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Quick note about talking to me about anything you …
Quick note about talking to me about anything you see, there should be at least a couple of links on this page that send me email. Maybe it’s old fashioned, but this space is and will continue to be me speaking to the world without the availability for the worlds comments to be seen directly by the rest of the world. Having been running a BBS (L-Space) for a little over a year and a half, I’m beginning to form a theory that the reason why many people participate in that type of forum, or really any text based message forum is for a simple form of validation.
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After Sprint backed down on their promise to relea…
After Sprint backed down on their promise to release 3G support for the phone Springboard module that I use, I’ve been thinking about maybe looking into a new phone. Probably wouldn’t get one quite yet, but it’s time to start researching. So I poked around the web a bit and I ran into a couple of problems: CDMA 3G is really the best way to go for wireless data. GSM is okay, but doesn’t allow you to multiplex voice and data at the same time.
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Progress Report
Recipe Number: 1.0 Batch Number: 1 Stage: Carbonation Elapsed Time: 182 hours I had opened bottle #2 earlier in the week and it had still not been at all carbonated so I decided to just let it sit for a few days, then the household got pretty sick for most of the week and then busy, and so finally on Saturday I opened bottle #3 and there was carbonation. Still pretty light though.
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Progress Report
Recipe Number: 1.0 Batch Number: 1 Stage: Carbonation Elapsed Time: 45 hours Well, the first batch has to be somewhat disappointing. I opened up Bottle #1 and there was no carbonation what-so-ever. The color has continued to mellow towards amber and the floating sediment has arranged itself at 2 particular levels of the solution which might say something about the specific gravity of the solution at those points. Dunno though. The flavor was fairly good but not quite like a typical off the shelf root beer though there were very distinct similarities.
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Progress Report
Recipe Number: 1.0 Batch Number: 1 Stage: Carbonation Elapsed Time: 35 hours After looking up that tidbit about the foam rings, I went down to check the bottles again to see how things are going. The good news is that the foam rings are gone! In it’s place is a very slight ring of what is obviously sassafras sediment. Also, the color is becoming a little more amber than orange and is much less cloudy with some obvious, but few, flecks of sassafras floating around in it.
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Hmmm….
From “Homemade Rootbeer, Soda, and Pop” by Stephen Cresswell (ISBN: 1580170528) page 97: “Those who are experienced in making homebrewed beers know that one telltale sign of an infected batch is a ring around the neck of the bottle. While such a ring may also mean your soft drink batch has been spoiled by bacteria or other unwanted nasties, you should recognize that with soft drinks such rings can also be caused by bits of root floating to the top of the bottle, or by floating bits of citrus pulp.
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Progress Report
recipe Number: 1.0 Batch Number: 1 Stage: Carbonation Elapsed Time: 10 hours Checked the bottles in the box and things appear to be going very well. The color of the liquid is an orange/amber and is fairly cloudy with slightly pronounced particulate in the solution. There is a partial ring of foam at the top of the solution, and I’m hoping that’s not too bad a sign. From what I remember that is a fairly common symptom, but I don’t remember of what.
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Batch Report
Recipe Number: 1.0 Batch Number: 1 Bottle Qty: 8 (16oz clear EZ-Cap) recipe (From “Homemade Rootbeer, Soda, and Pop” by Stephen Cresswell (ISBN: 1580170528) page 32) 0.25oz Dried Sassafras Root Bark 4qts filtered water 2cups Granulated Refined Sugar (Unknown brand, it’s what I’ve had on hand) 0.125tsp Red Star Champagne Yeast Equipment: 1- 5in plastic Funnel 1- large Stainless Steel Spoon 1- 4 gallon Stainless Steel Cookpot 1- 3in Tea Ball 1- 3 gallon Glass Carboy 1- Rubber Stopper 1- 1 quart Pyrex Measuring Cup 1- 1 pint Pyrex Measuring Cup 8- 16oz EZ-Cap Clear Bottles 1- Digitial Timer/Thermometer 1- Thermal probe for Timer/Thermometer 1- white Rubbermaid dishtub 1- Jet bottle washer 1- long Bottle Brush 1- bottle Clorox Unscented Bleach Procedure: I started by filling the cookpot 3/4 full with warm water and added 2oz of bleach to the water and then added all of the equipment except for the bottle washer, bottle brush, bottles, and carboy (and the timer too, but that’s because it probably wouldn’t work if we did).
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Shopping List from 12/27/2002
Shopping List from 12/27/2002: from Midwest Homebrewing and Winemaking Supplies Item Catalog# Qty Price Total Large Tea/Herb Ball #6301 1 $4.25 $4.25 Rubber stoppers for the Carboy unlisted 2 $0.99 $1.98 Total $6.23 There’s always something to be said about convenience. Midwest is right on my way home from work and it just makes it easy to stop there for supplies that I know they have. 2 Stoppers are better than one since I think we all know how likely it is that I’ll loose one of them in the next month or so.
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Fixed a lot of formatting issue’s with the templat…
Fixed a lot of formatting issue’s with the template. I think it’s likely that I’ll adopt this for my main blog as well. It’s needed an update for quite awhile and now’s as good a time as any.