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This file received at Mthvax.CS.Miami.EDU 90/03/26 09:31:33
HOMEBREW Digest #384 Mon 26 March 1990
FORUM ON BEER, HOMEBREWING, AND RELATED ISSUES
Rob Gardner, Digest Coordinator
Contents:
hop update (Pete Soper)
beer sample (Pete Soper)
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Date: Fri, 23 Mar 90 21:20:16 EST
From: Pete Soper <soper@maxzilla.encore.com>
Subject: hop update
florianb@tekred.cna.tek.com spreads this wild rumor:
>I saw my first hops buds poking up through the soil this week. Anyone else?
I've got two Nugget and two Cascade buds showing today (3/23) after planting
3/12. Go, hops, go!
I gave up on Freshops incidently. I know they are good people, but 5 (#$!#!)
phone calls without being able to place an order was too much for me. I ordered
Cascade, Willamette and Tettnanger from Nichols. The rhizomes arrived a few
days later, packed very well. I'd like to believe my experience with Freshops
was just weird bad luck and hesitate to say anything beyond this.
- --Pete Soper
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Date: Sat, 24 Mar 90 20:34:35 EST
From: Pete Soper <soper@maxzilla.encore.com>
Subject: beer sample
I spent some time at a local supermarket today going over the beers for sale
there and made some notes about their date codes that I thought you might
find interesting.
As a preface, I found an old "Zymurgy" that had an article about Anchor
written by Dick Dunn. Aside from a lot of other interesting stuff Dick explained
Anchor's date code system. You look at the label like a clock face and
the position of the notch cut in the label is the month the beer was made. I
was on the verge of buying some Liberty Ale but, thanks to Dick's information
I said "No thanks" to that idea after examining the labels.
Where I list the code as "reg notches" I mean that my decoder patterned after
Chuck (fastest something or other) Cox's and Dave Suurballe's information was
used. Here are my notes:
Beer dates code notes
Anchor Liberty Ale 1/89,8/89,9/89 clock notch The layer of dust told
10/89 me the Jan bottles were
most likely last year's
Anchor Porter 5/89 clock notch
Anchor Steam 6/89,10/89 clock notch
Bass ale red line A red line on the back
label seems to indicate
the date. We need to
figure out this one.
Carlsberg Lager notches but nonsense
Courage Amber Lager 5/10/89,4/20/89 reg notches
Guinness Stout 10/2/89 reg notches
Harp Lager 2/13/90 reg notches
Kronenberg Lager notches but nonsense
Mackeson Triple Stout 11/24/88 reg notches Now this is *old*
Pironi 7/27/89 wide notches like regular notches but
spacing a bit wide
Sapporo 3 lines 3 lines on back label in
various positions
Sierra Nev. Pale Ale 9/13/89,9/23/89 reg notches
Sam Adams 6/89 notch on month
St. Pauli Girl notches but nonsense
Swiss Lowenbrau notches but nonsense
Whitbread Ale 11/21/89 reg notches
I've been tracking some of the British beers for several months now. I'm
convinced that this part of the world only gets these beers once or twice a
year. Sierra Nevada on the other hand is available 2-6 weeks old depending upon
where you look.
- --Pete Soper
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End of HOMEBREW Digest #384, 03/26/90
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