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HOMEBREW Digest #5978
HOMEBREW Digest #5978 Thu 29 November 2012
FORUM ON BEER, HOMEBREWING, AND RELATED ISSUES
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Contents:
re:EDTA ("oobyjooby")
Hard times at the ol' HBD... (Patrick Babcock)
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* Beer is our obsession and we're late for therapy! *
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applications received in February 2012. Ours was received
in June. We will not have our status reinstated for the
2012 tax year. To current financials, HBD is officially
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Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 09:06:18 -0500
From: "oobyjooby" <oobyjooby at cs.com>
Subject: re:EDTA
I seem to remember from a decade ago that a simple acid-wash with tartaric
or phosphoric acid
will de-flocculate yeast. But if you have EDTA handy on your shelf why not
give it a go.
Ubi
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Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 11:33:31 -0500
From: Patrick Babcock <patrick.babcock at gmail.com>
Subject: Hard times at the ol' HBD...
Greetings, Beerlings - take me to your spare change...
As much as I hate doing so, I'm coming hat-in-hand to the HBD
community once again. As shown in the Digest header, we're in pretty
poor financial shape. Our Form 1023 was received by the IRS, but,
apparently, did not pass muster, and is, also apparently, being
assigned to an agent. The IRS has a pretty huge backlog, and is
currently working on forms submitted in February 2012. Ours was
submitted in June. Per their flow chart, We received their
acknowledgement of receipt, and must have filled out the correct form,
and included everything from their procedural checklist, or we would
have received it back - that much is good. Having had no
communications from them, I cannot say further. This situation is
preventing us from being eligible for at least two grants - grants
which I had hoped would preclude the necessity to send these "begging
letters" each year - but we are where we are. I cannot ascertain
whether donations made at this time are deductible. If approved for
reinstatement, the status is typically retroactive, but, again: I
cannot say what the future holds in this regard. I can say that, in
its current condition, the Board will be discussing dissolution
procedures at our next annual meeting.
If you can spare a few bucks and deductability is not a concern,
please consider a donation to the HBD Server Fund. You can donate via
check payable to Home Brew Digest, Inc. sent to Home Brew Digest PO
Box 871309, Canton, Mi 48187-6309. You can also donate via paypal to
serverfund at hbd.org. If doing using PayPal, please send it as
"personal" payment to avoid the fees charged by PayPal.
Thank you to all who have donated in the past. Without you, we
wouldn't be online to ask again. And thank you to those who will
donate now.
Cheers!
Patrick G. Babcock
Home Brew Digest, Inc.
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End of HOMEBREW Digest #5978, 11/29/12
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