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I've sent an email to the Brewers Association explaining what I'm looking for. I'm not expecting a useful response, but hopefully I'm wrong. The temp/rain/harvest etc. information for hops would be great. This is very similar to what Orley Ashenfelter did for wine (in particular, predicting what...

Hi PupThePup, Thanks for your thoughts. On the malt analysis, that is really already in summary form. As it says "Typical analysis data is subject to standard analytical deviations. They represent average values, not to be considered as guarantees, expressed or implied, nor as a condition of...

Hi, I'm a statistician and I would like to find some interesting data sets involving beer, in part so I can illustrate various statistical techniques in class. Mentioning beer usually perks up (graduate) students and I want to use such data to motivate some statistical techniques. So, I'm...

Thanks, everyone.

Thanks, folks, for your thoughts on this. I've learned: (a) always use a blow off tube (e.g., for the first several days or week). (b) the advantages of blowing off part of a batch (via the tube in part a) are, at best, minimal. (c) forcing blow off (via the tube in part a) need not be a...

One of the things I was concerned about was NOT getting the benefits of blow off if I used a 6.5 gallon carboy. That is to say, I was worried that with the head space in a 6.5 gallon carboy (for a 5 gallon batch) at fermentation stage 1, I wouldn't get the blow off that reduces undesirables...

Hi, In the beginners section of the Complete Joy of Homebrewing, Papazian says to use a 5 gallon carboy with a blow off tube. He then says "if you are using a 6 1/2 gallon glass carboy...it is not necessary to affix a blow-off hose." However, he lists the advantage of doing a blow off, which...

Hi, I'm new to brewing but I want to get started with the right equipment from the beginning. I aim to go all grain in the future for 5 gallon batches at a time. Is a 10 or 15 gallon better? I've heard that for 5 gallon batches the boil-off (evaporation) is too much in a 15...