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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: What do you want your AHA Governing Committee to do for you?

« on: June 19, 2010, 11:01:59 AM »

Quote from: denny on May 24, 2010, 10:33:29 AM

Both audio and video captures of presentations are ideas that have been discussed and I'm willing to bet will be implemented at some point. Powerpoints are available going back a few years. ...

Since we have the new revised friendly and super spiffy home page.
Where the heck are the PDF and sessions from previous years located?
I can't seem to find them.

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All Grain Brewing / Re: Batch sparge and paty gyle simulator

« on: June 19, 2010, 10:49:04 AM »

Way to Kai,
this will come in handy!

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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: Favorite Scoresheet Comment

« on: March 16, 2010, 08:44:43 AM »

Quote from: MDixon on March 15, 2010, 05:32:41 AM

Too dark for style? Was it pitch black like a swarzbier? Anyway, the commercial examples listed are not necessarily 50 pt beers, just ones which are representative of the style.

Not as bad a swartzbeir, but it was dark, ummmm like Black Cat is supposed to be.

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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: Favorite Scoresheet Comment

« on: March 15, 2010, 05:27:56 AM »

Quote from: denny on March 11, 2010, 10:25:39 AM

Quote from: Beertracker on March 11, 2010, 10:10:25 AM
I understand what you're saying Denny, but when a beer is listed as a commercial example of a particular style then one would think you should be able to "clone it" and do reasonably well in a competition.

Can't disagree with that, Jeff.

Really,
Try doing a Black Cat clone. Mine was dead on. An excellent mild.
http://www.bjcp.org/2008styles/style11.php#1a

BAM!!!
Too dark for style.
It's not just "a" reference beer. It's the FIRST reference beer.

And I have put down on a score sheet "I'd love the recipe for this beer".
Nobody's taken me up on the request yet.

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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: Favorite Scoresheet Comment

« on: March 11, 2010, 07:59:40 AM »

I entered My Maudite clone under Belgian Specialty 16E. http://www.bjcp.org/2008styles/style16.php#1e
I was told that Maudite is not a Belgian beer. However, it was an excellent clone of Maudite. Major dings on score for that one.

I wonder if judges ever look at the reference beers in the BJCP guide?
Hint: it's on line two. Duh!

All the other five entries of mine suffered from similar jackass comments.
So I just quit entering competitions. Why waste the time and money?

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All Grain Brewing / Re: Imperial Mild? Really...

« on: March 02, 2010, 06:05:25 AM »

Quote from: denny on February 26, 2010, 12:04:52 PM

... you're just arbitrarily redefining they style, kind of like looking at a pig and claiming it's a poodle! ...

Politicians do greater things than this every day.

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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: Dry hops, pull em or leave em?

« on: March 01, 2010, 09:41:25 AM »

Quote from: dhacker on March 01, 2010, 05:46:22 AM

I started pulling mine after 10 days to 2 weeks. When I left 'em, I started getting some grassyness over time..

+1

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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: AHA Governing Committee Elections Open!

« on: February 25, 2010, 09:22:41 AM »

Zaphod Beeblebrox for galactic president.

Oh wait, he already is, never mind.

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All Grain Brewing / Re: Mash temperature differences

« on: February 24, 2010, 07:28:11 AM »

Quote from: dhacker on February 23, 2010, 03:14:32 PM

... I get about 75 to 78 percent with this tun. ...

What you need to do is do a batch of a recipe that you know the efficiency of with the blades off and see if it makes a difference.

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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: Does AHA have the largest community of homebrewers?

« on: February 24, 2010, 07:24:19 AM »

If Australia was organized it would be huge.
25% of brew consumed there is HB.
Driven there by high taxation.
Supposedly only 10% of that 25% is what they call craft brew or what we call AG.

21Mil population.
Quite astounding when you consider the possibilities.
And they owe it all to money grubbin' politicians.

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All Grain Brewing / Re: Mash temperature differences

« on: February 22, 2010, 08:01:35 AM »

Just be sure you close the lid before juicing the motors.
LOOK!
UP in the sky.
It's a bird...
It's a plane.........

NO, It's a flying mash tun!

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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: Worst oversight you've ever done!

« on: February 15, 2010, 08:55:46 AM »

I brew out on the deck. I pump the wort through 35' of line to the 27 gal ferminator in my wine cellar.
One RIS batch I forgot to remove the safety weight from the OPV valve.
The ferminaror filled about a gallon and a half.
The pressure popped the fill tube (a drilled #7 stopper in the lid) out.
The remaining 10+ gallons of 25°P RIS flowed onto the lid and then the floor of the wine cellar.
I spent the next three months unloading racks, mopping, cleaning and drying the floor, and reloading racks.

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