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Offline deepsouth

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Re: White House Brew Recipe
« Reply #120 on: September 07, 2012, 01:10:56 pm »
well, i ordered the white house honey ale kit from northern brewer, so it looks like i'll be brewing that one soon.
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Re: White House Brew Recipe
« Reply #121 on: September 28, 2012, 05:48:21 am »
i'm brewing this tonight.

in the video on the white house website, it seems like i remembered them putting a quart of honey in there, which according to the quart i picked up at the farmers market, is 2.25 lbs.  plugging that into beersmith, i'm coming out with an abv of 8.5%.....  so, looks like i'll be adding the pound that came with the kit, which drops the abv down to 6.5%.


hopefully this will be ready to celebrate with the night of the election.
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Re: White House Brew Recipe
« Reply #122 on: September 28, 2012, 07:23:31 am »
i'm brewing this tonight.

in the video on the white house website, it seems like i remembered them putting a quart of honey in there, which according to the quart i picked up at the farmers market, is 2.25 lbs.  plugging that into beersmith, i'm coming out with an abv of 8.5%.....  so, looks like i'll be adding the pound that came with the kit, which drops the abv down to 6.5%.


hopefully this will be ready to celebrate with the night of the election.

When I watched the video it looked like a pint jar to me so 1 lb. would be about the right amount.

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Re: White House Brew Recipe
« Reply #123 on: September 28, 2012, 07:52:02 am »
Yeah but pint = pound is only valid for water, honey is significantly more dense, no?

I also ordered the kit. Figure I'll swap out the probably-crap honey with the stuff produced by carl's girls' cousins about half a mile away.
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Re: White House Brew Recipe
« Reply #124 on: September 28, 2012, 07:57:00 am »
You probably right on the weight difference. You are definitely right on the density difference.

I was going with the the statement that his quart of honey weighed 2.25lbs.  No other research or knowledge.  8^)

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Re: White House Brew Recipe
« Reply #125 on: September 28, 2012, 11:04:02 am »
honey has a SG of around 1.300 - 1.500 depending on the bees and such. so  pint of honey at 39* would weight between 1.3 and 1.5 lbs.

(A pints a pound only for water at 39*f)
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Re: White House Brew Recipe
« Reply #126 on: September 28, 2012, 11:14:01 am »
You probably right on the weight difference. You are definitely right on the density difference.

I was going with the the statement that his quart of honey weighed 2.25lbs.  No other research or knowledge.  8^)

Paul


and i was just pulling that number off what was on the label they put on the honey.  it said 32 oz./2.25 lbs.
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Re: White House Brew Recipe
« Reply #127 on: September 28, 2012, 11:14:51 am »
Yeah but pint = pound is only valid for water, honey is significantly more dense, no?

I also ordered the kit. Figure I'll swap out the probably-crap honey with the stuff produced by carl's girls' cousins about half a mile away.

i guess i should taste what is in the kit and what i have and worst case scenario, guesstimate how much of the local stuff to add at the end.
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Re: White House Brew Recipe
« Reply #128 on: September 28, 2012, 11:17:18 am »
Yeah but pint = pound is only valid for water, honey is significantly more dense, no?

I also ordered the kit. Figure I'll swap out the probably-crap honey with the stuff produced by carl's girls' cousins about half a mile away.

i guess i should taste what is in the kit and what i have and worst case scenario, guesstimate how much of the local stuff to add at the end.

make sure the stuff in the kit didn't come from outside the US. There have been a few cases recently of lead in honey from china and various honey laudering operations moving honey from china around the world so it could be imported into countries that won't accept chinese honey for that very reason.
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Re: White House Brew Recipe
« Reply #129 on: September 28, 2012, 11:25:14 am »
Yeah but pint = pound is only valid for water, honey is significantly more dense, no?

I also ordered the kit. Figure I'll swap out the probably-crap honey with the stuff produced by carl's girls' cousins about half a mile away.

i guess i should taste what is in the kit and what i have and worst case scenario, guesstimate how much of the local stuff to add at the end.

make sure the stuff in the kit didn't come from outside the US. There have been a few cases recently of lead in honey from china and various honey laudering operations moving honey from china around the world so it could be imported into countries that won't accept chinese honey for that very reason.


thanks for that information.  in light of that, i'm using the local stuff.

cheers.
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Re: White House Brew Recipe
« Reply #130 on: September 28, 2012, 07:21:02 pm »
make sure the stuff in the kit didn't come from outside the US. There have been a few cases recently of lead in honey from china and various honey laudering operations moving honey from china around the world so it could be imported into countries that won't accept chinese honey for that very reason.

"Honey laundering"??  That sounds almost comical.  I had to read that twice to make sure I saw it correctly.
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Re: White House Brew Recipe
« Reply #131 on: September 28, 2012, 07:37:33 pm »
the hone in the kit has a northern brewer sticker on it with an address of 1945 county road c2-w roseville, mn...  i'm guessing their address....
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Re: White House Brew Recipe
« Reply #132 on: October 21, 2012, 07:35:41 am »


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Re: White House Brew Recipe
« Reply #133 on: October 21, 2012, 09:07:40 am »
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