Brewing terminology/acronyms

[Iceberg]

Have we had PTFE = Plumber's Tape, Fixes Everything?

[Mickey77]

Have we had PTFE = Plumber's Tape, Fixes Everything?

Or, to give it the correct name, PolyTetraFlouroEthene, AKA Teflon.

Sorry, I'm a boring Plumber.

[Beer O'Clock]

Or, to give it the correct name, PolyTetraFlouroEthene, AKA Teflon.

Sorry, I'm a boring Plumber.

Yes. Yes you are

[leedsbrew]

BJCP = Beer Judge Certification Program

[Fohat]

CAP=Classic American Pilsner. Not to be confused with BMC (Bud-Miller-Coors) beers, this one actually tastes of something. AFAIK there aren't many (any?) commercial examples.

What does AFAIK mean?

As Far As I Know

[Tramorak]

Have we had PTFE = Plumber's Tape, Fixes Everything?

Or, to give it the correct name, PolyTetraFlouroEthene, AKA Teflon.

Sorry, I'm a boring Plumber.

My Plumber says it stands for "Plumbers tape F***ing everywhere" .

VWP

I know what it is, but don't know what it stands for.

T.

[Stomach]

Have we had PTFE = Plumber's Tape, Fixes Everything?

Or, to give it the correct name, PolyTetraFlouroEthene, AKA Teflon.

Sorry, I'm a boring Plumber.

My Plumber says it stands for "Plumbers tape F***ing everywhere" .

VWP

I know what it is, but don't know what it stands for.

T.

Virgins With Pride!

[lancsSteve]

WLP### (e.g. WLP575) = White Labs liquid yeast product codes

wy#### (e.g. wy1214) = Wyeast Liquid yeast product codes

US-05, Saf-04 = dried yeasts (Fermentis US Ale and British Ale respectively)

WTF = the sinking sensaton you get on a Tuesday when looking ahead to Wednesday, Thursday, Friday

WOndering if instead of being sticky we can start to extract bits of ths into a glosary or FAQ page?

[Padalac]

how about racking? read this one a lot, but I'm not sure I understand it correctly

[barney]

OMGIFIU

I use this one extensively.

Oh My God Ive [censored] It Up

[Dr. Dextrin]

PET - poly-ethylene-terephallate

I think the usual spelling is "terephthalate". An odd word, for sure, but not quite as phallic as your version.

[naffolddog]

CBA = Craft Brewing Association

[staplefordbill]

how about racking? read this one a lot, but I'm not sure I understand it correctly

Transferring beer from one container to another for bottling or conditioning. Usually done to separate beer from yeast.

[Padalac]

ahh.. thanks. why do you want to separate the beer from yeast? does it affect flavour? thanks

[Shrunken Reaper]

Once the fermentation is over with you don't want your beer sitting on trub, which is essentially a pile of unusable bi-products from fermentation and a load of dead yeast, for a couple of reasons which are nto worth going into in detail... Either way you don't want it in the bottles because they'll cloud up whenever they are moved, less of a problem in PB's, Corny's and Kegs but still you're better off getting the dead stuff away because there's a very slim chance you'll get autolysis (more of an issue in winemaking) or just bad flavours drifting up from the remaining yeast breaking down the trub over time...

I think that made sense, tell me if i'm wrong, though