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From: jessie@iastate.edu (Brent Danielson)
Subject: Re: Gleaming immersion chiller
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 14:26:23 GMT

In article <6851@dciem.dciem.dnd.ca> king@dciem.dciem.dnd.ca (Stephen King) writes:
>In article <1992Dec15.230444.15794@spdc.ti.com> holloway@epcot.spdc.ti.com (Tom Holloway) writes:
>> ... Perhaps stainless 
>>steel tubing would be a better material for wort chillers. Does anyone know a 
>>good source of SS tubing $$^(?
>
>Can't help you there, but I would like to suggest using glass tubing for a
>wort chiller. I have an old lab condensor that I'm going to try. Although
>the length of the inner glass spiral is not great, I am hoping that
>circulating ice water through the outer sleeve (via an aquarium pump) will
>do the trick. Anyway, it should be possible to get a neon sign company to
>make up a long glass chiller - any comments?


Yeah, It will probably shatter from temperature shock.  Tempered lab glass-
ware might not, but the Neon sign glass probably would.  I sure wouldn't risk
it.  Five gallons of boiled and hopped wort is too precious to loose to a bunch
of glass fragments.

By the way, I've used stainless steel to cool microcosms and it worked just
fine.  It may not be as good as copper, but if you can find it, afford it, and
bend it, I'll bet it would work great.

Brent




-- 
Jessie@iastate.edu                                           Brent J. Danielson
515-294-5248                                               Dept. Animal Ecology
                                                          Iowa State University
                                                            Ames, IA 50011-3221
Newsgroups: rec.crafts.brewing
From: sayre@chopin (Kirk Sayre)
Subject: Fermentation time
Organization: CSIS American University
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 20:40:30 GMT

Newsgroups: rec.crafts.brewing
Subject: Fermentation time
Summary: 
Expires: 
Followup-To: 
Distribution: 
Organization: CSIS American University
Keywords: 

I am currently brewing my third batch of beer and I have a question.
Is it reasonable for a high gravity beer to ferment completely in
under 48 hours?  The reason I ask is that in my last batch (6 pounds
canned extract, 2 pounds honey) and in my current batch 
(10 pounds canned extract) the fermentation stopped after
approximately 36 hours.

Both batches started out with a tremendous initial fermentation (both
blew off close to 1.5 gallons of beer, and I almost had my eye put out
by the blowoff tube plug exploding out of the carboy on the most
recent batch).  The fermentation was done with ale yeast at
approximately 75 degrees.  I have tried re-aerating (sp) the partially
fermeneted beer, but it doesn't make any difference.

I bottled the previous batch after letting it sit around doing nothing
for a week and it came out tasting great, with a reasonably high
alchohal content.

Does anyone have any guesses as to what could be happening here?  Any
help will be greatly appreciated.

                               Thanks,
			               Kirk Sayre
				       sayre@chopin.cas.american.edu


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From: amead@s.psych.uiuc.edu (Alan Mead)
Subject: water and carboys
Organization: UIUC Department of Psychology
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 04:48:46 GMT

Hi all.  I am gathering the equipment to brew for the first time.  I'm
following Papazian's book.  The store that my wife got me the book in
also sells supplies, but I've been looking around to see if I can get
anything cheaper.  I'll gladly pay what's needed but don't want to get
taken.

So, anyway, I considered buying water and it turns out that Hinkley &
Schmidt sell 5g of Mountain Valley (I think) with a 5g glass jug (I
think the operator even agreed that it was a carboy) for about $10.66 +
$6 deposit.  I think most places want $15 to 20 for the carboy alone, so
this sounds like a deal.  Does anyone know if this thing is suitable to
brew in?

Also, where do you get bottles?  A local liquor store will sell me
dirty refundables for $1.50/case.  But these are the same kind of
bottles that you can pop the bottom off of with a sharp blow to the neck
(It's pretty cool bet if you ever find yourself in a patio bar wanting
to splash a beer all over the place).  I'm wondering if I should go to
the trouble of getting new ones?

Or, if not, will any old bottles do?  I have a friend who drinks the
likes of Coors Light like a fish.  I'm sure I could get plenty of those
types for free.

Thanks.

-alan
Newsgroups: rec.crafts.brewing
From: davidi@ecs.comm.mot.com (David Ingham)
Subject: Re: How soon should I sample my first batch of stout?
Organization: secure_comm
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 09:03:26 GMT

In article <1992Dec12.021327.23506@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> canderso@nyx.cs.du.edu (Chuck Anderson) writes:
>I just bottled my first batch of stout one week ago tonight.  I
>used the "Toad Spit Stout" recipe from Charlies's book.  I want
>to try one tonight.  Does stout take a longer or shorter time to
>"mellow out?"  Most other recipes I've done are pretty green for
>a few weeks and really start to mellow and have good carbonation
>after 6 weeks (minimum).
>
>Should I try one tonight?   (rhetorical question)
>
>Pshhht! - sounded good - already some pressure in there.
>
>Pretty fine bubbles, too - and I used corn sugar to prime.
>
>Already a fair amount of carbonation bite, mmmmmmmmm.
>
>This stuff doesn't taste very "green" at all.
>
>Alright - those grains taste great!  Wow, Stout! (that's what I ought to 
>name it.)
>
>There's still a thin ring of fine bubbles around the inside of the
>glass ( half way through .5L).  I'm gonna make more stout, SOON.
>
>Oh, sorry.  I guess I answered my own question.  I guess I just
>wanted to share (my sampling experience, not the beer :-).
>
>I think I'll have another.......  I hope there's still some left in 6 weeks.
>
>God, I love this part of brewing!
>
>--
>  *************************************************************************
>     Chuck Anderson                uucp    :         uunet!nyx!canderso
>     Boulder, Co. (303) 494-6278   internet:         canderso@nyx.cs.du.edu
>  *************************************************************************

I just tasted my first Toad Spit Stout last friday.  Wow was it great.  
I even compared it to a Guiness ( ok so it was a crappy imported bottle of Guiness :) ) and it blew it away!! :) 
I highly recommend this recipe to all stout fans.


Newsgroups: rec.crafts.textiles
From: cfeem@ux1.cts.eiu.edu (Eleanor Midkiff)
Subject: Re: Sweater for my Dad
Summary: Useful skills in college 
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 21:35:05 GMT
Expires: ?
Organization: Eastern Illinois University
Keywords: knitting, study
Followup-To: rec.crafts.textiles

In article <1992Dec14.100344.18471@husc3.harvard.edu> perry1@husc11.harvard.edu (Alexis Perry) writes:
>Hi everyone!! I've been dying to finally get to do this -- to finally
>talk about the sweater I just finished for my Dad.  I started on Nov. 1 and
>finished last night.  Sure, I had a chem test this morning that I probably
>failed, but I was almost done with the sweater and couldn't just stop
>to do something trivial like study.  I mean, you've got to have your      
>priorities in life.
[Description deleted]

>Alexis Perry
>"The Knitting-Pre-Med-Who's-NEVER-Going-To-Get-Into-Med-School-But-Will-
>Leave-College-With-A-Lot-Of-Nifty-Knitted-Goods"
 
Hi, Alexis,

I always said that the two useful skills I acquired in college were
knitting and bridge.  I did, however, eventually acquire a Ph.D., despite
the problems associated with putting knitting first once in awhile.

Good luck on your chem final.

Eleanor Midkiff, Knitting Psych. Prof.

-- 
Eleanor Midkiff
(cfeem@eiu.edu)
Newsgroups: rec.crafts.textiles
From: ALI00ERW@UNCCVM.UNCC.EDU
Subject: Re: silly little cross stitch question
Organization: UNC Charlotte
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 21:12:09 GMT

In article <Bz3t3w.6HL@world.std.com>
nancy@world.std.com (Nancy C Reynolds) writes:
 
>
>I was wondering, does anyone ever attempt to get really chintzy with
>fabric use?  My lightswitch cover design is on one of those 12 x 18 (?)
>pieces of Aida cloth that Charles Craft puts out in the cardboard envelope.
>I stitched an outline of how much fabric I need for this project so I know
>not to overlap any of it with another project.  On the same cloth, I also
>have two other designs for bag tags.  The cloth is not very expensive, so
>it doesn't really matter a lot if I get 2 projects or 9 projects out of
>it, but I am enjoying the challenge of seeing how much I can squeeze out
>of the fabric.  It helps that none of the projects on this cloth need
>"extra" fabric for matting or framing.  I like the convenience of having a
>choice of project when I take this somewhere.  Has anyone else put even a
>second project on a piece of cloth without cutting out the first one or am
>I the only one?  :-)
>
>--Nancy Reynolds
>
 
I am obsessive-compulsive to the extreme about being chintzy with fabric,
both for embroidery and for machine sewing projects!!! I try to get as many
projects out of one piece of fabric as I possibly can. I *always* rearrange
the dress pattern pieces differently than shown in the instructions. I also
habitually buy less fabric than called for by the project (and still have
some left over!).
 
I think this habit has something to do with the fact that my mother and I lived
with my maternal grandparents while her husband was in the army during the
war in Vietnam. Although they weren't poor, they were fond of reminding every-
one of the Depression and saying that you shouldn't waste things. Thanks to
them I got to vicariously live through the Depression, too! :-)
 
Erin
From: ron.parker@uttsbbs.uucp (Ron Parker) 
Newsgroups: rec.crafts.textiles
Subject: Hand hooked rugs
Date: 10 Dec 92 10:47:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Transfer Station BBS, Danville, CA - 510-837-4610/837-5591
Reply-To: ron.parker@uttsbbs.uucp (Ron Parker) 

 Newsgroups: rec.crafts.textiles
 Subject: Hand hooked rugs

     On 8 Dec 92 11:48:35 -0600 minehart@iscsvax.uni.edu asked about hooked
        rug information.

 M. Are there are really good books of directions on this art/craft?

There is a magazine called (what else?) Rug Hooking - PO Box 15760,
Harrisburg, PA 17105, 717-234-5091 - was $19.95 for 5 issues/yr

Ron Parker
ron.parker%uttsbbs%boo@pacbell.com

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From: minehart@iscsvax.uni.edu
Newsgroups: rec.crafts.textiles
Subject: Re: remnants
Date: 16 Dec 92 09:25:16 -0600
Organization: University of Northern Iowa

In article <28613@oasys.dt.navy.mil>, chamberl@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Anne Chamberlain) writes:
> 
> What do you sewers do with your remnants?
> 
> I save everything---maybe I'll get into quilting some day, I hope, I
> hope.  But what do I do with the wools?  How about some creative brainstorming
> for woolen remnants?
> 
> Anne



Hooking rugs!

Jill
Newsgroups: rec.crafts.textiles
From: glenda@grex.ann-arbor.mi.us (Glenda F. Andre')
Subject: Re: CROCHET: Help Teaching Lefty
Organization: GREX Public Access Unix +1 313 761 3000
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 16:04:56 GMT

In article <ligukuINN1kv@news.bbn.com> healy@BBN.COM (Kathleen M. Healy) writes:
>Hi all,
>
>My left-handed friend has asked me (a righty) to teach her to crochet.  Can
>anyone offer any helpful suggestions?  I would like this to be a positive
>experience for both of us.

Sit opposite your friend so that you are face to face, that way your right
is her left.  Once she seems to be getting the idea, have her practice in
front of a mirror when you aren't around.  This way she still sees the
same thing she sees when she watches you.

I have taught a leftie this way and it worked well for both crocheting and
knitting.  I will be using this technique when my son (also a leftie) wants
to learn.  He has expressed a interest in knitting and crocheting at some
point, but not just yet (he's only 8 and quite physically active so its
understandable that he isn't ready yet).


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From: zkym02@hou.amoco.com (Keerthi Y. McIntosh)
Subject: Re: Sweater for my Dad
Keywords: 
		
Reply-To: zkym02@hou.amoco.com
Organization: Amoco
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 19:07:25 GMT

Alexis Perry writes:
.....I started on Nov. 1 and finished last night.  Sure, I had a chem test this morning that I probably failed, but I was almost done with the sweater and couldn't just stopto do something trivial like study.  I mean, you've got to have your      
priorities in life.......		


Thanks for sharing your passion.  It brought back memories of cheating with another row of knitting before doing another statics or calc problem.  I learned to knit when I was in college.  Not knit and purl but make sweaters...  I spent many LATE nights in my room with my knitting needles close by... reward for a homeework assignment complete or solving a engineering problem in less than 30 minutes.  I had forgotten what a pleasure it had been to knit like that!			


Thanks for sharing! :)	

Keerthi
From: chamberl@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Anne Chamberlain)
Newsgroups: rec.crafts.textiles
Subject: remnants
Date: 16 Dec 92 13:26:11 GMT
Reply-To: chamberl@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Anne Chamberlain)
Organization: Carderock Division, NSWC, Bethesda, MD


What do you sewers do with your remnants?

I save everything---maybe I'll get into quilting some day, I hope, I
hope.  But what do I do with the wools?  How about some creative brainstorming
for woolen remnants?

Anne
Newsgroups: rec.crafts.textiles
From: linnco@microsoft.com (Linn Compton)
Subject: Reusing yarn
Date: 14 Dec 92 21:15:10 GMT
Organization: Microsoft
Keywords: yarn
Distribution: usa

I just bought a big shopping bag packed full of different
kinds of beautiful wool yarn for $20. The woman who sold
it had decided that she would never get around to finishing
any projects. Part of it was in the form of an unfinished 
sweater. I unraveled it and wound the yarn into hanks. I tied
each hank in four places to hold it together. The bag also 
included a couple of very tightly-wound balls of yarn, which
I unwound and put into hanks.

I think I remember reading that you can un-kink used wool
yarn, and restore stretched wool yarn from tightly-wound 
balls by winding it into hanks, then getting it wet. Can
anybody give me some advice on this? What temperature water
should I use? Can I hang the hanks on a horizontal pole to
air-dry?

Thanks,
Linn Compton
Microsoft
Newsgroups: rec.crafts.textiles,alt.sewing,news.answers
From: zukor@blacks.jpl.nasa.gov (Karen Zukor)
Subject: Re: Mohair and Vogue Knitting Questions
Keywords: mohair
Organization: Image Analysis Systems Group, JPL
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 21:42:08 GMT

marcia@rap.ucar.edu (Marcia Politovich) writes:
>In article <zukor.724533821@blacks.jpl.nasa.gov> (Karen Zukor) writes:
>>2.  I want to use the first pattern in the '92/93 Vogue Knitting
>>    magazine.  Has anyone tried this pattern?  It's a pink, short
>>    mohair (of course!) cardigan (though my mohair is blue/gray).
>>
>  I knit this pattern - it's the one with the buttons down the
>  front? (if not, that was in the same issue...) in bright orange
>  mohair. Liked it for awhile but I am rather short and the pattern,
>  being somewhat boxy, just wasn't quite right. Also with the 
>  garter stitch it seemed to stretch out quite a bit and got a 
>  pretty funny shape to it. Am re-knitting the yarn as a v-neck
>  with a lacy pattern stitch, closer fitting. Also - the garter 
>  stitch combined with the fluffy mohair makes the sweater 
>  rather large looking and bright orange didn't help this...

           I can see how the garter stitch edge might stretch
           out.  That's what ribbing is normally for.  Maybe
           I'll do ribbing instead.  The mohair is so fluffy,
           and mine has other colors mixed in with the dominiant
           blue/gray, that the stitches won't be too obvious.

           I agree that the sweater is boxy, but the ribbing
           might help that a little.  I would like a cardigan,
           and this one seemed simple (for my first mohair
           project).  In fact, I looked for other mohair patterns,
           and they all seemed lacy and complicated.  I am always
           nervous about liking projects.  I rarely knit for
           myself because of this.  I knit for other people,
           so once I'm done with something, I can say goodbye.
           (I think I picked this up from my mother, who taught
           me to knit.)

>>3.  The pattern says to use two threads of the mohair together.

> I didn't use two threads together.

           Can I ask why you didn't use two threads together?
           That might change the shape/weight/drape of the
           sweater itself.  (It would have never occurred to
           me not to follows this direction.  Maybe I am just
           being anal.)  Also, on size 11 needles, I didn't
           find the knitting very dense, even with two threads.
           (I already did the test swatch, and my gauge seems
           pretty good.  On other projects though, there seems
           to be a problem:  I knit very tightly, yet things
           turn out a little too big anyway.  Maybe I am just
           choosing to make the wrong sizes.)

           Thanks so much!  It was especially great to hear
           from someone who had tried this pattern!

           Karen Zukor
           e-mail: zukor@logos.jpl.nasa.gov (or substitute blacks)
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Subject: Reusing yarn  
From: Dawn_Scotting@kcbbs.gen.nz (Dawn Scotting)
Date: 19 Dec 92 17:56:45 GMT
Organization: Kappa Crucis Unix BBS, Auckland, New Zealand

linnco@microsoft.com (Linn Compton) writes:   
>balls by winding it into hanks, then getting it wet. Can  
>anybody give me some advice on this? What temperature water  
>should I use? Can I hang the hanks on a horizontal pole to  
  
I unpick and wash hanks of wool quite a lot. I like buying up secondhand  
jumpers and cardigans made up of the multi-coloured wool that they don't  
seem to make much anymore, I use it for the crochet dolls I make. I use  
tepid water with a little wool mix (I use one with eucalyptus in it,  
gives the wool a lovely delicate smell) added to it. I then hang the  
hanks on my little fold up clothesline (the sort you can put up inside  
on a wet miserable winter's day in front of the fire) and put it  
somewhere outside but not in direct sun in case it fades the wool.  
   
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From: schlumpf@uimrl7.mrl.uiuc.edu ()
Subject: Re: remnants
Reply-To: schlumpf@uimrl7.mrl.uiuc.edu ()
Organization: Materials Research Lab
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 17:21:51 GMT

In article <1992Dec16.092516.9442@iscsvax.uni.edu>,
minehart@iscsvax.uni.edu writes:
>In article <28613@oasys.dt.navy.mil>, chamberl@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Anne
Chamberlain) writes:
|>> 
|>> What do you sewers do with your remnants?
|>> 
|>> I save everything---maybe I'll get into quilting some day, I hope,
|>I
|>> hope.  But what do I do with the wools?  How about some creative
|>brainstorming
|>> for woolen remnants?
|>> 
|>> Anne
|>
|>
|>
|>Hooking rugs!
|>
|>Jill
|>

woolen crazy quilts are nice and warm...

can also be used to make a heavy quilt (I've seen plain blocks and cats
so far) which
will keep you VERY warm. You'd want to tied it though, as it might be
hard to get
through the wool with a quilting needle, but I don't know..  My brother
has a wool
quilt (with a cotton underside so he doesn't scratch) and that's all he
needs 
somenights in Northern Illinois...

Kay Schlumpf
From: hill@acsu.buffalo.edu (Robin Hill)
Newsgroups: rec.crafts.textiles
Subject: Shetland yarn to give away
Date: 18 Dec 92 22:19:55 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: SUNY@Buffalo Computer Science

I have acquired some old but nice wool yarn included with some odd
pieces I purchased, to use for darning, at a thrift store.  I WILL
SEND YOU six skeins of light olive green Bernat Dundee Campus Weight
Shetland IN RETURN FOR an assortment of short lengths (couple yards, 
maybe more for the basic colors and fibers) of yarns I can use to
darn sweaters, socks, etc.  

The label on the giveaway reads "50 grams, 90% Shetland wool with 10%
mohair, Color 5770, Light Olive, Lot T."  As for the request, I could
especially use fine but strong wool, cotton, and even synthetic
strands; in all shades of white, beige, brown, gray/black, dark blues;
for immediate needs, a strong fushia and a deep dark green (wool);
even variegated colors; AND anything else.

Please reply by e-mail; I don't read this group (but know of it
through alt.sewing).
                                            -- Robin Hill,
                                    Metropolitan State College of Denver

INTERNET:
hillr@clem.mscd.edu                     hill@cs.buffalo.edu
BITNET:
hillr@mscd
From: jbrand@unlinfo.unl.edu (jennifer brand)
Newsgroups: rec.crafts.textiles
Subject: Moving a loom
Date: 17 Dec 1992 22:24:30 GMT
Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln	
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: unlinfo.unl.edu

Help! I have a loom, which will package up to about 4'x4'X1', I'm 
told. The problem is, I'm in Lincoln, Nebraska, and the loom is in 
Concord, California (Bay Area). Does anyone happen to be going from 
the Bay Area to anywhere near Lincoln (south east corner of Nebraska, 
on I-80) in a vehicle which would have room for this object? I am 
willing to pay up to $75 for transportation. (The box is just slightly
too large to send UPS ro I'd do that.) Or does anyone know of a 
company which specializes in shipping looms? This loom loses its home 
the end of December.

Jennifer
jbrand@unlinfo.unl.edu
From: karen@misty.boeing.com (Karen Robinson)
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 17:38:08 GMT
Subject: Re: remnants
Organization: Boeing Commercial Airplane BCS Support
Newsgroups: rec.crafts.textiles

I'm currently saving my wool remnants for what will be a Drunkards Path
sampler.  I plan to piece a number of Drunkards Path blocks, each different,
in shades of brown, red, rust, cream--some solid colors and some plaids,
tweeds, houndstooth.  Them I am going to set them with black sashing ( I 
think).

My other colored wool scraps I'm cutting into 5 inch squares, which I 
will stitch together (by machine) in pleasing patterns, probably put
cotton flannel on the back, and make lap robes, for football games, nursing
homes, etc.
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From: reid_v@med.wcc.govt.nz
Newsgroups: rec.crafts.textiles
Subject: Re: CROCHET: Help Teaching Lefty
Date: 14 Dec 1992 08:01:45 GMT
Organization: Wellington City Council, Wgtn, NZ
Distribution: world
Reply-To: reid_v@med.wcc.govt.nz
NNTP-Posting-Host: blade.wcc.govt.nz

In article <ligukuINN1kv@news.bbn.com>, healy@BBN.COM (Kathleen M. Healy) writes:
>Hi all,
>
>My left-handed friend has asked me (a righty) to teach her to crochet.  Can
>anyone offer any helpful suggestions?  I would like this to be a positive
>experience for both of us.
>

I taught myself from a book looking in a mirror

If your friend can't learn from a book, demonstrate in front of a mirror

Veronica
From: karplus@cse.ucsc.edu (Kevin Karplus)
Newsgroups: rec.crafts.textiles
Subject: walnut dye liquid available
Date: 14 Dec 1992 22:01:43 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz (CE/CIS Boards)
Distribution: ba
NNTP-Posting-Host: ararat.ucsc.edu

I have about 3 quarts of water in which walnut husks have steeped for
over a month (after shelling the walnuts our neighbor gave us, we left
the bowl of husks outside, and it got rained on).  The dark brown
liquid should be useful for dyeing, but I have no real interest in
doing any dyeing this winter.  If anyone in the Santa Cruz area wants
the bottle of walnut husk liquid, let me know.

Kevin Karplus
(408)423-7946


-- 
Kevin Karplus		karplus@ce.ucsc.edu

Due to budgetary constraints the light at the end of the tunnel is
being turned off.
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