12 Oct
2004
12 Oct
'04
1:03 p.m.
Quick comment... It would seem to me that the reason for a mobile
brewery/exhibit would be homebrewing advocacy. All-grain brewing is
hardly the first step into brewing. In my opinion, if you decide to go
this route, I'd focus primary attention to extract brewing
fundamentals, and provide all-grain apparatus as a means of
demonstrating how the big boys do beer.
Don't forget that it's really all the cool details of brewing that have
the possibility of being a "science" demonstration -- from enzymes
converting starches to sugars to determining the appropriate natural
gas/LP gas to air ratio for the best fire, and everything in between.
Try to focus on how these details can be exploited for
demonstration/instructional purposes.
Just my $0.02.
Andrew
--- Ric Heins <ric(a)usgo.net> wrote:
I love the idea of a functional mobile
brewery/exhibit. I don't know
if we
could accomplish it within the 1200-1600 budget, but perhaps with the
right
combination of donated/scavenged stuff...
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From: "Rick Oftel"
<mnbrewing(a)earthlink.net>
Reply-To: "Rick Oftel" <mnbrewing(a)earthlink.net>
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 18:31:21 -0500
To: "St. Paul Homebrewers Club - Public Mailing List"
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Subject: Re: [SPHBC] Science Museum Grant
How about designing and producing a mobile brewery in a small
trailer? Make
it available to brewers and demonstrators and
able to brew about
15-20
gallon batches? No fermentation - just grain
crush, mash, hot
liquor, boil,
and cool. Just add water, grain, and propane.
Design it to fold
into a
three tier gravity system with adequate
protection from elements
and wind.
Rick
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Longballa" <jlongb(a)ties2.net>
To: <mba(a)thebarn.com>; "St. Paul Homebrewers Club - Public Mailing
List"
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Sent: Monday, October 11, 2004 04:53 PM
Subject: [SPHBC] Science Museum Grant
Fellow Brewers and Beer Lovers--
As it now stands, both the Minnesota Homebrewers Association and
the Saint
Paul Homebrewers Club will be participating in an
exciting and
rewarding
grant opportunity sponsored by the National
Science Foundation and
administered by the Minnesota Science Museum. Tomorrow afternoon,
the
representatives from the two clubs (who have most
graciously and
generously
volunteered a great deal of their time to this
project!) will meet
with
Chris Burda, the woman at the Museum who is in
charge of the
program. Their
task tomorrow and during an afternoon workshop on
Wednesday is to
brainstorm
project ideas for the grant money.
At the moment, the two clubs are participating separately, but are
pooling
their monies into one project. The grant
provides for each club to
get $600
toward a club project, preferably one with a
science bent to it.
If you
have ideas, please e-mail them to me, or to one
of the wonderful
folks who
are shouldering the burden of the work.
Basically, anything goes,
as long
as it can be done for $1200 (or $1600, should the
two clubs each
pony up
$200, which is the earnest amount that is asked
for if the clubs do
not wish
to each donate five hours of service time (not a
big deal--next
year's Teach
a Friend Day could probably count--the Museum is
very flexible on
how the
hours are used)).
One idea that has surfaced is for a beautiful brewing process
display that
could be erected whenever we were demonstrating
homebrewing, such
as at the
Renaissance. With $1200 and the Museum's
amazing exhibits crew,
that could
turn out extremely well!
So, please put on your thinking caps, drum up some ideas for cool
club
projects, then e-mail those ideas to me, or to:
Gera Exire La Tour at gera_latour(a)hotmail.com
Doug Hoverson at dhoverson(a)cadets.com
Kris England at engla008(a)umn.edu
Curt Stock at CHS(a)barr.com
Jesse Stremcha at stremcha(a)csp.edu
These folks have stepped up and will attend the workshops, but
there will be
plenty of opportunities for us all to pitch in
and help make the
most of
this $1200 project. Thanks for sending them your
ideas.
Thanks,
John
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