(That's water to the rest of us!) Beer is about 95% water, so if you want to discuss water treatment, filtering etc this is the place to do it!
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dedken
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by dedken » Wed Jan 06, 2010 7:23 pm
Hi all,
What with the current weather in this country, has anyone thought about using/previously used snow for brewing liquor? If one were to consider this option what would be the best way of gedding rid of any nasties? Presumably boiling?
Just a thought really!
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Mountain
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by Mountain » Wed Jan 06, 2010 7:36 pm
Funilly enough, I was thinking the same thing today. Could fill my boiler up with snow in no time!
I would expect it would be quite devoid of minerals.
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by Garth » Wed Jan 06, 2010 7:43 pm
mountain's correct, there would be nothing in the way of minerals in it, a bit like frozen distilled water.
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by Jim » Wed Jan 06, 2010 7:47 pm
Just don't use the yellow snow.
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by brewzone » Wed Jan 06, 2010 10:09 pm
Jim wrote:Just don't use the yellow snow.
Nice quip there Jim!
BZ
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by Andy » Wed Jan 06, 2010 10:13 pm
It would be the same as using rainwater I'd imagine i.e. full of cr*p unless you live somewhere really remote.
Dan!
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dedken
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by dedken » Wed Jan 06, 2010 11:40 pm
So, I won't bother scooping up the London snow then!
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Zapp Brannigan
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by Zapp Brannigan » Thu Jan 28, 2010 10:51 pm
Jim wrote:Just don't use the yellow snow.
But thats the main ingredient in my Carling Clone
23 litres yellow snow (EBC 5)
300 Shredded Wheat
1 bag Icing sugar
Mash @ Sausages + gravy
Boil @ eggs + soldiers
Hops = assorted leaves @ some minutes
Bread yeast
Prime with 30 second squirt from a broken soda stream.
It's a prize winner I promise
ZB
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by Blackaddler » Fri Jan 29, 2010 3:54 pm
Jim wrote:Just don't use the yellow snow.
haha... reminds me of one of my favourite Frank Zappa tunes [from 1974].
For anyone who's interested, here's a nice little animation to go with it...
Don't eat the yellow snow
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MARMITE
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by MARMITE » Wed Feb 24, 2010 4:00 pm
I used snow many moons ago to produce a very nice carlsberg special clone. In fact it was so nice we drank it out of the demijohn leaving it 24 hours each time for the crud to settle. However although snow looks clean (and it came from a clean drift) I had to boil and decant it twice to get rid of the rubbish.It also takes a bit of melting to achieve sufficient liquid.A better bet is to use Aqua Pura .It's on offer at Makro at the moment at £3.59 for16 litres BOGOF
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by chris_reboot » Wed Feb 24, 2010 4:45 pm
surely a waste of energy heating it up from frozen, and how can you be sure of purity when scooping it up off the garden or wherever?
you're all MAD I tell you!
