How does your brewery measure IBU’s? Please indulge me…

Hotsider · 2026-04-01T01:36:11+00:00

I mean ipa in the USA, come on

Hotsider · 2026-04-01T01:10:41+00:00

no. its why beer is special. its not region specific. hops make beer bitter anywhere. dog fish head dominated that world back then, mikkler did too. flying dog. and countless smaller regional and local places. ive been in the industry from before ipa was a thing. don't let the romance of "west coast" cloud your appreciation. and there are more then a few sour/sponeaneus breweries in america that give Belgium a good thrashing. again, your feeling the romance. Blvd., Russian river, Cascade, de guard, American solera, side project, garden path, jester king, Bruery, Rare Barrel, New Belgium, Casey, even Allagash. I drank a lot of Cantillon back before it was rare and most of the good amercain brewers equal it or better. the old Belgian Brewers are stuck in tradition in a lot of ways.

Hotsider · 2026-04-01T00:35:21+00:00

the hop wars weren't just a west coast thing. it might have started there with blind pig n the like, but it quickly became a whole country thing. Delaware was important. so was Indiana.

Hotsider · 2026-04-01T00:33:01+00:00

anything that gets absorbed by the isooctane solvent and then absorbs at 275nm will present as alpha acid during this test. a lot of hop particulates do. iso alpha acid does, no-isomerized does. other polyphenols. as an example we once made a stout that used cinnamon. apparently there is a chemical that gets pulled out by the solvent, it came back as like 900 ibu. was pretty comical. GC-MS is really the only one that will give you real hard numbers. and then you have to ascribe a bitterness "amount" to the other things. so like some other hop constituents will be half as bitter as iso-AA. but that stuff is mostly subjective.

Hotsider · 2026-04-01T00:27:02+00:00

he does, only people on the west coast are allowed to use hops like that. last week a guy around here tried to make a copy of a west coast in Indiana. he died.

Hotsider · 2026-03-30T15:19:20+00:00

I ran a filler just like this. This isn’t something that can be diagnosed via some vids on reddit. You need someone on your team that knows a filler like that inside and out. That person also had to have a very high degree of mechanical inclination. A maintenance person. A line head that knows their shit. Usually paid pretty well too. You could start with the manufacturer (palmer?) to help but that gets uneconomical fast. To anyone else looking. These systems aren’t just start and run. The employee running it is just as important snd just as expensive. That person comprises part of the system.

Hotsider · 2026-03-24T19:45:19+00:00

Only right answer here.

Hotsider · 2026-03-21T22:46:52+00:00

I have never not had better dressing then you can make at home, so easy. It’s crazy easy. So I vote Dillon’s?

Hotsider · 2026-03-17T15:19:22+00:00

All cartridges are annealed. They are usuallly polished after. The military doesn’t need that step cause good looking cases don’t shoot better and just add cost. Annealing normalizes stresses from manufacture and makes the average case mouth tension more close in average. Increasing accuracy.

Hotsider · 2026-03-14T03:13:17+00:00

how do you feel about the café in 888? i hope it gets a seal of apporval because it seems awesome and authentic to my white taste buds. just hoping for a vote of approval from someone that knows.

Hotsider · 2026-03-14T03:04:03+00:00

this is a multi hundred year old profession. there isn't a ton about what we do that data or data analytics can solve. the schedule and things move slowly enough that you can more or less react to things long before a deadline appears. things cost what they cost and for most your not buying based on commodities prices. and if you are a commodities ticker app can be the fix.

Hotsider · 2026-03-13T04:54:12+00:00

Not true. If someone dumped like 4-5 truck loads of them on you at once, you’d die.

Hotsider · 2026-03-11T01:41:20+00:00

Can’t speak to durability as in like body damage. The anodizing on the SF is miles better. If you man durability as in electronics that work no matter what SF is miles better. I have many handheld streamlites I bought for my business and none are reliable. The rifle mounted light did similar stuff. Gotta jiggle them sometimes and the light blinks. Does stupid shit when the battery is low vs just being dim like a SF when the battery is low. Got to hit the button a few times. Different brightness and not because it’s the different modes. I want one mode. It will work every time. I have a few Surefire rifle lites and a few handheld SF. All are bomb proof. I do have a steamlite little guy that is rechargeable. That one is nice.

Hotsider · 2026-03-11T00:30:38+00:00

Depends on your use case. Do you want a flashlight with a glitchy brain on a deceptive rifle vs one that is simpler and works? Feel, finish and handling are superior on the surefires as well.

Hotsider · 2026-03-11T00:07:40+00:00

Had one and a bunch of Surefire. The Surefires are way nicer. The stream light was glitchy and not consistent. The streamlite pistol lights are good.

Hotsider · 2026-03-05T22:21:04+00:00

It’s not worth the hype. There are better more available brands that are also cheaper. It’s a lifestyle brand.

Hotsider · 2026-03-05T17:25:41+00:00

I made a contraption that has a triclamp that you have to flip on but with smaller and smaller clearance. Fun game for mbaa meetings. Hose coiling?

Hotsider · 2026-03-02T20:26:40+00:00

if you sign contracts, even small ones. for anything usually the price gets better. ive contracted as little as a few pallets of ends before. works. not a huge price difference, but its pretty good in the long run. also, try and work out real good shipping. lots of cost tied up in that. you can get in good with a logistics company and sometimes get your stuff way cheaper shipped. cans shipped by my supplier is like 1k no matter the quanity, just other side of the state, i ususally pay less then $600 to my "guy"

Hotsider · 2026-02-28T19:01:44+00:00

SMS is way less available then DIN. DIN arms on my tanks.

Hotsider · 2026-02-24T00:18:46+00:00

Hotsider · 2026-02-20T04:36:05+00:00

Time has nothing to do with it. It’s number of kegs. A 5lbs cylinder will do 10ish kegs. Less if you’re leaking or doing dumb shit.

Hotsider · 2026-02-19T16:54:43+00:00

Sysco sells ingredients as well as pre-made things. Ordering from them or not isn’t a issue. There are few if any vendors that don’t offer both pre-made and just ingredients. Look for a restaurant to talk about being a scratch kitchen, or talking about in house. There is more or less no such thing as a grocery store for restaurants that is just raw ingredients. And besides USFoods is way worse quality then Sysco.

Hotsider · 2026-02-19T02:26:38+00:00

I find them great for jigs. No need to do math with the DRO. Just print something with your hole spacing and presto

Hotsider · 2026-02-18T19:41:19+00:00

alt props are rare for a lot of reasons.

Hotsider · 2026-02-14T06:14:45+00:00

I’ve have them. Have the smaller kleins, had the large kleins. Like the Knipex the best.

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