Brewing Master

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Jon – have you tried using the Winblows scheduler or backup utility? That might be something to backup your data to a cd-rw on a regular basis.  Either that, or get a real os…OpenVMS! sorry to hear about your loss! [...]

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I have some refractometer formulas and C-code at http://www.primetab.com/formulas.html Domenick Venezia Venezia & Company, LLC Maker of PrimeTab Seattle, WA (206) 782-1152  phone (206) 782-6766  fax demonick at zgi dot com http://www.primetab.com

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It seems like this would be a great utility compiled for a palm pilot…I [...]

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A home brew store may regard their kit ingredients as proprietary information, which would be fair enough. But, perhaps they could print expected gravities and IBUs. I called Annapolis to get that information regarding their ale kit I’m brewing, and they were very accommodating. Ken A.
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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Hi all, Broke down at my lhbs yesterday and bought Beers Captured by Mark and Tess Szamatulski. There are very few good recipes on the web, so I figured I’d spring for a recipe [...]

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1.Are there really any differences between different brands of liquid malt extract? How about dry malt extracts?
Yes. Yes. 2.What is the purpose of using malto dextrin in beer recipes? Is it fermentable?
To boost gravity and body. Not really. 3. Are any differences [...]

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I have "Stout".  It’s not that great.  Kind of wanders.  Also, he gets lost in a series of comparitive tasting of various stouts.
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I am soliciting comments on the Classic Beer style series books.. What are the favorites?  I have enough beer [...]

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It’s definately for real.  I’ve only had it once, but it was pretty good. The stuff I had was 7 or 8 years old, and I have no idea what was in it, unfortunately.  My girlfriend and I made some last spring from a recipe we dug up somewhere….I don’t have [...]

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Well, the British Isles are just as close to Continental Europe, but you won’t find many Englishmen who consider themselves European! ;-}
But I find a lot of Englishmen who consider Ireland British Example: Graham Wheeler has a few Irish beer recipes in his book titled: [...]

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Daren and Garry: I ran across the following document a few years ago with some very detailed instructions for converting all grain recipes to extract and partial mash. http://home.elp.rr.com/brewbeer/extract/pres.pdf In this article (presented at the AHA National Homebrewers Conference in 1998) the author, Ken Schwartz, presents several lists of [...]

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My wife and I thought we’d give my father-in-law a nice gift.  He’s a Korean War vet and is wanting the same kind of beer they used to drink in 1950 in Korea.  He says it was Japanese and was brewed with rice.  He says he drinks Budweiser nowadays since it’s as [...]