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GasMD30 wrote:I'm having flashbacks to my biochemistry days... Awesome find and welcome!

ralphd wrote:I lived in Ottawa for several years, and liked the wide selection of beers as well as lots of cheap ($1/bottle) beer. After moving back to NS a few years ago, there was some sticker shock having to pay ~$2/bottle.
Aside from finding popular mainstream beers (like bud & coors lite) boring, I don't think I'm much of a beer snob. As long as it has flavor, I'll like it - from an oatmeal stout to a wheat beer (esp. with a hint of coriander). If it's cheap or I made it myself (or both), it's even better.

I've done a Couple of the coopers kits (found a few on sale for $10 at Noble Grape last year), and found them nearly foolproof. My last batch I used about 50/50 cane/corn sugar and it turned out fine. Recently I found an article by Labatt that indicates sucrose ferments just as well as dextrose (with a slight difference in fermentation time), so in the batch I just started I used just cane sugar in addition to the hopped malt.
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mr x wrote:Experienced brewers know how to use both.

mr x wrote:Yeast, malt, hops, and even water to a certain extent are all living things. Mix them together and it is a witches brew in some regards...

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
from Macbeth

A dark Cave. In the middle, a Caldron boiling. Thunder.

Enter the three Witches.

1 WITCH. Thrice the brinded cat hath mew'd.
2 WITCH. Thrice and once, the hedge-pig whin'd.
3 WITCH. Harpier cries:—'tis time! 'tis time!
1 WITCH. Round about the caldron go;
In the poison'd entrails throw.—
Toad, that under cold stone,
Days and nights has thirty-one;
Swelter'd venom sleeping got,
Boil thou first i' the charmed pot!
ALL. Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and caldron bubble.
2 WITCH. Fillet of a fenny snake,
In the caldron boil and bake;
Eye of newt, and toe of frog,
Wool of bat, and tongue of dog,
Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting,
Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing,—
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
ALL. Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and caldron bubble.
3 WITCH. Scale of dragon; tooth of wolf;
Witches' mummy; maw and gulf
Of the ravin'd salt-sea shark;
Root of hemlock digg'd i the dark;
Liver of blaspheming Jew;
Gall of goat, and slips of yew
Sliver'd in the moon's eclipse;
Nose of Turk, and Tartar's lips;
Finger of birth-strangled babe
Ditch-deliver'd by a drab,—
Make the gruel thick and slab:
Add thereto a tiger's chaudron,
For the ingrediants of our caldron.
ALL. Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and caldron bubble.
2 WITCH. Cool it with a baboon's blood,
Then the charm is firm and good.