it ' s normal . I went through a phase of thinking everyone working at safeways was trans , you spend so long worrying about gender differences and your own experience of passing or otherwise that you miss the vast variation in the human phenotype . <| sep |> My family keeps asking about mine , too ! Granted , I can go on and on about her lol <| sep |> I mean she was comparing some 27 yo guy that has hair merged into his hat to her 62 yo old partner . <| sep |> Haha no worries man , glad I could help <| sep |> In 2012 Mitt Romney said Russia was the biggest risk right ? He should be SoS <| sep |> I ' ve not had the time to compare decoction vs batch sparge side by side yet , but hopefully soon . I did a brett pilsner that was fermented at ale temps , and after chilling in the keg for a month it dropped completely clear and tastes more lager like . The biggest part of making a great lager is yeast and fermentation temperatures . If your mash process is nailed down to hit the numbers you want which was half of my problem last year then your base wort should be fine . Yeast pitch rate is usually more than an ale , 2 pure pitch or smackpacks to skip making a starter worked very well for me this year . Water profile is up to you . I ' m fairly happy with our water , for a bit more hop bite I ' ll add some gypsum for IPAs . My fermentation schedule is in the blog post , I ' ll put the bucket back in the fermentation chamber after the drest before kegging if that wasn ' t clear .