Wednesday, June 19, 2013

New Orleans municipal water analysis for homebrewers

I tried googling for this, to no avail. If you're interested in the New Orleans water supply for homebrewing, here it is (links to PDF).
The commentary from the scientist that passed it along follows:


The hardness and alkalinity vary as our source water (MS River) varies. Currently, the total hardness of the tap water on the east bank is about 150 mg/L as CaCO3 and the alkalinity is about 120 mg/L as CaCO3. Typical chloramine levels uptown are 2.5 - 3.5 mg/L; typical free chlorine levels are <0.2 mg/L.

Monday, June 10, 2013

Vacation haiku

Great food, nice people, cheap beer
Shopping, tailored clothes
Hangover, credit card bill!

Sunday, June 9, 2013

Today's vacation haiku

My new television pitch:
Man versus buffet
Must buy much bigger pants soon

Monday, April 29, 2013

Paris, 1989(?)

View back towards the city from Notre Dame back towards La Tour Eiffel.


Thursday, April 18, 2013