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Contents:
  RE: Shipping Homebrew ("Brian Lundeen")
  Merry Christmas! ("Pat Babcock")
  behold the starch-busting power of...yeast? ("Matt Wallace")
  Happy New Year! ("Pat Babcock")


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Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2007 09:58:18 -0600
From: "Brian Lundeen" <blundeen at mts.net>
Subject: RE: Shipping Homebrew

> 
> Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 13:40:21 +0000
> From: runnur2 at comcast.net
> Subject: Shipping Homebrew
> 
> What is the best way of packaging homebrew and then legally 
> shipping across the United States?
> 

Drink it, get on a plane, resist the urge to pee. ;-)

And on that silly note, I shall wish you all a happy and safe festive
season, whichever one you might be celebrating (or not, nothing wrong with
that). 

Cheers
Brian  



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Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2007 19:10:22 -0500 (EST)
From: "Pat Babcock" <pbabcock at hbd.org>
Subject: Merry Christmas!

Greetings, Beerlings! Take me to your Rennerian egg-nog!

Just wishing you all a very, very merry Christmas to you and yours!

- -- 
See ya!

Pat Babcock in SE Michigan
Chief of HBD Janitorial Services
http://hbd.org
pbabcock at hbd.org






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Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 09:30:17 -0800
From: "Matt Wallace" <dubious.chewy at gmail.com>
Subject: behold the starch-busting power of...yeast?

Hello HBDers,

So I've recently baked my first few loaves of yeast bread (btw, I
highly suggest the no-knead bread recipe that was flying around the
internet a year or so ago- it's a beautiful thing).

It is my understanding that the beauty of a nice crusty loaf is the
result of fermentation by saccharomyces cerevsiae...just like in beer.
 But where's the sugar?  One passage in a baking book I've read (The
King Arthur Flour Baker's Companion) says there's no need to add sugar
to your bread dough, because the yeast can break down enough starches
themselves to fuel a nice rise and develop flavor.  To what extent
does this go on in beer fermentation?  Do the yeast have their own
starch busting enzymes?  Could a very generous pitch balance out a
high or low temperature mash?

Matt W
Oregon


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Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 22:00:08 -0500 (EST)
From: "Pat Babcock" <pbabcock at hbd.org>
Subject: Happy New Year!


Greetings, Beerlings! Take me to your lager...

Well! Seems traffic on the ol' Digest is so light that my Christmas wishes
for y'all will be belated. Hopefully, this post will trigger the Digest to
mail tonight so that you will all receive my warm wishes for a happy and
prosperous new year!

Also, please savor your brews responsibly on new year's eve - let's make
sure we're all here happy and healthy for the start of 2008!

- -- 
See ya!

Pat Babcock in SE Michigan
Chief of HBD Janitorial Services
http://hbd.org
pbabcock at hbd.org








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