Manty Malters Homebrew Club

CO2 Refills in Sheboygan-Jason Johnson

maltermember — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 00:49:55 +0000

Hello My fellow Malters, I just got off the phone with Andre Fire Equipment in Sheboygan and they refill CO2 tanks. The cost for a 5lb tank is $9 per fill. You do have to call ahead of time because they have a limited staff, so they suggest you call ahead to make sure they are not out servicing customers. The office hours are 7am-3:30pm Mon-Fri. Here is the phone number. (920)452-6058. I know some guys just exchange their tanks at Airgas, but for those who purchased a nice new tank and don’t want to exchange it for an old one, this is a great cheap source of CO2.

Dog Gone Good Time Brewfest – Green Bay

maltermember — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 02:30:02 +0000

To those of you who didn’t know, or have forgotten, there’s a nice Brewfest in Green Bay this Friday, November 11th at 6:00pm at the KI Convention Center. Jeff Leclair and I will be there for sure. Buy your tickets online for $35 and pick them up at the “Will Call” counter when you get there. Lots of good food at this fest, and also some cider and wine in addition to the beer. Hope to see you there!

http://brewfestgb.com/#!/about

Dave Taylor
Malter Member

Club News, Recipes, and Beer Information

mantymalters — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 01:44:16 +0000

This page is where you will find posts on upcoming club events, as well as interesting beer or brewing news. Manty Malter Members can post to this page and are encouraged to post their favorite recipes here as well to share with the homebrewing community.

SMaSH Contestants

Martin Mashpaddle — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 00:53:51 +0000

Gents,
The following is the list of the people who have signed up for the SMaSH competition and what they signed up for. Remember entries are due either:
1. July 16 at the President’s house party
2. Thursday July 2 7 meeting at Kathies.

Name: Malt: Hop
Jason: Home malted Glacier
Scott K.: Munich LME N Brewer
~~Scott V.: Cargill 2 row Columbus~~
Jim: Munich Hallertau
Adam: Briess 2 row Citra
Dave T: Pilsner Saaz
Brian: Maris Otter Fuggles
Denny: Munich Soriachi Ace

There ~~are rumors swirling about that there may be~~ is a prize for the winner of the comp- a $40 Gift Certificate courtesy of The Homebrew Market. Remember this will be a blind, informal judging. Anyone at the Prez’s palace on the 16th will be able to judge and have their vote heard!

If you would like to get on the list (or I have left you off in my somewhat drunken stupor here), please leave a comment and I will add you to the list.

Yours in Mashing,
Martin Mashpaddle

Portable Brewing Software (Beersmith)

maltermember — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 15:30:22 +0000

Portable apps is a convenient way to carry some basic applications along with you on a flash drive. I wanted to be able to carry my brewing software with me between computers and not have to reinstall it and transfer my data between my main computer and laptop. Portable apps seemed like the answer, but there was no official portable version of Beersmith or Beer Tools Pro, which is the software I own (if you are interested in a comparison between the three major brewing software brands, check out my review of all three here. Part 1 and Part 2). As it turns out, creating a portable version of Beersmith is as easy as just copying your entire Beersmith folder from your hard drive to your flash drive. But I’ll show you all an easy way to get it on a portable app drive. I will just do Beersmith on this tutorial because Brad from Beersmith says how to do this on the official Beersmith site. The same can be done with other brewing software you own with a few minor tweaks, but the legality of it would be in question because of licensing agreements. The reason I choose Beersmith like I said is because Brad has it posted on Beersmith.com. Plus, it is the easiest to make portable, you don’t need to make any adjustments.

What you will need:

1 licensed copy of Beersmith
1 flash drive (I would go with a 1 gigabyte or better drive)
An Internet connection

Your first step to create a nice interface to use. You don’t have to do this, you could just copy and past your Beersmith folder into the flash drive and be done with it, but this easy step will make things a bit easier to access, plus you can add other useful programs to it. To get this interface, go to portableapps.com and download the Portable Apps Platform. Once Downloaded, run the install and point to your flash drive as the place to install the program to. Once it is installed, navigate to the flash drive. It should look similar to the image below.

Now find your Beersmith folder on your C drive. Most of the time it will be in C:>Program File (or Programs)>Beersmith. Now copy the entire Beersmith folder. Then open the folder on your flash Drive called “Portable Apps” and paste (or drag and drop your Beersmith folder) in here.

This is the folder you want to either Install Beersmith to, drag and drop your Beersmith folder to from your Hard Drive, or copy and paste to.

Now, you can either click the “Start Portable Apps” Icon, or just pull out and insert your flash drive and it should appear as the shown below. Alternatively, you could just install Beersmith into your Portable Apps folder then register it from there, But by dragging and dropping the folder, all of your settings and past recipes should remain. Again, this needs to be a purchased and licensed copy of Beersmith for this to work.

Now you have a portable copy of Beersmith without having to install on multiple machines.

Now you can have your licensed copy of Beersmith on a portable drive that you can take with you on your laptop and insert into your main PC. You can also take this drive with you to your friends house if you are going to be doing a brew there, or take it with you to club meetings to collaborate with your Homebrew Club members. You can also easily make a backup copy on another flash drive in case one gets lost or damaged. There are a lot of advantages to having your Beersmith program portable, but it’s up to you on the reasons why. I do want to stress that it is important to only use this portable copy yourself. If you don’t, you are not only breaking the license agreement but also steeling from someone who put a lot of work into the development of this program. Beersmith is only $21.95 so there is no reason to not purchase it, especially if you make it portable.

-Jason Johnson (http://www.barleypopmaker.info)
Manty Malters Member