<html dir="ltr"><head></head><body style="text-align:left; direction:ltr;"><div>The enzymes required for starch conversion are only good for about a year even sealed in airtight containers and the malted grain is uncrushed. :-(</div><div><br></div><div>My 50# bag went from a yield of 6% ABV to 1.3% ABV in 2 years with the same method and processing.</div><div><br></div><div>My last batch from that grain purchase I added the amylase enzyme directly (about 1 cup, found a bag at Buford Hwy Farmers Market in the rice, grains, other aisle) and got back up to 6.5%.</div><div><br></div><div>On Tue, 2018-10-16 at 10:25 -0400, Charles Shapiro wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>I occasionally worry about brewing during Georgia droughts. Five gallons of beer uses easily an order of magnitude more water. I also remember the great Homebrew Hops Shortage of the early 2000s. I reckon I might have to start buying them 50 lb bags of 2-row pretty soon.<br><br></div>-- CHS<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 4:54 PM Jim Kinney via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="text-align:left;direction:ltr"><div>Nah. Just gotta get everyone to stop eating animals since they get the bulk of the barley.</div><div><br></div><div>Wait. Beer AND meat will be impacted?!?!?!</div><div><br></div><div>WTF?!!!!!</div><div><br></div><div>PROTEST!!!</div><div><br></div><div>On Mon, 2018-10-15 at 16:46 -0400, DJ-Pfulio via Ale wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><pre>Climate Change Will Cause Beer Shortages and Price Hikes</pre><pre><br></pre><pre><a href="https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/zm95v4/climate-change-will-cause-beer-shortages-and-price-hikes-study-says" target="_blank">https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/zm95v4/climate-change-will-cause-beer-shortages-and-price-hikes-study-says</a></pre><pre><br></pre><pre>We've gotta whip this climate change thing IMMEDIATELY!</pre><pre>Like today. NOW!</pre><pre><br></pre><pre><rbg></pre><pre>_______________________________________________</pre><pre>Ale mailing list</pre><pre><a href="mailto:Ale@ale.org" target="_blank">Ale@ale.org</a></pre><pre><a href="https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale" target="_blank">https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale</a></pre><pre>See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at</pre><pre><a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo" target="_blank">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo</a></pre><pre><br></pre></blockquote><div><span><pre><pre>-- <br></pre>James P. Kinney III</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you</pre><pre>gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his</pre><pre>own tail. It won't fatten the dog.</pre><pre>- Speech 11/23/1900 Mark Twain</pre><pre><br></pre><pre><a href="http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/</a></pre><pre><br></pre></span></div></div>
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