HOMEBREW Digest #3839 Tue 15 January 2002


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Contents:
  Re: Force Carbonation & Keg Cooling (John Schnupp)
  Re: More Klein (Todd Goodman)
  RE: Klein Man, The Kleinerator, doing the beer thing... ("Joel Plutchak")
  Re:what's the cause (Phil Wilcox)
  Re: Benefits of an AHA Membership? ("Pannicke, Glen A.")
  Re: Force Carbonation & Keg Cooling (Charles.Burry)
  carbonator type cap design ("Patrick Finerty Jr.")
  Stepping up a starter (Chris Knight)
  RE: Bubbling Carboy (Bob Sheck)
  How Did You Start All-Grain? (D/A Wenger)
  Re: Force Carbonation & Keg Cooling (D/A Wenger)

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---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 00:33:35 -0800 (PST) From: John Schnupp <johnschnupp at yahoo.com> Subject: Re: Force Carbonation & Keg Cooling From: "D. Butler-Ehle" <ulfin at portup.com> >When I guestimate that it has enough, I shut off the gas, give it >a final good shake (to ensure that the head pressure has reached >equillibrium), let it settle for a few minutes (to reduce foaming >due to turbidity and to allow incidental liquid to clear from the gas >plug's draw tube), then check it with my pressure gauge(*). Then at the end lists the parts required to build a pressure gauge. What I have done is to use a metal valve stem and attach it to the lid of my kegs. Here is a picture: http://www.home.earthlink.net/~johnschnupp/keglid.jpg You need to keep the valve centered in the lid as much as possible so that it does not interfere with installing the lid. You can then use a tire pressure gauge to check the pressure. Don't use one of those el-cheapo slide stick ones, IMO they suck. Use one with an actual pressure gauge. You can also use the same valve to make your own carbonation caps. You will need to add an air chuck (the auto parts store name of the thing to used to fill tires). They usually have NPT fitting threads. If you are with me this far it should be pretty easy. I am just offering another way to monitor the pressure in the keg. One thing I like is that I can double check the keg pressure against the regulator pressure without having to make any extra connections ===== John Schnupp, N3CNL ??? Hombrewery [560.2, 68.6] Rennerian Georgia, VT 95 XLH 1200, Horse with no Name Return to table of contents
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 08:29:19 -0500 From: Todd Goodman <tgoodman at bonedaddy.net> Subject: Re: More Klein > > From: Pat Babcock <pbabcock at hbd.org> > > Subject: Who is this guy? > > > > Greetings, Beerlings! Take me to your lager... > > > > I received the 365 Bottles of Beer calendar. It's rather > > entertaining, particular the prose describing the beers. So, > > who is Bob Klein? Anybody have any comments? And here I thought he had developed the Klein bottle packaging for beer. It's perfect for packaging those mega lagers. Indefinate shelf life. No skunking. Tastes the same as usual, but non-filling. http://www.math.rochester.edu/misc/klein-bottle.html http://www.kleinbottle.com/ Todd Goodman Brewing in Westford, MA No Rennerian Coordinates cause I can't find the link to the calculators (Is it in the Brewery.org links section?) Return to table of contents
Date: 14 Jan 2002 06:14:38 -0800 From: "Joel Plutchak" <plutchak at hotmail.com> Subject: RE: Klein Man, The Kleinerator, doing the beer thing... Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 14:14:38 +0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed In HBD #3837, Brian Lundeen wrote: >Now, I'm sure Joel Plutchak is going to slap me upside the head for >suggesting this, but if you really want to have some fun, go trolling >in >rec.food.drink.beer with a comment like, "Wow, has anyone read Bob >Klein's >beer reviews? They're awesome!" You'll see a knee jerk >reaction that makes >political correctness seem like a Cheech and >Chong road trip. Indeed, in rfdb there's a long history of Klein-bashing. His reviews are held up to general scorn and amusement, and at one point their wretchedness was the only thing every single contributor to the newsgroup could agree upon. Where else would we get such Kleinisms as "mid-bottle" and "bold yet subtle?" Yes, you'd get a reaction. It'd be more fun than a barratry of homebrew shop monkeys. - -- Joel Plutchak Honorary Howling Savage in East-Central Illinois Return to table of contents
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 09:36:37 -0500 From: Phil Wilcox <pjwilcox at cmsenergy.com> Subject: Re:what's the cause Andy woods asked about his dark Heine clone... >It has been conditioning for 3 weeks, and like I said, >is very bland, similiar to a stale soda. Sounds like a perfect clone to me!!!!! ;<) phil wilcox Return to table of contents
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 09:39:21 -0500 From: "Pannicke, Glen A." <glen_pannicke at merck.com> Subject: Re: Benefits of an AHA Membership? Jim Liddil was good enough to point out... >Uh, the AHA did not create this digest, and almost killed it. Check the >archives. In addition, I think that the AHA has largely benefited from this digest. There are now a number of board members who are also active participants in the HBD. I also feel that some of the technical content of Zymurgy has improved through the knowlege shared in this forum. While that may be a "chicken or the egg" debate, one cannot dispute that, overall, the homebrewing community had has made great strides from the "boil and stir" homebrew days of yore. This would not have been possible without the support of the AHA and forums such as the HBD. Unfortunately I have let my AHA membership lapse and should consider joining again. But that's not because I want to go to any beer festivals, national competitions, join any clubs or the like. I don't participate in those kind of things. But that's my loss - right? Zymurgy may well be a good read, but I can find a lot of things right here *AND* the HBD is interactive. When I reinstate my membership it will not be for any reason, but to support and advance the homebrewing community. As for Jim's comment... > WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They're going to have to pry my cold, dead fingers from my bottle of homebrew... ;-) Glen A. Pannicke glen at pannicke.net http://www.pannicke.net 75CE 0DED 59E1 55AB 830F 214D 17D7 192D 8384 00DD "We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbor them." - President G. W. Bush Return to table of contents
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 09:00:42 -0600 From: Charles.Burry at ercgroup.com Subject: Re: Force Carbonation & Keg Cooling Someone once pointed out that it is preferable to attach the gas line to the OUT side of your soda keg during shaking. This way the gas is being forced in to the bottom of the solution and, hopefully, will be absorbed on it's way up towards the headspace. Plus there appears to be less chance of splashing beer back in to your gas line. This method seems to work OK for me. Charlie Burry Return to table of contents
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 11:04:14 -0500 From: "Patrick Finerty Jr." <pjf at finerty.net> Subject: carbonator type cap design Hi folks, This weekend I finally found a way to make a carbonator type cap for 2 L pop bottles that is easy and cheap (like me). I really like the easy part as it's no fun waiting for something like silicone sealant to cure when you can have an instant cap! I purchased two bicycle tubes with 'presta' style valves (NOT the kind that are on your car). These are nice because they are narrow and threaded all the way to the base and come with a little metal retaining nut that can be screwed down the shaft to hold the valve in place after installation. Additionally, a bottle fitted with one of these can easily be pressurized using only a small tube that fits over the valve since the pin that allows a gas to enter the valve sticks above the stem (it's not recessed like with schrader valves) so no special pump fitting is required. At the base of the valve the tube has a circle of reinforced rubber. I took some scissors and cut out this region of the rubber with the valve. It also had to be further trimmed to fit easily into the cap of the bottle. You don't want any more rubber than is necessary or the cap won't screw on enough to ensure it will not pop off due to the high pressure it will soon experience. Using a small metal rod heated with a propane torch, I melted a hole through the cap that just accommodated the valve stem. I removed the inner plastic seal that is normally found in the cap as this isn't necessary since we have a nice rubber gasket (from the valve) and that extra piece of plastic just takes up space. Anyway, I don't know about the suitability of an inner tube for food (probably not the best) but when the bottle is upright it's mostly not in contact with the beer and doesn't smell or taste bad so I'm not worried. It's certainly better than the car tire valves I bought in an earlier attempt and that had probably the most foul and nauseating odor I have experienced from a piece of rubber. Cost: 1 tube: $4.00 CDN bottle: $1.50 CDN time: ~10 min Hope this helps you all! I'll try to get some pictures online soon. For the search engines: valve carbonator-like carbonator tube tire beer pressure carbonate CO2 pop soda bottle 2 L 2L schrader presta -patrick - -- Patrick J. Finerty, Jr., Ph.D. Forman-Kay Laboratory Hospital for Sick Children Toronto, ON, Canada http://finerty.net/pjf Return to table of contents
Date: 14 Jan 2002 14:55:27 -0800 From: Chris Knight <knight at hypergolic.com> Subject: Stepping up a starter I'm getting ready to brew an all-grain Oktoberfest this weekend and I'm planning on stepping up my White Labs vial to a larger quantity. In the past I've single stepped the culture using a 1000 ml flask and then pitching the White Labs vial directly into the starter wort after cooling. When stepping more then once I can think of two ways to do it: 1. Prepare 1st step (about 900 ml) and pitch White Labs vial. Ferment in a 1 gallon jug for a day. Prepare another 900 ml starter wort and pitch into the 1 gallon jug which already contains the 1st step. 2. Prepare 1st step and pitch White Labs vial. Ferment in a 1 gallon jug for a day. Prepare another 900 ml starter wort, but inoculate with some solution from the previous day starter. Ferment 2nd step separately in flask and then combine with 1st step. In the 1st method, the yeast that reproduced in the 1st step will ferment the 2nd step starter wort. In the 2nd method, the starter wort volume is inoculated with approximately the same amount of yeast as the first step. Obviously, the goal of the starter is to multiply the yeast, not to make beer. Question is, which method results in a larger healthier yeast population? Am I being silly? Does it matter? Chris Knight Return to table of contents
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 23:52:41 -0500 From: Bob Sheck <bsheck at skantech.net> Subject: RE: Bubbling Carboy Zee Polize vill be at yer dour any minit nowz! Vee have Bloh off, und gunz und high eggsplosives, und zee testimony of yur child, so you vill be found guilty under zees new terrorist lawz zee governimt haz made! Relexen, don vorry, haff a haus-brau, vee vill be comink for you zoon! Signed: Johann AssCrofffffft! >Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 10:24:22 -0500 >From: "David Craft" <David-Craft at craftinsurance.com> >Subject: Bubbling Carboy > >Greetings, > >My son (8 years old) has always been >somewhat interested in my brewing. > >He was facinated by the gunk that comes out of the >tube! Sounds like a good science experiment to >me! I am not sure the school officials would >appreciate the result though! >Regards, > > >David B. Craft Bob Sheck // DEA - Down East Alers - Greenville, NC bsheck at skantech.net // [583.2,140.6] Apparent Rennerian Return to table of contents
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 22:55:42 -0600 From: D/A Wenger <dkw at execpc.com> Subject: How Did You Start All-Grain? I'm going to do it. I'm leaping into all-grain brewing. Anyone seen my swim trunks? I'm a gadget head, see. And I've been sketching out this spiff all-grain system for some time now. Sketching, reading, sketching, more reading. And I've built nothing -- which is probably a good idea since I have no idea how to really *do* an all-grain batch. See, when I was 16 I bought and built this really expensive radio-controlled car, but never played with the darn thing. It was enough fun to build it. But this time, my wife would kill me if I took over the basement with sweated copper piping just for the sake of sweating the copper. So I'm going to get a 5 gallon plastic bucket to put in my old bottling bucket, drill a bunch of holes, find my old sleeping bag and tea kettle, and mash/lauter a 3-gallon or so batch with that. Just so I get the sense that I *like* all-grain brewing. So what I'm asking the collective, is to wax historical on *your* first all-grain system. What was your first setup? Did it work? What is your advice for a super cheap, relatively simple, but somewhat effective AG system? Dan Wenger Hartland, Wisconsin [237.6, 284.3] Apparent Return to table of contents
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 23:01:22 -0600 From: D/A Wenger <dkw at execpc.com> Subject: Re: Force Carbonation & Keg Cooling In our last episode, "D. Butler-Ehle" <ulfin at portup.com> described his stopcock arrangement on his corny gas in line. I like it. If applied to the beer out line, he could play with his stopcock (sorry) to restrict the out flow -- therefore allowing the corny to stay at higher carbonation pressure while serving. Voila, no more depressurizing the keg. Add it to the list and off to Home Depot... Dan Wenger Hartland, Wisconsin [237.6, 284.3] Apparent Return to table of contents
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