Proposal

[Clinton Ebadi]

Steve Killen <steven.f.killen at gmail.com> writes:

> The exponent of 2 for liquids has been useful for me. But base 10 is much
> easier in terms of division. Fortunately, gallons to liters is pretty close to
> a 1:4 relationship, so it's not so painful to switch.
>
> I think my main issue would be using Celsius--especially for the mash. I like
> that there are nice whole numbers for each mash temp using Fahrenheit, and
> using C would mean trying to hit fractions of a degree.

Whole numbers for mashing are achieved using celcius as well -- we
conventionally mash at what are whole degrees in Fahrenheit because it's
convenient for the temperature scale we use; European homebrewers use
whole Celcius degrees since it's convenient for them.

EMBRACE CHANGE.

>  
>
>     > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Clinton Ebadi <clinton at unknownlamer.org>
>     > wrote:
>     >
>     >     Brewing operations henceforth shall be conducted in metric units.
>     >
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