[ale] OT- homebrew?

[brobinso at tfn.net]

I and a friend picked up the habit in the last couple of years, and, as I 
found the learning curve steep but managable, decided to start a blog, not 
only to show off, but to keep track of ideas and recipes.

One discovery i made attempting to combine by love of open source software 
and open source beer was 'apt-cache search beer' which turned up a handly 
little brew calculator called qbrew, which I use frequently to keep track 
of my recipes.

The blog is here:

http://homebrew.llamakc.org

and of course we'd welcome any comments.

viva la homebrew

> On Mon, 2008-12-08 at 19:08 -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote:
>> On Mon December 8 2008, 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?
>
>> I used to brew when I lived in Maryland in the late 80's.. learned from George
>> Pappazian's book and the original Cat's Meow list. I moved here in '92, found
>> out it was illegal to brew, and never touched it again.
>
> 	I moved down here from Michigan in 1982.  I started homebrewing cider
> and wine a few years later (mid to late 80's).  Ok, not exactly
> "brewing" per se but the same hobby.  That much was not illegal.
> Legally, you could produce wine, mead, or cider (what we silly Americans
> call "hard cider") without a problem.  The only real problem was a typo
> in the original legislation that accidentally left off "malted
> brews" (i.e. beers).
>
> 	I never joined the Covert Hops society simply because my specialty is
> Champagne Style Hard Cider.  We gave bottles of it away as speaker's
> gifts at the first Atlanta Linux Showcase.  In fact, I'm just starting
> 24 gallons of it fermenting today.  In a couple of weeks that will be
> just about 120 750ml bottles of very nice Champagne Style Hard
> Cider.  :-)
>
> 	The name Covert Hops was obviously from the fact that the beer brewers
> had to remain under the radar since beer brewing (and only beer brewing)
> remained illegal in Georgia even after they legalized all the rest of
> it.  It took years to get that legislative screwup fixed and, AFAIK,
> beer is still limited to 50 gallons per household per year while the
> others are caped at 200 gallons per year per household or 100 gallons
> per person, which ever is less.
>
> 	At the time, the only brew shop in the area was "Wine Art" in the
> Around Lenox strip mall.  She always had several copies of the Covert
> Hops newsletters in her shop.  One day, when in there, she was telling
> me that she had been raided by the GBI and was threatened with a felony
> "aiding a criminal enterprise" charge because she had cans of "malt" on
> the shelves labeled for making beer.  She had to mark over any reference
> to "beer" in black marker and write "for bread making" on those criminal
> supplies.  Years later, she moved her shop out to Roswell Road and
> renamed it "Wine Craft".  I haven't been in there in a couple of years
> (there's a much closer homebrew shop on Indian Trails I frequent) but
> last time I was in there, she was still running the place and still had
> a, very worn, copy of the Cats Meow II in a gray binder I had printed
> out for her when she was still in the Around Lenox mall.
>
>> coincidentally my SON just started brewing last year ( 2 years ago?) and has
>> made some very good stuff! His equipment is a lot fancier than I ever had! He
>> graduated from West Ga with a degree in IT, and is now working in Wastewater
>> treatment for a large commercial bakery in Douglasville :) I have been
>> BEGGING him to switch to linux, but he balks.. He just recently got a new
>> laptop, a Dell Inspiron, with Vi$ta ;(
>> if anyone would like to compare brews or digs about his OS, he can be reached
>> at:
>> Paul Cartwright <pauldcartwright at gmail.com>
>> he is a proud new daddy, Chloe was born June 24th, and he hasn't brewed since
>> her birth.
>>
>
> 	Regards,
> 	Mike
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