[ale] Database consulting in return for homebrew?

[Sid Lane]

quick poll:

how many Covert Hops alumni are there in ALE?

how many people know the story behind the club's name?

2008/12/8 Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com>

> ALE with ale!! Works for me!!
>
> We need an ALE get-together that involves adult libations concocted by
> crafters of adult libations. :-)
>
> Maybe we need an ALE-brewing engineering get-together as well. What parts
> do we have and what's missing from the collection? I can speak clearly that
> a 1/4 O.D. copper tube is too damn small to siphon wort through for a
> counterflow cooler.
>
> 2008/12/8 Charles Shapiro <hooterpincher at gmail.com>
>
> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> NB that Jim Kinney is a homebrewer of note here. Hey! Maybe it's part of
>> the Open Source Culture!
>>
>> -- CHS
>>
>>
>> 2008/12/8 Sid Lane <jakes.dad at gmail.com>
>>
>> nobody's asked the CORRECT ?:
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>> FWIW, I'm the MySQL DBA for a very well-known website & have been told
>>> I'm reasonably well versed on such matters...
>>>
>>> Sid
>>>
>>> 2008/12/6 Charles Shapiro <hooterpincher at gmail.com>
>>>
>>>> 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..
>>>>
>>>> -- CHS
>>>>
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