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	FORUM ON BEER, HOMEBREWING, AND RELATED ISSUES
		Rob Gardner, Digest Coordinator

Contents:
  Shipping beer (John D. Polstra)
  Using grain (Drew) Lynch <atl at ardent.com>


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Date: Thu, 27 Jul 89 08:31:48 PDT
From: polstra!jdp at uunet.UU.NET (John D. Polstra)
Subject: Shipping beer

In HOMEBREW Digest #212, Mike Fertsch <FERTSCH at adc1.RAY.COM> writes:
> I would hesitate to take homebrew as carry-on.  How can the security
> people be sure your unlabelled, hand-capped bottle doesn't contain
> gasoline or some other explosove fluid?

Just as a data point, I've taken homebrew as carry-on at least 4 or 5
times.  There's never been any hassle with the security people.
Sometimes they ask what it is, because on their X-ray screen an upright
six-pack looks like six quarters floating in midair.  I just tell them
it is beer, and they say OK, and that's that.

A bottle of something doesn't seem very threatening to me, as long as it
*obviously* has no detonation device.  (Don't pack your homebrew into
the body of a radio, for instance.)

One of the security people even told me about some guy from Japan who
had come through a few days before with two cases of Coors to take back
home with him.  (Americans are worried about being taken over by these
people??? ;-)

I've never tried carrying beer onto an international flight, but I might
give it a go soon.  I'll let you know how that works out.

-- John Polstra               jdp at polstra.UUCP
   Polstra & Co., Inc.        ...{uunet,sun}!practic!polstra!jdp
   Seattle, WA                (206) 932-6482

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Date: Thu, 27 Jul 89 10:44:34 PDT
From: Andrew (Drew) Lynch <atl at ardent.com>
Subject: Using grain

I have noticed quite a few people mentioning that when using whole
grain malts, (crystal, chocolate, etc.)  that they should not be
boiled, only steeped.  Where does this fit into the brewing process?
What is the proper "steeping" temperature. And, most importantly, why
not boil?

                               Thanx in advance,
                                     Drew

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End of HOMEBREW Digest #213, 07/28/89

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