HOMEBREW Digest #1135 Thu 06 May 1993

Digest #1134 Digest #1136


	FORUM ON BEER, HOMEBREWING, AND RELATED ISSUES
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Contents:
  Celis Pale Bock (Michael D. Galloway)
  re ethylene and ripening (Chip Hitchcock)
  Space Beer, Zippos (Jack Schmidling)
  The effect of Light on Beer ("Anderso_A")
  Brew-Pubs & Good-Beer Bars in San Diego ("Anderso_A")
  Sierra Nevada Brown Ale ("Bob Jones")
  Re: Priming with Honey? (Tim Anderson)
  "Momily" (hjl)
  Re: Where's the hops? (Daniel Roman)
  Sparge Water (George J Fix)
  clear beer stuff (Tony Babinec 312 329-3570)
  B.O.S.S. Challenge `93 (korz)
  Little Shop of Hops (Lou Casagrande)
  Free Belgian Beer Tasting (korz)
  Yeast Lab Co. and its Weisen yeast (David Pike)
  Momilies (ulrich)
  White beer recipe revisited (Phillip Seitz)
  Responses to Queries in HBD#1134 (drwho2959)

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---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 5 May 1993 08:02:18 -0400 From: Michael D. Galloway <mgx at ornl.gov> Subject: Celis Pale Bock hey ... I just had my first taste of Celis Pale Bock last night and fell in love. Anybody have a good all grain recipe that even comes close to this beer? I would be interested in cloning other Celis brews also! (You can't get that stuff around here) Michael D. Galloway mgx at ornl.gov Living in the WasteLand Return to table of contents
Date: Wed, 5 May 93 08:34:54 EDT From: cjh at diaspar.HQ.Ileaf.COM (Chip Hitchcock) Subject: re ethylene and ripening Ethylene is in fact responsible for only one axis of ripening; for instance, it turns green tomatoes red without changing their consistency (hence the red styrofoam baseballs sold as tomatoes in most supermarkets). For that matter, can any botanist here tell us whether it has anything to do with barley? I know there are substantial differences between grains and fruiting plants but don't remember any details as it's been 25 years since my last serious botany.... Return to table of contents
Date: Wed, 5 May 93 08:30 CDT From: arf at genesis.mcs.com (Jack Schmidling) Subject: Space Beer, Zippos >From: u4imdmre at cpc41.cpc.usace.army.mil (Markham R. Elliott) > Experts at the University of Munich will make sample batches after the yeast is returned, said company spokesman Hans-Joachim Allgaier. Beck may know by the end of the year whether it has a commercially viable mutant. "We wouldn't sell it as space beer," Allgaier said. "We're too conservative to market beer like that. Besides, it wouldn't taste like space." Yah, and I got a bridge for him. I think you may rest assured that, at that cost, they will find a "commercially viable mutant" whether they "find" one or not. >From: Phil Hultin <HULTINP at QUCDN.QUEENSU.CA> >BTW, I also would like to get a Maltmill but nobody in this neck of Canada has ever heard of the *&%$#$% thing. Also, the cost of importing just one would bankrupt me. Jack, do you have any suggestions for us? Ever thought of taking up smuggling? If the U. S. treated Toyotas like Canada treats MALTMILLS, Japan would still be trying to build Zippos lighters and Bush would still be president. js Return to table of contents
Date: 5 May 93 04:46:41 EST From: "Anderso_A" <Anderso_A%55W3.CCBRIDGE.SEAE.mrouter at seaa.navsea.navy.mil> Subject: The effect of Light on Beer Message Creation Date was at 5-MAY-1993 09:18:00 Greetings, I'm curious about the effect of light on beer. I've always been told that light can cause a "skunky" off-taste, so I've always covered my carboys, bottled at night, bottled in brown bottles, and stored the bottles under cover. Evidentally this has worked since I have not been getting any "Skunk" flavors. After considering my brewing/bottling process I've started to wonder if this is over-kill. Am I going to extreme lengths for minimal gain? Does anyone know the wave-length of the "harmful" light? I mean are we talking UV, visible, IR, or some other wave-length? If visible light is a culprit, are the lights in my house enough to cause problems? How much light, in terms of strength and duration, is required to cause problems? I'd hate to find out that visible light from light-bulbs could potentially cause problems - On a stressful day there's nothing better than sitting on the floor, sipping a home-brew, and staring at all the bubbles of an active fermentation. Ahhh!! Andy A Return to table of contents
Date: 5 May 93 04:46:21 EST From: "Anderso_A" <Anderso_A%55W3.CCBRIDGE.SEAE.mrouter at seaa.navsea.navy.mil> Subject: Brew-Pubs & Good-Beer Bars in San Diego Message Creation Date was at 5-MAY-1993 09:12:00 Greetings, I realize that these personnal requests for brew-pub "enlightenment" become tiresome after awhile, but I just love to tap into a good source of knowledge. I will be out in San Diego in a week and I'm interested in finding some good brew-pubs or "good-beer" bars. I will also be making a pilgrimage up to Costa Mesa for The Goat Hill Tavern, so if there are any pubs I should check out along the way - please let me know of them. I appreciate the help. Andy A Return to table of contents
Date: Wed, 5 May 93 07:53:10 PST From: "Bob Jones" <bjones at novax.llnl.gov> Subject: Sierra Nevada Brown Ale I thought it might be appropriate to mention a new beer I had this week. Sierra Nevada's Brown Ale! I thought it was a good example of the style and really liked it. SN, who is know for those big hoppy beers, has used a delicate hand at the hopping here and did a great job (once again). Don't know if they plan to bottle it or not, I just hope it becomes one of their main line of beers. Watch for it! Bob Jones Return to table of contents
Date: Wed, 5 May 93 09:12:19 PDT From: tima at wv.MENTORG.COM (Tim Anderson) Subject: Re: Priming with Honey? Erik Zenhausern inquired: > talking (and drinking his fine mead) and I asked about using honey > to prime beer with. He told me that in order to prime with honey > you need about a pound (standard small jar available in supermarkets) > and that it takes about a month to carbonate. Is this information > accurate? Has anyone ever done this before? I have primed several batches with honey. In some of these batches, honey also made up a significant portion of the fermentables, in others, the only honey used was for priming. I don't know about the weight, but I found that 1/3 Cup will give a pleasant light carbonation, and anything more that 1/2 Cup will produce soda-pop fizziness. Boil it in water as you would corn sugar, but also skim the scum off as it boils. It will probably contain a bit of wax and pieces of bee armpits. A month is excessive, but it does take a little longer than, say, corn sugar. At the tiny quantities used for priming, you won't be able to tell the difference between clover, blackberry, or anything else, so use what's available, it's all just bee barf. Some will disagree with that. Those who do are wrong. :-| Mark Garetz asked: > Can anyone provide me with info and a contact number for the Oregon Brewer's > Festival to be held after the AHA Conference? Thanks All I know is I've only missed one of these, and this year I'm skipping my daughter's wedding in order to attend. tim Return to table of contents
Date: Wed, 5 May 93 12:07 EDT From: hjl at gummo.att.com Subject: "Momily" Suspect it derives from "homily" as an anticlerical comment. Hank .//' Return to table of contents
Date: Wed, 5 May 1993 12:29:39 -0400 (EDT) From: roman at tix.timeplex.com (Daniel Roman) Subject: Re: Where's the hops? Diane Palme x2617 writes: >I just have a quick question which would serve to dispell any worries I might >be having about my newly planted hops. About 2 weeks ago I planted 3 hop >roots in the back garden and I have yet to see any progress. I think you're worrying a little too much and too early, give them some time. Here in NJ the Cascade have just broke the surface and the Williamette are 3 feet long (with other varieties somewhere inbetween). These are established plants. You've got quite a bit cooler weather up there and you're starting with new plants, give 'em time. Did the cuttings already have some shoots and were they "crisp" and seemingly alive (as opposed to dried out)? >By the way, should I be fertilizing these guys? If so, what do all of you >recommend? I have some ordinary vegetable fertilizer but is there a particular >brand which works the best. A slow, continuous release fertilizer seems to work best, I use bone meal with good results with an occasional overspray (the hops are adjaicent to my veggie garden) of Miracle Grow. _________ Dan Roman GEnie: D.ROMAN1 Internet: roman at tix.timeplex.com // Ascom Timeplex (NJ) Homebrew is better brew! Only AMIGA! \X/ Return to table of contents
Date: Wed, 5 May 93 11:12:03 -0500 From: gjfix at utamat.uta.edu (George J Fix) Subject: Sparge Water Ed Hitchcock asks in HBD#1134 how a bitter with SG = 1.034 can be brewed with the ratio of sparge water to mash water being no more than 1.5. I personally let the mash thickness float, and indeed have found this to be a relatively unimportant variable within a reasonable range. In particular, plots of yield vs. mash thickness tend to be quite flat in the range 25-40 liters/kg. To cite some examples, suppose we want to brew 50 liters. In my system this would require 50 * (4/3) = 66.67 liters water (due to 12.5 % of the water used being left in the grains, and a 10% evaporation in the boil). Suppose 33.3 liters of water is used in the mash, and the same amount is used for sparging. If 10 kg. of base malt is used (adjustments are needed if adjunct malts are used), then typically 56 liters of wort would be collected in the brew kettle at a gravity of 1.045. This would boil down to 50 liters at SG = 1.050. A grain bill consisting of say 7 kg. of base malt typically yields 50 liters at 1.035. In both of the above cases the yield is ~30 pts/lbs/gal. While this number is insensitive to mash thickness, it does depend strongly on the mash to sparge water ratio. In the above examples, about 2% of the extract is left behind in the grains. Had the ratio been increased to 1.5 (26 liters in the mash and 60 liters for sparging), the extract lost will typically drop to 1%. The most extreme case I have brewed had a ratio near 3.5 (20 liters mash to 46 liters sparge), and virtually no extract was left behind in the grains. The resulting beer was not to my taste, although clearly this is a subjective evaluation (as opposed to a scientific one). As I have noted before, I am not a yield aficionado. The major exception to this involves malt which has deteriorated due to excess moisture. I have alas had this happen, and the resulting yields were extremely low. In all other cases, I am indifferent to the yield a particular brewing configuration will give. The real issue is how the brewer feels about the finished beer. George Fix Return to table of contents
Date: Wed, 5 May 1993 12:33:07 -0500 (CDT) From: tony at spss.com (Tony Babinec 312 329-3570) Subject: clear beer stuff According to this week's Advertising Age, Miller Clear Beer is being test-marketed in Austin, Texas; Minneapolis; and Richmond, Va. Ad Age conducted a blind tasting in Chicago. Suitably chilled Clear Beer was poured into colored plastic cups along with Budweiser and Coors, and the lights were lowered. Some taster comments (tasters were Ad Age employees -- probably not a bad target group): "It tastes just like a Bud." "It seems a little more mellow, almost like flat beer." "It tastes like watered-down beer." "If you had a glass of beer and emptied it, then refilled it with water...that's what it tastes like." One taster thought Clear Beer had more body than the other two brews. Several tasters commented that Clear Beer had "a mineral water aftertaste." Several male panelists said they judge a beer's quality and strength by the deepness of its color. "Don't people equate color with flavor? If so, that could be a problem." Finally, one male panelist said color "makes a beer brand to me. It certainly would be weird to chase tequila with a clear beer." Return to table of contents
Date: Wed, 5 May 93 12:41 CDT From: korz at iepubj.att.com Subject: B.O.S.S. Challenge `93 Here are the award winners from the "1993 Who Died and Made Us B.O.S.S.? Challenge" 1st 2nd 3rd Wheat Beer: Dick Van Dyke Patrick Delozier Mike Brennan IPA/Amer. Pale: Mike Pezan Dick Van Dyke Mike Kenny Alt/Kolsch/Cream: Rob Reed Dave Lowe Brian & Linda North Pale Ale/Bitter: Stewart Rose Len Bergonia Al Korzonas ESB/Scottish Ale: John Walaszek Tony Babinec John Dalton Brown Ale: Joe Perillo D & B Hoppe George Fix Porter: Dick Van Dyke Rob Reed Dick Van Dyke Stout: Dennis Davison Dennis Davison Joe Perillo Strong Ale: B & L North Brian Bliss Stewart Rose Pilsener: Jules Roeles Jack Schmidling John Dalton Export/Helles: Gary Hauser Dave Lowe Dennis Davison Amber/Dk Lager: Dennis Davison Patrick Delozier Mike Pezan Traditional Bock: Tony McCauley Jim Thommes Al Korzonas Misc. Bock: Tony Babinec Dennis Davison Dennis Davison Spice Beer: John Walaszek Patrick Delozier Tom Manteufel Fruit Beer: B & L North Al Korzonas Joe Perillo Belgiarama: Brian Bliss Dave Norton Al Korzonas NoCommercialComp: Tom Eskridge Ken Butler George Fix Mead/Cider: Tom Manteufel Dave Norton Dick Van Dyke 2nd Best of Show: Rob Reed (Kolsch) BEST OF SHOW: Brian & Linda North (Barleywine) Club Total Points: 1st- Brewers of South Suburbia 2nd- Brewtown Brewmasters 3rd- Kansas City Biermeisters The organizer has assured me that the processing of forms has been completed and the mailing of awards and judging forms will be completed this week. Al. Return to table of contents
Date: Wed, 5 May 93 15:46:21 EDT From: casagran at gdstech.grumman.com (Lou Casagrande) Subject: Little Shop of Hops SB> I am about to start graduate school in New York City. I wouldn't SB> think of leaving my brewing back in California! Does anybody know SB> of brewpubs or more importantly home brew shops in the city? Thanks SB> in advance SB> STEVE BOXER First, I'd like to welcome you to the east coast--quite a change from SD, but we have our charms. One of those charms is a relatively new brew shop and homebrew central (for things such as judging or tasting classes). It's called, get ready for the groans, "Little Shop of Hops." Its address is 15 W. 39th St., NY, NY 10018. They have a mailing list for their monthly (?) newsletter, and I'm sure they'd be happy to add you to it. I don't know a lot about them, since I've only been there once (I live on LI and have another supplier out here), but they looked like they were going to be pretty good (they had only been open for ~1 month at the time). Lou Casagraande casagran at gdstech.grumman.com Return to table of contents
Date: Wed, 5 May 93 15:36 CDT From: korz at iepubj.att.com Subject: Free Belgian Beer Tasting A Public Service Announcement: On May 16th, from 1 to 5 pm, Mainstreet Deli and Liquors in Countryside, Illinois will be holding a FREE Belgian-style Beer Tasting. There will be over 25 Belgian-style Beers including: Scaldis (in Belgium, Bush) Saison Dupont (vielle Provision) Rodenbach Gran Cru Blanche De Bruges Affligem Dubbel (and possibly the Trippel) Grimbergen Dubbel & Trippel Liefman's Brown, Kriek and Frambozen Saison Dupont Castelain Biere de Garde Duvel Orval Westmalle Dubbel St. Sixtus Abt Chimay Red, Cinq Cents & Grande Reserve Celis White and Grand Cru Brigand Corsendonk Monk's Brown and Monk's Pale Lindeman's Kriek Timmerman's Framboise Maes Pils There will be a limited supply of home-brewed pKriek, brewed by a regular contributor to the Homebrew Digest. There is also a good chance that there will be a special guest beer (not available for sale) that is traditionally brewed by a non-profit brewery in Belgium but is avalable as yet only in one "state" in the U.S. MAINSTREET DELI and LIQUORS 5425 South LaGrange Road Countryside, Illinois 708-354-0355 Al. Disclaimer: I plead insanity. Return to table of contents
Date: Wed, 5 May 93 13:31:00 PDT From: davep at cirrus.com (David Pike) Subject: Yeast Lab Co. and its Weisen yeast Fellow HBDer's, Does anyone know an addres or phone # for the Yeast Lab Co. I'm actually looking for the background for their weisen yeast. Dave Return to table of contents
Date: Wed, 5 May 1993 18:02:00 -0800 From: ulrich at sfu.ca Subject: Momilies Others have addressed the meaning of the term "momily" (TM). But let me make one conjecture about its etymology: it's a blend of "mom" and "homily", and is not related to "anomaly". A homily is like a sermon. I haven't read the book, so correct me if I'm wrong. Charles Ulrich Return to table of contents
Date: Thu, 6 May 93 01:54 GMT From: Phillip Seitz <0004531571 at mcimail.com> Subject: White beer recipe revisited Some time ago I posted a recipe for a white beer I believe a fair number of people used as a starting point for brews of their own. While I thought my own batch had turned out pretty well (still do), I also said that there was room for improvement and experimentation. Most of the people I know who are brewing white beer--myself included--are still figuring out how to deal with it, and the idea of the posting was to share my own experience in the hope that other people wouldn't have to start from zero. In this same vein I'd like to ask those people who used this recipe--or have another one they like--to let us know how things worked out. You can send messages to me if you like, and I'll edit them into a single post. I'd be particularly interested in comments on grist ratios, spicing, and yeast. If things didn't turn out well you're welcome to call me a scoundrel, too--I'll do my best to leave in any relevant feedback you have that might help someone make better beer, as well as any insults that seem especially witty. Phil Seitz PSEITZ at MCIMAIL.COM P.S. to Tony Babinec: so what DID the CBS say about this beer--from a brewing standpoint? I've got my bullet-proof vest on (borrowed from Jack), so for the good of the community let's have it. Return to table of contents
Date: Wed, 05 May 93 23:17:48 EDT From: drwho2959 at aol.com Subject: Responses to Queries in HBD#1134 In HBD#1134, Mark Garetz asks: >Can anyone provide me with info and a contact number for the Oregon Brewer's >Festival to be held after the AHA Conference? Thanks Zymurgy tells us to call Widmer Brewing Company in Portland, Oregon, at (503)281-BIER (Note the GERMAN spelling of beer!). AHA Conference is July 26-30, and Oregon Brewers Festival is July 30-August 1. Both events are to be held in downtown Portland, OR, which is a beautiful city and a beer drinkers paradise! And Steve Boxer asks: >Does anybody know of brewpubs or more importantly home brew shops in >[New York] city? Thanks in advance Be sure to pick up a copy of _The Barleycorn_ AS SOON AS YOU CAN. It is the East Coast's equivalent to the Celebrator. I am looking at an old copy from last December as I type this. There are LOTS of home brew shops listed in New York state, but unfotunately my knowledge of New York geography is rather sketchy. There is one listed on Staten Island, though: East Coast Brewing Supply 124 Jacques Ave. P.O. Box 060904 Staten Island, NY 10306 (718)667-4459 You can subscribe to the Barleycorn by sending $12.00 check or money order along with your name and address to: Barleycorn P.O. Box 2328 Falls Church, VA 22042 (703)573-8970 *----------------------------------------------------------------------* | Andrew Patrick | | SysOp, Houston Correspondent & Distrib. Mgr., | | Home Brew Univ. BBS Southwest Brewing News | | (713)465-0265, 2400 bps Internet: andinator at delphi.com | *----------------------------------------------------------------------* Return to table of contents
End of HOMEBREW Digest #1135, 05/06/93