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HOMEBREW Digest #3637 Sat 19 May 2001
FORUM ON BEER, HOMEBREWING, AND RELATED ISSUES
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Contents:
Classic Real American Pilsner (BShotola)
Sparging ("Fred L. Johnson")
CAP experiment (george fix)
Re: Culturing yeast from Karmeliet Tripel bottle ("Peter Pellemans")
local beer info ("Bridges, Scott")
Re: recipe (Fat Tire Ale) ("Peter Pellemans")
Chiller clogging woes ("Bridges, Scott")
czechvar, short sparge with RIMs, big tasting rye ("Czerpak, Pete")
Cap experiment (Bob)
cranberries (Marc Sedam)
re:Sanke Snap Rings (Brent Hornberger)
CAP Spuriment ("Wayne D. Page")
Experiment ("Alan Meeker")
Water variations (AJ)
Re: Wyeast Woes... (Earl Atwood)
canadian border crossing (david.persenaire)
Delirium Tremens Recipe ("Donnie Lee")
yeast questions ("Alan Meeker")
How much "salt" to add? ("Pete Calinski")
starter beer (RiedelD)
removing keg fittings (RiedelD)
Want a copy of Guinard's "Lambic"? (RiedelD)
Re: fermenting in cornies ("Kurt Schweter")
pH meter recommendation (Ed Jones)
God be praised (Liddil)
a test (God)
Montreal water ("elvira toews")
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Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 04:40:07 EDT
From: BShotola@aol.com
Subject: Classic Real American Pilsner
Esteemed Clubsters,
George Fix proposes a conical vs. corny brewoff at 10 virtual paces. This is
obviously a thinly veiled attempt to further provoke Steve Alexander... The
results should prove about as easy to interpret as the Florida election
returns, but that is no reason why we shouldn't do it.
If Steve wins and the conical geometry is thought to have no vital advantage
over the corny, then George ought to give his BB&MB gift conical to Steve, as
well as thank him profusely in the preface to his next book. Dr. Fix should
also be made to brew 15 gallons of cheese lambic in scratched plastic diaper
pails, siphoning by mouth after eating gorgonzola wearing a cowboy hat.
If George wins and Steve is found to be all wet and slow on the O2 uptake,
then Steve ought to be sent to brew with Graham for a month, providing of
course Mr. Sanders has healed sufficiently from his stick wounds and chafed
kit bag.
Bob Shotola
Yamhill Oregon
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Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 07:46:15 -0400
From: "Fred L. Johnson" <FLJohnson@worldnet.att.net>
Subject: Sparging
J.N. states the following regarding sparging:
> I think the risk of letting in oxygen into the grainbed is greater
> than with sparging with a layer of water above the top level of the grain.
> But with the last mentioned method there exists the risk of sparging with a
> diluted sugar solution (less yield).
I don't understand what J.N's concern is regarding the "risk of sparging
with a diluted sugar solution". I presume J.N. means that the trapped wort
becomes more diluted when spargins with a layer of water on top. But I
don't see how this can be any more true than with sprinkling. In fact, the
whole intent of sparging is to allow the water to percolate through the
grains to allow the solution trapped within the nooks and crannies of the
grain fragments to MIX with the water and be carried downstream. The slower
one sparges, the more time the trapped solution has to mix with the eluting
medium (the sparge water). If you've ever watched gel filtration column
chromatography using dyes in a transparent column, you will see the column
of elution buffer moving through the bed matrix, "pushing" the solution
trapped within the matrix downstream. The resolution and efficiency of such
columns is inversely proportional to the flow rate, up to a limit. (Higher
flow rates magnify differnces between flow in the center and flow next to
the wall.} Stated differently, if one properly sparges with a layer of
water, the layer of water moves through the grain bed as a FLAT LAYER, with
mixing occur at the advancing front.
- --
Fred L. Johnson
Apex, North Carolina
USA
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Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 07:52:48 -0400
From: george fix <gjfix@CLEMSON.EDU>
Subject: CAP experiment
Hi!
I just saw the details of Pat's proposal. I am in regardless of grain bill
or hops, even clusters. My wife is going to think I am losing it, and the
scary thing is that she could be right!
The main justification one can give for something like what Pat proposed is
that it is sure to be a lot of fun for everyone involved.
George
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Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 08:44:44 -0400
From: "Peter Pellemans" <peter@pellemans.net>
Subject: Re: Culturing yeast from Karmeliet Tripel bottle
I recently translated an article from Dutch to English on how to reculture
yeast and published that in our club's newsletter. You can find it here:
http://nfbl.org/newsletters/May2001/yeast.asp
According to the article, Karmeliet is not suited for reculturing. Don't ask
me why.
Peter Pellemans
Tallahassee, FL
www.nfbl.org
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Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 08:33:40 -0400
From: "Bridges, Scott" <ScottBridges@sc.slr.com>
Subject: local beer info
Mark Snyder writes:
>Considering the recent number of requests for suggestions for brewpubs,
etc.,
>in various areas, I'll again mention www.pubcrawler.com as an option for
all
>to consider. Along with it's listing of various watering holes across the
>nation, it also has a number of links that can provide more information, if
>desired.
>
>Another option, and one that I prefer since I travel a bit as part of my
job
> - just check out the yellow pages when you hit your hotel room and call a
>couple of homebrewing supply stores. You'll be surprised at how receptive
>they are to your request for recommendations, even though you're not a
paying
>customer. And they'll be much more inclined to direct you to someplace
worth
>trying instead of just a bar that brews beer on the premises. I also let
>them know I'm willing to drive for a good brew and ask for their
>recommendations for "stellar" pubs instead of just those close to my hotel.
Good suggestions, Mark. You know, this line of thinking gave me an idea.
Another organization I belong to (the United States Power Squadrons, an
international boating education/safety/social group) has a concept called
"port captain." Each local chapter has a person in this capacity. The
intent is for this person to be a local resource for any visiting boaters.
You can get local info on availability of marinas, good cruising areas,
places to avoid, etc. General stuff that you'd like to know about an area,
and can find out if you don't know anyone in the area to ask.
You see where I'm going with this, don't you? We could implement this
concept. Each city could have its own HBD port captain, for lack of a
better term. You get a name, email address, phone number (if the volunteers
care to make this available). We could maybe put the list of port captains
on the HBD server (if the janitors ok, of course). Big cities could have
more than one, so a particular individual wouldn't get bombarded. If
someone is going to St. Louis, or where ever, you call up the local port
captain and find out where the good brewpubs and beer bars are. Heck, maybe
you could even find someone who would meet you for a pint.
Since we tend to view this as a "community", this would also help to put a
face to those we know only through their emails. I would volunteer to be
the port captain for Columbia, SC. I'm also familiar with most of the SC
beer scene, such as it is, but some may be more familiar with other cities
than me. Any thoughts? Good or bad idea?
Scott
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Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 08:50:39 -0400
From: "Peter Pellemans" <peter@pellemans.net>
Subject: Re: recipe (Fat Tire Ale)
You can find a recipe in the book "Beer Captured" by Tess and Mark
Szamatulski. Together with many other great recipes.
Peter Pellemans
Tallahassee, FL
Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 10:53:07 -0400
From: "David Craft" <David-Craft@craftinsurance.com>
Subject: recipe
Hello,
Does anyone have an all grain recipe for New Belgium's Fat Tire Ale? I =
live in the east and have tried this beer while traveling out west. It =
is one of my favorites.
David B. Craft
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Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 08:11:58 -0400
From: "Bridges, Scott" <ScottBridges@sc.slr.com>
Subject: Chiller clogging woes
Dave and Steve write:
>>I've got the fearless chiller and quite like it, works great with my
>>apartment-brewery but this clogging is quite frustrating.
>
>I found that adding screens just causes them to clog with hop fines when I
>use pellets. Two solutions I've tried worked fine. The first was DO
>NOTHING. Well, it's not quite nothing. What I did was place an unfiltered
>pickup for wort at the outer edge of my kettle and whirlpooled. Most
>everything in the wort settled over a 15min wait and piled up in the
middle.
I agree with Dave. I think whirlpooling is the key. I have never had a
problem with the chiller clogging. I use a combination of whole hops and
pellets. It's just random, depending on what brew I'm making and what hops
I have around the house. After flame-out, get a good whirlpool going and
the hops and hot break settle into a cone-shaped pile in the middle of the
kettle. I don't use a filter, but I do have a slotted 3/8" copper pipe
pick-up circling around the outside perimeter of the kettle. As long as the
hops/break settle in the middle, no filter is really needed.
Scott
Brewing in Columbia, SC
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Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 08:10:41 -0400
From: "Czerpak, Pete" <Pete.Czerpak@siigroup.com>
Subject: czechvar, short sparge with RIMs, big tasting rye
All those of you blaspheming the Czechvar, need to try it in the amber
bottles. I haven't had it in the green bottles yet but I do know that I
carried a few bottles back from the UK that were amber bottles and they were
fantastic. They were probably stored in my beer cupboard for 3 months
before I tossed em in the fridge to sample also. NIce clean and
unbelievably malty pils. Hops were pretty fantastic. MOre next time I am
over the ocean for sure.
About RIMS sparging, the idea of a long slow sparge is to easily extract out
the last bits of sugary liquors. If you sparge too fast you obviously have
less of a chance to get these. NOw when you are mashing or RIMsing, you are
extracting out sugars to essentially a liquor with the same concentration of
sugars all around where the concentration in the grains is starting to
approach that of the mash liquors and the mass transfer between the two
starts to slow. This is the reason that batch sparging isn't as nice as fly
sparging since with fly, the grains are continually bombarded with new water
with a low sugar concentration which seeks to keep mass transfer rates
higher due to concentration driving force and thus further extraction of
sugars. That said, do the experiemnt and find out. Alot depends on the
efficiency differences due to massive mixing in the RIMS vs. low mixing in a
normal HB mash tun. Is your extra 60 minutes of sparge worth buying 1 lb
extra of grain per batch? Consider that. I have to admit that I'm a batch
sparger and I run the liquors out pretty quick.
Darrell asks about his big tasting rye. I would have to agree with Jeff on
his assessment that its more due to the rye and flaked barley than anything
else. however, you also have a pretty significant amount of vienna further
contributing to a big bodied beer(atleast in taste even though the FG is
normal level). I wonder how that pils that Doc Pivo and Graham or Phil
brewed in the Outback with the flaked barley tastes relative to mouthfeel?
Big or not?
Pete Czerpak
albany, NY
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Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 06:08:42 -0700
From: Bob <2bobw@home.com>
Subject: Cap experiment
Being an alumni of THE GREAT HBD PALEXPERIMENT I would like to take part
in,
"THE GREAT HBD CAP EXPERIMENT"
If accepted into the ranks let me know what I can do to help set it up.
Bob Wilcox
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Bob Wilcox
Alameda & Long Barn Ca.
2bobw@home.com (use this address to reply)
Draught Board Home Brew Club
http://www.dnai.com/~thor/dboard/index.htm
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Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 09:26:49 -0400
From: Marc Sedam <marc_sedam@unc.edu>
Subject: cranberries
Yes, pounds of fresh cranberries will do little harm in a
beer. But nearly a litre of concentrated cranberry juice is
a different story. An old colleague of mine used to work in
the Ocean Spray processing facility and loved to tell the
story of how the cement floor had to be replaced every other
year because the cranberry juice would eat holes and
rivulets in the floor very quickly. I imagine it would take
15-20lbs (WAG) of cranberries to get that amount of
concentrated juice.
I think, given enough time, the yeast would adjust and start
fermenting. But it would have been more advantageous to let
the fermentation get mostly through (and have the pH drop
naturally over the course of the ferment) and *then* add the
juice. I've made a few cranberry-wheats and this was a good
way to make it work.
Or, I could just be wrong. ;-)
Cheers!
Marc
- --
Marc Sedam
Chapel Hill, NC
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Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 08:37:54 -0500
From: Brent Hornberger <bhornberger@networkusa.net>
Subject: re:Sanke Snap Rings
Scott,
You can get these from http://kegman.net/keg_kit.htm It provides all
nessadary parts to convert over so you can take the ring off easy and
they even provide the rubber gasket. They are pretty cheap. 4.19 for
gaskek or retaining ring. Or 8.95 for the whole shabang. I also
noticed that they have a Soda Keg to Sankey Converter for 37.00.
That's kind of cool if you dont want to take your co2 tank with you
and have a sanke hand pump.
later
Brent
www.bcbrewery.com
www.mullet-times.com
>Anyone know of a source for replacement snap rings for
>Sanke kegs? I'd like to replace the spiral ones (pain in the butt)
>with normal 'snap ring pliers' type.
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Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 10:16:46 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Wayne D. Page" <wdpage@pinn.net>
Subject: CAP Spuriment
Pat and George,
Count me in too!
One question, can I use my normal 10 gallon corny fermenter or do I have to
use a 5 gallon?
- --
Wayne D. Page
Brewing Deep in the Great Dismal Swamp
Chesapeake, VA
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Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 10:06:51 -0400
From: "Alan Meeker" <ameeker@mail.jhmi.edu>
Subject: Experiment
Pat, I think this is a great idea and am willing to help out in any way I
can. I hereby offer my services as a yeast supplier and scientific
consultant if either or both of these are in need. Let me know...
-Alan Meeker
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Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 10:41:20 -0400
From: AJ <ajdel@mindspring.com>
Subject: Water variations
Denis asked WRT water treatment "How far off do I really need to be
until I can taste the difference?" It's certainly a fair question but
one that has no simple answer. An approach to getting one (an answer,
that is) without leaving the armchair is to consider that the diversity
of the worlds traditional beer styles was for the most part driven by
the diversity of the worlds water profiles. This assumes local brewers
made the most saleable beers from the water they had to hand hence the
difference between the intense dry hoppiness of English ales and the
smooth, but still intense, hoppiness of Bohemenian Pilsner can be
attributed to the relative carbonate contents of Burtonian and Bohemian
water supplies. And so on.
To obtain a practical answer, by which I mean one that has application
to one's own brewing, the brewer must do what few amateurs are willing
to undertake. He must focus on one beer, formulate grist and hops bills
and then brew that beer over and over again until he can produce the
same beer from brewing session to brewing session consistently. At this
point he has mastered control of process and can start experimenting
with the isolated variable of interest: different water treatments.
Everything else stays the same. The beers brewed with different water
treatements must then be compared, preferrably,by others using triangle
testing techniques. The problems in trying to do this on the hobby scale
are evident thus most of what we, as homebrewers know, is based upon
anecdote and what we glean from the literature. As an example of the
latter, everyone knows that supplementing chloride will make the beer
taste fuller and sweeter and that an excess of sulfate will profoundly
influence the perception of hops.
As an example of the former I offer the following anecdote which I've
posted this here many times before but it is worth repeating because the
lesson learned was so dramatic. When requested to give a water class for
the local homebrew club (hello BURP people) I sought to illustrate that
water does have a marked influence by brewing the same IPA twice on the
same day (a long one) using my nominal well water for one batch and
synthesized Burton water for the other. Both were good beers. The
Burtonized one was pronounced the more authentic - the soft water one
the better beer. Unexpected in this case was the way in which the yeast
responded to the difference in water chemistry. The ester profiles were
markedly different.
If brewing water chemistry can be mastered to the point wher control of
mash pH is understood then you can think of the flavor influencing ions
in the same way as the other ingredients in beer and experiment with
adjusting, for example, chloride ion content in the same way that you
would adjust hopping level i.e. tweak it until you get a result you
like.
A.J.
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Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 08:13:24 -0700 (PDT)
From: Earl Atwood <earl_atwood@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Wyeast Woes...
Todd Bissell writes of receiving a quality beer kit
via UPS with the Wyeast pack already fully swollen,
and wonders whether to attempt to use it.
Todd, I would contact the supplier and request they
ship an immediate replacement, or credit your account
for the yeast so you can buy some fresh at a local
supplier.
I wouldn't recommend using the pouch because you can't
be 100% sure the yeast is what made the pack swell up.
Although highly unlikely, there is a remote
possibility the wort inside the foil package has been
attacked by some contamination. More likely, the
small plastic packet inside the foil had some defect
and allowed premature mixing of the components. In
either case, why chance degrading the quality of your
beer with a questionable yeast?
Good luck.
Earl Atwood ( earl_atwood@yahoo.com )
Cheyenne
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Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 10:48:51 -0500
From: david.persenaire@abnamro.com
Subject: canadian border crossing
Remember all the posts regarding packing homebrew for airline travel? I
have a question to the knowledgeable Canadian brewing brethren. I am
heading on a fishing trip into n.w. Ontario and we plan to drink nothing
but homebrew on the trip. We have to fly-in a float plane to get to our
fishin outpost. Due to weight considerations we plan on using those
plastic bottles that have been recently introduced by American swill
producers. I have to find someone who will empty those bottles before I
can use them for higher purposes. That is one of my problems. I have
discovered that less discriminating beer swillers have been actually
drinking this stuff and then leaving the plastic bottles in garbage cans on
golf courses with the lid screwed back on. I fill up my golf bag with
empty light-weight brown bottles leaving someone else to consume it. My
question is, does the Canadian government customs officials have any
problems with Americans bringing in unlabeled brown bottles of beer? I
know you are allowed to bring in one case per person before having to pay a
duty. Do they frown on unlabeled bottles or does it pass just like any
other beer? Any web-sites out there that have any official
interpretations? I plan on crossing on the Fort Frances/International
Falls border crossing in late July.
Dave Persenaire
Tinley Park, Illinois
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Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 12:03:08 -0400
From: "Donnie Lee" <dlee@accurateonline.com>
Subject: Delirium Tremens Recipe
I have recently discovered Belgian Strong Ales - the golden variety. While,
I have long been a fan of Belgian Beer (Hoogarden, Celis, and Grimbergen
being among my favorites), it is a task to get high ABV beer in Georgia. I
discovered that there are a few liquor stores just across the border in TN
that carry some high ABV beer. I, also, recently was able to try Delirium
Tremens on tap at the Taco Mac in Chattanooga. I have decided that this beer
is incredible and that I must be able to brew my own. I have been looking
around for recipes and clones with my trusty friend, Google, but I haven't
been able to come up with a good recipe. I have found a kit offered by brew
supply in Texas, but I'd rather do it myself as their take on a Delirium
Tremens may be different than mine. I think I have the basics of this
recipe -- a pilsner with some candi sugar and good yeast -- but I'm not
really sure about the yeast and other adjuncts, if any.
If anyone has a good recipe or something pretty close, I'd love to take a
look at it.
Going into DTs over here. : ) Thanks,
Donnie Lee
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Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 11:50:25 -0400
From: "Alan Meeker" <ameeker@mail.jhmi.edu>
Subject: yeast questions
1) Todd received an already swollen yeast smack-pack in a beer kit. Todd,
the most that the swelling tells you is that these yeast /were/ alive and
growing at some point. When that was is unknown. If it has only been a few
days and the storage temperature hasn't been too high then all may be well.
On the other hand 99.9% of the yeasts in that pack could be dead as
doornails. The safest course is, as you suggest, to buy a new pack and use
that. The riskiest course is to simply pitch the one you have and keep your
fingers crossed! In between these two extremes you could pour the contents
of the already swollen smack pack to something like a pint or two of
sanitary wort (you can make this by boiling some dry or liquid malt extract
in water for about 20 minutes and allow to cool covered). If you see good
evidence of yeast activity in a few hours then all is well and you can
pitch
the yeast. Good Luck!
2) Colin Marshall asked about adding yeast nutrient to starters:
"I always culture my yeast (liquid or dry) in a wort consisting of 100
gms of dried malt extract per litre of cooled, boiled, oxygenated water.
I have been contemplating adding a nutrient such
as Lalvin Fermaid K or diammonium phosphate,
particularly with lager yeast. Can anybody tell me whether
this would be wise or foolish, and why?"
You want your pitching yeast to be in the best possible condition they can
be in. It's analogous to an athlete looking forward to a competition, he'll
perform best when he is in tip top shape. Supplying your yeast starter with
added nutrient (as long as it's not overdone) can only help bolster the
health of your starter, just make sure you follow the manufacturer's
directions for proper dilution.
-Alan Meeker
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Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 12:16:38 -0400
From: "Pete Calinski" <pjcalinski@adelphia.net>
Subject: How much "salt" to add?
Since the subject of water conditioning is floating around, I thought this
might be a good time to bring up something that I haven't seen mentioned
here. First I guess I should say that the closest I got to chemistry was
30 years ago in college and last year helping my children with high school
chemistry but here goes.
When I estimate the weight of a salt to add, I try to take into account
other elements that are in the substance I use. For instance, the container
of Epsom Salts that I have is labeled:
MgSO4*7H2O
To me that means that every sample of Epsom Salts (by weight) that I use
includes a significant amount of water. If I did the molecular weight
business right, I get:
MgSO4=(24+32+4*16)=120
7H2O=7*(2*1+16)=126.
Thus, a sample of Epsom Salts is nearly 1/2 water [120/(120+126)]. SO if I
want 1 gram of MgSO4 I need 2 grams of the Epsom Salts I am using.
Am I right or am I all wet (or 120/246 wet)?
What about the other common salts we use? Do they also contain other
elements? Do they pick water during storage?
Inquiring minds need a clue.
Pete Calinski
East Amherst NY
Near Buffalo NY
0^45'49.1" North, 5^7'9.5" East of Ground Zero.
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*My goal:
* Go through life and never drink the same beer twice.
* (As long as it doesn't mean I have to skip a beer.)
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Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 15:20:53 -0400
From: RiedelD@pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca
Subject: starter beer
Just as a note of support....
I can't remember who recommended making a small batch as the
last yeast step-up (Marc Sedam?) but, I endorse it:
I tried making an all-grain mini-batch to step my yeast up to pitching
volume. That is, I didn't oxygenate continuously and I bottled up
the 'starter beer' rather than decanting. I made a Kolsch as a starter
for an Alt and the results were great. By having two batches side by
side I got the opportunity to learn something about the character of
the yeast and, I have a Kolsch recipe to tweak for a future full batch.
Admittedly, brewing a 5L batch back in the kitchen like the old days
was an awkward mess but, I think the results were worth it.
Dave Riedel
Victoria, Can.
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Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 15:22:22 -0400
From: RiedelD@pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca
Subject: removing keg fittings
How do you get the in/out fittings out of a corny keg?
Are star-shaped wrenches available? I need to get in the
poppets to clean and/or replace the springs....
Dave Riedel
Victoria, Can.
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Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 15:30:40 -0400
From: RiedelD@pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca
Subject: Want a copy of Guinard's "Lambic"?
In an odd twist of fate, I accidentally ended up with two copies of
"Lambic", by Guinard. This is one of the Brewers Publications
style series books (first edition, I guess). It's a good book for anyone
interested in Lambic-style brewing.
Does anyone want to swap something for it? Easiest answer is a
book for a book but, I'll consider any ideas you've got. Maybe even
a few yeast cultures ? (I can only get Wyeast here)
Dave Riedel
Victoria, Can.
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Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 16:47:30 -0400
From: "Kurt Schweter" <KSchweter@smgfoodlb.com>
Subject: Re: fermenting in cornies
I went from 6 gallon plastic conicals
to fermenting in ten gallon cornies
as I remember the conicals where 1:1
height to diameter and
the cornies are in the range of 3:2
height to diameter
after brewing the same ale recipe, batch size,
yeast etc.
I feel that my results can shed a
little light on this subject
finished beer from both are so similar
that I feel that it's not worth worrying about
the biggest difference it that the
FG. is a little ( .003 ) higher on average, with the cornie
the advantage I've found is the cornie is easily
purged after aerating and pitching,
with CO2 and then
air is no longer an issue
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Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 18:01:54 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ed Jones <ejones@sdl.psych.wright.edu>
Subject: pH meter recommendation
Greetings! I am in the market for a temperature-correcting pH meter that
is reasonably accurate, easy to clean, with easily-replaceable contacts
for about $100. Any recommendations? Thanks!
- --
Ed Jones
"When I was sufficiently recovered to be permitted to take nourishment,
I felt the most extraordinary desire for a glass of Guinness...I am
confident that it contributed more than anything else to my recovery."
- written by a wounded officer after Battle of Waterloo, 1815
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Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 21:16:55 -0400
From: Liddil <jliddil@liddil.com>
Subject: God be praised
> Remember too that I studied HBD argumentation under the tutelage of
> master Dave Burley. Tho' rain may roll off a duck's back it is
> said that Dave owns no umbrella as rain will change course to avoid
> his rejoinder !
>
> -S
God be praised
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Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 21:23:20 -0400
From: God <god@liddil.com>
Subject: a test
So how many dead lines can i get away with
let's see
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Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 21:26:17 -0500
From: "elvira toews" <etoews1@home.com>
Subject: Montreal water
Ca^lice, Denis! Montreal tap water decent?! As long as you are filtering
out the Javex with carbon and an 0.5 micron membrane I guess! Being
downstream from Thunder Bay harbour, Love Canal, Sault Ste. Marie, Toronto
and Cornwall is hardly decent, but sooner or later one does get thirsty.
Seriously, though, my father brews with water from just across the river and
from showering in the same water I would say it's only slightly hard and
even less alkaline.
So I would think that you would have to be duplicating the practices of the
Pilsn brewers in every other detail before the water made the difference.
As far as classic British ales go, there are many, many wonderful beers made
in places other than Burton on Trent. They have every different kind of
water imaginable and formulate their recipes accordingly. So unless you are
set on duplicating bottled Bass, you can skip the gypsum and Epsom salts.
So when you ask "am I just lucky to have decent tap water to start with?" I
would answer, "no, you're just a decent brewer".
Salut!
Sean Richens
srichens@sprint.ca
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End of HOMEBREW Digest #3637, 05/19/01
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