[ale] Database consulting in return for homebrew?

Nick Travis wormfishin at gmail.com
Mon Dec 8 18:03:32 EST 2008


I lurk in both groups.

No clue about the name.

Nick Travis

Sid Lane wrote:
> quick poll:
>
> how many Covert Hops alumni are there in ALE? 
>
> how many people know the story behind the club's name?
>
> 2008/12/8 Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com <mailto:jim.kinney at gmail.com>>
>
>     ALE with ale!! Works for me!!
>
>     We need an ALE get-together that involves adult libations
>     concocted by crafters of adult libations. :-)
>
>     Maybe we need an ALE-brewing engineering get-together as well.
>     What parts do we have and what's missing from the collection? I
>     can speak clearly that a 1/4 O.D. copper tube is too damn small to
>     siphon wort through for a counterflow cooler.
>
>     2008/12/8 Charles Shapiro <hooterpincher at gmail.com
>     <mailto:hooterpincher at gmail.com>>
>
>         The current batch is a bottle-conditioned all grain brown ale
>         roughly based on Papazian's Monkey's Paw recipe from the first
>         Joy of Homebrew.  I don't have my notes handy, so I can't tell
>         you the ISG and FSG, or even what my hopping was.   It came
>         out plenty rich & chocalaty, and I've had some good reviews,
>         although I haven't entered it in any contests.  I added some
>         jaggery as a booster which seems to have contributed some
>         interesting notes. 
>
>         A RIMS system is definitely in my dreams, but right now I'm
>         mashing in a picnic drink cooler and sparging through a
>         gravity-fed sprinkler system (a "beer tree" I built from plans
>         in  BYO magazine). I have just aquired a laboratory stirrer
>         which I'm anxious to try out at the  end of my next boil.
>
>         The batch in the secondary alas _is_ syrup. I brew outdoors
>         and have difficulty with temperature control in the winter.
>         Besides, I was introducing a buddy  to the joys of propane and
>         large pots of boiling wort. I racked it this past weekend and
>         it seems to be quite hoppy. 
>
>         NB that Jim Kinney is a homebrewer of note here. Hey! Maybe
>         it's part of the Open Source Culture!
>
>         -- CHS
>
>
>         2008/12/8 Sid Lane <jakes.dad at gmail.com
>         <mailto:jakes.dad at gmail.com>>
>
>             nobody's asked the CORRECT ?:
>
>             unless your name is Glen Sprouse (in which case I'm at
>             your disposal) what kind (style) of beer?  what type of
>             malt(s)/what's the initial/final gravity?  was is mashed
>             RIMS or manually (don't even THINK about trying to pass
>             off syrup!)?  what type of hop(s)/what's the IBU/HBUs? 
>             oh, yeah, you might want to throw in a few SWAG metrics
>             about you DB as well... :D
>
>             FWIW, I'm the MySQL DBA for a very well-known website &
>             have been told I'm reasonably well versed on such matters...
>
>             Sid
>
>             2008/12/6 Charles Shapiro <hooterpincher at gmail.com
>             <mailto:hooterpincher at gmail.com>>
>
>                 Any DBAs out there interested in consulting on a
>                 smallish database project? I have a smallish MySQL db
>                 designed for a side-project, but I've never done this
>                 kind of thing before and would like a set of expert
>                 eyes to look at it. I'll buy you lunch and give ya a
>                 six-pack of pretty ok homebrew..
>
>                 -- CHS
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