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At the smithwicks brewery, the guy was able to get the head to pop a full half inch out of the glass, forming the "rook" on top of the smithwicks logo. The trick - coat the entire inside of the glass with a thin layer of beer before going into the actual pour. Then be very incremental. The...

I'll see myself out....

I'm gonna link to the paper here because there is far more useful information in here than I could hope to relay effectively by typing it. In short, I'm lazy. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/jf0501701 passedpawn - The methods section on page 1, bottom right column is where they describe...

I agree that once a single protein molecule is denatured, it is very difficult through common means to get back a protein with any catalytic activity. Not impossible, just NEXT to impossible as it relates to brewing. Sorry to nitpick. I was able to track down this graph from a study involving...

For the practical purposes of brewing, this doesn't apply but the over generalizations were bugging me. So I've seen at least three posts declaring enzyme denaturation an "irreversible" process which is an oversimplification of the issue. Denaturation is not only an effect of heat but also of...

I used envirotex lite high gloss epoxy on our kitchen countertops about a year ago. Still shiny, still in one piece. Very happy with that product. It'd be hard to judge any UV degradation, however, since the counter is black with gold/silver flecks in it. All I know is we beat the hell out of...

When is the auction going down?

If you end up in Galway, ask for a Galway Hooker. You won't be dissapointed. We also visited the Dingle Brewing Co. out on the Dingle peninsula and got Tom Crean's fresh off the tap. Delicious!

If you're going to be directly firing the mash tun, there needs to be some sort of action with the mash, be it through recirculation with a pump, or stirring the crap out of it with a paddle, like when taking of a decoction from the mash. Direct flame hot enough to raise mash temp in prolonged...

Here's a couple of our "Chief Adviser on Russian Imperial Stouts"

I'm in there every other week and love having such a well stocked LHBS within 10 minutes of the house. They have a decent selection of lb. bags of hops, and let you order some of the more exotic varieties if they don't, then text you when it comes in! The grain I've gotten has always been...

Bump. Price reduced to 50 bucks.

The fact that it is a common, I'll use the word "pervasive", practice should not make it an accepted one. Skepticism and constant challenge to the accepted notion is what can bring back the industry from the "publish for cash" revolving door model it has become. I applaud you for staying...

^ Eh, you don't really wanna use those either. I've spent (read: wasted) a considerable amount of time trying to replicate results from supposedly "vetted" and "peer reviewed" articles in both those journals. Ask any of the authors, and most will say the results found in these papers are the 2...

Brand new. Controller and probe. No power cable. $60.

Leave it. The yeast know where to go...

+1 The shelf life of starsan diluted with non DI water is directly proportional to the level of calcium in your municipal water supply. Ca+ reacts with the acid group, and the insoluble particulate is the cloud that's left behind. If your batch is cloudy, but still below 3.0 pH, you've bound...

So far no problems, and I've followed this method for roughly 2 years now. In the 5-10mins it has from coming out of the oven (thinking about it now its probably closer to 20 after hooking everything up) to flameout, it actually cools quite a bit. I imagine dropping 55f H2O into at 400f could...

My guess is that at that price, the single lens that's between the sample and the camera chip will result in a pretty terrible resolution at high mag. You need a high quality lens to keep the light from scattering when you're down at bacteria's level. There will also be pretty rough spherical...

I starsan, dump it, and then foil the input and output. Then it goes in the oven at 400 for the length of the boil. Take it out with 5 mins to go, hook everything up, and let it ride.