Daily Archives: December 3, 2011

Malt potential gravity calculation (beertech.blogspot.com)

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http://beertech.blogspot.com/2010/05/malt-analysis-and-potential-calculation.html

Learn how to calculate “points per pound per gallon” yourself.

Wondering why you are getting that low mashing efficiency, even though you optimized your mash tun design and milling gap?

That can be caused by using the wrong malt potential, specially on the base malts that represent the big chunk on your grain bill.

So after having this same issue for a while, decided to do my homework and investigate the base grain malt analysis from manufactures like Briess and calculate the gravity potential myself.

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Is This the World’s First Space Beer? (discoverynews.com)

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http://news.discovery.com/space/the-first-real-space-beer-not-so-fast-111130.html

The first bona fide space beer — as in, a beer that is brewed for the purpose of being enjoyed in space — will most likely be a strong, reduced-carbon dioxide stout. Nice!

Earlier this year, the Australian 4 Pines Brewing Company, working with Astronauts4Hire, actually put some research into the space beer conundrum and, after a series of zero-G flights, developed “Vostok.”

Vostok is a full-flavored, low-carbon dioxide beer that not only addresses the loss of taste during long-duration spaceflight, it also reduces the risk of the “wet burp.”

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