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Contents:
  Win Siebel Institute Advanced Homebrewing Course from www.MoreBeer.com ("Lemcke Keith")
  Jellotin and Carbonation ("Keith Christian")
  I did it ! (David Root)
  HLT woes solved: summary ("Greg 'groggy' Lehey")


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Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 15:44:08 -0400
From: "Lemcke Keith" <klemcke at siebelinstitute.com>
Subject: Win Siebel Institute Advanced Homebrewing Course from www.MoreBeer.com

I just wanted to let HBD members know that Beer, Beer & More Beer are
running a contest in which you can win tuition in our Advanced
Homebrewing Course in Durango, Colorado this July! You can get details
about the contest at http://morebeer.com/search/103629 and you can read
about the course at
http://www.siebelinstitute.com/course_desc/homebrewing.html .

I hope we will see you in Durango!

Keith Lemcke
Siebel Institute of Technology



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Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 17:17:42 -0700
From: "Keith Christian" <keithchristian at roadrunner.com>
Subject: Jellotin and Carbonation

Hi,

I have a cloudy beer and would like to hit it with gelatin.  Will there
be any yeast available to carbonate my beer?

Thanks,

Keith



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Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 18:32:29 -0700
From: David Root <droot2 at rochester.rr.com>
Subject: I did it !

Well, I brewed a day early  because I had my son to help move the kegs.

10 or so gallon batch

Strike temp about one twenty something.

I brought the temp up in steps to as high as 158 over the course of 2 hours

I had a little trouble getting my HLT up to the usual 180, so I stopped 
at about 164
My system isn't the best and it was getting late already.

I ended up with about 13.5 gallons of wort to boil.  Just enough room in 
the 1/2 keg to keep it from
boiling over if I stirred well.  OG before boil was 1.040 after temp 
adjustment.  Just what I was shooting
for.

First Wort Hops were the1 oz leaf hallertau in the boil kettle before I 
started to sparge.  Things went well
I only had to draw off about 2 cups before it ran clear.  I use a 1/4" 
piece of copper tube with a bunch of holes
drilled in it.  It looks like a  ?  I stopped when the gravity was about 
1.015.  It still tasted sweet (my calibrated tongue)

Boil was 50 minutes because I had a projected bitterness of 30 IBU which 
was a little high for the beer I am
attempting.

Cooled to 68 after the boil, I pitched the yeast in the fermenter then 
drew off the boiled wort.  All I could taste were HOPS

It was 12:30 AM
when I woke up my son to help carry the half keg into the house.  I 
covered the top with clear shrink wrap
and left it alone.   after 16 hours I had signs of fermentation.

24 hours after that, the head had reached the shrink wrap and I thought 
it might go over the top.  It fell in a few hours.
Now I have a nice pancake of yeast on top.  I think the bulk of the 
fermentation is over.  I will keg it this weekend.

Daym that was fun!  Its been a LONG time and everything went as I 
expected.  The brewery performed exactly like
it always has with no modification and no problems.   Now I have the 
tools and skill to weld some stainless steel fittings
to my converted kegs instead of washers and gaskets.

I will report on the FG and how it tastes.

Probably do another batch in a couple weeks.  I might even save some of 
the yeast off the top.

David The BREWER R


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Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 12:28:05 +1000
From: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <craftbrewer at lemis.com>
Subject: HLT woes solved: summary

A while back I sent out a message asking for help with stopping my HLT
from leaking round the hole for the heating coil, which is mounted on
the curved side of the pot.  See
http://www.lemis.com/grog/diary-apr2009.php?topics=b#29 for more
details.  A couple of people asked me to summarize the suggestions and
what I did, so here goes.

I got a number of answers, some in private, with varying suggestions:

Alternative placements: a number of people suggested drilling a hole
in the base of the pot.  That solves the issue of the curved side of
the pot, but it adds others: in particular, you need a support for the
pot.  And in my case, of course, I already have a hole in the side.

Others suggested flattening the side of the pot so that the surface of
the hole is plane.  This is probably a good idea, but not the one I
chose.

Alan McKay suggested that the problem wouldn't arise with a big (64
litre) pot.  Mine's 80, so it's not as simple as that.

Adam Griffths suggested an O ring on either side, and this is the
solution I finally adopted: a really fat one, silicone of course.  See
http://www.lemis.com/grog/photos/Onephoto.php
?imagepath=/grog/Photos/20090528/O-ring.jpeg

(sorry, line length restrictions on hbd mean that I have to
artificially break that URL; you'll have to piece it together manually).

Greg
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