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[Rhetorik]

Start tooting and she will want to move. Even better, knock over her pencil holder and not apologize. That should do the trick, I guess...I honestly don't know how to be mean in Canada.

Maybe I'll take her out for a nice seafood dinner and NEVER CALL HER AGAIN!

 

[Gavin C]

I use chalk aka CaCO3, I havent had a cloudy beer. It'll fully dissolve in the boil if it doesnt immediate. Use it.

It doesn't make the beer cloudy.

It takes days to react resulting in a planned mash ph that is too low and a beer pH in the FV that is too high.

The calculators make no adjustment for the time taken to react. They just deal with the raw numbers.

It really is easy to test this

 

[BeerMeDuffMan]

If she is a foxy lady with questionable judgment, invite her over to your place to split a two-four and tell her it is dark in there because your hydro is out because you spent your last Loonie on some everything chips.

See, I told you I speak fluent Canadian.

...I feel like you are trying to tell me something, but I can't make it out

 

[Psylocide]

It doesn't make the beer cloudy.

It takes days to react resulting in a planned mash ph that is too low and a beer pH in the FV that is too high.

The calculators make no adjustment for the time taken to react. They just deal with the raw numbers.

It really is easy to test this

 

[finsfan]

Thanks for all your help gavin! Ill give it a shoot without chalk this week.

So much science in here today *******!!
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[Ridire]

It doesn't make the beer cloudy.

It takes days to react resulting in a planned mash ph that is too low and a beer pH in the FV that is too high.

The calculators make no adjustment for the time taken to react. They just deal with the raw numbers.

It really is easy to test this

Are there other things we add to water that need to have this considered? I was really getting into figuring out water chemistry, knowing nothing about actual chemistry, and I wonder if the calculators not considering this sort of thing is the reason my last mash ph was way off what I expected. I don't recall the additions off the top of my head.

 

[WesleyS]

Kids these days, and your fancy water calculations, boulevard beers, and rock and roll music

 

[TobyG]

BTW, for anyone who might be tempted to pick up Boulevards Chocolate ale with Raspberry, DONT! Unless you like medicinal raspberry flavor mixed with chocolate. I was curious about that one and regret getting it. I had it on Sunday with friends and we dumped it.

I honestly wouldn't have considered it even if we got Boulevard. Had the regular Chocolate ale on my last trip to Houston and I wasn't impressed.

 

[TheCADJockey]

Did somebody say... SCIENCE!?

 

[Rhetorik]

Whereas I've never heard of 99% of the breweries you folks discuss. I've had sierra nevada pale ale as well as red hook, and to be honest was pretty unimpressed with both of 'em.

I've already started planning day trips to upstate NY and VT for next year on the motorcycle mind you, where I will be checking out various breweries and bringing a handful of bottles back with me each time.

 

[WesleyS]

i've already started planning day trips to upstate ny and vt for next year on the motorcycle mind you, where i will be checking out various breweries and bringing a handful of bottles back with me each time.

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[Psylocide]

Whereas I've never heard of 99% of the breweries you folks discuss. I've had sierra nevada pale ale as well as red hook, and to be honest was pretty unimpressed with both of 'em.

I've already started planning day trips to upstate NY and VT for next year on the motorcycle mind you, where I will be checking out various breweries and bringing a handful of bottles back with me each time.

SNPA is garbage to my palate. One of the biggest gateway beers out there though.

 

[TheCADJockey]

I've already started planning day trips to upstate NY and VT.

Nothing good up there. Might as well ride in for a Sabres v. Senators game and get some decent beer.

 

[TobyG]

So what is the substitute for chalk then? I've still got a whole gang of it sitting around now, great!

Find some sucker to sell it to. Use Sodium Bicarbonate (Baking Powder) if you need sodium in addition to alkalinity. Use Calcium Hydroxide (pickling lime) if you don't want to add sodium. My water is from a Sodium Bicarbonate aquifer, so I never need to add alkalinity.

 

[wyobrewer1]

Add Siason Brett to that sentence.







Dark truth comes off a little too alcoholic for my tastes compared to their competition (based on similar attributes). Could be that it does not sit around in the store and age.

I have a 2014 saison brett that hawgwild sent me about a year ago. I probably need to drink that.

 

[BGBC]

Did somebody say... SCIENCE!?

But how did the cat get outside in the first place???

 

[1977Brewer]

But how did the cat get outside in the first place???

Clearly you've never owned a cat. Cat magic is real.

 

[TheCADJockey]

But how did the cat get outside in the first place???

 

[Hello]

But how did the cat get outside in the first place???

Science.

 

[Gavin C]

Are there other things we add to water that need to have this considered? I was really getting into figuring out water chemistry, knowing nothing about actual chemistry, and I wonder if the calculators not considering this sort of thing is the reason my last mash ph was way off what I expected. I don't recall the additions off the top of my head.

On the speed of dissolution and reaction, I don't believe so. Chalk is the big no-no. It is entirely worthless to have around and should come with a warning on the label. Like I said, I've fallen victim to this common mistake myself.

Now I've done enough harm here.

If anyone want's me I'll be poking holes in my new friends (soon to be people who no longer speak to me) plans over at slotcartalk.com.

Some clown is suggesting people use a pancake design.

 

[1977Brewer]

Anglewinder shall be the name of my next IPA.

 

[BreezyBrew]

If you havent had tank 7 and you like saisons, you are missing out.

FTW. Amarillo out the bung. Twas my saison gateway beer.

 

[Psylocide]

On the speed of dissolution and reaction, I don't believe so. Chalk is the big no-no. It is entirely worthless to have around and should come with a warning on the label. Like I said, I've fallen victim to this common mistake myself.

Now I've done enough harm here.

If anyone want's me I'll be poking holes in my new friends (soon to be people who no longer speak to me) plans over at slotcartalk.com.

Some clown is suggesting people use a pancake design.

Inline or nothing!

 

[Rhetorik]

Nothing good up there. Might as well ride in for a Sabres v. Senators game and get some decent beer.

But the Sabres suck and I'm not a Senators fan.

Could easily do a round trip to Buffalo in a day mind you.

Inline or nothing!

VTwin!

 

[BGBC]

Clearly you've never owned a cat. Cat magic is real.

I do have a cat. Little fecker tries to make a dash for it every time we open the door.

Clearly you don't have a cat if you think you can "own" them, as ours lets us know via poop-writing on the floor every time we leave the house...

She also loves conference calls...

"Uh, is that a cat in the background?"
"Uh, no, why would a cat be interested in this boring BS"
"Meow?"

 

[TheCADJockey]

But the Sabres suck.

Then, you missed the point. Doesn't matter who's on the ice.
Bunch haters in this thread. This place is beat, I'm going to the CAD forums to talk to equally insane people.

 

[Psylocide]

Then, you missed the point. Doesn't matter who's on the ice.
Bunch haters in this thread. This place is beat, I'm going to the CAD forums to talk to equally insane people.

Agreed.

Close it.

 

[Rhetorik]

Then, you missed the point. Doesn't matter who's on the ice.
Bunch haters in this thread. This place is beat, I'm going to the CAD forums to talk to equally insane people.

I'm a Leafs fan, so I think I'm pretty familiar with not giving a toss about who's on the ice haha

 

[1977Brewer]

As a Stars fan I'm probably some sort of bandwagon Johnny come lately because they moved here in the 90's.

I'll be over at headjanitortalk.com discussing the pros and cons of floor scrubbers/buffers/burnishers.

 

[DisturbdChemist]

But how did the cat get outside in the first place???

Looks like the cat was thrown through. Anywho cats are a-holes. I got two of them and for some reason get a fire under them and they run around like crazy