Brewing terminology/acronyms

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Re: Brewing terminology/acronyms

Post by Iceberg » Wed Dec 29, 2010 12:35 pm

Have we had PTFE = Plumber's Tape, Fixes Everything?

:D

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Re: Brewing terminology/acronyms

Post by Mickey77 » Fri May 06, 2011 9:56 pm

Iceberg wrote:Have we had PTFE = Plumber's Tape, Fixes Everything?

:D
Or, to give it the correct name, PolyTetraFlouroEthene, AKA Teflon.

Sorry, I'm a boring Plumber.

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Re: Brewing terminology/acronyms

Post by Beer O'Clock » Sat May 07, 2011 8:24 am

Mickey77 wrote: Or, to give it the correct name, PolyTetraFlouroEthene, AKA Teflon.

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Re: Brewing terminology/acronyms

Post by leedsbrew » Sat May 07, 2011 8:44 am

BJCP = Beer Judge Certification Program

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Re: Brewing terminology/acronyms

Post by Fohat » Sat Jul 16, 2011 9:30 pm

Kristoff wrote:
steve_flack wrote:CAP=Classic American Pilsner. Not to be confused with BMC (Bud-Miller-Coors) beers, this one actually tastes of something. AFAIK there aren't many (any?) commercial examples.
What does AFAIK mean? :D
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Re: Brewing terminology/acronyms

Post by Tramorak » Sun Sep 04, 2011 7:59 pm

Mickey77 wrote:
Iceberg wrote:Have we had PTFE = Plumber's Tape, Fixes Everything?

:D
Or, to give it the correct name, PolyTetraFlouroEthene, AKA Teflon.

Sorry, I'm a boring Plumber.
My Plumber says it stands for "Plumbers tape F***ing everywhere" :=P .

VWP

I know what it is, but don't know what it stands for.

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Re: Brewing terminology/acronyms

Post by Stomach » Mon Sep 05, 2011 9:08 am

Tramorak wrote:
Mickey77 wrote:
Iceberg wrote:Have we had PTFE = Plumber's Tape, Fixes Everything?

:D
Or, to give it the correct name, PolyTetraFlouroEthene, AKA Teflon.

Sorry, I'm a boring Plumber.
My Plumber says it stands for "Plumbers tape F***ing everywhere" :=P .

VWP

I know what it is, but don't know what it stands for.

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lancsSteve

Re: Brewing terminology/acronyms

Post by lancsSteve » Wed Oct 12, 2011 9:48 am

WLP### (e.g. WLP575) = White Labs liquid yeast product codes

wy#### (e.g. wy1214) = Wyeast Liquid yeast product codes

US-05, Saf-04 = dried yeasts (Fermentis US Ale and British Ale respectively)

WTF = the sinking sensaton you get on a Tuesday when looking ahead to Wednesday, Thursday, Friday

WOndering if instead of being sticky we can start to extract bits of ths into a glosary or FAQ page?

Padalac

Re: Brewing terminology/acronyms

Post by Padalac » Wed Nov 30, 2011 7:16 pm

how about racking? read this one a lot, but I'm not sure I understand it correctly

barney

Re: Brewing terminology/acronyms

Post by barney » Wed Nov 30, 2011 7:38 pm

OMGIFIU

I use this one extensively.

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Dr. Dextrin

Re: Brewing terminology/acronyms

Post by Dr. Dextrin » Wed Nov 30, 2011 11:11 pm

wetdog wrote:PET - poly-ethylene-terephallate
I think the usual spelling is "terephthalate". An odd word, for sure, but not quite as phallic as your version.

naffolddog

Brewing terminology/acronyms

Post by naffolddog » Thu Dec 01, 2011 2:34 pm

CBA = Craft Brewing Association

staplefordbill

Re: Brewing terminology/acronyms

Post by staplefordbill » Thu Dec 01, 2011 2:50 pm

how about racking? read this one a lot, but I'm not sure I understand it correctly
Transferring beer from one container to another for bottling or conditioning. Usually done to separate beer from yeast.

Padalac

Re: Brewing terminology/acronyms

Post by Padalac » Wed Dec 07, 2011 6:40 pm

ahh.. thanks. why do you want to separate the beer from yeast? does it affect flavour? thanks

Shrunken Reaper

Re: Brewing terminology/acronyms

Post by Shrunken Reaper » Fri Jan 13, 2012 1:43 pm

Once the fermentation is over with you don't want your beer sitting on trub, which is essentially a pile of unusable bi-products from fermentation and a load of dead yeast, for a couple of reasons which are nto worth going into in detail... Either way you don't want it in the bottles because they'll cloud up whenever they are moved, less of a problem in PB's, Corny's and Kegs but still you're better off getting the dead stuff away because there's a very slim chance you'll get autolysis (more of an issue in winemaking) or just bad flavours drifting up from the remaining yeast breaking down the trub over time...

I think that made sense, tell me if i'm wrong, though :)

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