[ale] Database consulting in return for homebrew?

[Pete Hardie]

2008/12/8 Sid Lane <jakes.dad at gmail.com>:
> quick poll:
>
> how many Covert Hops alumni are there in ALE?

I'm another
>
> how many people know the story behind the club's name?

Mee!

I was at the meeting that decided the name, IIRC it was the American
Pie on Roswell, now some other patio bar....

>
> 2008/12/8 Jim Kinney <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>
>>>
>>> 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>
>>>>
>>>> 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>
>>>>>
>>>>> 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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