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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: No brained brewing rules
« on: March 26, 2013, 08:50:06 AM »
The first rule is you don't talk about...
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Homebrew Competitions / Re: NHC Competition question...
« on: March 24, 2013, 01:09:33 PM »I had given some thought to doing some creative editing on the actual label to get in an updated description for a cat 23 beer after the closing date for editing. Figured it would be cheating so didn't do it, but if the labels are your entry form I'm sure there's someone out there who's going that route.
On the other hand, there is a bar code on the label. Will they be scanning to get information or manually copying it from what's written on the label?
The labels and all that info is just to identify the bottle with the proper entry number, the important data is all in the database and that is usually used to generate the pull sheets that the judges see and have the required specialty info on them.
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Homebrew Competitions / Re: NHC Competition question...
« on: March 17, 2013, 02:10:12 PM »I must be blind...
I registered a beer and a mead, all paid up, no edits required... but I just want to print the labels so I can ship my entries. Every link from the rules/regs goes to http://www.brewingcompetition.com/
No link to login on that page, and the few generic guesses I tried didn't work, ie. http://www.brewingcompetition.com/login
Anybody have a better link?
Goto http://www.brewingcompetition.com/regionX where X is your region number. For seattle it is http://www.brewingcompetition.com/region1
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Homebrew Competitions / Re: NHC Competition question...
« on: March 16, 2013, 01:05:29 PM »
Shoot. I was planning on editing my entries this weekend. I think off all of my entries I have set only one is a beer I actually have.
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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: Hops are coming up
« on: March 12, 2013, 11:41:33 AM »
I'm about an hour outside of the main hop growing region and mine started breaking ground a few weeks ago.
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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: AHA eBooks
« on: March 11, 2013, 01:05:04 PM »
I'd really love to see an ecopy of Lambic made available. AFAIK this is the only one of the classic style series that is out of print
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Events / Re: NHC 2013 Entry Problems - Possible Solutions?
« on: February 27, 2013, 01:39:12 PM »Start by making the competition open to AHA members only. Period.
Doesn't solve all the problems, but it's a start.
I'm trying to stay out of the conversation, but I'm not really sure this is an issue. Maybe after the storm calms down the numbers can be crunched and this revealed. I imagine there really aren't that many non-AHA members that are entering the competition. There certainly aren't any that are entering more than 8 entries
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Questions about the forum? / Re: Can't post or reply
« on: February 24, 2013, 09:29:13 AM »
Testing also. I tried posting a few times yesterday and had no luck. I'm guessing it is still broken since the number of new posts is a lot lower than normal
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Yeast and Fermentation / Re: New Fermentis yeast
« on: February 22, 2013, 07:39:46 PM »
actually might be exactly what the yeast should do, minus the slight off flavour.
They mention on the site that it is intended to eat as little maltotriose as possible as to not thin out an already finished beer so the low attenuation might be just what they were expecting.
Might be a good yeast to try with something like a Session IPA. Almost every one I have had end up so thin, I've always thought a yeast that didn't attenuate as much would work well
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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: Need to clean bathtub...
« on: February 20, 2013, 12:33:46 PM »
If it is indeed porcelain then you can use a pumice stone on it to scrub just about anything off it if you don't want to use chemicals. pumice is softer than porcelain so it won't damage it.
I bet BKF or soft scrub will work if you want to go the chemical route
I bet BKF or soft scrub will work if you want to go the chemical route
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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: thoughts on good RO system?
« on: February 16, 2013, 02:23:02 PM »
I had a SpectraPure DWS (Drinking Water System) back when I lived in Michigan because I had pretty bad well water. When I moved I broke it down and packed it away. Just a few months ago I found it in a box, cleaned and sanitized everything, changed out the carbon filter and ran it to see if the membrane was still good.
Amazingly it still works great, 5ppm water measured with my TDS meter. I built a reservoir and use it to generate all of my brewing water now.
I guess the membrane must have stayed wet enough that it didn't stop working completely. Maybe there is more waste water now than before. I should measure the quantity so whenever I end up replacing the RO membrane I can see if the waste water quantity goes down.
This is the only RO system I've ever owned so I can't really say how it compares to others
Amazingly it still works great, 5ppm water measured with my TDS meter. I built a reservoir and use it to generate all of my brewing water now.
I guess the membrane must have stayed wet enough that it didn't stop working completely. Maybe there is more waste water now than before. I should measure the quantity so whenever I end up replacing the RO membrane I can see if the waste water quantity goes down.
This is the only RO system I've ever owned so I can't really say how it compares to others
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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: I'm going to Cellar The Abyss 2012???
« on: February 15, 2013, 05:54:45 PM »I've got a 2011 in the closet somewhere I think. at least I think it's a 2011.
The year I got that one there was a vertical at the club christmas party and one year, I wanna say the 2010 had an infection and it was actually quite good. nice sour note with some funk in the background. major gusher though.
It was the 2009s that had the infection problem. I haven't tasted one in a long time but when I had them they were horrible but I thought they might have potential. I think when I get around to opening another one I'll either get a pitcher ready to dump it in or maybe get it super cold before pouring
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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: I'm going to Cellar The Abyss 2012???
« on: February 15, 2013, 04:27:30 PM »I was lucky enough to grab a bottle in Ft. Worth a few weeks ago and thinking about putting it in the Cellar? My question is when will it mature? How long have you guys cellered past vintages of The Abyss?
I still have a few bottles left of 07. Every few years I've been pulling them all out and doing a vertical.
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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: Conference pointers
« on: February 14, 2013, 04:38:02 PM »I don't know, but three days seems more like IronMan than a 'little marathon'
Sunday morning
Awesome. Mind if I steal that for my avatar?
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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: The Mad Fermentationist's Top 10 Myths
« on: February 06, 2013, 05:17:26 PM »How about the big one? Home brewing saves money.
This needs moderated before our wives/girlfriends see it!
