Goofy idea: Anybody brewing in metric...??

[beergears]

Well, a few here may have been raised in, or were exposed to, a metric environment...

Brewing in metric would come naturally, no??


Notes:
- Doing it in your sleep does not count!
- Beer really taste different!??!

[d+r]

 

[Lil' Sparky]

Pretty sure orfy does, but he's a Brit and does everything bassackwards.

 

[Evan!]

The metric system is the tool of the devil. My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead, and that's the way I likes it!

 

[Orfy]

I don't understand the point of the question.

Using metric does come naturally.
Of course the beer tastes the same!

 

[Cheesefood]

The metric system is the tool of the devil. My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead, and that's the way I likes it!

Gotta love Grandpa Simpson.

 

[bradsul]

Not sure I understand the point as Orfy said, but for the record I'm all metric here! Nice simple numbers and easy conversion.

Not sure if 6 gallons of beer tastes better than 23L of it but I know it'll get you just as drunk!

 

[Evan!]

Gotta love Grandpa Simpson.

One of the best is when they go on the road selling love tonic. I still laugh out loud every time I think about the mob chasing them out of town...but as soon as they turn off the bluegrass "chase music", the mob stops. Comedy gold!

 

[Evan!]

I don't understand the point of the question.

Using metric does come naturally.
Of course the beer tastes the same!

I don't know. I've brewed in metric before, and I think it lends some off-flavors to the beer.

 

[Lil' Sparky]

Brewing with grams and liters is bound to cause an infection!

 

[Orfy]

That's it.

I'm setting the Goblin on ya.

 

[Cheesefood]

Brewing metric in a rectangular cooler produces strong off flavors.

 

[iamjonsharp]

Well, a few here may have been raised in, or were exposed to, a metric environment...

Brewing in metric would come naturally, no??


Notes:
- Doing it in your sleep does not count!
- Beer really taste different!??!

[d+r]

This post is confusing. Really confusing. Almost as confusing as the metric system.

 

[Beerrific]

No metric for me, I like to have to find the right conversion and figure out if it is in fluid or weight-like ounces...it adds another challenge to my brew day. Any drunk can multiply or divide by 10.

I work in a lab and all the measurements we use are metric, all the data we publish is metric, but leave the building and say "gram" or "meter" and people look at you funny.

If I get a few beers in me I start measuring things in slugs!

 

[PseudoChef]

I think in metric 10-12 hours out of the day as it is. But, from standard talk, I have brewing terminology encased in US. Facists.

 

[Cheesefood]

I hate the metric system so much that I named my child in honor of the standard system.

It's more fun to have to look up the conversion.

"Ohh..a kilometer is 1000 meters!!! I'm special!!!"

A mile is 5,280 feet. In Chicago we use the space time system. A mile is 5-10 minutes.

 

[the_bird]

I hate the metric system so much that I named my child in honor of the standard system.

I thought you named your son after yourself?

How's ol' "Four Inches" doing, anyway?

 

[iamjonsharp]

Sadly, the metric system has even infiltrated our measurement system. The definition of an inch has been redefined to be exactly 2.54 centimeters.
But you can't stop me, metrics! If I want to brew a 0.0000153 acre-feet batch of beer, I will!

 

[Donasay]

The metric system is a tool of the devil.

Look, I like brewing a quarter of a hogshead of ale or a half a kinderkin of mead every once in a while and I'll be damned if the metric system can take that away from me.

Additionally my car gets 100,000 rods to the rundlet and thats the way I like it!

 

[Orfy]

We still have the Pint.

 

[rohanski]

Didn't Bob & Doug McKenzy have a metric beer conversion?

 

[Cheesefood]

I thought you named your son after yourself?

How's ol' "Four Inches" doing, anyway?

Good. How's that daughter of mine that you're raising?

 

[Yuri_Rage]

Didn't Bob & Doug McKenzy have a metric beer conversion?

Yeah, I think you had to double it and add 30, so a metric six-pack was like...42! That's a lot of beer, eh?

 

[Fingers]

My mug holds 500 ml of beer. Much easier to remember than 1.056 688 209 pints.

 

[Yuri_Rage]

My mug holds 500 ml of beer. Much easier to remember than 1.056 688 209 pints.

Unless you're worried about a single drop of beer, your mug holds 1 pint. That's a lot less syllables than five hundred milliliters.

Plus, you sound weird if you ask for 500 milliliters of beer at a bar. Order by the pint, it's manly...like fractional math. Stupid multiples of 10. I scoff them!

 

[the_bird]

Unless you're worried about a single drop of beer, your mug holds 1 pint. That's a lot less syllables than five hundred milliliters.

But then you have to deal with issues like - is it a REAL pint like Orfy gets, or one of those chicken****, 16-ounce American pints?

 

[Yuri_Rage]

But then you have to deal with issues like - is it a REAL pint like Orfy gets, or one of those chicken****, 16-ounce American pints?

We won the war. There is only one pint.

 

[the_bird]

That doesn't sound like a "win" to me!

 

[Orfy]

We won the war. There is only one pint.

You've only had wars for 200 years or so.
You're only just starting.

 

[boo boo]

I live in metric and think in both but I brew in IMPERIAL and standard.

I grew up before the onslaught of the metric system and that totally Efed
me up. Temperture and weight is standard for me but distance can be either.

 

[boo boo]

You've only had wars for 200 years or so.
You're only just starting.

And they are getting off to a flying start