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Contents:
  Re: Olive Oil Addition to Yeast as an Alternative to Wort Aeration (Fred L Johnson)
  Competition Organizer and Club Needed ("David Houseman")
  second call for entries and judges ("jeff_ri")
  english yeast strains (Matt)


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Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 07:05:10 -0400
From: Fred L Johnson <FLJohnson52 at nc.rr.com>
Subject: Re: Olive Oil Addition to Yeast as an Alternative to Wort Aeration

A significant deficiency of Hull's olive oil study is that he did not  
perform the important, obvious control of conducting a fermentation  
without the addition of olive oil and without aeration. For all we  
know adding nothing would have produced the exact results reported  
for addition of olive oil.

And I've said this before, it is very unlikely that the bulk of the  
olive oil (triglyceride) has anything to do with the results. I'm  
pretty certain that there is no mechanism for yeast to use  
triglycerides. The presence of a small amount of nonesterifed fatty  
acids in olive is perhaps the only source that the yeast could  
actually take up. If you're trying to add polyunsaturated fatty acids  
to wort, adding olive oil would appear to be a poor way to do so. In  
the next post, I'll try to find out the content of free fatty acids  
in a typical olive oil.

Fred L Johnson
Apex, North Carolina, USA



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Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:03:06 -0400
From: "David Houseman" <david.houseman at verizon.net>
Subject: Competition Organizer and Club Needed

The San Mateo County Fair in San Mateo County, CA, is planning a Homebrew 
Competition in conjunction with this year's fair.  It is currently scheduled 
for Saturday, August 9th.  The fair's special contest coordinator would like 
to have the support of a local club and an experienced BJCP competition 
organizer to help with this event.   If you can provide assistance by being 
the organizer or your club would like to work with the fair as a project, 
please contact Marilyn Johnson at 650-574-3247 x 316 or at 
mjohnson at smeventcenter.com.

Thanks,

David Houseman
BJCP Competition Director

"GO FOR THE GOLD"
San MateoCounty Fair Aug 8-17 2008




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Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:28:38 -0400
From: "jeff_ri" <jeff_ri at cox.net>
Subject: second call for entries and judges

Hi All,

  This is the second announcement for this year's South Shore Brewoff to be 
held in Mansfield, MA on Saturday, April 12th.

  The entry deadline is Friday, March 28th.

  Entry and judge registration can be done either online or by filling out 
printed copies of the forms.  All the info can be found on the club's 
website at:  www.southshorebrewclub.org

Jeff McNally
judge coordinator




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Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 08:01:52 -0700 (PDT)
From: Matt <baumssl27 at yahoo.com>
Subject: english yeast strains

I recently had a bad experience with Safale S-04: bad flocculation with
an associated "bready" taste that is only diminishing as fast as the
beer settles in the bottle--which is very very slowly.  Looking at some
websites this problem seems common (but not universal) with S-04.

Anyway rather than try to figure out how to make S-04 work for me I
want to try another strain for this kind of beer.  Can anyone recommend
a strain that they've found to be consistently fruity, flocculent, and
user-friendly?  I'm looking for a character similar to Youngs beers. 
Thanks for any suggestions,

Matt





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