Monday, September 20, 2010

Homebrew Digest #5737 (September 20, 2010)

HOMEBREW Digest #5737 Mon 20 September 2010


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RE: Male hop flowers (Ric Cunningham)
2nd Annual FRANKLINSTEIN Homebrew Competition (stevejones)


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Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 08:59:08 -0400
From: Ric Cunningham <wilypig at gmail.com>
Subject: RE: Male hop flowers

Chuck,
The bb sized buds/flowers you noticed are indeed male hop
flowers. It is not uncommon for the varieties you have mentioned to
produce these during times of stress (environmental or nutritional).
They are sterile so no worries. They will not affect anything and
should not return during better times.


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Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 09:17:22 -0600
From: stevejones at franklinbrew.org
Subject: 2nd Annual FRANKLINSTEIN Homebrew Competition

We are looking for entries and judges for the 2nd Annual FRANKLINSTEIN
Homebrew competition will be held on SUNDAY, November 14th at Depot
Street Brewing, 904 Depot Street, Jonesborough TN.

This will be an AHA/BJCP Sanctioned competition accepting entries in
categories 1 thru 23 and special category 29, MONSTER Beers. This
category is for beers made up of pieces and parts of two or more other
styles. Why not just enter category 23? Because the highest placing
entry in this category under 6% ABV will be invited to Depot Street to
assist head brewer Michael in the brewing of a commercial batch of
this beer.

All entries will be judged by at least one qualified BJCP judge and we
strive to give you the best feedback that we can.

Registration is now open for entries, judges, and stewards. ONLINE
REGISTRATION ONLY to save trees. Full details are at
http://www.franklinbrew.org/franklinstein.

Steve Jones
Competition organizer


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Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Homebrew Digest #5736 (September 15, 2010)

HOMEBREW Digest #5736 Wed 15 September 2010


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Male Hop Flowers? (Chuck Petersen)
Brewing Science Classes (Jeff Walls)


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Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 07:54:38 -0700
From: Chuck Petersen <hopman at opusnet.com>
Subject: Male Hop Flowers?

I noticed a few of the these little (about BB size) flowers
on my Chinook hops last year but noticed them on my Cascades
this year. They may have been around on both but I just didn't
see them. Has anyone else seen this? These are on female hop
plants and I am getting normal female hop cones on the rest of
the plant.

Everything I have found on the internet indicates that the male
flower develops in early June and the female a bit later. I don't
see any evidence of any cones going to seed so I expect it is just
an anomaly but was wondering if anyone else has noticed this or
has additional info that may explain what is going on. I haven't seen
anything on any other varieties I grow just the Chinook and
Cascade.

Chuck Petersen


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Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 14:41:36 -0400
From: Jeff Walls <jwalls110 at verizon.net>
Subject: Brewing Science Classes

Anybody familiar with any type of listing for brewing science classes?

I don't mean the LHBS stuff, I mean more like what Siebels or UC Davis does,
for those of us that have jobs and can't take the time to do the weeks and
semesters long full time stuff.

I have seen the MBAA stuff in Wisconsin, and Siebels and UC Davis, but I am in
PA, and am searchng for something I can do either on a night class deal or
online (I prefer the classes, I am on of those that learn better that way).

I know this is a long shot, but you never know unless you ask!

Jeff Walls
Lancaster, PA

Keg conditioning and Amber Ale
Secondary - Oktoberfest
In formulation - Guinness Stoudt Clone


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Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Homebrew Digest #5735 (September 14, 2010)

HOMEBREW Digest #5735 Tue 14 September 2010


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Contents:
Dixie Cup XXVII Is Here! (Doak Procter)


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* Beer is our obsession and we're late for therapy! *
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Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 20:11:43 -0500
From: Doak Procter <doak at procter.com>
Subject: Dixie Cup XXVII Is Here!

Earn the respect of your wives, husbands, domestic partners, kids
coworkers, and fellow homebrewers by winning a medal (or two) at the
world-famous Dixie Cup. Dixie Cup is a tradition steeped in history
and barleywine, one of the largest and longest-running homebrew
competitions in the nation.

The Foam Rangers homebrew club is now accepting entries for the 27th
annual Dixie Cup, "Strange Brew", a BJCP-sanctioned competition. An
unlimited number of homebrewed beers, ciders, and meads may be
entered, but no more than two per medal category. The entry fee is $7
per entry online, and $8 per entry if paper entry forms are used until
September 17, 2010. After that, it's $10 per entry until the deadline
of September 24, 2010.

Dixie Cup is also the last leg of the Lone Star Circuit and is an MCAB
qualifying event.

All entries should be shipped to:

Dixie Cup
c/o DeFalco's
8715 Stella Link Rd
Houston, TX 77025
713-668-9440

Entries may also be dropped off in person at DeFalco's or at Brew It
Yourself (25770 Interstate 45 #107 Spring, TX 77386).

Please refer to http://dixiecup.crunchyfrog.net for more information
about Dixie Cup. All BJCP styles will be judged, along with special
categories "First Time Entrant" and "Strange Brew". See the website
for details.

Also, do not hesitate to contact the competition director with any
questions that remain after a visit to the website.

Kyle Jones, Competition Director
dixiecup at foamrangers.com


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Friday, September 10, 2010

Homebrew Digest #5734 (September 10, 2010)

HOMEBREW Digest #5734 Fri 10 September 2010


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Contents:
Fermentability of maple syrup (Fred L Johnson)
Maple Syrup ("A. J. deLange")
Re: Fermentability of maple syrup (Matt Falenski)


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Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 07:09:53 -0400
From: Fred L Johnson <FLJohnson52 at nc.rr.com>
Subject: Fermentability of maple syrup

In an earlier post in this maple syrup thread, I pointed the readers to a site
that said maple syrup was about 65% fermentable. I found another site saying
maple syrup was 75% fermentable, but this same (second) site said that corn
sugar and table sugar were each only 80% fermentable. I know something must be
wrong here.

In today's HBD, Matt Falenski pointed us to a Maple Wine in which he used maple
syrup as the only fermentable diluted to 1.110 specific gravity that fermented
to a final specific gravity of 0.98, proving that the maple is essentially 100%
fermentable (as is cane sugar and table sugar). Am I missing something here?

Fred L Johnson
Apex, North Carolina, USA


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Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 07:53:29 -0400
From: "A. J. deLange" <ajdel at cox.net>
Subject: Maple Syrup

The one sample of maple syrup, from Stanstead, Quebec (right on the
Vermont border) that I measured came out at 65.98 Bx with a density of
1.3225. Thus a liter of it would weigh 1.3225 kg and contain 872.6 grams
of "sucrose". Presumably, all this is fermentatable so just do the
conversion to whatever units you like and treat it as ordinary sugar.


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Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 05:34:51 -0700 (PDT)
From: Matt Falenski <mfalenski at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Fermentability of maple syrup

I actually was amazed at the fermentability of maple syrup.
I did not measure the Brix of the syrup before using, I'll do that
next year though. (Anything above about 66-67 Brix starts to crystallize,
anything below is too watery) It started out at 1.111, and finished
out at 0.984. I've never had anything go that low before!

If my refractometer calculations and corrections were correct it should
have been about 16.96% ABV. When I tested it on our Anton Paar alcohol
meter at work, it gave me an ABV of 16.39% so it was very close.
I backsweetened it before I took any more readings and ended up with a
final SG of 1.008.


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Thursday, September 9, 2010

Homebrew Digest #5733 (September 09, 2010)

HOMEBREW Digest #5733 Thu 09 September 2010


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Contents:
Re State of Promash ("Grant Stott")
Maple Syrup - Part II (stihlerunits)
Maple Syrup (Matt Falenski)


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Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2010 17:06:04 +1000
From: "Grant Stott" <gstott1 at ncable.net.au>
Subject: Re State of Promash

try 2
No affiliation to Promash etc.

Ed Jones asked about the current state of promash.
My 5c worth.
Sure there have been no updates for ages but it does everything I need.
I have gone from hydrometer to refractometer. From 23 liter (6 gal) to
50 liter (13 gal ?) batches. Updated p.c several times ( now windows 7 )
and Promash is still serving me well.
Are there better brewing programs out there, Could well be, but I am =
content to stick with it.
Not sure if this is what the intent of your question was, or a different =
angle.

Regards,
Grant,
Geelong, Australia


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Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2010 08:56:52 -0700
From: <stihlerunits at mosquitobytes.com>
Subject: Maple Syrup - Part II

After I posted my question regarding the extract of maple syrup I got to
thinking that it should really not be all that hard to calculate it
based upon the information available. I was going to cancel my post but
alas it was too late.

I appreciate all the responses I got for my question.

At any rate, I came up with a value of 32-33 gravity units per pound per
gallon which is similar to what other folks have noted.

I believe I calculated the values correctly but....

At any rate, I'd appreciate it if folks would check out what I have and
see if my logic (or arithmetic) is off somewhere.

By definition maple syrup contains 66-68% sugar. The 68% is an end
member since I believe the sugar crystalizes into maple sugar that
concentration.

At any rate, using any number of online Brix/Specific Gravity converters
you would find that 66% and 68% correspond to specific gravity values of
1.329 and 1.342 respectively.

I'll just do the 66% one as an example:

(1.000 ml/1.329 g) x (453.59 g/lb) = 341.30 ml/lb

(341.30 ml/lb) X (1.00 fluid oz/29.57 ml) = 11.54 fluid oz/lb

34% or 3.92 fluid oz. of which is water.


Now converting to weights:

66% of one pound (i.e. 16 oz.) of maple syrup is 10.56 oz by weight of
sugar and the remaining 5.44 oz. by weight is water.

When one adds one pound of maple syrup to one gallons (128 oz.) of water
you end up with 128 oz. + 3.92 oz. = 131.92 fluid oz. of water and 10.56
oz. by weight of sugar.

Therefore, the resultant sugar content is: 10.56 oz./131.92 fluid oz. =
0.0800 or 8.00% sugar.

Once again using your trusty Brix converter you find this corresponds to
a value of 1.032.

Therefore, for 66% maple sugar the extract is 32 gravit units per pound
per gallon.

Doing the same calculations for 68% one finds that 11.40 fluid oz. of
such maple syrup is one pound and the corresponding extract is 1.033 per
pound per gallon.

Therefore, the extract of maple syrup should be 32-33 gravity units per
pound per gallon.

Please let me know if I've gone amiss somewhere.


Cheers,

Scott Stihler
Fairbanks, Alaska
[2874, 324.9] Apparent Rennerian


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Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2010 08:59:21 -0700 (PDT)
From: Matt Falenski <mfalenski at yahoo.com>
Subject: Maple Syrup

In reply to Scott Stihlers question about predicted extract
of maple syrup...

At a minimum, maple syrup has a 66% sugar content (66 Brix)
but can have more. It's SG is roughly about 1.331.
The darker the color, the stronger the flavor, too, so
keep that in mind.

I've never done a beer with maple syrup yet, but I have
done a few maple wines,
check these out if you're interested...

http://letsmakemead.com/MeadBlog/?p=111
http://letsmakemead.com/MeadBlog/?p=24

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Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Homebrew Digest #5732 (September 08, 2010)

HOMEBREW Digest #5732 Wed 08 September 2010


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Contents:
Re: Ancient Nubians Drank Antibiotic-Laced Beer ("Greg 'groggy' Lehey")
Re; Extract of Maple Syrup (Fred L Johnson)
re: Extract of Maple Syrup ("Ron Babcock")
Maple Syrup Extract (Wade Hutchison)
MALT Turkey Shoot 2010 (Jack Mowbray)
Re: maple syrup (Ric Cunningham)


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* Beer is our obsession and we're late for therapy! *
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Financial Projection As of 13 Jun 2010
Projected 2010 Budget $3305.65
Expended against projection $2500.06
Projected Excess/(Shortfall) $ 422.01

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Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 14:27:00 +1000
From: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog at lemis.com>
Subject: Re: Ancient Nubians Drank Antibiotic-Laced Beer

On Tuesday, 7 September 2010 at 11:53:54 -0400, Pete Calinski wrote:
> People have been using antibiotics for nearly 2,000 years, suggests a new
> study, which found large doses of tetracycline embedded in the bones of
> ancient African mummies.

This is hardly news. See the Wikipedia article on Tetracycline, which
contains a reference to
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1134/is_4_109/ai_62324477/,
published over 10 years ago.

Greg
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Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 07:53:32 -0400
From: Fred L Johnson <FLJohnson52 at nc.rr.com>
Subject: Re; Extract of Maple Syrup

Scott Stihler asks for the potential extract of maple syrup. The value I have in
my homegrown software is 28.9 units*gallons/lb with a color of 15 degrees
Lovibond/38.6 EBC, but we all know maple syrup comes in lots of different colors
and who knows how variable the specific gravity is.

One can simply measure it with a hydrometer by diluting it in a precise manner
and calculating the gravity based on the dilution. I read that it is about 65%
fermentable at the following site:
http://beer-brewing.suite101.com/article.cfm/brewing_beer_with_non_malt_sugars

Fred L Johnson
Apex, North Carolina, USA


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Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 09:23:52 -0500
From: "Ron Babcock" <ron at babcockfarms.com>
Subject: re: Extract of Maple Syrup

The specific gravity for maple syrup is typically 1.031 pppg. I have found
that a pound in a five gallon batch is plenty to balance and complement the
chocolate and black patent malts in a porter.

Ron Babcock
Lit'l Blue Brewery
Along the banks of the Little Blue River, NE


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Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 10:49:46 -0400
From: Wade Hutchison <whutchis at gmail.com>
Subject: Maple Syrup Extract

I helped a friend do a batch of maple syrup "wine" last year, and we
got an extract of 31 points/lb/gallon from Grade A syrup.
Product came out interesting - no real maple flavor was left, just a
light smokeyness and very little sweetness.
Good luck!
-----wade hutchison
Brewing in Milton, PA.

> Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2010 17:56:11 -0700
> From: <stihlerunits at mosquitobytes.com>
> Subject: Extract of Maple Syrup
>
> I was wondering if anybody happens to know the predicted extract of
> maple syrup.
>
> I was thinking of brewing a maple syrup porter or stout but I've been
> unable to find a value for the extract in terms of specific gravity per
> pound of maple syrup per gallon of wort.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Scott Stihler
> Fairbanks, Alaska
> [2874, 324.9] Apparent Rennerian


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Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:08:44 -0500 (CDT)
From: Jack Mowbray <jmowbray at verizon.net>
Subject: MALT Turkey Shoot 2010

Maryland Ale and Lager Technicians (MALT) are pleased
to announce their 6th Annual Turkey Shoot* Homebrew
Competition. This is a BJCP-sanctioned event.

Cash prizes ($100.00, $50.00 and $25.00) will be awarded
for Best of Show, 2nd place and 3rd place overall. Sponsored
prize packages will be awarded to individual category winners.
Ribbons will be awarded to 1st, 2nd and 3rd place entries in
individual categories. As always, high quality feedback will be
provided on all entries.

The judging will be conducted on Sunday, November 21st at
Clipper City Brewing Company in Baltimore, MD. This
competition is for beer only - all BJCP beer categories will be
judged. The deadline for entries is November 12th.

Additional information, on-line entry info, drop off info, bottle
labels, etc., can be found on the MALT website:
http://www.maltclub.org.

As in the past, we welcome the participation of BJCP-
accredited judges. Anyone who is interested in helping with the
judging should contact:

Mike McMahon
fishandbrew at comcast.net


*no live birds will be harmed during this event


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Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 16:54:28 -0400
From: Ric Cunningham <wilypig at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: maple syrup

Maple syrup has an extract of about 1.045 pounds/gallon, very similar
to the average as honey.


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Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Homebrew Digest #5731 (September 07, 2010)

HOMEBREW Digest #5731 Tue 07 September 2010


FORUM ON BEER, HOMEBREWING, AND RELATED ISSUES
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Contents:
Ancient Nubians Drank Antibiotic-Laced Beer (Pete Calinski)
Extract of Maple Syrup (stihlerunits)


* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
* Beer is our obsession and we're late for therapy! *
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

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Financial Projection As of 13 Jun 2010
Projected 2010 Budget $3305.65
Expended against projection $2500.06
Projected Excess/(Shortfall) $ 422.01

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Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 11:53:54 -0400
From: Pete Calinski <petec.100 at gmail.com>
Subject: Ancient Nubians Drank Antibiotic-Laced Beer

People have been using antibiotics for nearly 2,000 years, suggests a new
study, which found large doses of tetracycline embedded in the bones of
ancient African mummies.

What's more, they probably got it through beer, and just about everyone
appears to have drank it consistently throughout their lifetimes, beginning
early in childhood.

While the modern age of antibiotics began in 1928 with the discovery of
penicillin, the new findings suggest that people knew how to fight
infections much earlier than that--even if they didn't actually know what
bacteria were.

http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/antibiotic-beer-nubia.html

Or

http://ow.ly/2Avhn

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Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2010 17:56:11 -0700
From: <stihlerunits at mosquitobytes.com>
Subject: Extract of Maple Syrup

I was wondering if anybody happens to know the predicted extract of
maple syrup.

I was thinking of brewing a maple syrup porter or stout but I've been
unable to find a value for the extract in terms of specific gravity per
pound of maple syrup per gallon of wort.


Cheers,

Scott Stihler
Fairbanks, Alaska
[2874, 324.9] Apparent Rennerian

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