SLO Brewer » Uncategorized http://www.slobrewer.com Dave's Brewing Website Thu, 13 May 2010 05:30:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 In Defense of An Analysis of Brewing Techniques http://www.slobrewer.com/2010/05/12/in-defense-of-an-analysis-of-brewing-techniques/ http://www.slobrewer.com/2010/05/12/in-defense-of-an-analysis-of-brewing-techniques/#comments Thu, 13 May 2010 05:30:37 +0000 Dave http://www.slobrewer.com/?p=46 So after using An Analysis of Brewing Techniques to help answer a question that one of my homebrew club members had about fining, I decided to check Amazon to see what kind of reviews the book has received. To my shock I found a pair of low ratings from a decade ago that seem totally out of place. How could such a great book that’s cited numerous times in other homebrew texts and the BJCP study materials have a 2 1/2 star rating?

I’ve posted a review here: An Analysis of Brewing Techniques Review. If you don’t have this book see if you can track down a copy. If you do have this book I encourage you to post a review on Amazon to balance out the ones from so long ago. I’d love to see Brewer’s Publications revive this book for a new edition if possible.

Oh yeah, and sorry for not posting for a while ;) . It’s been a busy year. Though just recently I had my Ordinary Bitter and Kölsch place in the first round of the NHC so they’ll be moving on to the big show. Both were recipes from Brewing Classic Styles: 80 Winning Recipes Anyone Can Brew with tweaks to match my process and with built water.

Happy brewing!

Dave.


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What a difference. I no longer had to pay attention to the mash temp, mess with pumps for my HERMS, run the stir motor on the hot liquor tank, or worry about grainbed compaction. Despite cool evening air temps the mash held within a degree over the course of the hour.

I really haven’t found a downside of this approach other than it means I have a surplus Blichmann Boilermaker mash tun for now. I’m going to run this way for a while and see if I can notice a difference in consistency on my beers and simplification on my brew day.

Dave.

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