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Contents:
  Post your location ("Stephen Johnson")
  Re: Post your location (Ed Kendall)
  Judging entries for Dixie Cup XXII again Tuesday evening (10/18) at St. Arnold's Brewery, at 6 PM!!! ("rkolacny")
  re- Big SS pot... ("Landsberg, Kerry")
  re: Post Your Location (Steven Parfitt)
  Re: ale & lager yeasts (Ed Westemeier)
  Re: Question: how to pick/separate hops ? ("Greg 'groggy' Lehey")
  Re: Post Your Location... ("Greg 'groggy' Lehey")
  location ("Sean McCabe")
  Location (David)
  posting locations ("Jeff & Ellen")
  location (Bob McCulloch)
  Valhalla-The Meading of Life - Results ("David Houseman")


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Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 22:30:34 -0500
From: "Stephen Johnson" <sjohnson3 at comcast.net>
Subject: Post your location

To the HBD community:

While I'm sure that Jeff Renner is appreciative of all of you posting your
location, I think the point he was making recently, as well as in the past,
is to remind folks who are posting to the HBD to list their location when
submitting information, asking questions, or soliciting help from the
collective. Many of us who respond on occasion do so more frequently
whenever a "local" in the area asks a question or requests information. For
example, if there is a question about local water chemistry and if I know in
advance that said query is coming from someone on the West coast, I may not
respond to it because my water in Nashville, TN, is very different from the
water in Sacramento, CA, and my reply might not be as helpful as a reply
from someone on the West coast. The same goes for helpful resources in the
area, such as homebrew supply shops, beer gas suppliers, hardware and
welding, etc.

If a poster does not provide their location, the information some of us may
provide may be relatively worthless if it is regionally sensitive.

Hope that helps...

Steve Johnson
President, Music City Brewers
Nashville, TN





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Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 16:47:07 +0900
From: Ed Kendall <ekendall at usonet.ne.jp>
Subject: Re: Post your location

Location: Sasebo, Nagasaki, Japan
Daily reader, infrequent poster, frequent beer drinker.

Ed Kendall



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Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 08:44:34 -0500
From: "rkolacny" <rkolacny at mail.ev1.net>
Subject: Judging entries for Dixie Cup XXII again Tuesday evening (10/18) at St. Arnold's Brewery, at 6 PM!!! 

A call for judges!!!

Just over a 1000 entries!!! It didn't break the record, but it 
ain't too shabby!

We made a dent in the Dixie Cup first round flights Sunday. Thanks 
to all who showed up to help judge. We did good work, but still 
need to judge a bunch more before this weekend and need your help 
to do it! We will be judging entries for Dixie Cup XXII again 
Tuesday evening (10/18) at St. Arnold's Brewery, at 6 PM!!! Please 
come out and help judge. There are still lots of styles left and 
we need to have a good turn out to make that dent bigger and be 
ready for this weekend!

In an effort to get more commitments, we will be trying something 
different for the Tuesday evening session: RESERVATIONS!!! If you 
have a favorite style or can only judge a certain style, etc. call 
me or reply to this email and we will plan for that flight now and 
put you on the list for that panel (which will greatly decrease 
your wait at the flighting table!). Make your reservations now! 
The sooner, the better to insure you get your desired flight!

Thanks for your support of Dixie Cup XXII!!!


Na zdravi (to your health or cheers!)

Rob Kolacny 
Dixie Cup Coordinator
http://www.crunchyfrog.net/dixiecup/
Secondary Fermenter 
Foam Rangers
www.foamrangers.com
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979 532 1932 hm 
979 533 1173 cell 
 



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Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 08:36:07 -0600
From: "Landsberg, Kerry" <Kerry.Landsberg at qwest.com>
Subject: re- Big SS pot...

At first blush this sounds like a piece from a still.

Also, is there an "idiot's guide" or software applet to calculating
rennerian co-ordinates?

K. Landsberg
Jefferson County, Colorado




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Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 06:20:16 -0700 (PDT)
From: Steven Parfitt <thegimp98 at yahoo.com>
Subject: re: Post Your Location

Sunny but chilly Johnson City TN.

The water temp is dropping so it will be lager time
soon. Time to clean out my half barrel fermenter.

Just as soon as I finish converting two Half Barrel SS
Kegs into a Smoker!




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: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 12:17:14 -0400
From: Ed Westemeier <hopfen at malz.com>
Subject: Re: ale & lager yeasts


On Oct 16, 2005, Scott Birdwell wrote:
>      I believe that the definition is that lager yeast will convert
> maltriose, while ale yeast will not.  I'm not certain, but I seem to
> remember this was the "acid test."

Close, but the most commonly used test is for the complex sugar  
raffinose.
Lager yeasts can completely ferment raffinose, but ale yeasts can't.

This is in the BJCP Study Guide.

Ed Westemeier
Cincinnati, OH
[226, 186.6] Apparent Rennerian



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Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 20:38:42 +0800
From: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog at lemis.com>
Subject: Re: Question: how to pick/separate hops ?

On Friday, 14 October 2005 at  8:29:13 -0400, steve.alexander wrote:
> OK, well thanks to Mark Kellums I have a bumper crop of hops this
> year, and a several weeks ago I cut the whole bines, a foot or two
> above ground level, and hung these in my garage to dry.  Over the
> past 10 days I judged these dry enough and started picking off the
> cone/flowers.  My problem is that this is very time consuming.

Yes, I noticed this too, especially since I've been told that the
Right Way is to  harvest them in steps as the individual cones ripen.

My solution has been relatively successful: delegate the task to
SWMO.  Works for me :-)

Greg
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Finger grog at lemis.com for PGP public key
See complete headers for address and phone numbers


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Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 20:41:31 +0800
From: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog at lemis.com>
Subject: Re: Post Your Location...

On Friday, 14 October 2005 at 18:33:45 -0400, Pat Babcock wrote:
> Greetings, Beerlings! Take me to your lager...
>
> The perennial request that folks post their location is out!
> I'm currently about 6 feet above and 20 feet southeast of the HBD server.

Heh.  My sentiments entirely.

I'm at Changi Airport, Singapore, drinking a Tiger.  But my brewing
coordinates are -35.14 <prohibited sign for degrees> South, 138.77
<prohibited sign for degrees> East.  Jeff, can you process such
outlandish units?

Greg
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Finger grog at lemis.com for PGP public key
See complete headers for address and phone numbers


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Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 11:12:28 -0400
From: "Sean McCabe" <greenfieldmills at hotmail.com>
Subject: location

infrequent poster, regular reader in Tuscarora, Maryland

"'Cause, remember, no matter where you go..... there you are."
Buckaroo Banzai

http://greenfieldmills.com




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Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 16:42:14 -0700
From: David <jdlcr at flash.netdex.com>
Subject: Location

Hello all. Dave Brandt Cloverdale, CA. Currently wrestling with a viscious
Belgian Triple in the primary. Had to throw a blow off line into water since
my fermentation lock wasn't up for the task. All-grain Fin DuMonde clone
from NAmer Clones. Great recipe.

Always great reading here at the HBD. 


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Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 19:43:40 -0400
From: "Jeff & Ellen" <JeffNGladish at ij.net>
Subject: posting locations

Having been a daily reader of this forum for several years, I'm pretty sure
that what Jeff (0.0) Renner actually was saying is that it would be nice for
each person to tell us his location and name when he posted a message.
Although it is nice to have a roll call every once in a while, and I'm
enjoying reading the worldwide appeal for this forum, please remember to
continue to add this little piece of information at the end of each post.

Another Jeff (Gladish) in Tampa, Florida (989.5 - miles away, 175.5 -
compass heading,  Rennarian, if he's home)




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Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 20:01:25 -0500 (CDT)
From: Bob McCulloch <robertjmcculloch at verizon.net>
Subject: location

Bob McCulloch
Richmond County, NY

Beer, it's not just for breakfast anymore.


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Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 20:54:59 -0400
From: "David Houseman" <david.houseman at verizon.net>
Subject: Valhalla-The Meading of Life - Results

The Valhalla - The Meading of Life Mead Only Competition was held on
Saturday, October 15 in the lovely Mt. Pleasant Cafe in Philadelphia.  There
were a total of 56 entries from around the country from 31 different mead
makers.  Here are the results of this first annual competition:

            24 A&B Dry and Semi-sweet Mead (10 entries)

1. Steve Haystead - Montague MI.

2. Lloyd Snyder - White Hall, MD.

3. Christopher Boyd - North Wales, PA



            24 C - Sweet Mead ( 8 entries)

1. Bob Grossman - Haddonfield, NJ.

2. Geoffrey McNally - Triverton, PA.

3. Joseph Marrero, Northampton, PA.



            25 A & B Cyser and Pyment (10 entries)

1. Ed Walkowski - Dalton, PA

2. Bob Grossman - Haddonfield, NJ

3. Dave Houseman - Chester Springs, PA.



            25 C Melomel (11 entries)

1. Ernie Meyer - Philadelphia, PA.

2. George Theall - Philadelphia, PA

3. Bob Grossman - Haddonfield, NJ



            26 A Metheglin (9 entries)

1. Bob Grossman - Haddonfield, NJ

2. George Hummel - Philadelphia, PA.

3. Steve Haystead - Montague, MI.



            26 A & B Braggot and Other mead (8 entries)

1. George Hummel - Philadelphia, PA.

2. Karl Smith - Ambler, PA.

3. Paul Holm - Holtsville, NY.



            Best of Show

  1.. Ernie Meyer - Philadelphia, PA. - 25C Melomel
  2.. Bob Grossman - Haddonfield, NJ. - 24C Sweet Mead
  3.. Ed Walkowski - Dalton, PA - 25A Cyser
Suzanne McMurphy - Organizer
David Houseman - Judge Coordinator



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