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Brewcraft Asahi
After Jake’s birthday we stumbled into Dave’s Homebrew shop in Nth Sydney for supplies as we have plenty of empty bottles to fill. Our collective hangover did not help the large selection but Dave was understanding and helped us make sure we used the right lager yeast that works better at lower temperatures.
Loaded up with raw materials, we decided our next brew should be an Asahi type dry Japanese beer. This mix came from Brewcraft and had more ingredients than the previous brews we have done:
- can of Beermakers Lager extract
- Gemdex #10 (dextrose mix)
- 500g Japanese Blonde malt jar
- 12g Saaz & 12g Hallertau hop pellets (in a ‘teabag’)
- Saflager Yeast S-23
We followed the instructions precisely - dissolving the can and Gemdex in 2L hot water, letting the hops sit in 300mL boiled water for 15min (the teabags fell apart when we strained so a bit of hops got in the brew). Filled to 22L and the temperature was 25C to start. We added the yeast and dry enzyme and left it downstairs in the cool basement, with a blanket around it.
Today Mark took the blanket off as the temperature was still over 21C and apparently this “Saflager yeast produces its best flavours under 18 degrees”.
Initial SG was 1046. We took a little sip of the brew from the SG reading yard glass we use, and… oh my it was sweet as. I’m hoping this could be our best one yet.
Since it’s a lower temperature, we will let this ferment for 1.5-2weeks instead of the usual one week to make sure primary fermentation finishes.
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New Basic Element for Electrical Circuits (The Memristor)
Researchers Prove Existence of New Basic Element for Electronic Circuits — ‘Memristor’ from PhysOrg.com
HP today announced that researchers from HP Labs have proven the existence of what had previously been only theorized as the fourth fundamental circuit element in electrical engineering.
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OK I won’t be commenting on other web pages/news articles much but articles like these seem important. I just finished an Advanced Diploma in Electrical Technology last year so I thought I’d finally gotten a decent grasp of the fundamentals. Now someone goes and invents a new one! ARRRGH!!
In all seriousness this is has the potential to make authors rewrite new editions of electronic text books with a new chapter. Although there has been many technological advances by way of the transistor in regards to digital electronics, not much has really changed in the last 50 years and I was able to use old editions of texts to learn my trade (from my own library, I’ve been interested in electronics since I was knee high to a grasshopper). Things have just gotten smaller and more efficient, t’is all.
As a sidenote, it is still difficult to judge where the future of computing and electronics will take us. Sure there will still be electrical devices in the future, but advances are also being made in photonic/optical devices for computing, which have the ability to speed up computer processing much more than electrical (ie electrons) systems. So this may be a new device, and may also find its way into memory systems in our computers in the next decade or so, photonics is a great and challenging field to keep an eye on.
I had to say that, because the idea of a memristor is not knew. The source of the discovery, HP labs, says that
The memristor first appeared in a 1971 paper published by Professor Leon Chua, a distinguished faculty member in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Department of the University of California Berkeley.
It has just taken this long to figure out how to make a practical use of it.
7 Common Cooking Mistakes
Here is an article of great tips to avoid screwing up your cooking. I make these mistakes sometimes, but that’s just because I do not know any better. Now I do. So if you are guilty of:
- Not reading the recipe
- Pan Overcrowding
- Not preheating the pan
- Gummy pasta
- Sauteing wet greens
- Using dried herbs not fresh ones
- Fried when the oil isn’t hot enough
Give the article a read to see what you’re doing wrong.
Syntax Error
Really… how many times have you written a hello world!\n source for a new language only to be dissed by the compiler/interpreter with a syntax error because your error correcting keyboard is on the fritz?
OK I’ve written some notes, and occasionally I have problems. This is a new blog to replace versions of the old. There are some articles in the archive I may resurrect from backup but new hard drive, new blog, new purpose.
Probably not going to be updated as regularly as you may like, but who cares, it’s my blog and I’ll not post to it if I want to.