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All Grain Brewing / Re: Normal Boil Evaporation loss-loss to trube and cooling?

« on: November 07, 2011, 12:38:03 PM »

Does someone who uses BeerSmith know if it automatically accounts for the absorption of water into the mash?

Yes it does

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Going Pro / Re: I just want to be able to sell my beer

« on: November 03, 2011, 11:33:48 AM »

You need both though to be relevant.

Good point. With bottles you're relying of a different sort of sales than draft. We have a love for draft beer and I'd say for most craft beer drinkers (not the super beer geeks) the draft list at a bar is the only list.

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Yeast and Fermentation / Re: ESB recipe using WLP002

« on: November 03, 2011, 11:14:22 AM »

What was it supposed to finish at and how close was it?

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The Pub / Re: Why hide behind a Alias?

« on: November 03, 2011, 08:40:33 AM »

This post has convinced me to change my user name from my real name to an alias. I am a wanted man in Australia, after all . . .

What are they going to do? Send you to Australia?

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Beer Travel / Re: Salt Lake City

« on: November 03, 2011, 08:36:45 AM »

I can recommend Squatters on 300 South.  Nice place, good food, lots of excellent Utah beer to choose from.  Have fun.

They have a pub in the airport too. My wife got to go there a few months ago between planes.

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Other Fermentables / Re: What to do with some chokecherry syrup.

« on: November 03, 2011, 08:34:26 AM »

I've had tart cherry belgian ales that were great too.

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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: What's Brewing This Weekend - 11/4 Edition

« on: November 03, 2011, 08:29:57 AM »

No brewing. Cleaning up and organizing the shop. Burning some brush and weeds.

Hey Jimmy, do you guys have competition throwing stuff? I've got an old fridge you can chuck....

Bruce

Just pumpkins. I'm pretty sure a fridge would break it, but it would be cool.

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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: What's Brewing This Weekend - 11/4 Edition

« on: November 03, 2011, 07:44:22 AM »

No brewing, just this.

http://youtu.be/GsltThrXjIg

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All Grain Brewing / Re: All grain brewing in the winter

« on: November 03, 2011, 07:40:21 AM »

I can't use my garden hose in the winter. When the temperatures really drop there is a danger of bursting pipes if I don't shut my outside spigots off. What does the acronym HLT stand for?

Understandable. I have a freeze-proof outdoor faucet that I connect my hose to for brewing. Then disconnect and drain it when I'm done.

Putting it in a tub of cold water and stiring will cool it relatively quickly. Fill the tub well before brewing and the water will be nice and cold.

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All Grain Brewing / Re: All grain brewing in the winter

« on: November 03, 2011, 07:21:17 AM »

The grains will barely notice being mashed in the cold. Those coolers are well insulated.

For chilling, why don't you just get the garden hose out? The water will be nice and cold, making chilling a breeze.  Otherwise - during the summer I fill my HLT with water and ice and run that through the chiller. Once at an event without running water, I did the same and used a small pump to pump icewater through the chiller and back into the ice.

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Yeast and Fermentation / Re: Too long in Secondary Fermenter???????

« on: November 01, 2011, 08:01:18 AM »

I don't think I've ever bottled a beer in 16 days. I rarely get to it in 3 weeks now.

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Other Fermentables / Re: What to do with some chokecherry syrup.

« on: November 01, 2011, 07:56:05 AM »

They are called 'choke' cherry's for a reason. Do you know if it is chokecherry honey, chokecherry syrup, or chokecherry syrup with honey, or something else?

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Ingredients / Re: Pickling Lime

« on: October 31, 2011, 09:51:33 AM »

Another way to do it is to weigh a level cup, which is 48 tsp, so you just divide the weight by 48.  It gives a decent approximation I think.

This was going to be my suggestion.

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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: Discovery Brewmaster's Canceled Because Of Threats From Big Beer

« on: October 31, 2011, 09:44:36 AM »

Back when the show ended, I did some reading on all this and there was supposed to be one more episode shot and shown.  I believe it was centered around opening of a brew pub.

Anyone have any idea of a place to see that episode if it is out on the great big www anywhere?

I heard a few months ago that they're still trying to finish the episode and hope to sell the whole series to a new channel, but its been on hold. I'm pretty sure it's based on Italy, for the new pub at Eataly.

http://eatalyny.com/eat/birreria

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The Pub / Re: CD to mp3

« on: October 31, 2011, 06:27:02 AM »

petabyte hard drive

I think you could probably reduce the bitrate a little and be OK. 

Then buy an ipod and fit one song on it.