HOMEBREW Digest #5817 Fri 01 April 2011


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Contents:
  Monthly HBD Probe ("Pat Babcock")
  Re: Brew water tools (stencil)

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---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 07:09:21 -0500 (EST) From: "Pat Babcock" <pbabcock at hbd.org> Subject: Monthly HBD Probe Greetings, beerlings! Take me to your lager... I was reading through this month's probe message, and it dawned on me that those who have filtering software may never have seen the instructions contained therein. Not good, if you tried to subscribe but seem to be unsuccessful with no server responses, or keep having to resubscribe (once a month...). To this end, I am posting this month's probe message. Doing so will get it onto the HTML version and, hopefully, some who are having difficulty getting it into their email will see it there. Here goes: Monthly HBD Subscription Validation Probe For April 2011 Digest Janitor: janitor at hbd.org GREETINGS, BEERLINGS!!! WARNING: DO _NOT_ REPLY to this message if you wish to continue receiving the daily Home Brew Digest!!! NOTE: This message was generated by a program In an effort to help chip away at all of the dead addresses in the HBD subscription list, and as a means to ease the burden on those who just can't figure out how to unsubscribe from the Home Brew Digest, I've augmented the usual "debouncifier" with this probe message. If you NO LONGER WISH TO RECEIVE THE HBD daily mailing, simply reply to this message and your subscription will be removed. PLEASE BE SURE TO INCLUDE THE ORIGINAL MESSAGE IN YOUR REPLY OR YOUR ADDRESS MAY NOT BE REMOVED!!! Note that you can always read the hbd on the web at: http://hbd.org/hbd/ If you receive multiple copies of this letter, you will need to reply to EACH ONE in order to remove those subscriptions. (Hint: If you receive more than one Digest mailing per day, reply to as many Probe messages as necessary to reduce your subscription to one!) IF YOU WISH TO CONTINUE TO RECEIVE THE HBD, simply delete this message. WARNING: DO _NOT_ REPLY to this message if you wish to continue receiving the HBD. YOUR REPLY WILL CAUSE YOUR ADDRESS TO BE AUTOMATICALLY REMOVED FROM THE SUBSCRIPTION LIST - *NO MATTER WHAT YOU MAY WRITE IN THE MESSAGE* PLEASE NOTE: IF YOU ARE USING a spam filter, such as that on Earthlink, which identifies your email address when telling the PROBE processor that you are filtering mail, the PROBE processor will not be able to differentiate this from a simple reply. The automation will identify your address, and will remove you from the list. If this sounds like you, add probe at hbd.org to your "approved" list, and resubscribe to the HBD. Also, be sure that you have the Digest's address (homebrew-request at hbd.org) in your whitelist as well, or being subscribed would be rather pointless... If you still have access to the account you subscribed through, as indicated at the bottom of the this message, you can always send the word "unsubscribe" to req at hbd.org using that account, and avoid further mailings; otherwise, replying to this message is the only way in which to cut off the HBDmailings to this address. Cheers! The HBD Janitorial Staff Hope that helps someone out there! - -- See ya! Pat Babcock in SE Michigan Chief of HBD Janitorial Services http://hbd.org pbabcock at hbd.org Return to table of contents
Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2011 13:57:40 -0400 From: stencil <etcs.ret at verizon.net> Subject: Re: Brew water tools On Thu, 31 Mar 2011 23:57:15 -0500, in Homebrew Digest #5816 (March 31, 2011) Mike Patient wrote: >I've read some great things about brew water profiling here on the HBD. >I am wondering what tools home brewers have access to for this. >What will I need? (Other than knowledge) >What is cost effective? >What is the best out there? >I could just research options, but I want to know what is practical and >accessable. Knowing the hardness and alkalinity of your feedwater and your actual brewing water is pretty much fundamental. I'm not an enthusiast of attempts to duplicate foreign brew-water profiles, but I do like to bring down the residual alkalinity, to improve extract yield. The LaMotte test kits - 4824-DR for Hardness and 4491-DR for Alkalinity - that I get from <pollardwater.con> seem to offer the best balance of economy and precision. You can get much cheaper stuff in the aquarium supply section of WalMart (Seachem, RedSea, and the like), but precision is reduced. My American Marine "Pinpoint" pH meter is entering its second decade and still calibrates ok - though the current electrode (the third) is getting very slow and will probably get the boot soon. I got it from a now-defunct pet store here in Berkshire County. The only additives needed for my purposes are slaked lime (Mrs Wages' Pickling Lime) and calcium chloride (from ESV Aquarium Products, <esvco.com>.) I strongly suspect that the DowFlake CaCl I spread on my porch steps is perfectly safe to brew with, but what the hell. For brew-water casks the Gamma Plastics <gamma2.net> Vittles Vault line is hard to beat. The original VV's have a better form factor, but the VVII's are translucent and their regular shape makes it easier to mark their fill levels. The VVII's nest-stack for storage, but their material is a little more brittle than the older models. I use two 1-gallon VVII's for brew water casks and regular VV's for fermenters. As to the "I could brew a perfect Sammagoo clone if only I could duplicate Pasig River water" trope, I think the real goal is to learn what actually goes into the target brewer's tun, not what comes out of the municipal tap - a difficult task. hth, stencil Return to table of contents
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