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The Pub / Re: One step closer

« on: November 15, 2010, 12:27:38 AM »

"Beer hunger strike?'  Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?  You found religion or summut?

Drinking beer should be your pathway to get er done!  Greasing the wheels and all like that...

Great photo of you and WT Sr.  - btw

But a question:
The picture time stamp shows it to be the weekend, and you're wearing pants!  Wots up widdat?!

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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: Out of Starsan sanitizer is chlorine bleach okay?

« on: November 14, 2010, 11:39:56 PM »

Every time I try to go see Rod my truck yanks the steering wheel away from me and parks at KBC instead!

And - if you can make it from Puna to Kona and back in three hours, I want to hitch a ride on your airplane!

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All Things Food / What's For Dinner?

« on: November 14, 2010, 11:30:02 PM »

Beer brewers tend to be pretty good cooks.  So share... wots fo dinah tonight?

Tomorrow is Monday - wash day.

Jus started dem red beans soaken fo red beans and rice, me.

You?

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All Things Food / Re: Crackers

« on: November 14, 2010, 11:10:28 PM »

You like dat?  Evah try homemade kine crackah?  Mo bettah!

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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: Out of Starsan sanitizer is chlorine bleach okay?

« on: November 14, 2010, 08:24:06 PM »

 Order now and you'll have it by the weekend.

Not in this part of the middle of the Pacific.

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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: Out of Starsan sanitizer is chlorine bleach okay?

« on: November 14, 2010, 05:21:27 PM »

… Rinsing with tap water is 'usually' ok…

If your tap water is provided by a municipal water system it is almost certainly safe to use for rinsing.  The EPA’s Clean Water Act requires all public water systems to provide disinfected water to their users’ taps.  However, it is this requirement that makes it important to dechlorinate tap water before using it as brew water.

If you get your tap water from a private source, such as your own well or rainwater catchment system, using it for rinsing could be a problem, unless you also have a filtration and disinfection system installed.

… given the availability of excellent no-rinse sanitizer…

I rinse even when using no-rinse sanitizers.  Just my own personal quirk.  Less is better IMO, and I have no doubt my rinse water is safe.  I use rainwater catchment with triple filtration and UV disinfection for my household water. (and I test it regularly in my lab)

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All Grain Brewing / Re: Brewed today (pic)

« on: November 14, 2010, 06:02:28 AM »

I make a corriander beer that is my wife's fav of all my homebrews (mead not included).  It is a marzen with an ounce of freshly cracked coriander seeds added for 10 minutes at the end of the boil after the heat has been turned off. I wrote an article about it for the ingredients special issue of Zymurgy a while back.  I've tweaked the recipe a bit since then.

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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: Out of Starsan sanitizer is chlorine bleach okay?

« on: November 13, 2010, 10:41:42 PM »

Bleach and stainless steel don't mix. Don't use it on stainless.  Don't use it on any metals. 

Other than that bleach is an effective cleaner and sanitizer.  The important part is rinsing the bleach out/off after sanitizing.  A good triple rinse will do the trick.

I've been cleaning and sanitizing glass carboys, bottles, bottling buckets and racking lines with bleach for 20+ years with no problems - ever. 

Did I mention you need to rinse well?

I just bought 3 gallons of Chlorox at Costco for under $6.  That's enough for a year's worth of sanitizing.

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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: What's Brewing This Weekend - 11/12 Edition

« on: November 13, 2010, 04:02:54 PM »

Flavor-wise (roux and beer) it pays to go slow.

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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: What's Brewing This Weekend - 11/12 Edition

« on: November 13, 2010, 03:55:21 PM »

Racked a star fruit mead from the 10 gallon stockpot/fermenter into a 7 gallon glass carboy.  Man did that smell and taste good!

Eyeballing another 22 gallons of mead that's ready to bottle. 

Let me see... wash 9 cases of wine bottles, or go snorkeling in the Wai`opae tide pools in Kapoho?  hmmm...



Ya know... I think those bottles can wait for another day.

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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: What's Brewing This Weekend - 11/12 Edition

« on: November 13, 2010, 03:17:23 PM »

right now I'm making a big old pot of crab and andouille gumbo.  (It was a one beer roux).

Slow drinking or high heat?

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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: What's Brewing This Weekend - 11/12 Edition

« on: November 13, 2010, 12:49:45 PM »

Dolphins cream the Thumbtacks.  Pennington is starting at QB.

> edit - a day later <

They're having creamed Thumbtacks for dinner in Miami tonight.

Next up Bears on Thursday night.

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All Things Food / Re: Coffee roasting

« on: November 13, 2010, 09:19:10 AM »

Late to da party again.  Just now spotted this thread.  I have an excuse though.  I've been distracted by the

Kona Coffee Cultural Festival

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All Things Food / Re: Sourdough Time!

« on: November 13, 2010, 08:57:35 AM »

...I have a KA mixer and use it all ther time during cooking/baking season...

Baking season?

Can I be fined for baking out of season?   

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All Things Food / Re: Sourdough Time!

« on: November 13, 2010, 01:43:42 AM »

I'd love a stand mixer too, but haven't been able to justify it yet.  It's on sale at costco right now though   Still SWMBO is a fan of having the counters clear, and the cabinets are getting pretty full . . .

The food processor works well, and I'd rather spend my time cleaning it (putting it in the dishwasher) than kneading dough forever.  But that's me.

I looked at the one on sale at Costco today.  It is the right one to get.  Very sturdy.  The mixing bowl drops down - the head does not pivot up, and it has a 575W motor ( 0.77 HP).

Bending dough hook?  wow... I make some heavy breads with mine, so much so that the motor nearly comes to a stop with the effort.  13 years later the original hook has no bending, no dings in the enamel, still in good shape.  Although the machine tends to "walk" a bit when kneading a dense dough.  If it were Hobart sized that wouldn't happen.

My wife got me the mixer because she got tired of me beating the she-it out of the dough on the kitchen counter at all hours of the night.  I used to work shift work at a power plant and would make bread when I got home.

She also got me the sausage grinder attachment for the PTO port on the mixer head.  Lucky thing!  Few here in Hawaii know what andouille or boudin is.  I've ground close to a ton of sausage with that machine.  I bought a sturdy microwave table for the mixer to live on.  The accessories live in the shelf space underneath of the microwave table.