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Ingredients / Re: Oak Chips

« on: May 26, 2010, 03:32:15 PM »

Silly thought, these beer soaked cubes... can you use em in a smoker afterwards? Rack your beer, wash your yeast, bbq with the wood cubes. Looks good on paper, not sure how it would actually work out though.

Sure that would work! But, I'm partial to hickory smoke.

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The Pub / Re: Fireworks Vs. Photoshop

« on: May 26, 2010, 02:17:57 PM »

Hmmmm .... this is the first I have heard of Fireworks. My wife is a programmer and had extensive web knowledge. I'll ask her but I'm not sure she has ever used it.

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The Pub / Re: Census 2010

« on: May 25, 2010, 06:47:22 PM »

Im not to worried. Looks like both the woman and the man are about 95. Plus I dont really own anything of value (including my house)  We live a little more than Buddhists. Before I met my wife, I lived for 20 years without a TV.

After reading that I am concerned though.The woman had a badge, but she did ask to come in.

I haven't heard from them lately. When is this going to be over? In 2011?

Yeah, that's why they haven;t been back.

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The Pub / Re: How to prepare for newspaper interview?

« on: May 25, 2010, 03:59:09 PM »

There are still newspapers around ... in business?? 

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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: Dried Orange blossoms

« on: May 25, 2010, 09:50:24 AM »

Quick google search found this: http://www.thebrewmart.com/orange-blossom-i602199.html - of course it is UK. But there appeared to be other places on the web as well.

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Ingredients / Re: Elderberries

« on: May 24, 2010, 02:01:10 PM »

Hey! You bums get your own thread!! 

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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: Homebrewing and children bad??

« on: May 24, 2010, 01:54:46 PM »

In Alabama there are several homebrew shops, yet homebrewing is illegal in Al. It is not illegal to sell any of the ingredients to make beer so there is not really a way for the authorities to close homebrew shops.

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Ingredients / Re: Oak Chips

« on: May 24, 2010, 09:18:15 AM »

If you plan on aging the beer I recommend cubes over chips. Chips are great for beers that you only intend to age for 1-2 weeks in the secondary. But you really don't want to leave the beer on the chips for longer than this. With cubes you need to age the beer longer, 1-3 or more months depending on how much you use or how much oak you want. The oak comes through slower and, IMO, is a little more "polished" than the chips.

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Beer Recipes / Re: what do you think of my american pale wheat ale recipe?

« on: May 24, 2010, 08:17:53 AM »

From the BJCP Style Guidelines:
American Pale Ale Vital Statistics: OG: 1.045 – 1.060, IBUs: 30 – 45, FG: 1.010 – 1.015, SRM: 5 – 14, ABV: 4.5 – 6.2%.
American Wheat Beer Vital Statistics: OG: 1.040 – 1.055, IBUs: 15 – 30, FG: 1.008 – 1.013, SRM: 3 – 6, ABV: 4 – 5.5%

Your Pale Wheat Ale estimates: OG:  1.069, IBUs: 51.

You're already a little higher than the pale ale style guidelines for both OG and IBU's but the ratio seems the same.  
It's almost an Imperial Pale Wheat Ale.  ( ;)you've made a new style, perhaps?)

I'd stay closer to what you already have (i.e., I would not bump up to 70 IBUs).  It looks like a delicious recipe.

I think its pretty silly to throw in the style guidelines on a 1.070 "wheat beer" with American, German and English hops.   51 BUs is probably a good balance between what you had and what I was suggesting. I make a hoppy wheat beer that is more like a pale ale with an equally matched OG to BU ratio, which is what I was thinking. Then again - I don't think a 1.070 beer with 70 BUs is very bitter. To me thats balanced. YMMV.  

What you have now looks about perfect to me. When's the party? 

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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: What's Brewing This Weekend - 5/21 Edition

« on: May 24, 2010, 08:12:18 AM »

Doh! went to check the wort fill level in the conical as I was wrapping things up and dropped the lid gasket in the wort.

tried to fish it out with a santized hanger, but gave up after a couple of tries and just slapped a new gasket on and called it good.

Rookie!

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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: What's Brewing This Weekend - 5/21 Edition

« on: May 24, 2010, 08:11:23 AM »

I brewed a 1.070 "psuedo-bock" yesterday with WLP029 and am brewing a tripel right now. Planning a kolsch in the next couple of days as well.

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Beer Recipes / Re: what do you think of my american pale wheat ale recipe?

« on: May 24, 2010, 06:24:53 AM »

I think it looks pretty tasty, myself. Personally, I'd rather get the OG/BU ratio closer (get the BUs up around 70) but that's just me.

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Yeast and Fermentation / Re: Lack of CO2 in bottles after bottle conditioning.

« on: May 23, 2010, 03:20:12 PM »

As the others have said, you shouldn't have to add yeast. You may try moving them to a warmer location for a few more days, even another week or two. But, you may speed things up a little by picking a pack of dry yeast and clipping the corner and adding a few grains of yeast to each bottle and recapping, if all else fails. If that doesn;t work then my guess is you somehow forgot the priming sugar, and in that case you will need carb  drops.

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Beer Recipes / Re: Apricot Wheat - My First Recipe on my own

« on: May 22, 2010, 03:13:35 PM »

I would recommend skipping the cara pils. There is no reason why this beer shouldn't have plenty of body, especially considering extract is usually less fermentable than all grain. You want the beer to be leaning towards the dry side, not the sweet side.

Otherwise it looks good!

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Equipment and Software / Re: Finally building a brewstand

« on: May 22, 2010, 05:48:48 AM »

There was someone in either zymurgy or byo recently that made a brew stand out of that inexpensive metal shelving lengths that have holes drilled every inch or so to insert bolts. Looked very inexpesnive and easy to construct. Can;t find the issue though.