Friday, September 19, 2008

Homebrew Digest #5418 (September 19, 2008)

HOMEBREW Digest #5418 Fri 19 September 2008


FORUM ON BEER, HOMEBREWING, AND RELATED ISSUES
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Contents:
Hazes (Ed Case)
Oxidation in bottles (Ed Case)
Rollers for Nothing (Glyn and Mary)
mixing yeasts ? ("Darrell G. Leavitt")


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Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 08:26:43 +0100
From: Ed Case <edward.case at ntlworld.com>
Subject: Hazes

Jason asks for information about hazes.

Gillian Grafton's fairly technical article is here:

http://www.craftbrewing.org.uk/technical/hazes.html


Ed


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Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 08:28:55 +0100
From: Ed Case <edward.case at ntlworld.com>
Subject: Oxidation in bottles

In John Palmer's "How to brew" (3ed) p92 he says
that there have been several studies that have shown
that yeast only consume 30% of the oxygen in the
headspace of the bottle.

Received wisdom in the UK is that the yeast
consumes effectively all of the yeast, so I was
wondering if anyone has references for
any of the studies or better still copies?

Ed Case, Derbyshire, UK

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Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 13:25:02 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glyn and Mary <graininfuser at yahoo.com>
Subject: Rollers for Nothing

I have two hollow stainless steel rollers approx. 2.25" in
diameter and 15" long. They have small horizontal grooves
cut in them. They were for the mill I never got around to
making. If you want to pay shipping, I will send them to
you.

I have two solid rollers I built my first mill with. They
are at the house but I would guess 8" long and approx.
3" in diameter. I think it was a 5/8" nut weiled to each
end. They are VERY heavy. If anyone close by want
them, or you want to pay shipping get in touch.

Glyn in So. Middle TN


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Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:04:23 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Darrell G. Leavitt" <leavitdg at plattsburgh.edu>
Subject: mixing yeasts ?

I recently mixed several yeasts, in that they were all old and I thought I
would maximize the chance that something would wake up. One was a 2 year
old Wyeast German Ale, one was a 2 year old Wyeast Ringwood, and the third
was also several years old, but a dry Safale 25.

The result was interesting. And, each time I re-use it , I think that I
get more of the "ringwood" flavor (some of that diacetyl). Do you guys
ever mix yeasts? And, then re-use?

Darrell

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End of HOMEBREW Digest #5418, 09/19/08
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