tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445569787371915337.post3998829774895807840..comments2024-03-29T05:24:30.793-07:00Comments on Shut up about Barclay Perkins: Brewing in Canada in the 1960’s – mashing and boilingRon Pattinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03095189986589865751noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445569787371915337.post-42643595283518479102015-01-22T08:51:43.938-08:002015-01-22T08:51:43.938-08:00Most of the small breweries, at least here in my r...Most of the small breweries, at least here in my region of Florida, give the spent grains wet to the farmer. Out of the tun, into plastic barrels, and off to the cows.Dan Klingmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03530547175374478652noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445569787371915337.post-54252058311340899842015-01-22T00:50:12.168-08:002015-01-22T00:50:12.168-08:00Interesting - the OED has "hop jack", &q...Interesting - the OED has "hop jack", "n. = hop-back n. 1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) I. 515 'A shallow vessel or cooler, over which is placed the hop-jack or sieve for straining out the spent-hops'," but it also has"jack-back" meaning the same thing: "jack-back n. [back n.2] (a) in Brewing, a vessel with a perforated bottom for straining the wort from the hops (also called hop-back: see hop n.1 Compounds 2); (b) ‘a tank which receives the cooled wort in a vinegar-factory’ (Knight).<br />1764 T. H. Croker et al. Compl. Dict. Arts & Sci. I. at Brew-house, The jack-back..is placed something lower than the under-backs, and has a communication with them all; and out of this back the wort is pumped into the coppers.<br />1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 568 The jack-back, which receives the wort after it has been boiled with the hops.<br />1830 M. Donovan Domest. Econ. I. vi. 175 The liquor is pumped..into a large reservoir, called a jack-back, in which it is allowed to remain until all the yest has collected on the surface."<br /><br />So "jack" isn't a corruption of "back", but something else …Martyn Cornellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16843357962176591317noreply@blogger.com