batch[32] DipWick's Irish Red

Another try at the Smithwick's clone. When it was in the primary last time my heater was out and the house dropped into the 40s. Had to repitch after we got heat back in order to finish the fermentation.

BeerSmith Recipe Printout - http://www.beersmith.com
Recipe: batch[32] DipWick's
Brewer: Frater Mus
Asst Brewer:
Style: Irish Red Ale
TYPE: All Grain
Taste: (35.0)

Recipe Specifications
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Batch Size: 18.93 L
Boil Size: 21.67 L
Estimated OG: 1.051 SG
Estimated Color: 12.4 SRM
Estimated IBU: 22.9 IBU
Brewhouse Efficiency: 75.00 %
Boil Time: 60 Minutes

Ingredients:
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Amount Item Type % or IBU
3.63 kg Pale Malt (2 Row) US (2.0 SRM) Grain 85.02 %
0.34 kg Caramel/Crystal Malt - 60L (60.0 SRM) Grain 7.97 %
0.23 kg Cara-Pils/Dextrine (2.0 SRM) Grain 5.31 %
0.07 kg Roasted Barley (300.0 SRM) Grain 1.70 %
25.00 gm Goldings, East Kent [5.00 %] (60 min) Hops 16.0 IBU
14.00 gm Vanguard [5.00 %] (20 min) Hops 5.4 IBU
7.09 gm Fuggles [4.50 %] (10 min) Hops 1.5 IBU
1.00 items Whirlfloc Tablet (Boil 15.0 min) Misc
1 Pkgs Irish Ale (Wyeast Labs #1084) Yeast-Ale


Mash Schedule: mouse mash
Total Grain Weight: 4.27 kg
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mouse mash
Step Time Name Description Step Temp
60 min mash in Add 11.84 L of water at 163.0 F 152.0 F


Notes:
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26.17# of mash water @163F
31.06# of sparge water @190F

.5L decanted starter.

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Planet Money podcast

There is a fantastic NPR finance show called Planet Money.

They've really helped me understand the complex financial instruments and power plays involved in our current economic fsckup.

City Council districts

[This is a reworking of a post I made elsewhere]

It took me a while to find any information on the City of Richardson website that shows what city council district one lives in.

I am not generally stupid or web ignorant but it took me a while to find. There are references on the COR site to the city being broken up into quadrants for this purpose, but no indication of the boundaries that I could find.

Here is what I found; a page that has a GIS-created map with a district overlay on it. It's the top map.

As with most of the other documents on cor.net, it comes up in .pdf. I wish cor.net would quit encapsulating everything in .pdf. It's unnecessary, wasteful of bandwidth, requires proprietary software (which we are likely not getting for free) and annoying. Time to write email to the COR webmaster...

Urban Peasant on ION Life

68_3 - KPXD ION Life , one of the free Over The Air (OTA) digital channels being broadcast, is running the Urban Peasant cooking show. Hosted by James Barber, now deceased after a very full life, the show is easily the best cooking show I've ever seen.

He is gentle, funny, caring, and pragmatic. Joe Bob says check it out.

COR radio system rebanded today

The City of Richardson radio system rebanded today.

Rebanding is a changing of assigned frequencies based on an FCC realloction.

The Bad News is that some older scanners do not know how to use the new frequency allotments, particularly with Motorola-based systems. Some scanners have firmware upgrades to help the situation.

The Good News is that the COR radio system is EDACS/LTR instead of Motorola, and most older trunking scanners can handle that. Both my new 246T and old 245XLT took the new freqs with no drama.

"too big to fail"

Hey, how about this.

If companies get so big that the Govt can't allow them to fail (and therefore must rescue them with our public dollars) maybe we have a vested interest in not letting them get that big.

kegging

Kegged the steam beer and the most recent batch of apfelwein. I don't have a kegerator yet so they are taking up my fermentation fridge.