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Date: 18 Oct 2006 13:16:19
From: changey
Subject: Going to the Harpoon Brewery tonight
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Great beer, made a short drive from my house. They are throwing a
party to unveil their newest 100bbl brew, which they are calling
Frankenfest Lager. I'm not sure if they've ever made a lager
before.....
According to the label they show in the email I got, it is 6.9% ABV, 26
IBU and OG 1.6 (I think. Hard to read the label, and that sounds like
BIG BEER. Can 1.6 be right?). I'll come back with a review, maybe.
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Date: 18 Oct 2006 18:28:08
From: 2fatbbq
Subject: Re: Going to the Harpoon Brewery tonight
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"changey" <patrickundertow@hotmail.com > wrote in message
news:1161202579.003058.112070@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com...
> Great beer, made a short drive from my house. They are throwing a
> party to unveil their newest 100bbl brew, which they are calling
> Frankenfest Lager. I'm not sure if they've ever made a lager
> before.....
>
They help sponsor a buddies BBQ team so I get to taste their fine brews
occasionally!--next week will have a glass or two in Lynchberg,Tn
Buzz--in the middle of Wisc
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Date: 18 Oct 2006 21:07:03
From: John Bleichert
Subject: Re: Going to the Harpoon Brewery tonight
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changey <patrickundertow@hotmail.com > wrote:
> Great beer, made a short drive from my house. They are throwing a
> party to unveil their newest 100bbl brew, which they are calling
> Frankenfest Lager. I'm not sure if they've ever made a lager
> before.....
>
> According to the label they show in the email I got, it is 6.9% ABV, 26
> IBU and OG 1.6 (I think. Hard to read the label, and that sounds like
> BIG BEER. Can 1.6 be right?). I'll come back with a review, maybe.
>
I think a 1.6 OG gravity beer would take about 121 lbs of grain for a
5 lb batch.
:-)
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John Bleichert syborg@earthlink.net
The heat from below can burn your eyes out!!
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Date: 19 Oct 2006 02:00:10
From: Adam Preble
Subject: Re: Going to the Harpoon Brewery tonight
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John Bleichert wrote:
> I think a 1.6 OG gravity beer would take about 121 lbs of grain for a
> 5 lb batch.
And the yeast would have just about the chance of fermenting it
completely as a fat man eating himself out of a grain silo.
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Date: 18 Oct 2006 21:15:02
From: John 'Shaggy' Kolesar
Subject: Re: Going to the Harpoon Brewery tonight
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On Wed, 18 2006 21:07:03 GMT, <syborg@earthlink.net > wrote:
> changey <patrickundertow@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Great beer, made a short drive from my house. They are throwing a
>> party to unveil their newest 100bbl brew, which they are calling
>> Frankenfest Lager. I'm not sure if they've ever made a lager
>> before.....
>>
>> According to the label they show in the email I got, it is 6.9% ABV, 26
>> IBU and OG 1.6 (I think. Hard to read the label, and that sounds like
>> BIG BEER. Can 1.6 be right?). I'll come back with a review, maybe.
>>
>
> I think a 1.6 OG gravity beer would take about 121 lbs of grain for a
> 5 lb batch.
That and I'm sure you'd kill the yeast long before it fermented completely.
With that said, either Sam Adams or Dogfish will probably try it. ;)
John.
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Date: 18 Oct 2006 20:41:52
From: John 'Shaggy' Kolesar
Subject: Re: Going to the Harpoon Brewery tonight
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On 18 2006 13:16:19 -0700, <patrickundertow@hotmail.com > wrote:
> Great beer, made a short drive from my house. They are throwing a
> party to unveil their newest 100bbl brew, which they are calling
> Frankenfest Lager. I'm not sure if they've ever made a lager
> before.....
>
> According to the label they show in the email I got, it is 6.9% ABV, 26
> IBU and OG 1.6 (I think. Hard to read the label, and that sounds like
> BIG BEER. Can 1.6 be right?). I'll come back with a review, maybe.
1.06 is a lot more likely than 1.6
John.
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Date: 19 Oct 2006 06:44:23
From: changey
Subject: Re: Going to the Harpoon Brewery tonight
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2fatbbq wrote:
> "changey" <patrickundertow@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1161202579.003058.112070@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com...
> > Great beer, made a short drive from my house. They are throwing a
> > party to unveil their newest 100bbl brew, which they are calling
> > Frankenfest Lager. I'm not sure if they've ever made a lager
> > before.....
> >
> They help sponsor a buddies BBQ team so I get to taste their fine brews
> occasionally!--next week will have a glass or two in Lynchberg,Tn
>
> Buzz--in the middle of Wisc
Tell your buddy that I've probably had his BBQ, and it was probably
very good. We hit the BBQ Fest every summer.
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Date: 19 Oct 2006 06:42:49
From: changey
Subject: Re: Going to the Harpoon Brewery tonight
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Andy Davison wrote:
> On Wed, 18 2006 13:16:19 -0700, changey wrote:
>
> > According to the label they show in the email I got, it is 6.9% ABV, 26
> > IBU and OG 1.6 (I think. Hard to read the label, and that sounds like
> > BIG BEER. Can 1.6 be right?). I'll come back with a review, maybe.
>
> Looking at their website it says gravity is 16 which is a different thing
> to the 1.060 way of looking at it. I think it may be brewers pounds
> which is the weight of a barrel of beer compared to a barrel of water. If
> a US barrel is 31.5 gallons and a US pint weighs 1lb then at a gravity of
> 16 the barrel of beer would weigh 16lbs more than a barrel of water and
> the OG would be 1.063
Ok. thanks for the explanation, as I forgot to aask the brewer about
it while I was there.
So, his explanation of the beer was something like this:
His first try at this was 2 years ago. He called it Frankenbock.
He made a starter from their IPA wort.
He took 5 different "first" worts from 5 of their other beers, but he
only named 3 of them.
He mixed them all together, and fermented with lager yeast. This is in
fact their first lager.
He ended up with a 10%ABV beer, which in Vermont, can't be sold as
beer.
2 years pass, and the head brewer guy (I think) tells him he should
make the beer again, but a little less kickass.
He ended up with the 6.9%, which he called Frankenfest.
It is delicious.
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Date: 19 Oct 2006 10:17:44
From: Andy Davison
Subject: Re: Going to the Harpoon Brewery tonight
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On Wed, 18 2006 13:16:19 -0700, changey wrote:
> According to the label they show in the email I got, it is 6.9% ABV, 26
> IBU and OG 1.6 (I think. Hard to read the label, and that sounds like
> BIG BEER. Can 1.6 be right?). I'll come back with a review, maybe.
Looking at their website it says gravity is 16 which is a different thing
to the 1.060 way of looking at it. I think it may be brewers pounds
which is the weight of a barrel of beer compared to a barrel of water. If
a US barrel is 31.5 gallons and a US pint weighs 1lb then at a gravity of
16 the barrel of beer would weigh 16lbs more than a barrel of water and
the OG would be 1.063
--
Andy Davison
andy [at] oiyou [dot] ukfsn [dot] org
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Date: 19 Oct 2006 12:31:10
From: Don Levey
Subject: Re: Going to the Harpoon Brewery tonight
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Andy Davison <andydvsn@yahoo.co.uk > writes:
> On Wed, 18 2006 13:16:19 -0700, changey wrote:
>
> > According to the label they show in the email I got, it is 6.9% ABV, 26
> > IBU and OG 1.6 (I think. Hard to read the label, and that sounds like
> > BIG BEER. Can 1.6 be right?). I'll come back with a review, maybe.
>
> Looking at their website it says gravity is 16 which is a different thing
> to the 1.060 way of looking at it. I think it may be brewers pounds
> which is the weight of a barrel of beer compared to a barrel of water. If
> a US barrel is 31.5 gallons and a US pint weighs 1lb then at a gravity of
> 16 the barrel of beer would weigh 16lbs more than a barrel of water and
> the OG would be 1.063
>
How about 16 Plato? About 1.064 SG, right?
--
Don Levey $ cd /pub
Framingham, MA $ more beer
NOTE: email server uses spam filters; mail sent to salearn@the-leveys.us
will be used to tune the blocking lists.
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Date: 19 Oct 2006 14:54:11
From: John 'Shaggy' Kolesar
Subject: Re: Going to the Harpoon Brewery tonight
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On Thu, 19 2006 10:17:44 +0000, <andydvsn@yahoo.co.uk > wrote:
> On Wed, 18 2006 13:16:19 -0700, changey wrote:
>
>> According to the label they show in the email I got, it is 6.9% ABV, 26
>> IBU and OG 1.6 (I think. Hard to read the label, and that sounds like
>> BIG BEER. Can 1.6 be right?). I'll come back with a review, maybe.
>
> Looking at their website it says gravity is 16 which is a different thing
> to the 1.060 way of looking at it. I think it may be brewers pounds
> which is the weight of a barrel of beer compared to a barrel of water. If
> a US barrel is 31.5 gallons and a US pint weighs 1lb then at a gravity of
> 16 the barrel of beer would weigh 16lbs more than a barrel of water and
> the OG would be 1.063
If it says "16" my guess would be that is in degrees Plato.
John.
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Date: 19 Oct 2006 19:40:23
From: Andy Davison
Subject: Re: Going to the Harpoon Brewery tonight
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On Thu, 19 2006 14:54:11 +0000, John 'Shaggy' Kolesar wrote:
> If it says "16" my guess would be that is in degrees Plato.
That'll be it it. I forgot about Plato as we don't use it over here.
It's much more a continental European thing.
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Andy Davison
andy [at] oiyou [dot] ukfsn [dot] org
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Date: 19 Oct 2006 18:44:50
From: John 'Shaggy' Kolesar
Subject: Re: Going to the Harpoon Brewery tonight
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On Thu, 19 2006 19:40:23 +0000, <andydvsn@yahoo.co.uk > wrote:
> On Thu, 19 2006 14:54:11 +0000, John 'Shaggy' Kolesar wrote:
>
>> If it says "16" my guess would be that is in degrees Plato.
>
> That'll be it it. I forgot about Plato as we don't use it over here.
> It's much more a continental European thing.
Homebrewers in the US don't tend to use it much, a lot of commercial
breweries over here use it though.
John.
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