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Joe DiBenedetti
Member
Username: Docwino
Post Number: 122
Registered: 01-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, April 07, 2005 - 08:41 pm: | 
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Made an English bitter on Mar,3rd. Spent a week in the primary and two in the secondary and I was going to bottle it at the end of the month. As we all know things come up and plans change, so I had to leave it in the secondary for another week. Last week it was just beer. Today when I went to bottle it, come to find out I had gained a few gravity points, the flavors married perfectly and the hops are a lot more noticeable. If this hobby teaches anything-----it's patience. |
michael atkins
Member
Username: Mga
Post Number: 140
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Friday, April 08, 2005 - 01:42 am: |
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Now leave it in the bottle for a month longer than you had planned. -- "Your patience will be rewarded"!
Love This Hobby!
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Beerboy AKA The Jolly Brewer
Advanced Member
Username: Matfink
Post Number: 646
Registered: 03-2003
| | Posted on Friday, April 08, 2005 - 10:52 am: |
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Joe, while on the whole I agree with you, sometime, like 1 in 20 batches, I find a bitter is best when it is about 10 days old. Straight out of the keg, when it is really fresh it can be sublime, but after a few weeks it can still be good, just not as good. Funny - just goes to show that no matter how experienced you are you can never truly predict the results when brewing. |
Michael Michaelsen
Junior Member
Username: Mikemike
Post Number: 28
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Friday, April 08, 2005 - 10:55 am: |
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"An extra week is worth its weight in gold"
What's the weight of a week? |
Carl McCoy
Junior Member
Username: Ib4it
Post Number: 89
Registered: 08-2002
| | Posted on Friday, April 08, 2005 - 11:33 am: |
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"What's the weight of a week?"
I got my scale out, I'll let you know in a week. |
Roger Herpst
Member
Username: Roger456
Post Number: 122
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Friday, April 08, 2005 - 10:38 pm: |
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My last extract batch was an ESB I brewed in December (maybe earlier). I really did not like it when it was first "ready," carb'd, and kegged. Now that it is april and the keg is VERY light, it is of course quite tasty. |
PalerThanAle
Senior Member
Username: Palerthanale
Post Number: 1329
Registered: 04-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, April 09, 2005 - 01:19 am: |
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>What's the weight of a week?
Roughly 1/4 of the weight of a month. Everyone knows that a month weights 1/12 of a year.
Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It’s what separates us from the animals. Except the weasel.
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Fredrik
Senior Member
Username: Fredrik
Post Number: 2111
Registered: 03-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, April 09, 2005 - 06:46 am: |
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An equality between time and mass, now that would be sensational  That reminds me of one certain Dr crackpot that used to flood some of the usenet sci.* groups some ~8 years ago with weird and sensational theories.
One theory he pulled up was a time-mass eqvivalence relation - as an update to einsteins original (and in his opinion obviously flawed E=mc^2). These guy also invented his own units for time - named after himself.
From what I recall he also predicted that tweaking earths axis would stop global disasters and epidemics.
He always posted, exclusively, in capital letters and referred to himself in third person.
/Fredrik |
Geoff Buschur
Advanced Member
Username: Avmech
Post Number: 696
Registered: 06-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, April 09, 2005 - 12:38 pm: |
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Shouldn't it read: An extra week is worth its _wait_ in gold ? |
Joe DiBenedetti
Member
Username: Docwino
Post Number: 127
Registered: 01-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, April 09, 2005 - 08:27 pm: |
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Shouldn't it read: An extra week is worth its _wait_ in gold ?
Bingo, couldn't have said it better. As a matter of fact I didn't.  |
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