Thursday, October 29, 2009

Homebrew Digest #5624 (October 29, 2009)

HOMEBREW Digest #5624 Thu 29 October 2009


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AHA Club-Only-Competition for Belgian Strong Ales (HamFon\)" <nelson@buildabeer.org>
Roasted Wheat in an Amber?? [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED] ("Williams, Rowan")
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Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:59:39 -0400
From: "Nelson \(HamFon\)" <nelson at buildabeer.org>
Subject: AHA Club-Only-Competition for Belgian Strong Ales

Dunedin Brewers Guild is proud to announce that we are hosting the AHA
(American Homebrewers Association) Club-Only-Competition for Belgian Strong
Ales (BJCP style 18)! This is a homebrew competition. COC-Belgian is now
accepting entries online at www.DunedinBrewersGuild.com (be sure to select
the COC-Belgian link, but you can *also* enter the Walk The Line On
Barleywine, if you want - yes - that's right - two competitions the same
weekend!). Entry deadline is 27 November 2009, and final judging will occur
on 5 December 2009. Cost is $7 per entry and consists of TWO (2) 10-14 oz
unmarked brown bottles.

NOTE - this competition allows for one entry per AHA registered club. So -
get together with your club members and decide who has the entry that will
best represent your club - and send it in!

Also, for BJCP judges, pro brewers, experienced judges, and stewards - it
would be great to have you come out and help in the judging! I will publish
a separate Call For Judges as the competition gets closer. This is a
BJCP/AHA sanctioned competition. Note that judges who RSVP will get
priority scheduling.

Nelson Crowle
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Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:56:01 +1100
From: "Williams, Rowan" <Rowan.Williams at ag.gov.au>
Subject: Roasted Wheat in an Amber?? [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

G'day all,
Yesterday I rabbited on about an amber ale grain bill that I'm working on.

70% Pale, 10% Amber, 10% Cararoma, 7% Wheat and 3% Roasted Barley.

The aim is to push the roast and toffee malt flavour profile of the beer rather
than having a hop driven dark ale.

I've got a 3% addition of roasted barley in the current recipe. Last night
I managed to find a kilo of roasted wheat in the back of the grainstore.

I had planned on using the roasted wheat (1300EBC) for a Pikantus
copy but didn't get around to it. I've never used roasted wheat before and
I was wondering what flavour contribution it will make if I use, say,
50g / approx. 2oz in a 5 Gallon batch - or is it only good for color?

Cheers,
Rowan
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Homebrew Digest #5623 (October 28, 2009)

HOMEBREW Digest #5623 Wed 28 October 2009


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re: Beano - alpha amylase? (steve alexander)
Walk The Line On Barleywine homebrew competition - Now accepting entries! (HamFon\)" <nelson@buildabeer.org>
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Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 06:14:39 -0400
From: steve alexander <steve-alexander at roadrunner.com>
Subject: re: Beano - alpha amylase?

Doug M asks ....
> According to wikipedia, Beano contains the enzyme alpha galactosidase. Is
> this the same as the alpha amylase that we use in brewing?
>
> If so, could you use it to make a gluten-free beer with corn & rice? (Or
> sorghum...)
>
> What about beta amylase? Would you need that as well?
>

a-galactosidase and a-amylase are different, but several sources claim
this enzyme
will act like a-amylase. I have no idea if you can practically add
enough to
convert starch (it's rather salty).

Crosby & Baker vend an amylase enzyme that can be used in brewing, but the
beer may over-attenuate. The better HB shops can order this for you.
The price
is reasonable. It will reduce some 1-3 bonds and remove dextrins.

Technically you can produce fermentable wort w/ only alpha-amylase
activity, but
you'll certainly end up with a different mix of sugars and dextrins.

-S

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Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:12:13 -0400
From: "Nelson \(HamFon\)" <nelson at buildabeer.org>
Subject: Walk The Line On Barleywine homebrew competition - Now accepting entries!

Dunedin Brewers Guild is happy to announce the 8th annual Walk The Line On
Barleywine homebrew competition! WTL is now accepting entries online at
www.DunedinBrewersGuild.com (be sure to select the WTL link, but you can
*also* enter the AHA Club-Only for Belgian Strong Ales, if you want - yes -
that's right - two competitions the same weekend!). Entry deadline is 28
November 2009, and final judging will occur on 5 December 2009. Cost is $6
per entry and consists of TWO (2) 10-14 oz unmarked brown bottles.

WTL has been a tradition with DBG for many years, and always brings out some
amazing homebrewed strong beers. In addition to Barleywine, WTL accepts any
"big beer" styles - Imperial anything, Double anything, doppelbocks, strong
Belgians, old ales, wee heavies, etc. Note that it is a beer-only
competition (no meads or ciders). When you enter, select the appropriate
BJCP catagory of the "regular" version of your beer - for example, if you
have an Imperial Genny Cream Ale, enter it as a Cream Ale, rather than a
Specialty Beer. This helps us in sorting and flighting your entries.

Also, for BJCP judges, pro brewers, experienced judges, and stewards - it
would be great to have you come out and help in the judging! I will publish
a separate Call For Judges as the competition gets closer. This is a
BJCP/AHA sanctioned competition. Note that judges who RSVP will get
priority scheduling.

Nelson Crowle
Competition Coordinator
Nelson at DunedinBrewersGuild.com
Nelson at BuildABeer.org

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Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:41:45 +1100
From: "Williams, Rowan" <Rowan.Williams at ag.gov.au>
Subject: Crystal in American Ambers? [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

G'day all,
I'm planning the grist of an American Amber that I plan
to make this coming weekend.

So far, the grain bill is:
70% Pale Ale
10% Amber
10% Cararoma
7% Wheat
3% Roasted Barley

Hops - Chinook / Nthn Brewer (Bittering), Amarillo (Flavour),
Cascade (Aroma).

I like a fresh roasty malt flavour to balance the hops.
Is crystal malt inappropriate for American Ambers?

Cheers,
Rowan
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Homebrew Digest #5622 (October 27, 2009)

HOMEBREW Digest #5622 Tue 27 October 2009


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Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:32:55 -0400
From: "Doug Moyer" <shyzaboy at yahoo.com>
Subject: Beano - alpha amylase?

According to wikipedia, Beano contains the enzyme alpha galactosidase. Is
this the same as the alpha amylase that we use in brewing?

If so, could you use it to make a gluten-free beer with corn & rice? (Or
sorghum...)

What about beta amylase? Would you need that as well?

Brew on!
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Troutville, VA

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Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Homebrew Digest #5621 (October 21, 2009)

HOMEBREW Digest #5621 Wed 21 October 2009


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Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:39:57 -0400
From: "jeff_ri" <jeff_ri at cox.net>
Subject: re: Keg Gas question

Hi All,

In HBD #5620 Rowan Williams asked about adding small amounts of O2 along
with CO2.

I've always purged the CO2 line right before connecting to the keg.

It's possible that the line is full of air if you open it up to the
atmosphere to change the fitting on the end of it. There will also be some
amount of O2 diffusion through the plastic tubing over time due to the O2
partial pressure.

I try to keep as much O2 out of the keg/beer as possible. I've
successfully had beers kegged for long times (years) and not had very much
oxidation.

Jeff McNally
Tiverton, RI
(652.2 miles, 90.0 deg) A.R.
www.southshorebrewclub.org


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Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:51:24 -0400
From: "A.J deLange" <ajdel at cox.net>
Subject: Injecting O2

RE: "... am I also inadvertently adding some O2 to the keg...?"

Yes, probably a bit. If the gas line stays connected to a regulator or
manifold under pressure then no air will ever get into the line and
it's "no worries, she'll be right" (trying to remember my 'Strine
here). If, OTOH, the gas line has become depressurized and opened to
the air, some will get into the line in which case simply depressing
the pin in the center of the connector (a bit painful but it doesn't
take long or use a key or screwdriver) once the gas is back on will
purge the line sweep out any air that got in during depressurized
storage.

A.J.


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Homebrew Digest #5620 (October 20, 2009)

HOMEBREW Digest #5620 Tue 20 October 2009


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Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 11:38:40 -0400
From: "oobyjooby" <oobyjooby at cs.com>
Subject: IPA myth?

>>beer made from wort of the specific gravity 1042 is not only better
>>calculated to resist secondary fermentation and the other effects of a hot
>>climate,<<

This is a bit confusing and flies in the face of too many other styles. If
the lower gravity beer was in fact more stable how do we explain the
evolution of: Export stout,
Russian Imperial stout, Biere de Garde, Oktoberfest and barleywines?

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Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:51:33 +1100
From: "Williams, Rowan" <Rowan.Williams at ag.gov.au>
Subject: Keg Gas question [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

G'day all,
After changing the disconnect on my gas line so I could gas up a keg
via the beer out diptube, I replaced the beer disconnect with the
original gas disconnect. Sure enough, I now have a very small
gas leak which is a hassle, but nonetheless manageable.

Then it dawned on me....if I'm occasionally hooking up the gas
line to the keg and giving it a squirt of CO2 to keep pouring
pressure in the keg, am I also inadvertantly adding some O2 to
the keg whilst I'm at it?

I'm not big on gas dynamics, but will a partially filled gas line
add O2 as well as CO2 when I use it - and - is the amount of
O2 over time going to have a flavour negative impact on the
kegged beer?

Cheers,
Rowan

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Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:58:14 +1100
From: "Williams, Rowan" <Rowan.Williams at ag.gov.au>
Subject: RE: IPA help [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

Ant suggests:

> Various comments on IPA ingredients. Note that for British IPAs,
> crystal should not be part of the grist.
>
> Crystal malt wasn't around when IPAs were at their peak. Crystal
> marked the beginning of Bitter as a style.
>
> Low colour pale malt is what you need.
>
> Ant Hayes
> Tonbridge, Kent

Fair enough - that makes sense. And if we really want to get
carried away, perhaps we should avoid using White Labs or
Wyeast yeast and grab some herbs other than Goldings or
Fuggles etc to bitter it with???

I think the original question was help to make an IPA, with
the ingredients that Dave has on hand...

So, ruling out the Euro malts from his list and assuming that
we aren't going to use wheat, that leaves us with MO and
a bit of crystal to colour and flavour to the IPA...

He asks for a "decent" IPA, not a historically perfect IPA!

Cheers,
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Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 07:51:07 -0500
From: "Dave Draper" <david at draper.name>
Subject: RIP Greg Noonan

Just to join my voice to the chorus mourning the passing of Greg
Noonan. I too learned a huge amount from his writings; we've lost
such an important contributor to our craft. I hope his family gets
through what must be a terribly difficult time with grace and
support.

Dave in Seabrook (formerly in Bristol, in Sydney, in Dallas, in
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Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 10:23:42 -0700 (PDT)
From: "H. Dowda" <hdowda at yahoo.com>
Subject: 11th Annual Palmetto State Brewers' Open

Entries are open for the 11th Annual Palmetto State
Brewers' Open Sat, Dec 5 in Columbia, SC. Once
again we have the honor of being a qualification
competition for the MCAB. We are also the last
stop on the 2009 Carolina's Brewer of the Year
series.

BJCP and other experienced judges are cordially
invited to attend.

www.sagecat.com/psbo11.htm



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Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:06:22 -0400
From: Pete Calinski <pete.calinski at gmail.com>
Subject: Study: When Soda Fizzes, Your Tongue Tastes It

Speaking of Carbonation,

"Every time you crack open a soda and enjoy a bubbly concoction, you can
thank your tongue's sour-sensing cells for helping you get the full
experience of a carbonated beverage.

That's because a new study shows that cells in taste buds that respond to
sour stimuli also seem to be the ones responsible for tasting the
carbonation's fizz.

"When you drink a carbonated drink, you really think that you're detecting
the bubbles bursting on your tongue, don't you?" says Nicholas Ryba, a
senior investigator at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md."


http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113831763

or

http://snipr.com/sjpxw

Pete Calinski
East Amherst NY
Near Buffalo NY

http://hbd.org/pcalinsk


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Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:31:23 +1100
From: "Williams, Rowan" <Rowan.Williams at ag.gov.au>
Subject: Re: flat beer [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

Hi Fred,
Is the purpose of your experiment to see if you can carbonate beer
or carbonate the beer reasonably quickly?

Unless you have filtered your beer before bottling or kegging you
simply cannot preclude the possibility that some yeast will be
present in the bottle. Do you leave the beer in the fermenter for
a month or so at very low temps to brighten the beer??

I'm sure your innoculation method will add more yeast to the
bottled beer, and perhaps your water helps flocc out the yeast
in solution, but I've never had to do anything like that and I cant
recall when I had a flat beer bottle over the last 14 years...

Cheers,
Rowan
Canberra Brewers Club, Australia

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Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:01:05 -0600
From: compdirector at franklinbrew.org
Subject: Call for entries in the FRANKLINSTEIN Homebrew Competition

The State of Franklin Homebrewers are proud to announce the birth of
the FRANKLINSTEIN Homebrew Competition on November 14, 2009.

This is a BJCP sanctioned event accepting entries in all BEER
categories ? 1 to 23. Sorry, no meads or ciders, but this event will
feature a special category ... Category 29: MONSTER Beers! No, these
aren't the big or the extreme, but in keeping with the image of
Frankenstein, these beers are made up of pieces and parts of other
styles. Why not just enter category 23, you ask? Because the brewer of
the highest scoring beer (6% ABV or less) in this category will be
invited to Depot Street Brewery in Jonesborough, TN to assist Michael
in brewing a commercial batch of this beer!

The entry window will be open from Oct 26 thru Nov 7, $6 for the 1st
entry and $5 for additional entries. All beers will be judged by at
least one qualified BJCP judge. Registration is ONLINE only ...
entrants, judges, stewards, and beer are all online registration. Get
the details at http://www.franklinbrew.org


Any and all proceeds from this event will be contributed to the
Second Harvest Food Bank.

Steve Jones
State of Franklin Homebrewers
Johnson City, TN

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Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:49:14 -0500 (CDT)
From: donniestyle at directlink.net
Subject: Greg Noonan passes at age 58

Hello all. It's sad that Greg Noonan passed away so young. Let's all
raise a pint of our finest lager to Greg. Greg's book helped me win many
awards. I did get to meet him at the Bluebonnet Brew Off when he was our
Key Note Speaker. Is there any interest in sponsoring a HBD memorial for
him?

Don Trotter

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Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:15:09 +0100
From: Antony <anthayes at btinternet.com>
Subject: IPA Help

Various comments on IPA ingredients. Note that for British IPAs,
crystal should not be part of the grist.

Crystal malt wasn't around when IPAs were at their peak. Crystal
marked the beginning of Bitter as a style.

Low colour pale malt is what you need.

Ant Hayes
Tonbridge, Kent


------------------------------

Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:35:42 -0400
From: "Spencer W. Thomas" <hbd at spencerwthomas.com>
Subject: IPA

Ant writes:
> Note that for British IPAs,
> crystal should not be part of the grist.
>
> Crystal malt wasn't around when IPAs were at their peak.

Of course, if you're going for historical accuracy, you need to read Ron
Pattinson on IPA vs PA, where he finds that they totally overlap in OG
and bittering. The beauty of Ron's work is that he is mining data from
old brewing logs, which are totally devoid of romanticizing and
politicizing, and report "just the facts."

See <http://barclayperkins.blogspot.com/search/label/IPA>, especially these:
http://barclayperkins.blogspot.com/2009/01/difference-between-pa-and-ipa.html

http://barclayperkins.blogspot.com/2009/02/another-nail-in-that-ipa-myth.html
http://barclayperkins.blogspot.com/2008/09/ipa-strong-beer.html
http://barclayperkins.blogspot.com/2008/09/ipa-1815-1850.html
http://barclayperkins.blogspot.com/2009/02/trumans-ales-1831-1832.html

=Spencer


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Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:48:29 -0400
From: Alan Semok <asemok at mac.com>
Subject: Re: IPA Help


On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:50:43 +1100, <Rowan.Williams at ag.gov.au> wrote:

> Leaving the BJCP specs of an IPA to one side for the moment...
> If you are keen on a true IPA, I'd use the MO and Crystal and
> keep the grain bill pretty simple.

I agree wholeheartedly with this advice (and I usually leave BJCP
specs aside in general...they often seem quite arbitrary. Needless to
say, I am not a true believer).

I've experimented a LOT with IPA and in the end, I've settled on
Maris for it's richness, some crystal for the proper deep amber/
copper color, and most times I will use a bit (10%) of light Munich
because I can, and because the bit of malt character it adds (without
sweetness) to balance the high hop rate nicely.
So it's a pretty simple gain bill to arrive at OG 1.075-80, and with
enough Bullion, Cluster, and Brewer's Gold hops to get to around 80
IBU.

After messing around with countless combinations and permutations
over quite a few years, in the end, the simple route (along with
adequate aging...an average of 8-12 months) has consistently hands
down given me the best result I've ever tasted for an IPA.
I learned long ago to brew double batches so that at least have of
the beer would reach proper age.

cheers,
AL


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Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:32:55 -0400
From: Fred L Johnson <FLJohnson52 at nc.rr.com>
Subject: Re: flat beer

Darrell asks, "...why not just let your racking cane get some yeast
off of the bottom?"

In this "experiment", I intentionally tried to avoid stirring up the
yeast from the bottom to test the hypothesis that only the yeast in
suspension is needed to carbonate the beer. The results suggest that
the hypothesis must be rejected, at least under the conditions in
which I performed the fermentation and bottling. This beer did not
carbonate in a reasonable amount of time, and it is almost certainly
due to lack of yeast (based on previous experience).

I usually transfer the beer from the carboy fermenter directly to
bottles. I then pick up some of the yeast from the bottom of the
fermenter, transfer this to a separate sanitized reagent bottle,
resuspend the yeast in the bottle, and pipette a small volume of the
suspension into every bottle of beer. In this manner, each bottle gets
essentially the same amount of yeast.

Fred L Johnson
Apex, North Carolina, USA

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Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:50:43 +1100
From: "Williams, Rowan" <Rowan.Williams at ag.gov.au>
Subject: re: IPA Help [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

Hi Dave,
Leaving the BJCP specs of an IPA to one side for the moment...

If you are keen on a true IPA, I'd use the MO and Crystal and
keep the grain bill pretty simple.

You have a nice selection of hops available and sure, they'll
make a decent US interpretation of an IPA but if you're keen
on the real thing then perhaps some Goldings and or Fuggles
will give you a more authentic traditional IPA flavour profile.

The water here is pretty soft and "clean" so I always Burtonise
with Gypsum before doughing in.

Cheers,
Rowan

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Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 07:20:14 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Darrell G. Leavitt" <leavitdg at plattsburgh.edu>
Subject: flat beer

Fred;
Understood, but why not just let your racking cane get some of the yeast
off of the bottom?
Darrell

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Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 07:34:29 -0400
From: Fred L Johnson <FLJohnson52 at nc.rr.com>
Subject: Re: Flat Beer Update

Tom Puskar reported to us a month ago that his beer hadn't carbonated
after two weeks in the bottle, and many of us responded with tips on
how to help his beer along or recommended for him to add some fresh
yeast. Now Tom has reported that his beer has finally fully carbonated
after six weeks in the bottle. In my opinion, Tom's experience is an
example of why adding yeast to the beer at bottling time should be
considered rather than depending upon whatever yeast is still in
suspension.

Because of Tom's report several weeks ago and because of the recent
posts on this subject, I recently bottled an ESB and decided to not
add any extra yeast to the bottle and to avoid dredging up yeast from
cake in the bottom of the fermenter. I bottled this beer straight
from the primary fermentor (glass carboy), my standard practice. The
beer had undergone fermentation with Wyeast 1968 for 10 days. The
batch was fined with gelatin and immediate cooling to 32 degrees F in
the primary fermenter and bottled four days later, for a total of 14
days in the fermenter.

At bottling, I placed the end of my racking cane only a little above
the yeast cake to make sure that I was not filling from the top of the
beer where yeast were undoubtedly very sparse. Each bottle was primed
with a sucrose solution, capped, and inverted a few times. The bottles
have been held at 75-78 degrees F for three week,s and there is only
barely detectable carbonation at this time.

Even if this beer finally carbonates in six weeks as was Tom's
experience, I (and probably Tom) would have preferred to be able to
drink our beer considerably sooner by adding yeast to the beer at the
time of bottling.

I hasten to also state that adding yeast at bottling is not necessary
if the beer is still visibly a little hazy with yeast, but my beer is
very obvious that I can bottle condition a beer very quickly if I
bottle it before the beer fully clears in the fermenter, but there are
many cases (like the current one) in which the bottle really needs
more yeast.

Fred L Johnson
Apex, North Carolina, USA

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Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:01:20 -0400
From: stencil <etcs.ret at verizon.net>
Subject: Re: false bottom screen

On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 23:25:51 -0400,
in Homebrew Digest #5614 (October 11, 2009)
Ralph Link wrote:

>------------------------------
>
>[ ... ] Can anyone suggest a source of perforated stainless steel
>that I can use for the false bottom.
>Thanks in advance.
>Ralph
>
Google [ on line metal ] and the most popular sites are:

www.onlinemetals.com

www.speedymetals.com

www.metalsdepot.com

plus many more.

gds, stencil

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Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:55:25 -0400
From: "D. Clark" <clark at capital.net>
Subject: IPA Help

Hi List,
It has been a long long time since I have posted anything here, but I
still read every day when there is something to read, and I enjoy the
comments and occasional banter.

I have been brewing for quite a few years now, and most of what I
brew are wheats and an occasional pale ale. I'm not what I consider
a hophead, although I very much enjoy the hop flavor but not a lot of
bitterness if that makes any sense. Lately I have had a couple of
IPA's (Harpoon and Arrogant Bastard) and I found that I really like
them a lot and now I need to brew one to see how it comes out. Here
is a listing of the grains and hops that I currently have stored away:

35 lbs wheat malt
35 lbs Pilsen Malt
100lbs Maris Otter
9 lbs Crystal (42-52 ASBC)
5 lbs Vienna
10 lbs Munich

2 oz Super Styrian 7.0
2 oz Cascade 6.3
3.5 oz Willamette 4.6
1 oz Columbus 12.2
1 oz Nugget 13.2
1 oz Cluster 7.7
1 oz Saaz 3.3
1/2 oz Amarillo 8.3
12 -16 oz homegrown Willamette
8 oz homegrown Cascade
2-3 lbs homegrown Nugget

I need a recipe for a decent IPA hopefully using what I have on hand,
but I'm not far away from my local HB shop and they have a pretty
good store of hops and grains. Anybody willing to share a favorite
recipe? Thanks gang

Dave Clark
Eagle Bridge, New York

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Date: Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:34:29 -0400
From: Tom Puskar <tpuskar at optonline.net>
Subject: Flat beer update

Thanks again to all who responded to my post about two batches of flat beer
a few weeks ago.

I'm not sure if the rousing of the yeast or just "time in a bottle" as the
song goes did the trick, but the Abbey Dubbel has carbonated nicely and
turned out to be one of my better efforts.

The IPA still hasn't hit what I'd consider to be ideal carbonation but it
too has turned out to be drinkable.

Maybe all I needed was some patience!

This weekend I'm planning to make a Founder's Brewery Breakfast Stout clone.
Let's hope for the best!

Tom in Howell, NJ


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Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 13:30:45 -0500
From: Ralph Link <ralphl at shaw.ca>
Subject: false bottom screen

We are in the process of building a new mash tun. It will be aprox. 25"
in diameter. Can anyone suggest a source of perforated stainless steel
that I can use for the false bottom.
Thanks in advance.
Ralph


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Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 06:55:22 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Darrell G. Leavitt" <leavitdg at plattsburgh.edu>
Subject: hop plant life span?

I have some EK Goldings that have produced quite a bit in the past, but
are presently not doing well. They are 8 or more years old, and have not
done well for the last few years. Do hop plants have a life span, ie
after x years they are old, and should be replaced?

Darrell

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Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 21:50:41 +0000
From: Jim Millard <millardoffice at gmail.com>
Subject: Stir Bar Order

Hello,
Am Jim Millard and i will like to know if you offer Stir Bar in
stock?I want White Stir Bar Magnetic 7/8" x 5/16" do you offer in
stock and what is the price?Also what other types ,sizes and colors do
you offer?Please responds soon.Thank You..
Regards.
Jim Millard


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Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 11:38:06 +1000
From: "Williams, Rowan" <Rowan.Williams at ag.gov.au>
Subject: Re: Cascade growth [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

Thanks Alan,
I did hear anecdotal evidence that suggests Cascade isn't a high yield hop.

Despite the cascade plant only being in its second year, about ten or so strong
shoots have appeared from the one crown and they look quite promising.

The fun part will be keeping the water up to the hops as yet another harsh
aussie summer approaches.

Cheers,
Rowan
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