Brewsmith
Home brewing moogerfooger
So I went in the shop today to pick up grain forr two different brews, my Scottish and Rye that I'm going to get started on tomorrow. I walk in and there's only one person working and a couple people in the store. I tell the guy that I need some grain and he tells me to go to where the grain and mill is at and to fill out the little sheets they use for the grain bill. Apparently the other worker in the store is out at the moment. No problem, I've filled out the sheets before and even weighed out my own grain. I fill out the amounts and right then walks in the other employee, who I've seen before a few times, a woman, about 40, with pink dyed hair.
She looks at the two grain bills, and starts at the first. 7.5 lbs Maris Otter. She can't find it and it's in a big rubbermaid tub on the floor. She finally finds it and gets to the last item on the first brew, Roasted Barley. I had wrritten out "0.125 lbs" and also "2 oz" in the column because I know they sometimes use a different scale for tiny amounts and the regular scale has a accuracy of only 0.05 lbs. I wasn't paying close attention but I think she might have confused 2 oz with 0.25 lbs and the scale was also changed to the kilogram setting. She may have put about a half pound of roasted barley in there.
She gets to the next grain bill and starts scooping out base malt. I see that the scale is still on kilos and she's getting close to 7. I stop her and she switches over to lbs, which was now about 14 lbs. She scoops out the excess and gets me to the 7 that's on the list. She gets to the biscuit malt, which was supposed to be 0.25 lbs. She puts somewhere around a half pound into the bucket on the scale with the other grain before she realizes her mistake and starts to fish out the extra biscuit and put it back into the tub of malt. I hope she saw the difference between the biscuit and the base malt because if not, there is now some Northwestern 2-Row in the store's tub of biscuit.
It's not like she's new there. She's worked there for several months, and every time she's helped me she has seemed a little ditzy. It makes me want to buy in bulk and mill at home.
She looks at the two grain bills, and starts at the first. 7.5 lbs Maris Otter. She can't find it and it's in a big rubbermaid tub on the floor. She finally finds it and gets to the last item on the first brew, Roasted Barley. I had wrritten out "0.125 lbs" and also "2 oz" in the column because I know they sometimes use a different scale for tiny amounts and the regular scale has a accuracy of only 0.05 lbs. I wasn't paying close attention but I think she might have confused 2 oz with 0.25 lbs and the scale was also changed to the kilogram setting. She may have put about a half pound of roasted barley in there.
She gets to the next grain bill and starts scooping out base malt. I see that the scale is still on kilos and she's getting close to 7. I stop her and she switches over to lbs, which was now about 14 lbs. She scoops out the excess and gets me to the 7 that's on the list. She gets to the biscuit malt, which was supposed to be 0.25 lbs. She puts somewhere around a half pound into the bucket on the scale with the other grain before she realizes her mistake and starts to fish out the extra biscuit and put it back into the tub of malt. I hope she saw the difference between the biscuit and the base malt because if not, there is now some Northwestern 2-Row in the store's tub of biscuit.
It's not like she's new there. She's worked there for several months, and every time she's helped me she has seemed a little ditzy. It makes me want to buy in bulk and mill at home.