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All Things Food / Re: My new Love affair with Pho

« on: February 10, 2013, 12:02:11 AM »

I know I live in Southern California and I know that here menudo is supposed to be the king high of hangover foods. (Personally I prefer machaca con huevos.)

But damned if pho doesn't beat the pants off menudo for curing you of everything wrong. Personally, I tend to go for the #1 pho, which seems to be in every restaurant the pho that contains all the weird s*** you don't want to know about!

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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: Conference pointers

« on: February 09, 2013, 04:17:38 PM »

Crispy told me at a conference once that he sampled every beer at club night.  He used a very, very small glass.

I will say that these days I'm betting that would be an impossible task unless one was using a nano glass. I'm not even sure you could get around the taps in the time for club night.

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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: Conference pointers

« on: February 09, 2013, 10:32:14 AM »

I think everyone is "that guy" at some point.

I try and be very careful at these big beer events since it's a marathon and not a sprint. Even still, by the end of conference I'm exhausted by the mix of beer, socialization (hey, introverts lose energy socializing!) and lack of sleep. It usually takes me a day of peace and quiet to catch up to myself.

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Events / Re: Conference website

« on: February 05, 2013, 11:54:51 AM »

Those were not available from what I understand because we're coming right in on the heels of another convention (that will actually be wrapping up on Thursday - hence the odd "No Thursday" package)

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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: NHC 2013 Pre Conference Events

« on: February 05, 2013, 11:35:37 AM »

Straight from the front porch of Funk & Wagnall: I'm guessing there are brewery tours involved.

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The Pub / Re: Oh that Google

« on: February 04, 2013, 06:11:28 PM »

When you're beyond up to your eyeballs in data like Google is, all sorts of funny things happen when you're attempting to cross correlate data from widely disparate resources

To use a technical turn of a phrase - google is doing some way fancy s*** to churn through petabytes of data that I can't even begin to fathom. It's bound to make an oopsie every once in a while. The interesting part to me is how rare it actually is. I suspect their error rate is less than if humans were doing a similar classification and cross linking.

On the positive side of the fence - anyone remember how bad finding stuff on the web was before the google guys jumped in and made everyone up their game?

Also, I've been impressed with how fast google is indexing things these days. Sometimes I'll post something or be involved in something and it's available via google search within 4 hours. Mind boggingly fast.

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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: Thank You Jimmy!

« on: February 02, 2013, 10:44:37 AM »

Here's some fun stuff from the time:

Meeting with Lee Coe About the Bills
The Signing of California's Legalization Bill by Jerry Brown
With information about the other competing Federal bill to the Cranston Bill - the Conable Bill being defeated - the Conable Bill would have required Federal registration of homebrewing activities to help the ATF keep a finger on moonshiners.
[url=http://www.maltosefalcons.com/system/files/private/V3%25238%2011-78.pdf]President Carter signs the Cranston Bill
The actual ATF change notice on the back page

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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: Conference pointers

« on: February 01, 2013, 10:36:49 AM »

Just go for the whole deal.

I don't think I've ever heard of anyone going full conference and regretting it.

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The Pub / Re: Pliny Documentary

« on: January 27, 2013, 12:26:08 AM »

*grr* (on pronunciation - I love me some PtE.. PtY is a fine treat, but I'm not down for the uber drastic hype of it)

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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: Beer Brewing Cookbook

« on: January 24, 2013, 06:23:17 PM »

I'd love to see an update, especially if he were to include some basic Belgian styles like wit and strong dark ales.

Last I knew, Ray's at work on Designing Great Belgian Beers.

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The Pub / MOVED: Am I mathematically challenged?

« on: January 10, 2013, 09:16:51 AM »

This topic has been moved to All Grain Brewing.

http://www.homebrewersassociation.org/forum/index.php?topic=14363.0

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All Grain Brewing / Re: Am I mathematically challenged?

« on: January 10, 2013, 09:16:28 AM »

Howdy,

Percentage recipes like what you posted are all about getting numbers across in a way that lets you adjust for your system efficiency.

So what you do what that sort of recipe is this: Take the efficiency of your system (say 70%) and the target OG (say 1.050) and figure out roughly how much grain would take to get you that gravity at your efficiency.

So take Pale Malt (1.036 points per pound) and multiply by your efficiency (.7) to get how effective grain is for you.

36*.7 = 25

Divide your target gravity by that number

50 / 25 = 2

So you need ~2 lbs per gallon of grain or 10 lbs for a 5 gallon batch.

10 * .75 = 7.5 lbs Pale Malt
10 * .10 = 1 lb Munich Malt
10 * .08 = 0.8 lb Caramalt
10 * .02 = 0.2 lb Pale Crystal Malt

Round as needed.

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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: Re-use of dry hops

« on: January 10, 2013, 09:09:35 AM »

During the GaSHA (Great and Scary Hop Apocalypse) of 2008, brewers were experimenting with this. Reports that I saw reported about a 30% reduction in bittering potential.

So, if you do try it, try that a factor and see if that doesn't get you close to the ball park.

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General Homebrew Discussion / What's Brewing This Weekend - 1/11 Edition

« on: January 09, 2013, 04:23:05 PM »

New year - new beer. Spill it!

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Ingredients / Re: Belgian Champagne Beer (Deus) spice recommendations

« on: January 08, 2013, 02:08:04 AM »

I haven't done the recipe but I've had the beer a few times and I don't think it has those spices in it.  It has a spicy belgian yeast and pils malt character though.  I would leave the spices out completely.

But if you want to add some, I would just wait for Drew to find this thread and he'll tell you himself.  Give it a few hours.

That took significantly longer than a few hours.. sheesh.

Final answer - probably in the area of 1-2 tsp of each.