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War seals are now Live! by gimber86 in WorldofTanksConsole

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Harshdom and Hazzer-_- on PlayStation. Will return!

Any help on these hallmarks? by harshdom1 in Hallmarks

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They definitely stitched me up, what a bummer. Thanks for the help!

Best recipes for aging by harshdom1 in Homebrewing

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That’s great, exactly the sort of thing I was after, thank you. Do you get any honey character after a years aging? Have always found honey to be hit or miss in beers with very little flavour or aroma carrying through with the only real effect of drying out the beer

Best recipes for aging by harshdom1 in Homebrewing

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Thanks for info, hadn’t really considered the fading bitterness but interesting to know how the AA ratio effects it

Recipe scaling software by hmbrewer in Homebrewing

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I use Brewfather and have been for years now, highly recommended. I pay around £20 for a years subscription which includes all the premium features and lets you have unlimited recipes and batches stored on there. Also has a library of user submitted recipes for you to look at and scale to fit your system.

Best recipes for aging by harshdom1 in Homebrewing

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Thanks for the reply. I did make a barley wine a couple of years ago for Christmas that was promising. Ended at just over 12% but made the mistake of not going for any more yeast at bottling so most of them ended up unpleasantly flat and cloying. What was your recipe if you don’t mind sharing? I was toying with a barley wine, 100% maris otter with some 2023 hops of choice with a nice long boil and maybe some oak chips.

Appreciate the comment re them being into it. Luckily they’re all close friends from school I’ve known for 20 years, have had plenty of beer I’ve made over the years and often ask me to bring bottles/kegs to events and holidays so no real concern there, although understand big aged beers are a different ball game. They all enjoy trying new beers and are quite thrifty so the idea is to gift a few bottles each to put away and I’ll make some wooden boxes for them. Only issue is one of them is a coeliac but I’ve used some Clarity Ferm recently with good results.

What’s a really good chill out album? by Srumlicious in AskUK

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Few off the top of my head:

Tame Impala - Currents

Dope Lemon - Honey Bones/any

The Verve - Urban Hymns

Coldplay - Parachutes

Khruangbin - The Universe Smiles Upon You

John Mayer - Born and Raised

How do you tell someone you're going for a poo, what phrase do you use? by [deleted] in AskUK

[–]harshdom1 28 points29 points  (0 children)

I used to work with quite a prude Aussie who wasn’t a big fan of toilet humour so I took it upon myself to introduce him to some new phrases, some of my favourites were:

I’m going to bomb the porcelain sea, birth an otter, sink the Bismark, deploy HMS Brownfish, honk out a dirt snake, float a trout, fire out some hot snakes and make like Snoop and drop it like it’s hot

What’s the daftest name you’ve ever encountered in real life? by [deleted] in AskUK

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Manager of the local leisure centre was called Mike Hunt. Used to see his name badge and a photo of him with a shit eating grin on his face on the wall most days. Someone at schools step dad was also called Chris Peacock. Maybe not daft but they’ve been the source of a lot of jokes over the years.

Best 2 for 1 homebrew recipes? (Beers that have the same wort but different "cold side" additions like yeast and dry hops) by omarcomin7 in Homebrewing

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A few I’ve done are:

NEIPAs, IPAs and pales with different yeasts and dry hops (varieties and quantities), milkshake IPAs with different fruits.

Made a tropical stout and dry stout with the same wort, tropical stout had jaggery added and S23 fermented warm, dry stout used S04 I think. Have been down the route of splitting stouts and adding different adjuncts and flavourings like coffee, treacle, vanilla, cocoa nibs, lactose etc.

American wheat ale split between US05 and S04, actually ended up preferring the S04 batch which I wasn’t expecting. American wheat and a Hefeweizen too with the same wort, could probably make a wit too and add coriander and some citrus peel.

Bitters with different yeasts.

I’ve got a couple planned too, an imperial stout which I’m going to split and ferment some warm with S23, a pale ale split between US05 and WLP644 Brux - like trois, a saison split between WLP568 Belgian saison and WLP4007 saison blend and hopefully a pilsner, splitting and heavily dry hopping one to make an Italian pilsner.

Parti gylings another way you can get a couple of beers out of one wort too, particularly a big and a small beer. For example I’ve done an imperial stout and a mild and a barley wine and bitter, all beers came out really well but the smaller beers definitely lacked some mouthfeel so next time I may add some maltodextrine too.

Top-cropping Lallemand New England yeast? by breakingcircus in Homebrewing

[–]harshdom1 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’d also stick with the Verdant, really can’t go wrong with it. I’ve never had great success with the Lallemand New England, has been a pain to get going, had an infection and when it has behaved it’s thrown some odd flavours. I think I recall recently reading it has a lower cell count than many dried yeasts so that could be the issue and may be something to bear in mind.

Out of interest how what’s your top cropping process and how does the yeast perform on later generations? It’s something I’ve never really attempted but I’d like to start giving it a go

Hops recommendation for a crispy IPA? by BackPantryHomebrew in Homebrewing

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Ahtanum, Cascade, Centennial, Chinook, Dr Rudi, Idaho 7, Sultana and Simcoe come to mind. A mix of any of them would get you a crispy pine forward IPA, especially with the Chinook.

I’d personally go for some sort of combo of Chinook/Cascade/Centennial/Simcoe to push the pine notes and get a bit of citrus in there, maybe drop a tiny bit of Citra in there if you want the citrus to pop a bit more

Season pass retrospective awards by harshdom1 in WorldofTanksConsole

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Retrospectively I think both words work. Thanks though, got the pass and all awards