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Contents:
  Homebrew calculator ("Nelson at BuildABeer")
  12th Annual Palmetto State Brewers Open ("H. Dowda")


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Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2010 12:27:47 -0400
From: "Nelson at BuildABeer" <Nelson at BuildABeer.org>
Subject: Homebrew calculator

I have a web-based homebrew calculator that I wrote and have been using for 
several years.  Since it's publicly available, other people use it too - so 
there are about 600 recipes on it now.  It's HTML and Javascript on the 
client side so it works with all current browsers.  It uses PHP and MySQL on 
the server side to handle the recipe database.  It includes specifications 
for BJCP styles so that you can match your ingredients if you so desire, and 
also currently has specifications for 69 varieties of hops, 240 varieties of 
malts and other fermentables, and 138 varieties of yeast.  It calculates 
specific gravity (or Plato can be selected) - both original and final, IBU, 
abv, color (in SRM), mash volumes and temperatures, yeast cell count 
recommendations, recipe compliance with BJCP styles, etc., and works with 
different units (gallons/quarts/liters/pounds/ounces/grams, etc).

Check out www.BuildABeer.org and click on the Beer Calculator tab.  I also 
do my own beer and brewpub ratings - they are available there also.

Some of the users are my local Dunedin Brewers Guild club members, but 
others have found BuildABeer too.  It's free (I wrote it for my own use, but 
others wanted to use it) and does everything that I need to calculate 
recipes for beer.  Please feel free to check it out and use it if it suits 
your needs.

Nelson Crowle
Nelson at BuildABeer.org
Nelson at DunedinBrewersGuild.com 



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Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 18:33:35 -0700 (PDT)
From: "H. Dowda" <hdowda at yahoo.com>
Subject: 12th Annual Palmetto State Brewers Open 

The 12th Annual Palmetto State Brewers
Open will be held in Columbia, SC
Dec. 4.  Entries in all BJCP categories
are being accepted
www.sagecat.com/psbo12.htm


      


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