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Commercial Beer Reviews / Re: Chimay

« on: October 31, 2010, 02:20:27 PM »

It's hard to say for sure from the photo, but the bottle on the left looks like it's made with darker glass.  Look at the glass in the space above the beer.

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The Pub / Re: skunks in the neighborhood

« on: October 31, 2010, 08:13:24 AM »

My neighbor with the tinfoil hat tells me that they are space aliens preparing to take over the planet!

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All Grain Brewing / Re: Your FIRST all grain?

« on: October 31, 2010, 08:05:40 AM »

My first three AG batches were blonde ales...

The first batch tasted like the garden hose I used to fill the HLT.

The second batch was grainy and astringent, because I oversparged.

The third batch was just right

Goldie Locks!

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All Grain Brewing / Re: Your FIRST all grain?

« on: October 31, 2010, 07:46:48 AM »

Munich helles.  I love the flavor/aroma of Hallertauer hops!

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The Pub / Re: Wife and Homebrew?

« on: October 30, 2010, 11:41:44 PM »

I think the main thing to do is make something that she likes, whether that's beer, wine, cider, or sake.

Mead, Tom... Mead is the answer!

When I started brewing I was overwhelmed with the possibilities...  One of my primary goals was to make a beverage that women love, and when they drink it they fall over backwards and ...

It worked 14+ years ago.  It still works today... Mead!

(says the beekeeper)

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Beer Recipes / Re: Bell's Rye Stoue Clone?

« on: October 30, 2010, 09:58:24 PM »

Pawtucket,

I'm very lucky that the military provides us with an ability to receive homebrew supplies via the military postal service.  I can't imagine what it must be like for the homebrewers living on the local economy.  I have a red IPA sitting in a fermenter for the last week that has WLP-001 in it.  I guess I could pull off a quart of that for a yeast starter.

Take care and thanks again for the info.

Cheers,
Bill

Thank you for your service Bill!

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The Pub / Re: Wife and Homebrew?

« on: October 30, 2010, 09:52:45 PM »

I met my wife at the '96 NHC in NOLA.  She totally gets it.

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All Things Food / Re: Fruit... pathetic

« on: October 30, 2010, 05:22:47 PM »

"I really love your peaches
Want to shake your tree"

Steve Miller Band - The Joker

Don't think he was singin' bout da fruit either...

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All Things Food / Re: Boiled Peanuts

« on: October 30, 2010, 01:36:17 PM »

...Green meaning freshly picked - not actually green in color...

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All Things Food / Re: Fruit... pathetic

« on: October 30, 2010, 12:11:09 PM »

Meat sack come from the movie MIB.

There was an episode of Star Trek - The Next Generation where alien microbes called humans, "Ugly bags of mostly water."

Guess they didn't know about those 5 lbs. of undigested meat, ay?

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All Things Food / Re: Boiled Peanuts

« on: October 30, 2010, 12:03:44 PM »

Green peanuts are even fresher than raw peanuts.  Get the green ones if you can.  It makes a huge difference.

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All Things Food / Re: Boiled Peanuts

« on: October 30, 2010, 11:48:10 AM »

Fresh kine mo bettah!

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All Things Food / Re: Boiled Peanuts

« on: October 30, 2010, 09:39:24 AM »

Too true Jeff.  I know what you mean. 

Hey, what about selling disposable steering wheel covers at the peanut stands?

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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: Chilling beer

« on: October 30, 2010, 09:23:39 AM »

True
But Henry's Law uses a constant temperature.  Chilling the beer changes the partial pressure of the gas in the headspace above the liquid.

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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: Chilling beer

« on: October 30, 2010, 09:05:21 AM »

There's laws that relate to how temperature, pressure, and volume interact to determine gas solubility in liquids...and I think they are laws which cannot be broken!  

pV = nRT

The Ideal Gas Law.  It all works around that.

Beer is not an ideal gas, but it comes close enough to figure out what's going on.