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Contents:
  RE: RE:  Our first Barley Wine, looking for suggestions (Steven Parfitt)
  Music To Brew By ("Steve Laycock")
  Re: Our first Barley Wine, looking for suggestions... (Dean)
  re: has anyone used a coleman powerchill cooler? ("David Lewinnek")
  permanent plumbing ("Noah A. Bolmer")


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Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 21:29:35 -0700 (PDT)
From: Steven Parfitt <thegimp98 at yahoo.com>
Subject: RE: RE:  Our first Barley Wine, looking for suggestions

Pete Calinski

>Well, you could do what I do.  I use as much grain
>for the mash as I can fit, then add 3 lbs of DME
>during the boil.  That gets the OG up and has little
>effect on flavor in my opinion.
>Hope this helps.
>Pete Calinski


I've gotten 16# of grain in a 5 gallon Gott cooler.
With a combination of:
(1) Mini decoction to boost temp to mash out (all
night mash)
(2) Maintaining 170F sparge
(3) Really slow Sparge (1hour 30 minutes for 6 gallons

I managed to get 5 gallons of 1.092 wort

Now, you could boil down another gallon and get it to
1.1.115 og.

Either way, 1.092 is well within the BW range.


Steven, -75 XLCH- Ironhead Nano-Brewery  http://thegimp.8k.com
Johnson City, TN [422.7, 169.2] Rennerian 

"There is no such thing as gravity, the earth sucks." Wings Whiplash - 1968


		


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Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 23:36:46 -0700
From: "Steve Laycock" <slaycock at discoverynet.com>
Subject:  Music To Brew By

Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 07:12:08 +0000
From: "Dave Larsen" <hunahpumonkey at hotmail.com>
Subject: Music To Brew By

  Therefore, I pose the question: What is the best music
to brew by?

Dave, the all-grain evangelist
Tucson, AZ


  Blue's.... And lot's of waling down and dirty Harmonica !





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Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 23:54:11 -0700
From: Dean <hbd at deanandadie.net>
Subject: Re: Our first Barley Wine, looking for suggestions...

Mike wants some advice on barley wine.

I made my first in Feb of '04 and it turned out very well.  I like a good
malt-hop balance and this one was almost perfect.  The beer spent a long time
conditioning, so it mellowed *very* nicely.  You can find the full promash
report here:

http://www.deanandadie.net/beer/recipes/Gnarly_Barley_Wine.html

For the sake of the archive, I'll reprint it here.  I formulated this recipe
with the help of a superb book: Designing Great Beer by Ray Daniels.

Gnarly Barley Wine
5 gallons
SG: 1.100
FG: 1.023
IBU: 83
Efficiency: 73%

Grain
13.25 lbs Pale Malt(2-row)
 2.25 lbs Honey Malt
 1.50 lbs Cara-Pils Dextrine Malt
 1.50 lbs Munich Malt
 0.50 lbs Brown Malt
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19.00 lbs total

My efficiency was off and I had to add some DME in the kettle to get my initial
gravity right.  (-:

Hops
Amount 	Name 		Form 	Alpha 	IBU 	Boil Time
1.50 oz Horizon		Whole 	14.20 	75.9 	60 min
1.00 oz Goldings - E.K. Plug 	7.50 	7.3 	15 min
2.00 oz Goldings - E.K. Plug 	4.75 	0.0 	Dry Hop

Yeast
White Labs WLP023 Burton Ale

Single step infusion mash at 150 deg F.
Water to grain: 1.00 q/lbs
I batch sparge in 3-4 batches.

Fermented in primary for about 8 days, two more weeks to dry hop, then 8 months
in a keg conditioning.  Opened it up in Oct of '04.

- --Dean - Unscrambler of eggs
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Take your time, take your chances
[3278.7 km, 273.4] Apparent Rennerian
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Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 12:21:43 -0400
From: "David Lewinnek" <davelewinn at hotmail.com>
Subject: re: has anyone used a coleman powerchill cooler?

Mark asks about a Coleman Powerchill for fermenting beer.
I haven't used a Coleman Powerchill, but I do use a
homemade version of the same technology in them to
heat or cool fermenting beer. Here's a link to a discussion
of my contraption and some photos of my setup:

http://hbd.org/discus/messages/26895/29631.html

If you're not into building a Rube Goldberg refrigerator
like that, I found that putting a carboy in a bucket of
water and using a $30 aquarium heater (the kind with the
built-in thermostat) in the bucket does a pretty good job
of heating fermenters in the winter.

- --Dave



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Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 12:17:16 -0700
From: "Noah A. Bolmer" <noah at marblerecords.com>
Subject: permanent plumbing

I have a St Pats 3 level system, which is basically a rolling frame with 
burners,
and modified polarware brewpots. I'd like to hear your thoughts on the 
merits
of permanent plumbing vs. my current setup of lots of plastic tubing. My 
current
setup goes from the lowest level, to my pump, to my CFC, to my combination
in-line oxygen infuser / thermometer, and finally into a carboy. I was 
thinking of
replacing the plastic lines with stainless tubing all the to the combo 
unit, and going
plastic into the carboy. My reasons are to have a permanent structure, 
less leaks
at the various joints, and easier cleaning. I would still want the 
various sections
to be quick disconnects so I could remove them for cleaning or inspection.

Thoughts? Observations?

Thanks!

Noah


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