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HOMEBREW Digest #0333
HOMEBREW Digest #333 Thu 28 December 1989
FORUM ON BEER, HOMEBREWING, AND RELATED ISSUES
Rob Gardner, Digest Coordinator
Contents:
Re: The Beer Hunter (Pete Soper)
Glass carboys (Dave Suurballe)
Glass fermenters (Norm Hardy)
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Date: Wed, 27 Dec 89 10:37:46 EST
From: Pete Soper <soper@maxzilla.encore.com>
Subject: Re: The Beer Hunter
I got word about this Michael Jackson program also but have no
access to schedules. If somebody out there has a Discovery channel
schedule for January it would be really handy if they would post
the dates and times for these programs. Thanks.
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Date: Wed, 27 Dec 89 10:45:18 PST
From: hsfmsh!hsfdjs!suurb@sfsun.West.Sun.COM (Dave Suurballe)
Subject: Glass carboys
Marty Albini says don't use glass carboys for primary fermentation.
I've never used anything else, and I've never had any problems at all.
The carboy is a 25-liter acid bottle with a standard water-filled
fermentation lock. There is plenty of room between the top of the foam
and the lock, and nothing has ever clogged it. I use Sierra Nevada
yeast taken from two bottles three days before pitching. This yeast in
this quantity has never demonstrated the problems I have read in the
digest; it never has more than two inches of foam.
So I think Marty's advice should be modified a little: if your
fermentations are explosive, don't use glass. Otherwise it's ok.
I just got back from Christmas in New Jersey, where I drank a lager
called Bunker Hill, brewed by 'The Lion, Inc., Wilkes-Barre'. Does
anyone know about this beer or the brewery? I'd never heard of it, and
I thought the hoppiness was just right.
Suurb
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Date: Wed, 27 Dec 89 19:31:07 PST
From: polstra!norm@hplabs.HP.COM (Norm Hardy)
Subject: Glass fermenters
This talk of not using glass because of explosion possibilities is amazing.
Let me describe how I do it. I use a 7 gal glass carboy for the primary and
fill it to 5.5 gal at the most. An airlock is sufficient, and the foam rarely
gets up to the top. Then I rack into a 5 gal secondary full up and allow the
beer to condition. NO PROBLEMS! The blow-off tube is not used, it's not
needed. The resulting beers are fine.
Norm in Seattle
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End of HOMEBREW Digest #333, 12/28/89
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