You forgot the 2nd and equally important rule: Have a home brew. It helps a lot in following rule #1.<br><br>-Drogo<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 7:09 PM, Jeffrey C French <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jcfrench@mac.com">jcfrench@mac.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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You know, there is the first rule of brewing to look at...
Don't worry (1)
Oh, hey, let me footnote that reference... (see below)
-Jurgen
(1) The Complete Joy of Homebrewing Third Edition (Harperresource Book) (Paperback), Charles Papazian (Author)
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<div> many thanks. now what to do. I may not have killed the yeast, as things are bu<tt><font face="Arial">bbling along. there now being presumably o'er much honey, what will occur? and there was too much stuff altogether, so it's over flowed up into the airlock. can I just put in a clean airlock?</font></tt>
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<tt><font face="Arial">Many thanks for your sage advice to a bumbler..... </font></tt>
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<tt><font face="Arial">Tselmeg the Mongol</font></tt>
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A minor correction to my math...<br>
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If you put in 3 16 oz containers of honey (6 cups), then you put 4 1/2 lbs<br>
of honey in (not 4 as I said earlier)...<br>
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cheers,<br>
Terafan<br>
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> Greetings unto Tselmeg from Terafan,<br>
><br>
> You are confusing ounces as a measurement of weight with ounces as a<br>
> measurement of volume. Although they are both called "ounces" they<br>
> aren't the same thing. For example, 1 cup of melted lead and 1 cup<br>
> of water will NOT weigh the same amount (although they are both 1 cup<br>
> or 8 ounces of volume).<br>
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> Honey is 12lbs per gallon, which translates to 3/4 lb per (8 oz) cup.<br>
> (16 cups in a gallon. 12 lbs / 16 cups = 3/4 lb per cup.<br>
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> If you put in 6 cups, then you put in 4 lbs of honey. Your 1 cup of<br>
> remaining honey is 3/4 lb, which is perhaps close enough (to the 1<br>
> remaining lb you should have) given that your three sets of 16 oz<br>
> measuring cups may not have been exactly precise.<br>
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> As to the temperature, yes, 109 deg F is too hot. You may have killed<br>
> the yeast. The best temp to pitch the yeast is when the must has cooled<br>
> below 80 deg F.<br>
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> It won't hurt anything to re-pitch with a fresh packet of yeast.<br>
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> cheers,<br>
> Terafan<br>
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>> HELPPP!!!! :-( or is it :-)<br>
>><br>
>> My one gallon recipe calls for 3.5 Lbs of honey. 3 16 oz measuring cups<br>
>> only left me with 8 oz of honey. what am I doing wrong. and I'm afraid<br>
>> I<br>
>> put the yeast in too soon. the must was about 109F(of course I measured<br>
>> it<br>
>> right after I put in the yeast) too hot? (It doesn't seem as if 5 lbs of<br>
>> honey translates correctly,although certainly the bottle says 80 oz.<br>
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>> Thanks,<br>
>> Tselmeg<br>
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