Recent content by Northern_Brewer

As I say, something seems to happen around 4.2% where the alcohol takes over the role of supplying body, so while it never hurts to do everything one can to maximise body, I was mainly thinking of <4%. But the task at hand is to impress the brew club with an 8A, so we need all the tricks. So...

A hop plant is never going to freak out over some rain, they're thirsty things. Whereas the first thing I see is some holes in the topmost full leaves. So it looks like something is eating them, but it's not something we get here, so it's over to the US contingent... But I'd look carefully on...

Apropos of nothing, I was just looking at Yeastman and our old friend WLP037 is on release again, along with WLP022 Essex which feels like the first time in a long time. However, WLP038 Manchester appears to have become a non-yeast, it's no longer even on the White Labs website, so last year's...

FYI WLP037 is on release again

...whereas now it seems to have been the subject of a Soviet-style purge and is now a non-yeast, it's no longer even on Yeastman or on the White Labs website, it has disappeared completely, so hold on to any stocks you have!!!

Ah - so many points to address. But just to get the big one out of the way - Ordinary Bitter is like American football. The locals just call it "football", but to anyone from the civilised world who is looking to classify it among the wider family, it gets called American football. And even the...

Alps?

AIUI Biofine is just silicic acid - so kieselsol.

It's Omnipollo. It's what they do.

Very typical of Omnipollo though, who use way too much lactose etc for my taste.

I was sort of waiting for more detail than a country, unless "United States" is now acceptable for most of the pictures posted here....

Yes it's Bhutan

OK, let's go somewhere where there's no shortage of water...

I didn't say it was Avila, merely that there was a memorial to it as it had historical significance. Blenheim Palace isn't in Bavaria, Waterloo station isn't in Belgium. But if it's two hours away then that implies somewhere down on the Tagus valley towards Toledo. If we're talking the...

Ávila is a town in Spain, but in Roman times it was known as Abila or Abela according to Wikipedia, so do we have something like the shrine a few goes back, a "fake" classical ruin that is much more recent than Roman times? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81vila#History It also has...