The current batch is a bottle-conditioned all grain brown ale roughly based on Papazian's Monkey's Paw recipe from the first Joy of Homebrew. I don't have my notes handy, so I can't tell you the ISG and FSG, or even what my hopping was. It came out plenty rich & chocalaty, and I've had some good reviews, although I haven't entered it in any contests. I added some jaggery as a booster which seems to have contributed some interesting notes. <br>
<br>A RIMS system is definitely in my dreams, but right now I'm mashing in
a picnic drink cooler and sparging through a gravity-fed sprinkler
system (a "beer tree" I built from plans in BYO magazine). I have just aquired a laboratory stirrer which I'm anxious to try out at the end of my next boil. <br><br>The batch in the secondary alas _is_ syrup. I brew outdoors and have difficulty with temperature control in the winter. Besides, I was introducing a buddy to the joys of propane and large pots of boiling wort. I racked it this past weekend and it seems to be quite hoppy. <br>
<br>NB that Jim Kinney is a homebrewer of note here. Hey! Maybe it's part of the Open Source Culture!<br><br>-- CHS<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/12/8 Sid Lane <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jakes.dad@gmail.com">jakes.dad@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">nobody's asked the CORRECT ?:<br><br>unless your name is Glen Sprouse (in which case I'm at your disposal) what kind (style) of beer? what type of malt(s)/what's the initial/final gravity? was is mashed RIMS or manually (don't even THINK about trying to pass off syrup!)? what type of hop(s)/what's the IBU/HBUs? oh, yeah, you might want to throw in a few SWAG metrics about you DB as well... :D<br>
<br>FWIW, I'm the MySQL DBA for a very well-known website & have been told I'm reasonably well versed on such matters...<br><br>Sid<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/12/6 Charles Shapiro <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hooterpincher@gmail.com" target="_blank">hooterpincher@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d">Any DBAs out there interested in consulting on a smallish database project? I have a smallish MySQL db designed for a side-project, but I've never done this kind of thing before and would like a set of expert eyes to look at it. I'll buy you lunch and give ya a six-pack of pretty ok homebrew..<br>
<br>-- CHS<br><br>
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