HOMEBREW Digest #0213

Published in

· 8 months ago

HOMEBREW Digest #213		             Fri 28 July 1989 

	FORUM ON BEER, HOMEBREWING, AND RELATED ISSUES 
		Rob Gardner, Digest Coordinator 

Contents: 
  Shipping beer (John D. Polstra) 
  Using grain (Drew) Lynch <atl@ardent.com> 

---------------------------------------------------------------------- 

Date: Thu, 27 Jul 89 08:31:48 PDT 
From: polstra!jdp@uunet.UU.NET (John D. Polstra) 
Subject: Shipping beer 

In HOMEBREW Digest #212, Mike Fertsch <FERTSCH@adc1.RAY.COM> writes: 
> I would hesitate to take homebrew as carry-on.  How can the security 
> people be sure your unlabelled, hand-capped bottle doesn't contain 
> gasoline or some other explosove fluid? 

Just as a data point, I've taken homebrew as carry-on at least 4 or 5 
times.  There's never been any hassle with the security people. 
Sometimes they ask what it is, because on their X-ray screen an upright 
six-pack looks like six quarters floating in midair.  I just tell them 
it is beer, and they say OK, and that's that. 

A bottle of something doesn't seem very threatening to me, as long as it 
*obviously* has no detonation device.  (Don't pack your homebrew into 
the body of a radio, for instance.) 

One of the security people even told me about some guy from Japan who 
had come through a few days before with two cases of Coors to take back 
home with him.  (Americans are worried about being taken over by these 
people??? ;-) 

I've never tried carrying beer onto an international flight, but I might 
give it a go soon.  I'll let you know how that works out. 

-- John Polstra               jdp@polstra.UUCP 
   Polstra & Co., Inc.        ...{uunet,sun}!practic!polstra!jdp 
   Seattle, WA                (206) 932-6482 

------------------------------ 

Date: Thu, 27 Jul 89 10:44:34 PDT 
From: Andrew (Drew) Lynch <atl@ardent.com> 
Subject: Using grain 

I have noticed quite a few people mentioning that when using whole 
grain malts, (crystal, chocolate, etc.)  that they should not be 
boiled, only steeped.  Where does this fit into the brewing process? 
What is the proper "steeping" temperature. And, most importantly, why 
not boil? 

                               Thanx in advance, 
                                     Drew 

------------------------------ 

End of HOMEBREW Digest #213, 07/28/89