lethaldog wrote: ...i am now an all grainer and i have a keg setup with 8 kegs and i also bottle occasionally, my advice is dont listen to others just do what suits you, most of the time you already know the answer to your questions anyway and apart from a few specialty shops i have never had any advice from a HBs that i would bother listening to much less put into practice, go with your gut mate and if you keep brewing then your guts gonna be hard not to take notice of anyway
Hmmmm, I'm not altogether in agreement that the "Intraweb thingy" is mainly ill-conceived babble. To call it babble suggests you know better and worst than that, there are some things that I've foolishly dismissed as babble to find out later that it was in fact the truth - and that applies to any advice, not just what's on the net or in a HBS. My rationale is "If I don't know the answer or have solid / reliable evidence to back my claims, don't post!"...admittedly and sadly, not everyone operates under the same tenet...SpillsMostOfIt wrote:I've found that much of what you hear in the HBS (pub, tram, street or almost any other place) or read on the Intraweb thingy is likely to be ill-conceived babble. I get ideas from both places (less so the HBS these days as I have outgrown their style of doing things)...<snip>
If it makes you feel any better SMOI I think your mates are talking crap.SpillsMostOfIt wrote:I've got some mates who reckon that moving to kegs makes a bigger difference than moving from kit/extract to grain brewing
I fail to see how that will make him feel any better.Tipsy wrote:If it makes you feel any better SMOI I think your mates are talking crap.SpillsMostOfIt wrote:I've got some mates who reckon that moving to kegs makes a bigger difference than moving from kit/extract to grain brewing
Not at all. There is a great deal of stuff that has helped me a lot (and I have a very long way to go) in brewing and other endeavours. But, the signal to noise ratio is also really high, so I find that I have to trawl through a *lot* of dross to find the good stuff.Trough Lolly wrote: Hmmmm, I'm not altogether in agreement that the "Intraweb thingy" is mainly ill-conceived babble. To call it babble suggests you know better...
This is exactly my current complaint.Trough Lolly wrote: My rationale is "If I don't know the answer or have solid / reliable evidence to back my claims, don't post!"...admittedly and sadly, not everyone operates under the same tenet...
Given that I'm a bit over bottling and can't have a 'real' keg system at the moment...ryan wrote:I fail to see how that will make him feel any better.Tipsy wrote:If it makes you feel any better SMOI I think your mates are talking crap.SpillsMostOfIt wrote:I've got some mates who reckon that moving to kegs makes a bigger difference than moving from kit/extract to grain brewing
I think you mean "the signal to noise ratio is really low."SpillsMostOfIt wrote:But, the signal to noise ratio is also really high, so I find that I have to trawl through a *lot* of dross to find the good stuff.
If I remember correctly, a link the original research paper was posted on this site. The amount of olive oil was really small for a 23L batch, like measured in the microgram range.SpillsMostOfIt wrote:As a f'rinstance, I have been reading everything I can find about using olive oil in brewing. In several forums, the number of people who either openly or otherwise have said (paraphrased) "I don't know anything about this, but I am telling you it is crap." is simply amazing. Others have contributed stuff which defies logic entirely. I have no other option but to brew and give it a try for myself... *sigh*
Yep. That *is* what I meant, but for some reason I had a doubt about phrasing and so I googled it and the first couple of sites I looked at suggested my original phrasing was correct. Oh, well... *sigh*rwh wrote:I think you mean "the signal to noise ratio is really low."SpillsMostOfIt wrote:But, the signal to noise ratio is also really high, so I find that I have to trawl through a *lot* of dross to find the good stuff.
I read it on a couple of the US forums and the required quantity *is very* small, but that shouldn't provide too much of a challenge. The reason I'm contemplating it is because I think the greatest improvement I can currently make in my brewing is probably by improving my fermentation practice. Although this is a fairly wiggy step, I figure it can't hurt too much to give it a crack.rwh wrote: If I remember correctly, a link the original research paper was posted on this site. The amount of olive oil was really small for a 23L batch, like measured in the microgram range.
...indeed - and on this site it's quite tolerable compared to other forums that I've been on!rwh wrote:...I think you mean "the signal to noise ratio is really low."
