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Hi [USER=40915]@Nottsbeer[/USER]There's a massive difference in hopping rates. It's not quite as bad as it looks because the first edition has Goldings at 5.3% alpha acid and the "fluffy" edition has them at 5.7%. Even so the difference is massive. In the earlier editions of his books, Wheeler gives compelling reasons for assuming a lower utilisation than industry standards and he settles on 20%. In the "fluffy" edition, a utilisation table is applied and with Big Lamp having an OG of 1038, the utilisation is considered to be 27.2% !!![USER=23705]@PhilBrew[/USER] went me a very interesting link to a conversation between Wheeler and others where he claims he had no knowledge of this book before it appeared on the shelves and that he had neither edited nor proof-read it. The "fluffy" edition claims to be an illustrated version of the 3rd edition rather than a new (4th) edition and so I've ordered a second hand copy of the original third edition, which was written by Wheeler, to see whether he had changed his mind about utilisation or whether this is something CAMRA has done on their own initiative.If anybody has got a copy of the original third edition, I'd be very interested to hear what he has to say on this in the chapter on hops.
Hi [USER=40915]@Nottsbeer[/USER]
There's a massive difference in hopping rates. It's not quite as bad as it looks because the first edition has Goldings at 5.3% alpha acid and the "fluffy" edition has them at 5.7%. Even so the difference is massive. In the earlier editions of his books, Wheeler gives compelling reasons for assuming a lower utilisation than industry standards and he settles on 20%. In the "fluffy" edition, a utilisation table is applied and with Big Lamp having an OG of 1038, the utilisation is considered to be 27.2% !!!
[USER=23705]@PhilBrew[/USER] went me a very interesting link to a conversation between Wheeler and others where he claims he had no knowledge of this book before it appeared on the shelves and that he had neither edited nor proof-read it. The "fluffy" edition claims to be an illustrated version of the 3rd edition rather than a new (4th) edition and so I've ordered a second hand copy of the original third edition, which was written by Wheeler, to see whether he had changed his mind about utilisation or whether this is something CAMRA has done on their own initiative.
If anybody has got a copy of the original third edition, I'd be very interested to hear what he has to say on this in the chapter on hops.
