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This file received at Mthvax.CS.Miami.EDU 91/07/16 03:05:50
HOMEBREW Digest #680 Tue 16 July 1991
FORUM ON BEER, HOMEBREWING, AND RELATED ISSUES
Rob Gardner, Digest Coordinator
Contents:
making malt (Aaron Birenboim)
Re: Question from a virgin home brewer (John DeCarlo)
Brewing in Maine (MC2331S)
carboys for single-stage fermentation (krweiss)
CT/first batch ("KATMAN.WNETS385")
Re: Homebrew Digest #679 (July 15, 1991) (Andy Levitt)
Anchor Steam (chris)
Peristaltic pumps. ("DRCV06::GRAHAM")
MeV Research (H.W.) Troup <HWT@BNR.CA>
Transfering hot wort to chiller (Mark Zaleski)
How many Homebrewers (hersh)
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Date: Mon, 15 Jul 91 08:26:17 MDT
From: abirenbo@isis.cs.du.edu (Aaron Birenboim)
Subject: making malt
I have a friend who wants to make his own malt. Does anybody
have any suggestions for how to go about this? References?
aaron
abirenbo@isis.cs.du.edu
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Date: Monday, 15 Jul 1991 11:17:18 EDT
From: m14051@mwvm.mitre.org (John DeCarlo)
Subject: Re: Question from a virgin home brewer
>Date: Sun, 14 Jul 91 2:55:50 MDT
>From: Rory K. McManus <rory@triton.unm.edu>
>The question: If I'm going to be doing a one step fermentation,
>do I need to have a carboy that is a gallon or three bigger than
>the amount of beer I'm brewing to account for the foam, or is
>this where I would be able to get away with a five gallon carboy
>for a five gallon batch using a blowoff tube? Thanks!
Yow! This is practically a religious question. Trying to be
more-or-less dispassionate you have two choices:
1) Use a 5-gallon carboy and use the blow-off method. This means
wedging a very large (1", 1.5"?) diameter tube in the top of the
carboy with the other end in a large bucket of water. All the
kraeusen and such will be sent out the tube into the bucket
during the primary fermentation.
2) Use a 7-gallon carboy and just attach an air-lock.
Which is better I will leave to those who wish to argue about
relative merits. Suffice to say that I use 2 because I can.
John "One brewer's opinion" DeCarlo
Internet: jdecarlo@mitre.org
(or John.DeCarlo@f131.n109.z1.fidonet.org)
Fidonet: 1:109/131
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Date: Mon, 15 Jul 91 10:24 CDT
From: MC2331S@ACAD.DRAKE.EDU
Subject: Brewing in Maine
My partner (who's VAX account has been deleted) is getting ready to
move to Orono, Maine. So naturally he wants to know about the state of things
there (terrible pun, I know). Info on brewpubs, clubs and supply shops can be
e-mailed to me.
Thanks
Mark W Castleman
MC2331S@ACAD.DRAKE.EDU
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Date: Mon, 15 Jul 91 08:27:56 -0700
From: krweiss@ucdavis.edu
Subject: carboys for single-stage fermentation
Rory McManus asks:
>The question: If I'm going to be doing a one
>step fermentation, do I need to have a carboy that is a gallon or three
>bigger than the amount of beer I'm brewing to account for the foam, or
>is this where I would be able to get away with a five gallon carboy for
>a five gallon batch using a blowoff tube? Thanks!
>
> Rory
For single stage fermentation you'll need a 7 gallon carboy with a
fermentation lock or a 5 gallon carboy with a blow-off tube. You'll lose
about a quart of potential beer using the blow-off tube, along with some
hop resins and other stuff that some folks feel doesn't belong in your
beer.
Because I often leave beer sitting in the carboy for ridiculous periods of
time, waiting for an opportunity to go to the basement and bottle it, I do
two-stage fermentations. I have a 7 gallon carboy for a primary, and 5
gallon carboys for secondarys.
Ken Weiss krweiss@ucdavis.edu
Manager of Instruction
Computing Services 916/752-5554
U.C. Davis
Davis, CA 95616
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Date: Mon, 15 Jul 91 17:12 GMT
From: "KATMAN.WNETS385" <6790753%356_WEST_58TH_5TH_FL%NEW_YORK_NY%WNET_6790753@mcimail.com>
Subject: CT/first batch
Date: 15-Jul-91 Time: 12:53 PM Msg: EXT01514
Hi fellow brewers,
I made my first batch yesterday, so I can say that now :) Since I didn't
have any homebrew on hand, I think I worried too much, but everything's
bubbling away now.
I live in New Haven Ct, someone on this digest does too, and someone is now
moving to Storrs, CT. If there isn't a brew club let's organize one. Send me
e-mail at the address below.
My boyfriend just came back from Monteray Calif. and went to the Monteray
Brewing Company pub. He says it is a lovely atmosphere, the people were very
pleasant and the food was good. However, he says that the beer (ale, stout and
something else) was all too yeasty and not very good. Oh well.
Lee Katman == Thirteen/WNET == New York, NY
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Date: Mon, 15 Jul 91 11:19:55 PDT
From: Andy Levitt <andy@hprascal.rose.hp.com>
Subject: Re: Homebrew Digest #679 (July 15, 1991)
Full-Name: Andy Levitt
Rob,
Please change my mailing address from andy@hprvlc0.hp.com to:
andy@hprascal.rose.hp.com
Thanks
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Date: Mon, 15 Jul 91 13:47:05 CDT
From: medch!chris@uunet.UU.NET
Subject: Anchor Steam
I have to say, I'm a firm believer in Anchor Steam (unfortunately,
it's rather difficult to get here in northern Alabama). I first had
it on tap at the Sun Club in Tempe, AZ and was hooked from the first
glass. I have since had both Anchor Porter and Liberty Ale and enjoy
them very much. Those are, however, the only Anchor products I've
had the pleasure to enjoy. Hmmm, I think I'll take a trip to
Nashville and see if I can get any up there....
Curiously enough, I first learned of Anchor Steam in Robert Parker's
Spenser novels, back before I knew that there were any American
beers worth drinking. Anchor Steam turned me around.
- --
#
Chris Hudson # There are many ways of getting down a pit---
# the easiest, of course, being to simply jump.
X1375 # This practice is to be discouraged, however,
# because the jumper might injure someone below...
b17a!medch!chris #
# -Roy Davis
IW17A5 #
Intergraph #
#
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Date: 15 Jul 91 15:07:00 EDT
From: "DRCV06::GRAHAM" <graham%drcv06.decnet@drcvax.af.mil>
Subject: Peristaltic pumps.
After doing a bit of digging, I found out what a peristaltic pump is. It
does not touch the fluid, it acts on the very flexible tubing and gently
moves the fluid along. Perfect for sort of sterile wort. I rushed home
and dug out the Carolina Bio catalog and found the peristaltic pump. Oh,
it's $330. Ah well, maybe Cole Parmer will have more and cheaper ones, so
I broke my arm lifting that tome of a catalog.
Sure enough, they had pages and pages of peristaltic pumps, ranging in
price from about $225 to over $2,500. Still, $225 is a bit much to move
wort. Does anyone know of a inexpensive peristaltic pump, or those terms
mutually exclusive?
oh well, back to the siphon. I have a miligram scale and a ph meter ahead
of the pump, so it'll be awhile.
Dan
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Date: 15 Jul 91 14:30:00 EDT
From: Henry (H.W.) Troup <HWT@BNR.CA>
Subject: MeV Research
Both phone numbers given in Digest 679 for MeV are bogus - one gives an
answering machine that doesn't seem to be a company, the other is not in
service.
Bell Canada directory assistance doesn't have a listing for the company.
Henry Troup - HWT@BNR.CA (Canada) - BNR owns but does not share my opinions
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Date: Mon, 15 Jul 91 16:09:38 EDT
From: elmer@snoopy.msc.cornell.edu (Mark Zaleski)
Subject: Transfering hot wort to chiller
Greetings!
Three of us (from the Cornell contingent) have put together a couple of
counter-flow wort chillers, using 3/8" copper tubing and 3/4" garden hose.
Thanks to this Digest, we know how to clean the inside of the tubing...
extended discussion on this point way back in March/April were most helpful.
What we *don't* know is how to get the near-boiling wort into the tubing......
One wants to avoid oxidizing the boiling wort, so we believe that dumping it
into a large, spigoted container would probably not be the best plan. We are
a bit hesitant to drill holes in our stainless steel brewpots (but may end up
doing so yet). And siphoning a boiling liquid is probably unreasonable.
So, how do YOU effect this transfer? And how do you achieve hop removal?
Thanks for your assistance,
MARK ZALESKI........elmer@snoopy.msc.cornell.edu
TOM STRASSER........strasser@raj2.tn.cornell.edu
STEVE RUSSELL.......srussell@snoopy.msc.cornell.edu
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Date: Mon, 15 Jul 91 17:25:48 EDT
From: hersh@expo.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: How many Homebrewers
Well the AHA estimates I've seen say there are over 1 millions homebrewers
(still only 1/250 = .4% of US population). I don't know that I believe it,
and if I do then that means that at ~10,000 members the AHA has only
1% of all homebrewers joining, a pretty poor rate, though homebrewers are
a notoriously independent lot.
Take all this with a grain of salt. My recollection of these numbers is hazy at
best, and who knows if they were right to being with??
- JaH
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assume that you are moderate in everything.
you now have an excess of moderation, a contradiction.
excessiveness is clearly the way to go...
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End of HOMEBREW Digest #680, 07/16/91
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