I'm calling it SCIENCE.

    Your can will have undergone a lot of maillard reaction by this time. Supposing there is no risk of metal contamination or botulinum, you already have an extract which is "good" for a dark beer, Belgian style, and you don't need to add candi sugar, even. ;) I don't know what the taste of it...
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    The [Horribly Unpopular] Soccer Thread

    Superstitions prevent me from making any comment :)
  11. Birrofilo

    Brewing in a country with alcohol prohibition

    I don't understand how a condom can be used as an airlock. I do understand that airlocks are not easy to find in Saudi Arabia, though. Best is to use hoses and buckets as shown a few posts above. Best wishes to the OP for the production and especially for his personal safety.
  12. Birrofilo

    Taste of aluminum?

    Are you drinking it "alone", with clean mouth, or with your meal? Some metallic tastes are produced by a combination of substances. A pretty famous example is given by most fishes with red wines. Other less known but quite "dramatic" examples are given by artichokes with red wines, or smoked...
  13. Birrofilo

    Is temperature important while bottle conditioning?

    For what I reckon, temperature during bottle conditioning has an effect (different temperatures, different effects) but very different from fermentation temperature. Differences in fermentation temperatures cause different production of aromatic compounds which are typically produced during...
  14. Birrofilo

    NEIPA bottling experiment using Daraform Oxygen Scavenging caps

    @Miraculix @neale and @Others You who fill the bottle up to 3-5 mm under the brim, do you use the typical automatic wand by pushing it to the side of the bottle or do you fill the bottle without the wand, by just letting the beer flowing along the side of the bottle, in order not to oxygenate...
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    The [Horribly Unpopular] Soccer Thread

    I certainly understand this reasoning. In fact, that's the weak point. But then, those who organize the tournament, normally want to be in. This can be overcome in two ways: a) UEFA organizes a "Europa league", which comprises around 20 top teams (to be qualified according to certain UEFA...
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    The [Horribly Unpopular] Soccer Thread

    Brother, you should understand we live in difficult times. Juve, Real, Barça and many other teams had an investment level which was perfectly compatible with their normal revenue turnaround. Then Covid arrived. Revenues had a sharp decline for two years, and are quite jeopardized also for the...
  17. Birrofilo

    The [Horribly Unpopular] Soccer Thread

    If one thinks that "sport" belongs to just one federation, it is he who is out of touch. Sport is sport. Football is football regardless of the tournament being organized by UEFA, FIFA, FIGC. Besides, those organizations will probably violate EU rules about freedom of competition if they take...
  18. Birrofilo

    The [Horribly Unpopular] Soccer Thread

    I am not aware of any change in the rules of FIGC or UEFA, so there is no infraction so far of any code of conduct. When and if those changes are implemented, they will only be valid for the future. UEFA behaves more and more like organized crime. There's a judge in Berlin!
  19. Birrofilo

    All In One Brewing Systems and Hot Side Aeration

    I think there are two main reasons: the first is that the count of the mash minutes in the phase should be repeatable, or you executing a given recipe. If you dough in the grains, and then make a long step-up to the first mashing temperature, and then leave the grains in the water for the...
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