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Contents:
  Fortnight of Yeast, 2005! Reminder. ("Rob Moline")
  Bud Light's aluminum bottles--any reports? (David Radwin)
  Wheat recipe... ("Michael Eyre")
  mash temps (dry ale) (leavitdg)
  grain bill (dry ale) (leavitdg)
  Water (kchristian)
  Turbo Tap ("Peter A. Ensminger")
  Evaporation Rate (neil)
  Doh! Mailman bites the big 'un... ("Pat Babcock")


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Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 22:33:31 -0500
From: "Rob Moline" <jethrogump at mchsi.com>
Subject: Fortnight of Yeast, 2005! Reminder.

		Fortnight of Yeast, 2005!

     Lallemand is pleased to announce a Fortnight of Yeast, 2005, commencing
July 10, 2005, on the Homebrew Digest. Expertise this year is provided by
Dr. Clayton Cone, Dr. Tobias Fischborn, Dr. Forbes Waldrop, & Keith Lemcke.

     Standards to be followed.....
     1. Questions submitted to post at hbd.org , July 10, 2005 through July
24th, 2005 and submitted with "Fortnight Of Yeast, 2005" in the subject
line, with or
without further subject heading, will be answered.
     2. Questions shall be accepted for response via HBD, with any follow-up
past the ending date  at  the sole discretion of the FOY, 2005 respondents.
     3. Reprinting of the Questions and Answers may be published by
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publication of any e-mail addresses.

     Please join Dr. Clayton Cone, Dr. Tobias Fischborn, Dr. Forbes Waldrop,
& Keith (Bignose) Lemcke for a FORTNIGHT OF YEAST, 2005 on the Homebrew
Digest July 10, 2005.

Cheers!
Rob Moline
Lallemand

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Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 20:20:08 -0700
From: David Radwin <dradwin at sbcglobal.net>
Subject: Bud Light's aluminum bottles--any reports?

Apparently Bud Light is now available in aluminum bottles, and as I 
recall a few other microbreweries used them in the past. 
http://www.anheuser-busch.com/news/BLALumBottle_060705.htm

Has anyone tried reusing these aluminum bottles for homebrew? And can 
someone suggest a good use for the Bud Light inside? (Drinking it is out 
of the question, of course, and we don't have too many snails and slugs.)

Thanks,

David in Berkeley CA
replies to news at davidradwin dot com


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Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 06:31:46 -0700
From: "Michael Eyre" <meyre at sbcglobal.net>
Subject: Wheat recipe...

Anyone have a good wheat beer recipe (all-grain for 10 gal) kickin'
around? I'm fond of that Widmer brothers brew I had a little while ago
at a festival, but I'm not hung up on it. This'll be my first Wheat, so
any helpful hints are all appreciated...

Mike



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Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 09:23:47 -0400
From: leavitdg at plattsburgh.edu
Subject: mash temps (dry ale)


I have been experimenting with the making of drier ales, and wonder: given the 
recent discussion of the relative sensitivity of alpha amlyase, and its short 
duration (compared to beta amylase) have any of you experimented with trying to 
go very slowly through the alpha corridor?  I have tried to stay at the low end 
(154F) for 10 min, then sloowly boost to 156 or so for another 10 then a few 
more degrees, and so on.

My difficulty is that I use a Polarware, and think that I may be denaturing the 
enzyme prematurely from the flame heat on the bottom, so I have decided to 
try "tippy-toeing" through that 154-162F range. 

Any ideas?

BTw, I am using English 007 Dry, healthy yeast and starting with a low gravity 
(1.045 or so) in that this is my first use of this vial.

hAPPY bREWING!

Darrell



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Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 10:31:20 -0400
From: leavitdg at plattsburgh.edu
Subject: grain bill (dry ale)

I forgot to mention in my last post: the grain bill for the English Dry Ale was:

8.25 lb Golden Promise (2 row british)
 .50 lb CaraAmber (perhaps too much?)
 .25 lb Biscuit

Darrell




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Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 12:15:58 -0400
From: kchristian at surfside.net
Subject: Water

Hi HBDers,

Since my move to Anaheim CA, I have not had much luck with my brewing.
I am pretty sure it is my extremely hard water.  Diluting it has not
made enough difference to produce good beers.  It is time to think about
building my own water up from RO.  Would someone mind posting their
procedure of adding the salts to RO water for both a basic pilsner and
pale ale profile.  That would get me started.

I am thinking of doing small batches to understand the water better.
I'd welcome and advice on doing these, too!  

Thanks in advance,

Keith


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Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2005 00:03:35 -0400
From: "Peter A. Ensminger" <ensmingr at twcny.rr.com>
Subject: Turbo Tap

Just saw a CNN story about "Turbo Tap" [see: < http://www.turbotap.com/ 
 > ], which supposedly allows very fast pouring from kegs, reduces 
spillage, and dispenses with an appropriate "head". It can be leased for 
$99 per year.

Seems to me that a HBD gadgeteer out there could reverse-engineer this 
device. Maybe somebody from Listermann Manufacturing Co?

Cheerio!
Peter A. Ensminger
Syracuse, NY
Beer Data: < hbd.org/ensmingr >



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Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2005 11:32:10 -0500
From: <neil at scottishbrewing.com>
Subject: Evaporation Rate

I'd like to hear from any of you that use a converted keg for a boiling
kettle as to the evaporation rate you typically see. I brew 5 gallon batches
shooting for 5.5 gallon average into the fermenter and do full wort boils.
Since I switched from my 10 gallon stainless pot (now used for its intended
purpose as a mash tun with stainless false bottom), I've noticed a
significant increase in the evaporation rate. I'm wondering if it is related
to surface area between the two vessels.

I would gladly like to hear from anyone with practical experience data
and/or references to printed docs on the subject.

Cheers!
Neil Spake
Author and Webmaster
www.ScottishBrewing.com




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Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2005 16:53:20 -0400
From: "Pat Babcock" <pbabcock at hbd.org>
Subject: Doh! Mailman bites the big 'un...

Greetings, beerlings, take me behind the woodshed and give me what-for...

In a fit of what I hope is uncharactersistic ineptitude, I mistook the HBD 
server session for my webfarm session, and proceeded to destroy all of the 
side lists, the Mailman list server, backups and archives. Yes, I feel like 
a right regular idiot at the moment.

In any case, for most of the public lists, I have a collection of archives 
locally, and will attempt to make them available. That's the good news. 
That, and the HBD itself and all of its archives were left uscathed by this 
devastation. All of the other systems on the server are OK, too - it was an 
error of surgical precision.

The BAD news is that all of the membership lists were lost. I've recreated 
all of the lists from the one portion of the image that did not get wiped 
out, and have put in the true (or a former) list owner's email address 
where known.

So here's the drill: If your club's email list is hosted on the HBD server, 
I apologize, but you'll need to res|_|bscribe. I'd also appreciate it if 
whomever is responsible for administering your list would contact me so 
that I can give them their access back. 

Here's a list of those I'm aware of on the server and, where I knew who, 
the admin (these admin have already been "installed" as the aministrator. 
If you're there, but received no notification, contact me.):

Private (club) lists:
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To res|_|bscribe to any of these private lists, send the word s|_|bscribe 
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If you are aware of any of these that are defunct and/or hosted elsewhere, 
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you're NOT there. Or, simply, if you want to be hosted. That. too.

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In addition, anyone who is the webmaster for their club's website hosted 
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list (send s|_|bscribe to mailman-request at hbd.org).

I think I'll settle back and drink a gallon or so of Guinness to put my 
mind back in order. I also think I'm going to spend some cash on some 
network-attached storage and a better backup strategy than the one I've 
proven to be pretty useless here...

Note that anywhere you see |_| you should substitute u in the above 
discussion. If I had done otherwise, the HBD filters would have puked 
on this posting.

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See ya!

Pat Babcock in SE Michigan
Chief of HBD Janitorial Services
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