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Contents:
  Re: The Beer Hunter (Pete Soper)
  Glass carboys (Dave Suurballe)
  Glass fermenters (Norm Hardy)


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Date: Wed, 27 Dec 89 10:37:46 EST
From: Pete Soper <soper at maxzilla.encore.com>
Subject: Re: The Beer Hunter

I got word about this Michael Jackson program also but have no
access to schedules. If somebody out there has a Discovery channel 
schedule for January it would be really handy if they would post 
the dates and times for these programs. Thanks.
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Date: Wed, 27 Dec 89 10:45:18 PST
From: hsfmsh!hsfdjs!suurb at sfsun.West.Sun.COM (Dave Suurballe)
Subject: Glass carboys

Marty Albini says don't use glass carboys for primary fermentation.

I've never used anything else, and I've never had any problems at all.
The carboy is a 25-liter acid bottle with a standard water-filled
fermentation lock.  There is plenty of room between the top of the foam
and the lock, and nothing has ever clogged it.  I use Sierra Nevada
yeast taken from two bottles three days before pitching.  This yeast in
this quantity has never demonstrated the problems I have read in the
digest; it never has more than two inches of foam.

So I think Marty's advice should be modified a little:  if your
fermentations are explosive, don't use glass.  Otherwise it's ok.


I just got back from Christmas in New Jersey, where I drank a lager
called Bunker Hill, brewed by 'The Lion, Inc., Wilkes-Barre'.  Does
anyone know about this beer or the brewery?  I'd never heard of it, and
I thought the hoppiness was just right.

Suurb

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Date: Wed, 27 Dec 89 19:31:07 PST
From: polstra!norm at hplabs.HP.COM (Norm Hardy)
Subject: Glass fermenters

This talk of not using glass because of explosion possibilities is amazing.
Let me describe how I do it.  I use a 7 gal glass carboy for the primary and
fill it to 5.5 gal at the most.  An airlock is sufficient, and the foam rarely
gets up to the top.  Then I rack into a 5 gal secondary full up and allow the
beer to condition.  NO PROBLEMS!  The blow-off tube is not used, it's not
needed.  The resulting beers are fine.

Norm in Seattle

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End of HOMEBREW Digest #333, 12/28/89
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