HOMEBREW Digest #2907 Tue 22 December 1998

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Contents:
  CO update (Hmbrwrpete)
  honey stoudt (Earl & Karen Bright)
  Re: The speed of change at the AHA ("Brian Wurst")
  refinishing kegs ("Ratkiewich, Peter")
  GABF: members-only tasting (John Simonetta)
  Re: Medieval Malting (Jeff Renner)
  Re: Muddy Beer? (Jeff Renner)
  Online Wahl-Henius - access problems (Spencer W Thomas)
  Adjustable mills / murky beer ("George De Piro")
  yeast culturing (David Whitman)
  Re: Oud Bruin (Jim Wallace)
  defending bass/stainless washing/fruit fly results (Boeing)" <BayerMA at navair.navy.mil>
  Oxygen grade/purity (Ross Reid)
  Nominal Pipe Thread ("Timmons, Frank")
  Re Re Fries ("Peter J. Calinski")
  'TWAS THE MORN AFTER CHRISTMAS ("Grow, Roger H")
  Malt mills, and CO ("silent bob")
  finding mackeson "to go" in Columbus, OH ("Mark W. Wilson")
  0.2-micron filters (Gail Elber)
  Thomas Hardy yeast (Rick Gontarek)
  RIMS equip for sale ("Keith Royster")

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---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 00:18:29 EST From: Hmbrwrpete at aol.com Subject: CO update Due to the great responses I got regarding my CO problem I feel I owe an update even though the "Highgate on Bailey Basement Brewery" (or Gottfried Bierhaus, depending on the bier being made) is not done yet. The following suggestions were repeated more than once, taken into account and worked into the plan: 1) More fresh air. I've drilled a 4" hole in my house and dropped a 6" pipe within 1' of the burner. This will give more fresh air than you can shake a stick at! 2) Get better suction. As luck would have it, depending on your frame of mind, the fan on my range hood crapped out just as I was getting ready to start drilling the hole for above mentioned fresh air line. Home Depot's best range hood will give you roughly 250 cfm for well over $100.00. I found an inline blower for $50.00 that will definitely give me 275 cfm. According to a ventilation guy the fan on my range hood would have been sufficient as long as I had the better fresh air supply. As I see it, what I got is gravy...I hope. Also, replaced flexible 4" dryer line with 6" galvanized line. It's still going out a 4" hole, but I'm hoping that little bit won't cause a significant drop in cfm's 3) Turn the gas down. I plan on it. 4) Raise the kettle. I've got cinder blocks that should do the trick. 5) Try a slimmer kettle. "Here comes Santa Claus...", I've been looking for an excuse to get a converted keg boiler... Ok. I've spent a more than a few bucks, and I've killed a whole weekend and I'm still not done yet! Can you imagine how rich I might be if I threw this much energy into my career?! The end product is going to be a safe brewery that will enable me to brew with enough frequency at night to really learn something AND spend more time with my kids and working on my house...at least thats what I tell my wife ;) Seriously, thanks to all of you who responded and for your very helpful suggestions. I hope to have final results the weekend after xmas. You guys are the goods :), Happy Holidays, Pete Gottfried Buffalo, NY Return to table of contents
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 06:20:57 -0500 From: denali at epix.net (Earl & Karen Bright) Subject: honey stoudt I am attempting my first batch of stoudt and would like to make a honey stoudt. How much honey, when do I add it and what kind of honey do I use?? Thank you very much for your help. Earl denali at epix.net Return to table of contents
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1998 15:47:16 -0600 From: "Brian Wurst" <brian at mail.netwave.net> Subject: Re: The speed of change at the AHA Brian Rezac replies in HBD#2905 to my post in #2903: >What I said was that change takes time, not that someone or group was >impeding change at the AHA. Even some revolutions take time and, at >times, you may not even realize that a revolution has taken place, or >to what extent, until you can look at it in hindsight. >But the big flaw that I see in your rationale above is in your first >sentence, "In an organization with TWO employees (a Director and <snip> >and I are not the AHA. The AHA is an association of homebrewers. All >the individual members/homebrewers make up the AHA. There is no flaw in my rationale. Members have been telling the AHA Administration what they've wanted for years and have been ignored. I submit that the AHA has received plenty of quality feedback over the years to respond to and the response has been absent. As an example, there exists no inertia to prevent the AHA from releasing their yearly audit, but the AHA sees fit to be obstructionist by requiring someone to personally visit the AHA offices to get their copy (and I believe Jim Liddl reported even then the AHA Administration were dilatory in providing this information once he got there). Where is the member/customer focus in that sort of action? Rather than providing weak excuses for why you cannot change fast enough, I suggest your effort be directed to effecting change without delay. I am on the board of directors of a company with a $20 Million budget, over 300 employees and nearly 35,000 customers/shareholders. Change is happening throughout our organization at a speed that that makes the rate of change at the AHA look geologic. Go ahead, tell me again how long it takes to effect change. I can only believe you have no idea at all. >how the AHA did things in the past. But if you look at Paul's and my >previous posts, you'll see that we both talked of moving the AHA to a >more member-driven organization. The next member of the AHA's Board >of Advisors will be elected by the AHA members. The details of Big >Brew '99 will be decided by the Big Brew '98 site directors. This is >the revolution. And this revolution has the blessing of the AHA Board >of Advisors, the AOB and Charlie. What I see is too much talk and very little action. Members have wanted change for years yet you see fit to tell them to wait even longer for that change. The loss of membership is directly related to the actions (or more precisely, inaction) of the AHA Administration. The status quo still exists (elect the next _member_ of the BoA? What a concession!), change is being resisted, and still more members are becoming disenfrancised. Yep, that'll get new members signing up in droves and current members re-upping their memberships. I can see the slogan now... "The New AHA - Wait for the Change!" Good luck in 1999, Brian Wurst brian at mail.netwave.net Lombard, Illinois "Nature has formed you, desire has trained you, fortune has preserved you for this insanity." -Cicero Return to table of contents
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 08:10:00 -0500 From: "Ratkiewich, Peter" <PRATKIEWICH at ci.westport.ct.us> Subject: refinishing kegs In HBD #2906 randy writes: "I would also like to improve the surface finish of the keg. The inside has some stain/discoloration from something, and the outside is beat up, dirty and not shiny/reflective. I have read in a jewelry making book (Jewelry Concepts and Technology, by Oppi Untracht) that a Hydrochloric acid pickle can be used to remove oxidation. I have tried various polishes with little success." I just got finished cleaning up a keg that was in a condition similar to what you describe. Inside stains and discoloration from god knows what, and the outside beat up like its been thrown around for a good many years. I used a product by 3-M that you can buy these days at just about any hardware store. It's a rubberized abrasive wheel that I attach to my electric drill. Much better than a wire wheel, it cleans any and all tarnish out of both inside and outside surfaces, and easily gets into those little scratches on the out side. If you run the wheel in the same direction as the grain of the keg, that is with the circular shape rather than perpendicular to it, the finish comes out to look like a fine brushed stainless steel. I suppose I could polish it from that point but it didn't seem worth it. Total cost of the abrasive wheel is about $5. There's also an added benefit. I used this keg as a mash pot two weekends ago when me and my partner made up a 60 gallon batch, (two setups, two consecutive batches, and another story altogether!). When I was all done there was a nasty little burn mark where the stove had carmelized some of the wort. After working the mini-brewery for almost 20 hours I didn't have the energy to scrub for an hour to get this stuff out of the mash tun, so I just left it there. This past weekend I took out the abrasive wheel again and in less than a minute the burnt wort was whisked away, leaving a nice shiny brushed bottom again. This wheel works so well, I'm doing two more kegs with it so my three tier system will be complete. Pete Ratkiewich Return to table of contents
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 08:45:41 -0500 From: John_Simonetta at ittsheraton.com (John Simonetta) Subject: GABF: members-only tasting Robert J. Waddell writes: "Try serving the judges for a day, attending the "World Beer Forum", and serving four shifts on the festival floor" Robert, I wish I had the opportunity to "drive 45 minutes" to volunteer as you do. I believe Steve Jackson's point, if I may reiterate, was that the GABF AHA members only tasting is useless if you can't afford to get there (or fly there, as most of us would have to do). Your diatribe did have a complaining tone. John Simonetta Randolph, MA Return to table of contents
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 08:48:21 -0500 From: Jeff Renner <nerenner at umich.edu> Subject: Re: Medieval Malting Badger Roullett <branderr at microsoft.com> tells us that straw was the preferred English malt drying fuel until kiln design advanced to the point that the smoke didn't come in contact with the smoke, because unsmoky malt was preferred. It's often been suggested here that smoky malt was inevitable in "olden days," especially given the evidence of Scottish whisky malt and Bamberger malt. I appreciate this confirmation of at least English historic dislike of smoky malt, which I had remembered reading some years ago but which others had doubted. I'll continue to leave it out of my historic brews with a clear conscience, as well as a clear palletxxx palettexxx palate, since I seem to have a low tolerance for it. Nice job and thanks. Jeff -=-=-=-=- Jeff Renner in Ann Arbor, Michigan c/o nerenner at umich.edu "One never knows, do one?" Fats Waller, American Musician, 1904-1943. Return to table of contents
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 09:09:46 -0500 From: Jeff Renner <nerenner at umich.edu> Subject: Re: Muddy Beer? Badger <badger at nwlink.com>'s beer looks like chocolate milk. Here's your clue: >stuck on the back porch to chill Sounds like a bad case of chill haze to me, probably made worse from the protein in the wheat malt, which I hope you mashed and didn't just steep at any old temperature, in which case you could have a starch haze too, which is more problematic. How soon is the wedding? Time and gravity will take care of it, but you could use polyclar if you're in a hurry. Make up a slurry of 2-3 Tbs in a cup of beer (watch out, it will really foam) and add it to your beer, stirring gently. If the beer is too carbonated, it will foam even without stirring. Don't make the mistake of adding the dry polyclar to carbonated or even CO2 supersaturated beer in a carboy or keg as I did way back when directions for its use were lacking. I ended up with about 15 gallons of instant foam pushing out of the carboy neck! Jeff -=-=-=-=- Jeff Renner in Ann Arbor, Michigan c/o nerenner at umich.edu "One never knows, do one?" Fats Waller, American Musician, 1904-1943. Return to table of contents
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 09:54:28 -0500 From: Spencer W Thomas <spencer at engin.umich.edu> Subject: Online Wahl-Henius - access problems It appears that some people who browse the net from behind a firewall are unable to get to my web server (hubris.engin.umich.edu:8080). I apologize for this, and will consider moving the server to the standard http port (80). This is not something I can do right away, though. =Spencer Thomas in Ann Arbor, MI (spencer at umich.edu) Return to table of contents
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 10:18 -0800 From: "George De Piro" <George_De_Piro at berlex.com> Subject: Adjustable mills / murky beer Hi all, Randy writes: " I think that's why some people like adjustable mills; they think they're going to find some perfect setting that's never been discovered before. The fixed Maltmill setting, in my opinion, is already there. If you need to improve your extraction efficiency, work on your sparging technique, or your water chemistry." Back to me: There are some very good reasons to desire an adjustable malt mill. Here are some of them: 1. Different malts are different sizes and require different gap sizes to efficiently mill them. Wheat malt is not properly crushed in a mill that is optimized for two-row barley. Some raw grains are even smaller. 2. In my experience one of the most common causes of poor extraction efficiency is poorly crushed malt. While water chemistry and sparging technique play a role in extraction efficiency, they are secondary to a proper crush. 3. Of concern to commercial breweries (and maybe a couple of fanatical homebrewers) is that rollers wear out with time. Adjustability allows the gap to remain optimized throughout the mill's life. Achieving a proper crush is crucial to the quality of your beer. Overly-crushed malt can cause slow or stuck lauter runoff or yield wort of poor clarity. Poor clarity of the lauter runoff can adversely affect hot break settling time, leading to beer that has greater haze potential and poor flavor (from the excessive trub that makes it to the fermenter). Under-crushed malt will yield low extract, disappointing the brewer. Unconverted (heathen) starch trapped within the grain could possibly be leached out during the lauter (especially if the sparge water is too hot), causing permanent haze in the beer. While it is true that you should not need to adjust your mill frequently, it is important to be able to adjust it for the times you mill something other than domestic 2-row barley. Keep in mind that European 2-row is slightly larger than American 2-row for the simple reason that they sort their barley using metric screens while those of us in the Metrically-challenged USA use screens calibrated in inches ("Vollgerste" grade barley in Germany is retained on a 2.5 mm screen while "plump" barley in the USA is retained on a 3/32" screen (2.38 mm)). ------------------------------- Lord Badger (whose full title is too long for me to retype) laments his murky beer, which was meant to be a wedding present. He ponders the cause of the beer's opacity. While he does not disclose much in the way of procedural details, he does mention the presence of both wheat malt and crystal malt in an extract-based beer. Was the wheat malt mashed, or just steeped in the extract kettle with the crystal malt? If the wheat malt was not mashed then unconverted starch is likely to be the cause of the permanent haze. I have also noticed that at least some crystal malts have a fair amount of unconverted starch in them and will cause a permanent starch haze in extract beers. You can verify if starch is the cause of your beer's haze by placing a drop or two of tincture of iodine (available at any pharmacy) in a sample of the beer (don't drink the iodine). If the iodine turns black or deep blue, there is starch in the beer. If there is no color change, there is no starch and the haze must have some other cause. If starch is not the culprit, then you can think about things like poorly flocculating yeast and chill haze (although Badger's description of the haze makes it seem a bit extreme for chill haze). If yeast is the culprit, fining with gelatin or isinglass may help. If chill haze is the problem fining with isinglass or polyclar can help, as would a few weeks of undisturbed cold storage (at the end of which you draw of a pint to get some of the settled haze out of the keg). Have fun! George de Piro (Nyack, NY) Return to table of contents
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 10:21:02 -0500 From: David Whitman <dwhitman at rohmhaas.com> Subject: yeast culturing In HBD #2905, Scott Church asks some questions about yeast manipulation: >Should one try to scrape out the cell (from the slant)? I use "Knox" gelatin >for my solidifying agent and have found that those "little buggers" are in >there pretty good! It's seems that I must dig up a little solid to get my >cells. (is a little gelatin going to hurt anything?) > > ........I have read that one should pass the inoculation loop through a >flame before using, but I wasn't sure about the temp before actually >grabbing the cells. >(98 degrees F and above would kill them, right?) > >Also, should one try to get as many cells as possible or just 1 nice little >area? > When I harvest from agar slants, the yeast colonies are on the surface of the agar and can be easily picked up with a loop without digging divits into the underlying media. That said, I don't think a little gelatin is going to hurt anything. If you're interested in trying agar, the stuff available at oriental grocery stores works fine, and is about the same price as gelatin. 2% agar in wort gives a nice firm slant. It IS prudent to flame your loop before using. I heat mine until it glows, then touch the agar (away from the yeast) until it stops hissing. One loopful is plenty of yeast to grow out in about 2-4 ml of wort, which you can then step up to higher volumes. I try to pick out an isolated colony that looks "typical", with the idea that I'm getting a representative sample while minimizing the chance of picking up any contaminating wild yeast, etc. **** I'm writing a draft of an article about experiments in storing yeast under salt solutions. At least 5 people in the past have sent me email suggesting that salt solutions would be an improvement over straight DI water, but unfortunately, I've lost ALL the original notes. If you were one of those people and would like to be cited in the article, please drop me a note at: dwhitman at fast.net I'll report t=3 week viability data for ale and lager yeasts stored under DI water, 2% NaCl and 2% KHP buffer sometime this week. Return to table of contents
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 11:26:00 -0500 From: Jim Wallace <jwallace at crocker.com> Subject: Re: Oud Bruin >Date: Mon, 07 Dec 1998 13:47:40 -0800 >From: Ted McIrvine <McIrvine at ix.netcom.com> >Subject: Oud Bruin > >This is a hard one... Rodenbach uses at least two different yeasts, >including a lager yeast for bottling and getting the sourness right is >tricky because it isn't as sour as Cantillon and our other favorite >horse blanket ales. .......... DeDolle is available in the states and I have found it easy to culture this from the bottle and get the great souring character.. it is reported to be rodenbachs yeast as well as liefman's >I use equal portions of Belgian Wheat, Belgian Munich, and Belgian Pils >Malt. (3 lbs of each for a 6 gallon batch --- shooting for about 0.052 >OG). Unlike those who bake hops, I deliberately aged a pound of Saaz >and a pound of Goldings for about 2 years in open bags. I'd use about 3 >ozs of these very stale hops --- lacking this use a modest quantity of >low-alpha hops so that you don't knock out the lambic. ................... Do you need the aging of hops? I have seen them using some pretty green looking hops for rodenbach >on its own. If you are making Rodenbach Grand Cru, adding 5-6 lbs. >cherries in the secondary or 2 oz. cherry extract with a 1/2 tsp of >almond extract at bottling. ............. this would make it an Alexander not GC >Alas, I don't have the oaken barrel, so I use oak chips. how do you use these and to what effewct in the finished beer? american or french chips. what about the needed permeabilty of the oak barrel for the redox ___________________________________________ JIM WALLACE ... jwallace at crocker.com http://www.crocker.com/~jwallace ___________________________________________ Return to table of contents
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 12:35:55 -0500 From: "Bayer, Mark A (Boeing)" <BayerMA at navair.navy.mil> Subject: defending bass/stainless washing/fruit fly results collective homebrew conscience_ mike bardallis wrote and commented on bass (ipa) being wimpy overall and its status as a representative beer being due to its wide availability in america. i have several british friends from the midlands (derbyshire), and we have had discussions about bass ale with regard to the difference in the product marketed in america versus the product(s) available in the u.k. their opinion is that a *well-kept* cask of bass ale in the midlands is a wonderful pint. they have a far lower opinion of the bottled product here. i am nearly certain that the cask ale has not only major differences in conditioning treatment, but is also a different recipe (they say it's lower gravity and a bit hoppier). i am sure that the bottled product, unpasteurized and fresh, would be noticeably better than the stale, abused stuff we end up with. and i don't consider the maltiness of bass ale to be "wimpy". the same can be stated about guinness stout. their bottled "extra" is a world away from the typical stuff you get in the pubs over there. which should be considered as the representative of the style? on to an equipment question - i have a new stainless kettle this year. should i be giving it some special treatment other than scrubbing it out and rinsing it at the end of the day? the fruit fly bitter - it is conceivable that the fruit fly in the starter damaged the beer somewhat. it placed only third at the st louis brews happy holiday homebrew competition. i haven't gotten the judges comments back yet. brew hard, mark bayer great mill, md Return to table of contents
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 17:37:15 GMT From: mrreid at golden.net (Ross Reid) Subject: Oxygen grade/purity Lots of speculation in the HBD lately over the specs on beverage/industrial/medical/welding/commercial grades of various gases. Here's some info on the subject, posted a year or two ago, to the rec.crafts.brewing newsgroup by Darrell Garton of Montrose, CO. I am posting it here without his express permission (I no longer have his email address to ask him) but, I'm sure he won't object. Quote: CO2 is CO2. The only differences in the gas industry that I know of are Medical Grade CO2 and Ultra High Purity CO2 for the semiconductor industry. These two grades of gas are simply tested for purity, but typically come from the same source that the beverage/welding/industrial grade comes from. NOTE: This is usually the case with Argon, Nitrogen, and Oxygen as well. Industrial grade oxygen and Medical grade oxygen cylinders both get filled from the same bulk liquid tank. The grading is simply done as a test on the gas in the cylinder to ensure its purity. Unquote. Darrell's credentials are impressive, if anyone would have the definitive answer, he would. Here they are (edited from the first person): He is/was GM at Galiso Inc. They make the Hydrostatic Test Equipment that your cylinders get tested on every 5 years. He sat on CGA committees and helped write the pamphlets for over 5 years. He did/does training seminars for the DOT, FAA and TC regarding cylinders. But, most importantly, he says: I brew, therefore I am!!! Hope this eases a few minds. Cheers, Ross. Return to table of contents
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 12:51:00 -0700 From: "Timmons, Frank" <Frank.Timmons at alliedsignal.com> Subject: Nominal Pipe Thread In HBD 2906, Randy Miner asks about threading a Sanke keg and the difference in the various pipe sizes. All American pipe up to 14 inch size is approximately based on ID (inside diameter) of schedule 40 pipe for that size . If it is threaded, most of the time it will have a tapered thread, called Nominal (or National, I have heard both) Pipe thread. So your 1/2 inch pipe will have an OD (outside diameter) of 0.840 inches, and the valves, elbows, etc. will have an ID to correspond to that. The NPT threads are fairly coarse, I don't see how you would get them to "bite" correctly in the fairly thin metal of a keg, but if somebody says they did, I guess it can be done. The tap will be sold as the pipe size it corresponds to. Grainger does carry stuff like that, as do most plumbing supply houses. I modified my kegs by drilling a 7/8 hole, inserting a 2 inch 304 SS pipe nipple and filler welding the nipple to the keg. This gives me a threaded connection on both the inside and outside of the keg. I have also welded on 1/2 inch threaded half couplings for thermometers. You need to have a back purge on the weld to prevent oxidation of the back of the weld. Other people I know have brazed couplings on, but you need to make sure that the brazing metal is cadmium free. I wouldn't worry about the fact that your keg is not shiny. Stainless steel forms a tightly adhering passive layer of chromium oxide that is fairly dull. This is a desired thing, because the passive layer is very corrosion resistant. If you do manage to get it shiny, it won't stay that way, and it will be leaching chrome, iron and nickel oxides into your beer. That is a bad thing. Return to table of contents
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 12:35:54 -0500 From: "Peter J. Calinski" <PCalinski at iname.com> Subject: Re Re Fries Andrew T. Lynch, wrote: Apologies for the non-beer post.... Ahh...Belgian Frittes. I had the good luck to be sent to Belgium for six months, some years ago. Along with the amazing beer, they make the _best_ french fries I have ever had, by far. I wondered why they were so good. So, one day I walked around behind the one of the ubiquitous trailers in which they fry everything under the sun, and decoded the Flemish on the barrel I found: "100% Beef Lard". -Drew I reply, Well, if I remember right, Burger King pulled off an amazing reverse coup on McDonalds and their fries. Back in the 70s, MickeyDee's always had better fries than BKs'. BK spent Millions trying to catch up with MickeyDee. When they couldn't, they instead started advertising that they didn't use animal fat. Soon, MickeyDee had to follow suit. Their fries haven't been as good since. - -- Return to table of contents
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 12:01:32 -0700 From: "Grow, Roger H" <GrowRH at LOUISVILLE.STORTEK.COM> Subject: 'TWAS THE MORN AFTER CHRISTMAS Yes, this is a rerun from last year, but it's still good for a chuckle and some new listers might have missed it: 'TWAS THE MORN AFTER CHRISTMAS by Roger Grow 'Twas the morn after Christmas and all through the house My homebrew was missing, consumed by some louse The kegs in the reefer had been sucked dry with malice And small sooty footprints, they riddled my palace I checked in the corner, Grand Cru had been taken But the Coors Extra Gold had all been forsaken Who was responsible for this gluttonous action Could it have been Charlie? or perhaps Michael Jackson? I walked back to the fireplace my mood in a slump When I noticed my stocking had a generous lump Out the top hops were bulging, Hallertauer Mittelfrueh Cascades and Fuggles, East Kent in there too I had a sneaky suspicion who the culprit might be When my eye caught a glitter from under the tree A pot, all of stainless and cane, made for racking Confirmed my suspicion as to who'd done the sacking I decided directly it was that jolly old elf And that bowl full of jelly didn't appear by itself Those cheeks o-so-rosy were a giveaway too A glowing reminder of his taste for homebrew I decided being Christmas, I'd forgive the fat fellow When I saw in the front yard, something twisting and yellow I looked somewhat closer and what did I see But "thanks for the homebrew" in the snow, penned with pee So from this Christmas forward, my plans they are clear I'll exploit Santa's weakness for hand crafted beer Just send him my wish list and to clinch my vast order There'll be no milk and cookies, just pretzels and porter! MERRY CHRISTMAS Return to table of contents
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 12:15:25 PST From: "silent bob" <holdenmcneil at hotmail.com> Subject: Malt mills, and CO Holiday Greetings Fellow Brewers, I apologize for not throwing in my two cents when it was probably needed by the guy who asked about malt mills. I have a Brewtech malt mill from Brewers Resource (no affiliation, you know the story). I am absolutely thrilled with it. I have compared the grist with a schmidling mill a corona mill and a roskopp champion commercial mill. The grist quality falls between the schmidling and the roskopp. Husks remain pretty well in tact with good seperation of fines. I like the adjustability (not just so I can tinker BTW ;~) But, I have found that for raw wheat and six row, it offers a little better control. I have crushed at least 400 lb of grain, running the mill with a drill, and the brass bushings are as good as new. All this for a hundred bucks, and I am a happy boy!! As for this thread on Carbon Monoxide: I do not know off the top of my head what safe exposure limits are, but some important points need to be made. The level needs to be multiplied by the time of exposure to really get an Idea of the risk. A low level for a long period of time is just as dangerous as a high level for a short period of time. Hemoglobin, which carries oxygen in the blood, binds irreversibly with CO. This means that that O2 carrying capacity is permanantly lost until that hemoglobin is replaced. The life span of a red blood cell is about 120 days. This means that the CO from one expsosure is not completely eliminated for 120 days, and the effect is cumulative. I don't want anyone to panic, but please do be careful with the indoor use of propane. Adjust air mixture properly, employ agressive ventilation, and consider converting to natural gas. It is cleaner, and there are no tanks to exchange. Happy and safe brewing, and happy holidaze Adam C. Cesnales ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com Return to table of contents
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 14:08:36 -0800 From: "Mark W. Wilson" <mwilson at ichips.intel.com> Subject: finding mackeson "to go" in Columbus, OH I'm going home to columbus, ohio this year. I'd like to bring back one of my favorite beers, Mackeson Sweet Stout, since it's unavailable in Oregon (far as I can tell). Can anybody suggest a store in columbus, preferably near the airport, or downtown that carries it? I used to go to the combo beer/homebrew store on the north side, just off of I-70 but it was closed down last time I was home. just to make this a HOMEbrew post, anybody got a recipie for mackeson that actually tastes like mackeson? I've tried lactic acid, etc., without coming close. -Mark Return to table of contents
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 16:03:53 -0800 From: Gail Elber <gail at brewtech.com> Subject: 0.2-micron filters Several posters have recently mentioned 0.2-micron filters for air, gas, etc. Where does one get these? Gail Elber Associate Editor BrewingTechniques P.O. Box 3222 Eugene, OR 97403 541/687-2993 fax 541/687-8534 Return to table of contents
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 19:13:37 -0500 From: Rick Gontarek <RGontare at bellatlantic.net> Subject: Thomas Hardy yeast Hoppy holidays everyone, Last Friday evening I had the incredible pleasure of tasting a 1986 bottle of Thomas Hardy Ale. I managed to save the sediment, hoping to be able to rouse the 12-year old yeasties to brew a beer worthy of those fine microorganisms. My question is: does anyone know what yeast Thomas Hardy is bottle-conditioned with? I plan to streak some of the sediment out on a plate to make certain I'm getting yeasties and not other beasties, but I wanted to know if anyone had used this yeast successfully. Also, I've checked the archives, but if anyone can help me to formulate a recipe similar to Thomas Hardy, I'd appreciate it. TIA, Rick Gontarek Owner/Brewmaster The Major Groove Picobrewery Trappe, PA Return to table of contents
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 22:13:36 +0500 From: "Keith Royster" <keith at caro.net> Subject: RIMS equip for sale Howdy fellow brewers! The holiday season is approaching quickly and I know most of you have probably asked for some nice brewing equipment. If you asked for some nice RIMS related stocking stuffers, then Santa need look no further. I am in the process of upgrading my RIMS setup and therefore have a PID temp controller and type-T thermocouple I would like to sell together. The PID is only slightly used (3 times) and in excellent working condition, and the t- couple is brand new (still in the bag). If you are interested, visit http://www.hbd.org/kroyster/4sale.html to obtain more detailed information. Also, for those of you that have links to my RIMS page, please note that the site has moved from the old www.ays.net address (which is shutting down) to http://www.hbd.org/kroyster. Please update those links! Return to table of contents
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