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Contents:
  Judge points for delinquent competition organizer reports ("David Houseman")
  oxygen and fatty acids and sterols for dummies ("Matt Wallace")


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Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 12:46:56 -0500
From: "David Houseman" <david.houseman at verizon.net>
Subject: Judge points for delinquent competition organizer reports

Will the judges and stewards who participated in the following competitions, 
and who expect to earn any credit for doing so, please contact the 
organizers and encourage them to file the delinquent organizer reports.  No 
credit will be awarded and these competitions will not be sanctioned again 
until these are filled.

      12/08/2007 200489 93.7 BOB FM's Colonial Home Brewing contest Norfolk, 
VA Donna Agresto Seavey (757) 222-2908 eventproducers at hotmail.com
      09/22/2007 200458 Michigan Renaissance Festival Homebrew Competition 
Holly, MI richard hopman (248) 674-4677 hopmans at sbcglobal.net
      07/28/2007 200434 NYS Craft Brewers Competition Syracuse, NY Tim 
Butler (315) 475-2337 tim at empirebrew.com
      10/21/2006 200199 Devil's Thumb Home Brew Festival Petersburg, AK 
Petersburg Chamber of Commerce (907) 772-3646 nancy at vikingtrvl.net


David Houseman
BJCP Competition Director



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Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 13:18:32 -0800
From: "Matt Wallace" <dubious.chewy at gmail.com>
Subject: oxygen and fatty acids and sterols for dummies

 I'm interested in ways to give yeast everything they need to brew very high
 gravity beers.  I recently read on another forum about the possibility of
 adding small amounts of olive oil to the wort in place of
 aeration/oxygenation.  I went ahead and tried it this past weekend by adding
 about half a drop to the yeast slurry before pitching in an OG 1.112 brew.

 Needless to say, I hadn't checked the HBD archive on the subject, and I've
 just now finished up reading the very detailed discussion from last summer.
 Now, I ain't no biochemist...in fact, homebrewing is arguably the most
 technical subject I study.   That said, my non-technical takeaway from the
 discussion is the following:

 -Sterols are generally the major limiting factor in yeast growth, and oil
 doesn't provide them in any significant amount.
 -There is evidence to suggest that providing yeast with "free fatty acids"
 can result in enhanced yeast growth and attenuation.
 -a good way to give those free fatty acids to your yeast is to add a small
 amount of saponified flax or olive oil, i.e. soap.

 Now, my current batch is chugging along just fine, and doesn't seem to be
 headed for a stuck fermentation (I used my regular aeration technique of
 pouring from the kettle into the fermenter and shaking, plus I had a healthy
 starter).  But I am still curious if there are practical ways for the
 homebrewer to cheat the substantial oxygen requirements of very high gravity
 beers- I don't have an oxygenation system, and I've heard it said that
 aeration just doesn't cut it once you get above 1.080.

 So, one option seems to be to add a tiny amount of pure oil soap to provide
 the yeast with some fatty acids they normally need oxygen to produce.

 But what about sterols?  Is there a common household source for them?
 Again, this is a liberal-arts guy speaking, but I wonder if yeast's high
 sterol-FA ratio goes for other fungi as well...could adding a pinch of dried
 mushroom do the trick?

 -Matt in Portland


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