ARRRRG!! Lost my recipes.

[GillettBreweryCnslt]

This is just a rant.

My $^#&% computer crashed on me a couple of weeks ago and I've lost a lot, but nothing so important as my recipes, I only have the ones I posted here. Yes I have a one-click backup drive, but it didn't capture the recipes folder.

AHHHH!! There isn't an emoticon to fully express my rage.

That is all.

Dave

[mr x]

At least losing that beer didn't make a big sticky mess....

[GillettBreweryCnslt]

True.

Speaking of which...I've been drinking my ginger beer for the past month now. It's ok, not the best batch I've done. I made two critical mistakes that changed the flavour of it.

I forgot to add the lemon juice, I feel that the lemon adds a crispness to the beer that is important to the style. I also fermented with a 2nd generation American Ale (1052) yeast. I think that, as it had been used to a real beer prior to it's inoculation into the ginger beer, the yeast weren't all that happy in a sugar environment. I didn't get a great efficiency from it and there is definitely a yeast flavour that isn't there when I just use a new pack of dried ale yeast.

I'll try again in the spring. Hopefully you'll give it another shot someday too! (with a better keg)

[mr x]

I've still got a full keg in the basement. Dry hopping with a tube of ginger....

[sleepyjamie]

backup your recipies to google docs and you wont loose them anymore

[derek]

At least losing that beer didn't make a big sticky mess....

Robert's still so bitter he doesn't need hops...

[ratchet]

Are you sure they're totally gone?

Can you boot using a Linux cd and acres the files that way?

[GillettBreweryCnslt]

I gave the hd to my IT guy at work, he's got the gear to do it quickly. He said he should be able to get them for me. We'll see...