B3 1000 converted to Analog SMART

[Old Nick]

No one uses FTW as "For The Win!" Its "Fuck The World"

Since I once got chastised for "Speaking for everyone" I'll take it easy on ya, but quite a few people use FTW for "For the win." It comes from the gameshow Hollywood Squares ("I'll take center square Gilbert Godfried for the win.")

[Hoppy Brewah]

You say that the temps vary a lot in the mash tun? Are we talking like 5º swings? if that is the case what would you recommend doing to keep it consistant? For my first brew I pulled off a coulpe of quarts and kind did a manual recirculation. I did this about every 25 min for 90 min. I also gave it a stir 2 times. I lost 2º in doing this but I wasn't worried beings the sugar profile should have been set in the first 10 min or so.

My system only varied by 2-3 degrees prior to pump recirculation and brewing in the warmer months of the year. It does take a couple batches to get used to the new system and it is easy to over compensate during temp swings. I would use an extra lab thermometer to check temps in other parts of the mash tun.

After adding a pump, I found the mash would drop about 4-5 degrees during recirculation. I tried direct fire mash recirculation, but had to be careful not to heat it too much - the temp keeps going up after the burner is off. I think the temp of the wort below the false bottom cools off faster than the mash and it heats much faster with direct fire. So, I am pleased with the addition of the heat exchanger in the HLT. Now I know the temp of the wort returning to the mash and the actual mash temp, so it is more predictable.

Cheers!

[zee]

No one uses FTW as "For The Win!" Its "Fuck The World"

Since I once got chastised for "Speaking for everyone" I'll take it easy on ya, but quite a few people use FTW for "For the win." It comes from the gameshow Hollywood Squares ("I'll take center square Gilbert Godfried for the win.")

agreed. i've only ever heard 'for the win'. its actually very common in my circles, both internet and real life. also, urban dictionary votes confirm this: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ftw

[Westco]

No one uses FTW as "For The Win!" Its "Fuck The World"

Since I once got chastised for "Speaking for everyone" I'll take it easy on ya, but quite a few people use FTW for "For the win." It comes from the gameshow Hollywood Squares ("I'll take center square Gilbert Godfried for the win.")

agreed. i've only ever heard 'for the win'. its actually very common in my circles, both internet and real life. also, urban dictionary votes confirm this: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ftw

ok let me rephrase what I first said. On the west coast I have NEVER heard anyone say "for the Win". I have lived here my entire life and never heard of it. Only "fuck the world"

Are you guys who are saying its "for the win" from the east coast? I know slang changes from coast to coast. I went to New York and everyone said " oh snap". They also said soda instead of pop. Small differences from coast to coast.



I did notice that when I went to mash out that it took 10 min to go up 2º but then all of the sudden it went up to 180º in 30 seconds. I tried stirring it but that did not seem to raise the temp evenly when I went to mash out.

[zee]

hehe. now that we've horribly hijacked this thread . . .

it could be that, though despite being from the east coast, i actually first heard it from a friend who has lived in california her entire life. but i guess thats the beauty of language. it gets around in very interesting ways.

there are similiar disputes even in computer language. [which i would think would happen less due to the uber connectedness of such people] for example, there is a command 'sudo' people from the east coast tend to pronounce it soo doe, while people on the west coast pronounce soo doo. i think technically the west coast peeps are right, since the command stands for 'super user do', but it still sounds retarded to me when i hear it pronounced that way. or the other good example is for command arguments. the command:

ls -la

east coast: l s [dash] l a
west coast l s [minus] l a

sorry. i'm a total nerd sometimes. this kinda stuff interests me.

[scratchypants]

hehe. now that we've horribly hijacked this thread . . .

it could be that, though despite being from the east coast, i actually first heard it from a friend who has lived in california her entire life. but i guess thats the beauty of language. it gets around in very interesting ways.

there are similiar disputes even in computer language. [which i would think would happen less due to the uber connectedness of such people] for example, there is a command 'sudo' people from the east coast tend to pronounce it soo doe, while people on the west coast pronounce soo doo. i think technically the west coast peeps are right, since the command stands for 'super user do', but it still sounds retarded to me when i hear it pronounced that way. or the other good example is for command arguments. the command:

ls -la

east coast: l s [dash] l a
west coast l s [minus] l a

sorry. i'm a total nerd sometimes. this kinda stuff interests me.

"For the win" was a new one on me too until about 6 months ago. "FTW" was a typical school wall graffiti from way back when and was clearly and abbreviation of Fuck The World.

I pronounce sudo as I would pseudo - because that is essentially what that command does. Also, I use [minus] - like rm [minus]Rf which I'm afraid may happen if we don't stop our thread-jacking activities

[andy77]

So....

Eric, you mentioned just static (pumpless) mashing in those stainless kettles. I've always been little unsettled by un insulated mash tuns that weren't somehow heated (ie rims, herms). Could you elaborate a bit more on your experience? You say 2-3 degrees. Over an hour? What were you approx ambient temps?

I'm so obsessive that, if I used a stainless mash tun, I'd throw a blanket or a sleeping bag over the tun after I mashed in to maintain temps. What do you think?

Love the new config, btw. Very cool.

[zee]

i've had trouble keeping my mash temps in the winter when its below freezing. to combat that, i bought some reflective insulation stuff at the hardware store. [looks like bubble wrap, but silver colored] and fashioned a cheap tea cozy sort of thing for the mash tun. that seems to have helped a lot.

in the summer i almost never lose even a degree over a 60 minute mash. that being said, i think the temperature differential between the inside of the mash and the side of the kettle might be more than i want, so i plan to use my tea cozy thing in the summer as well from now on.