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The Pub / Re: What's the Weather Like Where You Are?

« on: January 19, 2012, 03:41:19 AM »

Could be a rough water year if we don't get some significant snow late winter/spring.

Folks around here are already worried. The fire department used about 40% of the reservoir keeping the brewery from burning down.

In hindsight, I could have told them not to go to any trouble.

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Equipment and Software / Re: aerator.

« on: January 19, 2012, 01:29:08 AM »

You should be able to get an aquarium pump less than that, and you won't need to buy batteries.

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Kegging and Bottling / Re: balancing ?

« on: January 18, 2012, 11:46:24 PM »

Nice, send us to your blackout page

Yes, that is what I did. On purpose. That.

Sorry about the politics. It really was unintentional.

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Kegging and Bottling / Re: balancing ?

« on: January 18, 2012, 10:46:04 PM »

Try this approach so that you don't end up with lines that are too short: http://seanterrill.com/2011/11/11/a-more-accurate-approach-to-draft-system-balancing/

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Kegging and Bottling / Re: serving pressure

« on: January 18, 2012, 10:30:32 PM »

I recommend using 3/16" I.D. tubing with about 6ft of length. It's always better to start with a longer line as you can always cut it shorter if need be.

For normal pressures I'd start out even longer than that. In theory, the length needed should be:

L = (P - 6)/0.7

Where L is the length in feet and P is the pressure in psi. For 12 psi, that's about 8.5 ft.

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The Pub / Re: What's the Weather Like Where You Are?

« on: January 18, 2012, 07:22:35 PM »

One year when I was living in Knoxville they closed the schools on a *forecast* of 1/4-1/2 in. It ended up raining.

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Yeast and Fermentation / Re: I am new to lager

« on: January 18, 2012, 07:21:20 PM »

The pressure required to push gas through a tube is basically zero.

My experience has been that an airlock will continue to bubble steadily for weeks after fermentation is finished.

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Ingredients / Re: Anyone use Palisade hops?

« on: January 18, 2012, 07:01:40 PM »

I think that in low doses they work as a substitute for something like Willamette or maybe even Mt. Hood. At higher hopping rates they just come across as "dirty" to me. I can't think of any other way to describe it.

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The Pub / Re: What's the Weather Like Where You Are?

« on: January 17, 2012, 09:15:14 PM »

(I teach a 7:30am lab, groan)

Purdue? I remember those 7:30s fondly.

Well, I remember them, anyway.

Actually, I don't remember some of them.

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The Pub / Re: Won't Be Long . . .

« on: January 17, 2012, 08:04:13 PM »

They're fine as long as you don't have to pull the stems. The threads are plastic, so they get torn up and won't hold a seal after a while.

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The Pub / Re: Frosted Glassware isn't Cool!

« on: January 17, 2012, 08:02:17 PM »

Around here they're clear and biodegradable.

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The Pub / Re: What's the Weather Like Where You Are?

« on: January 17, 2012, 08:01:38 PM »

Snow! Sweet, glorious snow! About 16" here in town, with some wind-loading stuff at elevation getting around three feet.

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The Pub / Re: Bacon increases cancer risk

« on: January 16, 2012, 02:59:55 AM »

After much searching I believe I have found the original: http://www.somethingofthatilk.com/index.php?id=219

Now we just need to persuade him to make a poster. Or maybe some classy metal signs. Classy, like bacon.

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The Pub / Re: Bacon increases cancer risk

« on: January 16, 2012, 12:18:00 AM »

I can't make out the logo. Where do I get one of those posters?

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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: A new way of thinking of the BU:GU ratio

« on: January 15, 2012, 07:07:03 PM »

I think it's an improvement over the BU:GU ratio, and I don't want to diminish the quality of Ryan's work, but it will have most of the same limitations.

• IBU estimates can vary wildly depending on the formula used.
• Attenuation is only one factor influencing the mouthfeel: carbonation can have just as much - or more - of an effect on perceived bitterness.
• Different hops (and different boil times) have different perceived bitterness, despite having the same IBU.
• I don't personally feel that there's a linear relationship between attenuation (or FG) and mouthfeel. In some beers a six-point variation is undetectable, while in other two points is a night-and-day difference.

I don't bother to calculate a BU:GU ratio when designing a recipe, because I don't think it will yield any information I didn't already have.