5 gallons ...sheesh...a rarely brew such large batches. My batches are often between 4-12 liters in size. It gives room for experimenting and pouring 6 liters of failed herbal beer down the drain doesn't hurt as much as wasting 25 liters. Currently I have 8 liters of Berliner Weisse and 5 liters of apple-vanilla mead going. Soon to be expanded with 6 liters of herbal rye beer, 5 liters of spiced xmas beer (probably porter or stout based) and a belgian ale of some kind. /Angus. --- "Marty Twombly" > wrote: >i enjoy mead but not enouf to be stuck with 5 gall and my wife doesn't like >it at all. we brew a lot of healing beers using herbs. one of my favorite >is porter >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Angus" >To: >Sent: Friday, August 11, 2000 5:35 AM >Subject: hist-brewing: Re: Hello > > >> yup, always listening, sometimes jumping into a discussion. >> I haven't seen you on the list before so a warm welcome to you. What area >of historical brewing are you interested in ? Personally I'm mostly >interested in meads but since I took up beer brewing some six months ago (it >was dormant for a few years) a door has reopened. >> >> /Angus MacIomhair >> >> --- "Marty Twombly" >> > wrote: >> >is anyone there >> >> >> == >> If you look at the sun without shielding your eyes, you'll go blind. >> If you look at the moon without covering your eyes, you'll become a poet." >> --Serge Bouchard >> >> _____________________________________________________________ >> Get your own mando cool and totally free email@iamawitch.com address at >http://freemail.iamawitch.com today! >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from this list, send email to majordomo@pbm.com containing >> the words "unsubscribe hist-brewing" (or unsubscribe hist-brewing-digest, >if >> you get the digest.) To contact a human about problems, send mail to >> owner-hist-brewing@pbm.com >> > >------------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from this list, send email to majordomo@pbm.com containing >the words "unsubscribe hist-brewing" (or unsubscribe hist-brewing-digest, if >you get the digest.) To contact a human about problems, send mail to >owner-hist-brewing@pbm.com == If you look at the sun without shielding your eyes, you'll go blind. If you look at the moon without covering your eyes, you'll become a poet." --Serge Bouchard _____________________________________________________________ Get your own mando cool and totally free email@iamawitch.com address at http://freemail.iamawitch.com today! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send email to majordomo@pbm.com containing the words "unsubscribe hist-brewing" (or unsubscribe hist-brewing-digest, if you get the digest.) To contact a human about problems, send mail to owner-hist-brewing@pbm.com