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[blizzard]

I think I'm going to kickoff another friendly friend giveaway on Monday, when everyone is back at work and bored.

 

[BeerMeDuffMan]

Looks well used

You should see my legs and feet.

 

[hunter_le five]

@GavinplusagoddamnC
@GavinmutherfockingC

I thought for sure it would be one of those two.

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

2016 Jelly Bean Contest

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Thanks to everyone who entered - 45 entries received and it ended up being very close. I’ll warn you up front - this post is very tl;dr - yet, if you don’t read you may be the winner and miss out! So, here were the guesses (in order received):

@BeerMeDuffman - 170
@geoffrey - 316
@blizzard - 147
@jmquesten - 214
@wesleys - 392
@drainbamage - 215
@qhrumphf - 227
@psylocide - 234
@chefrex - 269
@mhurst111 - 157
@Gavin_the_untaggable_C - 132
@SupervisingChildren - 217
@Hawgwild81 - 248
@BGBC - 381
@Helly - 188
@slym2none - 212
@banesong - 168
@thecadjockey - 123
@coyote68
@m00ps - 215
@wobrien - 289
@zekk - 215
@brewinhooligan - 175
@finsfan - 273
@dad23ds - 155
@drunklejon - 248
@1977brewer - 355
@iijakii - 142
@pianoman - 93
@disturbdchemist - 160
@sompls - 225
@rhetorik - 231
@joshesmusica - 329
@breezybrew - 137
@hunter_la5 - 4 (yes, 4!)
@mattmmille - 328
@smurfjuice - 123
@hello - 267
@fuzzy2133 - 85
@bigperm - 244
@onetoeddogbrewery - 189
@thatjonguy - 147
@brewinbromanite - 324
@tngabe - 294
@tobyg - 145

The actual number Brachs spiced jelly beans in this 20oz pilsner glass was 226. That makes sompls the winner with his guess of 225 - congratulations!

Please PM me your address information, along with likes/don’t likes in beer styles.

Thanks everyone for playing!

Sorry, but that number is incorrect. There are 930 jelly beans in a gallon. So 20/128*930=145 jelly beans. Just FYI....

 

[joshesmusica]

I would pick smell even though the taste would be somewhat muddled. I don't think I could give up taste, otherwise I wouldn't be able to keep up the whole, I drink beer because I like the taste bit with my wife.

 

[wobrien]

@gavin[emoji292]c

 

[Ridire]

@gavin[emoji292]c

Took me a second. Is the picture a picture of "space"?

 

[geoffey]

Dang. Way too much catching up and not enough participating lately...

Congrats to sompls! I was afraid I was way off, which I kind of was. But glad to see I wasn't the highest guess.

Go Voltron!!! Thanks to whoever posted that way back when. Had no idea it was coming and can't wait! Might need to pull out my Voltron mouse pad again. When will the live action Voltron become a thing?

QOTD- Smell. I know it's tied to taste, but it the lesser of 5 evils. Can't imagine living without having the other four.

Crashed at 9:30 last night and woke up at 7am. Feels really dang good to sleep for that long.

Heading up to the cabin today with wife and kids. Then wife's hot Swedish friend and her 7 year old join us tomorrow. Should be a nice weekend no matter what.

Now gotta go grab some beers to bring with...

 

[geoffey]

I think I'm going to kickoff another friendly friend giveaway on Monday, when everyone is back at work and bored.

No!!! I'm next in line!

Can we have more than one going at a time? Need a ruling...

 

[Psylocide]

Gratuitous forearm shot

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[iijakii]

@sompls this mroing after winning all the jellybean loot:

 

[Ridire]

@sompls this mroing after winning all the jellybean loot:

Think he'll celebrate by biting into a slim jim?

 

[wobrien]

Took me a second. Is the picture a picture of "space"?

Yeah, something'll work, just gotta keep at it. You are doing the lord's work

 

[Ridire]

@Gavin[vastvoidofnothingness]C

@Gavin[whatsthefockinganswer]C

@GavintagC

@Ifookinggiveup

 

[TobyG]

Sorry, but that number is incorrect. There are 930 jelly beans in a gallon. So 20/128*930=145 jelly beans. Just FYI....

lol...you just pointed out my exact calculation.

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

lol...you just pointed out my exact calculation.

I see you read @internet also...

Another site with a "true" count would have 207 jelly beans. Man you just can't trust the internet anymore for truth!

 

[TobyG]

I see you read @internet also...

Another site with a "true" count would have 207 jelly beans. Man you just can't trust the internet anymore for truth!

The real issue is that without knowing the brand of jelly bean, it's even harder to guess. IME, Jelly Belly beans are smaller, so that would probably explain the difference.

 

[sompls]

@sompls this mroing after winning all the jellybean loot:

:fro: That's everyday brother!

 

[Gavin C]

You're excluding both of my guesses? The arrogance!

Just good maths. Remove the outliers. (Just excluded 4, I disregarded eleventy million because it was a cheating sneaky second guess and....)

Hey that's me! Awesome dude, thanks!
Wow, I never win :rockin:
My Friday just got way better!

Congrats @Sompls

Gratuitous forearm shot

@GavinView attachment 346748c

I like the added (biro) Saturn, unidentified planet not to scale and other?

My approach to the bean contest was to take the volume of a 16oz pilsner glass (schoolboy error), minus 20% for air and divide by the average volume of a jelly bean. Minus a few to avoid Price Is Right failure. FAIL

 

[hunter_le five]

Gratuitous forearm shot:

 

[iijakii]

You nerds and your soft delicate arms without dag bruises and bite marks.

 

[Psylocide]

We can't all be fluffy chew toys. Some of us are just too ripped for dags to bother with.

 

[iijakii]

Only a few hours til lunch beers.

 

[hunter_le five]

You nerds and your soft delicate arms without dag bruises and bite marks.

Better?

 

[Gavin C]

Good Morning all....coffee...

So not to run this into the ground, but one would figure there could be a huge database developed for Bru'n water profiles especially those that use RO water as the source. Yooper and, I'm sure, other more "professional" home brewers have honed in mineral profiles for all different styles. I'm just starting off with yellow/dry and dark/malty. Basically only using gypsum and calcium chloride for additions. I use about 1/10th the lactic acid as the other spreadsheet needed to achieve the 'stated' pH (not actual), and I'm seeing about a 10-15% efficiency bump indicating a real change.

Bi-carbonate is talked about a lot to maintain proper pH. It appears pickling lime is a better choice then gypsum. I told my wife, I was going to lay low on brewing for a while, but this whole other subject is driving me nuts and is clearly a vital part of making the 'perfect' beer. Isn't that what were doing...trying to achieve the perfect beer...for our own palate anyway?

Target profiles are all about personal tastes and experience. There is no one right profile for a particular style.

Gypsum should not be used to adjust pH . It is the wrong tool for the job. To get required pH changes you will have to add so much that you will easily go over the desirable levels of Ca and/or S04.

There are very vew instances where you need to raise the mash pH but if you feel the need on a very dark beer you can do a few things. I have never had to adjust the pH up with minerals. Not once

• Mash thinner with your chosen water profile
• Dilute your RO with more of your tap water its higher buffering capacity (HCO3 content) will raise the mash pH
• Add some Ca(OH)2 in any of its forms. (NOT GYPSUM AND NEVER CHALK)

Also in chosen target profiles, only look at the flavor ions. Ignore completely HCO3. Disregard Magnesium also as it's flavor impact is for all intents and purposes the same as Calcium and there is plenty in the malt for adequate yeast health.

Mash pH will not have that big an impact on efficiency. Unless your waaay out of range it is at best a very minor player. Mostly impacts flavor and mouthfeel

Sounds like you may have 1 or 2 wires crossed in your approach to water building and mash pH control Piano.

All of this is just stuff I've learned on HBT and elsewhere from guys and gals who really know their onions. To the best of my knowledge, I'm not disseminating sh1tty advice here but I am happy to be corrected.

Hope that helps you out some. Also this link might help

 

[Gavin C]

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Drunken knife accident.

Closing blade by trying to whack the back against arm. (Knife wrong way round)

Duct tape to the rescue.

 

[Ridire]

Random thought, and the weird conversation that brought about said thought:

So, someone said to me, "have you had that Men at Work song stuck in your head ever since hearing about the bombings in Brussels?" I answered that I have not, but I knew exactly what he was referencing. Then the thought occurred to me that there is something wrong about the lyrics to that song. It is a song written and performed by Aussies...about being an Aussie...yet they sing "he was six foot four and full of muscles" (in reference to the man in Brussels). So, what exactly makes an Aussie, while singing about being an Aussie, think to include lyrics that make reference to standard measurements? Didn't these guys grow up with the metric system? I mean, Midnight Oil sang about the "steamy 45 degrees"...

 

[iijakii]

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Drunken knife accident.

Closing blade by trying to whack the back against arm. (Knife wrong way round)

Duct tape to the rescue.

Nice scar, Sir.

I have a nice scar on my finger from trying to do sik trix on a butterfly knife when refreshed.

 

[Gavin C]

Random thought, and the weird conversation that brought about said thought:

So, someone said to me, "have you had that Men at Work song stuck in your head ever since hearing about the bombings in Brussels?" I answered that I have not, but I knew exactly what he was referencing. Then the thought occurred to me that there is something wrong about the lyrics to that song. It is a song written and performed by Aussies...about being an Aussie...yet they sing "he was six foot four and full of muscles" (in reference to the man in Brussels). So, what exactly makes an Aussie, while singing about being an Aussie, think to include lyrics that make reference to standard measurements? Didn't these guys grow up with the metric system? I mean, Midnight Oil sang about the "steamy 45 degrees"...

While metric reigns supreme, height is still given in feet and inches in Australia, UK, Ireland. Someone from there is never going to give you their height in cm.

Also folks from there won't tell you their weight in lbs. Usual convention would be stones and pounds. Don't know why that is it just is. All food stuffs are sold in g and kg, ml and L. (There are proably some exceptions I can't think of)

Totally nomal for an Aussie to descibe the bemuscled Belgian as six foot four.

 

[iijakii]

@TheCADJockey