I haven't mentioned it since May, but the wiki grows. It's alive. This observation in the section on the letter "C" is my favorite correction in the OCB wiki so far:
"cask" this entry states that "After filing, a plastic or wooden stopper called a shive is driven into the large bunghole on the belly, and a smaller one called a keystone is driven into the tap hole." In fact the keystone is driven into the tap hole before filling as the cask would leak otherwise.
Brilliant!! Ed Wray picked out that one. Don't know how I missed it. Ed's been doing a wonderful job working away at correcting, amending and adding to the thousands of pages of entries. This, I understand, is Ed. He's only up to D so far. Many have given up before that. Be strong, Ed. Martyn has been adding to the wiki today, too. W, P and S so far. And did you know the OCB has no entry for the worlds greatest selling beer? You do now.
Good work. 202 or 18.36% of the book's entries have now been corrected. Is the burst of entries because it is the Canadian Thanksgiving long weekend? Me, I am eating cold mac + cheese and watching Canadian three-down football myself. Because I am thankful for cold mac + cheese and Canadian three-down football. And Ed and Martyn.
Comments
Jeff Alworth - October 8, 2012 6:44 PM
This is a bit of a random note, but have you noticed how bizarrely front-loaded OCB is alphabetically? Entries run through page 868. Not that every letter is going to have the same number of pages, but that works out to about 33 pages per letter. Yet you're only through "H" at the halfway mark (the 8th letter). The first four letters alone go through page 314 (nearly 80 pages a letter)--or 36% of the book.
I have no explanation for this.
Alan - October 8, 2012 9:11 PM
Seems to be a bit at odds with the average distribution of first letters in words generally. You should be under 40% by "H" and there should be plenty of opportunity for words starting with N, O, R, S and T.
Ed - October 9, 2012 5:41 AM
It's interesting to see my blog is on blogspot.ca as well as blogspot.com
The uneven letter distribution is a source of comfort to me. I've just finished my forth letter but look to be about 40% of the way through the book.
What is the policy on "missing" entries by the way. That beta-amylase doesn't have an entry really needs flagging up.
Alan - October 9, 2012 8:14 AM
Flag it, baby. Something that central should not have been missed.
Craig - October 9, 2012 4:26 PM
In making a joke on Martyn's site, he pointed out to me, we should probably make note on the wiki that Albany Ale, and it's 250 plus years of brewing history, was omitted.
We have a reputation to uphold—albeit a very poor reputation—bit a reputation nonetheless.
Barm - October 13, 2012 8:57 AM
I think the preponderance of entries near the start of the alphabet reflect ambition early in the project and the ambition being scaled back as work on the book progressed.