I have to admit, I like coffee, but very very rarely.

I drink it maybe when I have a training here at work and am having problems with staying awake in those stuffy meeting rooms.

I drink it when we have a dinner party and then make a nice espresso with my Italian stovetop espresso pot.

That's about the sum total of it, I drink possibly two pints of coffee over any given year and that is just recently, before that I might have drank two pints over ten years.

I don't like the feeling it...

Not sure if I am higher or lower than you outbreak - might have to get the rulers out :). When I walk from the pub on the river bank (also at sea-level) back to home (the top of the river bank) it sometimes feels like 200 m :roll:.

Somehow I think SS is winning :).

My friend last night sent me a few .pdf's of brewing books meant for commercial breweries. I don't think I'll ever in my life be able to understand these. I'll have to go complete a biochemist degree if I want any shot at reading it!

Math is a method for us to interact with the constants of the universe and laws of physics. That's not quite a human invention, just a discovery.

I can only dream that I have a knack for anything ;) As far as the long hours and not much money, it doesn't sound too different from what I am normally accustomed to. I have only been out of graduate school for a little over a year now, and my wife is in medical school (i.e. we are in debit galore).

I think my main pull towards making a career out of my hobby is that it isn't really too different from my job already. Being an organic chemist, I mix stuff together, monitor the outcome (and...

There will be in approx 7 1/2 months honey bunny!!!!

What :shock:? You can't pin this next one on me. The only contact we had six weeks ago was by phone?

If you'd written the above post in February, I would have got my cheque book out straight away, no worries, but forcing paternity on me after an hour of phone sex six weeks ago is ludicrous.

Nice try darling, nice first post and congratulations to you (and possibly your husband) on your upcoming fourth child. Great news!

Lots of love and...

Let us know what you're planning. I'm going to have a crack at a braggot in the next month or so.

Four books at once Cameron! That must make for some wild dreams.

Let me know what Malinche was like if you can.

Cheers mate,
PP

I ran out around my birthday...Since then I've been putting a brew down every couple of weeks. Am aiming to get all my kegs filled at the same time for a change :P

Heard nothing but good stories about this movie. Gonna take the missus to see it tonight :D

You have inspired me to give this a shot. I have a few PET bottles I can try this with on my next bottling round.

Here it is fermenting away happily at 63F:

And here's a picture of a cute Apple chick (just because):

Looking forward to trying a levitation , great brewery

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Do I brew something that I have all to myself (choc porter perhaps - the missus and father-in-law won't drink it ;) ) or something that everyone likes?

I would brew a german pilsner but, as others have said, it would have to be a huge batch so I don't need to be stingy with it.

I find the opposite with kegging Matt. When it's too late and I'm too pissed to crack open another that may be wasted (I hate finding HALF a beer on the table next day) I think Ah I'll just have a halfa This of course is repeatable, and where I would have once seen reason and called it quits I now put away another six, all in quick halfas... Anything in a keg that's over 6% hurts me..badly.
Lloydie

already on it hashie, told him i will buy any he finds for 10$ :D really hope he happens across another soda set-up :P already have the top cut off and ready to brew my next batch :P Wiz I'll mail you one should only cost a couple 100$ with shipping :(

Yup I've been to a few brew days now, and although I can see the advantages and fine control offered by a HERMs system you either have to be quite financially well off or an engineering geek to get a good HERMs system going. On the other hand the few brew days I have attended where they are using picnic coolers for the mash tun, a big pot on a Rambo Burner and a similar pot precariously balanced on a heap of milk crates as the HLT, the poor buggers have been busier than a one armed bricklayer...

it holds his battery and electronics I think its a good looking bike love the x650 choppers

Cheers Matt, thanks.

I did have a great day and with a few beers here and there, made it last a couple of weeks.

Agree with you on being spoilt. I couldn't begin to imagine what it would be like going back to kits and bits or pub beer. I used to think it was great beer(k&b). Now I look back and think how thin and bland it was by comparison. Pub beer...nuff said.

Yep that sounds like a very dodgy beer.

Matt, I am impressed at your brewing the Black Forest Stout. Cherries and chocolate in beer, while impresing me, also scares me a lot! I always brew beers at the lager or pale ale end of the range. I also always have a schwartzbier on tap which I really enjoy.

I hate mangos but had a mango beer a while back which was actually quite good. Do you think I could ever enjoy cherries and chocolate in beer? Can you send me a bottle? Don't worry about a 750ml...

(I can't understand why anyone would want to plant them vertical?)
I think people plant them vertically because you may have shoots coming from various points around the 'zome and when you plant them vertical it gives all shoots a chance to grow straight upwards where as if Amy shoot are pointing to the bottom they basically have to turn around. (Not sure if this is really an issue, it just seems logical to me)
And I think that when you see one that has grown you can see the major part of th...

Sunny Florida and she is definitely reasonable :D

Oh man, I am in brewing heaven. I have been brewing like mad for competitions and family events, so recently, the list has been;

English Mild 3.5%
Ordinary Bitter 3.4%
ESB 5.5%
All POR IPA 7.5%
West Coast Blaster (Jamil's Book) 6.5%
Oatmeal Stout 5.0%

currently brewing Jamil's Black Forest Stout 6.5%

Just had a few milds today while gardening, life is good!

Matt

Good news hashie!

Yeah, depending on style, with ales I reckon it has to be around 1.008 or lower to really notice hyper- attenuation and even if it is, then the stuff is still drinkable. Lowest I've had was 1.004 and it was accepted by all samplers with very few remarks.
FWIW, I had some Munich Helles finish at 1.006 and it could've been even lower as it wasn't as dry as I'd expected, still had some lingering sweetness to it and not quite as refeshing as it could've been on a hot day. Didn't...