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uberg33k
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immaculatebrewery.com/basic-molecular...


So I'm going to be doing this series of posts on and off. The basic idea is that I'd like for brewers from any background to be able to understand what's going on with the chemistry behind the hobby we love. Basically everything that I had wished the Chemistry of Brewing class OU did online could have been, but approachable by anyone. So, we're starting really simple today with basic molecular components. That may be boring to some of you, but I think it's important to build up a good foundation and work up from there.

After a couple of these posts (or maybe even after this one), I'd like to do a couple of "Simple Science Study Halls" where I do Q&A from you guys and gals on the posted topic. I really want to help anyone who's interested in learning this stuff to be able to learn it.





Posted 34 days ago.
Edited 34 days ago by uberg33k

homebrewdad
Charter Member
Birmingham, AL
2480 Posts


Fabulous post, man.  Teach us!



Posted 34 days ago.

BrewerBrad
Oklahoma City, OK
66 Posts


Woooooo! Adding to my reading list for the day! 



Posted 34 days ago.

uberg33k
Charter Member
The Internet
314 Posts


Before anyone else reading this post says it ... I know my site has some weird rendering issues on Macs/iOS.  I'm working on it.  If you can, use Chrome in the mean time.



Posted 34 days ago.

Biobrewer
San Leandro
1 Posts


Nice work. Only issue I saw was that you highlighted the incorrect set of linkages on the ketone (it should be the carbon double bonded to and oxygen and single bonded to two R groups).



Posted 34 days ago.

uberg33k
Charter Member
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314 Posts


You are correct and I struggled with that part a bit.  You'll notice how the wording was a little squirrely, right?  Basically, it's you're an aldehyde and here's how to tell or you're a ketone. I actually got to test some of the ideas you see in the post on 9 year olds.  I figured if they got it, anyone should get it.  The idea of 2 R groups caused them to glaze over a bit.  They somewhat cleverly thought it was R=R and the groups should be the same.  When I said no, that's not quite it, that seemed to be confusing.  They also seemed to not be able to "see" the ketone group all that well.  The most straight forward thing was the binary choice between aldehyde or not aldehyde.  I thought for now that was good enough.  

If you have some suggestion as to how to rewrite it to be more accurate and still be approachable, I'd gladly do some editing.  I just don't want things to get too confusing or too boring.

Edit: a word




Posted 34 days ago.
Edited 34 days ago by uberg33k

skunkfunk
OKC, OK
38 Posts


Oh my. I typically read your blog but this might just be too heavy for sleep-deprived-new-dad.




Posted 34 days ago.

homebrewdad
Charter Member
Birmingham, AL
2480 Posts


I like to think of myself as reasonably intelligent, but the OP is really good at making me feel dense. 

Especially since he's intentionally dumbing down the material to appeal to the masses.  :)



Posted 34 days ago.

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