Lumpy16 said:Hell ya, planning on it
Thanks for posting up these updates. It's great to hear about what it's like to go through Brewing School. It's something that would interest me, but I will never have the opportunity to do. I'm pretty sure there's more than just me living through you in these posts.
When you talk about setting up a tasting panel and sensory evaluation, you're referring to a panel of the same beer with different off flavors?
Nice blog - thanks for sharing! What size batches are you brewing on the pilot system vs. the larger system in the brewery?
What beer style are you brewing when you look at modifying a recipe for each varable? (I guess another way to ask is, when you used the different hops and different water profiles, etc. were you brewing the same style beer?)
Lumpy16 said:Hey does the beer get sold at the lcbo at all? I would be interested to try it.
...as for some reason my mind shut itself off and I blanked out on how to calculate the break even point in sales based analysis (set the price to 1$, if anyone was interested)...
profit = 0 but the price of the item being sold gets set to 1$. In a sales based analysis you are only given the sales figures, the variable costs and the fixed costs. The variable costs to sales are a fixed ratio and can be represented by VC/S. In order to find break even, you need to know the price of the item, but since it is not specified we are told to set the value of the item to 1$ and then proceed with the calculations. I very well could be wrong about this, but I think that's how we were supposed to do it.
It is hard to tell, as we can brew whatever we want on certain days, providing there is fermentor space, and it all has to be sold in the store. I know the project for the second year students this semester is to brew a bitter, a stout and a hefe, so there is a good chance at least one variation of those will be on tap as well as our NC Ale, Lager, and Bitter. There is normally at least one other beer on there as well, but I couldn't predict it. If you tell me when you are planning on coming down I'll let you know whats on tap. You do of course get to sample the beer before committing to a purchaseI'll have to try to stop in at the store next time I'm in the area. Do you know what styles of beer they usually have for sale?
I think I just clicked, this is for multiple products right?
This specific question was just for one product. I will try and dig up an example of the question so you can see what I mean. Check back tomorrow and I'll have that for you.
identify the taint
m_c_zero said:Lol... Sorry, you can have your thread back now.
I had wondered what had become of you since there weren't any updates since Nov. I was starting to think that maybe you fell into an industrial-sized mash tun and couldn't get out!
Glad to hear things are on the up & up!
Edit: on a side-note, do you get summers off? Or is it a year-round program?
Does this mean Morehops and I will be sisters? Either way I'm excited for September.
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