Recent content by mongoose33

Interesting to me that so many use brewing software. I'll use EZ Water if I'm doing something new, to get the water right, but as for ingredients, timing, and so on, I just write it down. There's a funny thing about this for me. I have background in Statistics and Research that would choke a...

Just to note the other side...if I had a deep garage sink I'd get rid of it and install something like I have now. I've used the deep sinks, and they're not for me. I hate bending over at them just to clean something. Here's a pic of my setup. As you can see, I have a sink sprayer, and...

They are in fact now closed but it had relatively little to do with the quality of the beer (though that figured into it initially). I had the great fortune to brew my Amber (something they hadn't done and for which I have a nice recipe) and get it on tap. The Amber broadened their offerings...

Funny thing about these posts and such: we (at least I!) tend to assume others do similar things that I do. I don't use successive generations but the point is well taken, and in fact in that webinar they talked about oxygenating with subsequent generations since at that point it's not...

The water is coming out of my hot liquor tank (which is the same as my boil kettle :) ) at a specific temp. I will have preboiled the water (part of my standard LODO thing), then cooled it back down with my counterflow chiller. When it's at a stabilized temperature then the underletting...

I can't see why it would matter for more than a degree or so. The grist is still the same temp as if you stir it in, the water is still the same temp as would otherwise be, except coming in through the bottom. I haven't done any specific tests of this. I use a RIMS system and start with...

A little background: I've been away from HBT for a while given my involvement in a local brewery (long story there, ask Q's via PM). Among the discussions we had there, between me and a couple of brewers, was about oxygenating dry yeast...or not. This brewery used dry yeast exclusively; I...

When I wanted to decorate our refrigerator and keezer with stickers, SWMBO put the nix on that. So I decided the only way was to turn the stickers into magnets and stick them on that way. You can turn almost everything into a fridge magnet using this stuff...

We visited Maine Maritime Museum; I am a rural sociologist by trade, and I just LOVE the ambiance of places like that. We had lunch in a small diner sort of thing in a house, ancient walk-in cooler (you could tell by the door and latches), and it was a treat. The food was fine, but the...

Glad to. A lot of my success in brewing is due to this site, and what I've learned here. Gotta give back. I'm attaching my notes page from this recipe, but be forewarned: my process is very different from what almost anyone else uses, but you should be in the ballpark, if not the right...

I think we're talking about different things. I'm not talking about intentionally changing the recipe or process to try something out. I do that, too. I brewed a Little Wolf clone (Zero Gravity Brewing) and a friend and I thought it might be better if it were just a tinge sweeter. So I...

Yes to all the above. :) I used to work with a friend who was the editor at the American Society for Quality. One of the things i learned about was continuous quality improvement. I've applied that to my brewing. Each time I brew--every single time--I try to do something better than before...

You're trying to make this about significance, which it is not. Funny how this thread moved away from what I wanted it to be--which is my trying to understand why others don't approach this the same way I do--to people wanting it to be about statistics. It's regression to the mean. Pure and...

That's the whole point. You CAN'T have the best beer everywhere you go. And so the odds of the next beer you try being as good or better are virtually nil. And pedigree or no, you're not parsing this correctly. I won't continue to try to teach statistics and probability here; what everyone...

Forgive me, but I'm not employing this in an incorrect fashion. It's simple distributional probability. Period. Or by another guise, regression to the mean. I'm pretty up on this stuff. You don't have to take my word for that, but after having taught college statistics for 30+ years, I...