One of the measurement tools that is used for valuing different investment options is the bond equity earnings yield ratio (BEER). BEER is calculated by dividing the bond yield, usually of a five- or 10-year government bond, by the current earnings yield — an inverted price-to-earnings ratio — of a stock benchmark in the same market.
Generally a BEER value greater than one indicates stock markets are overvalued, while a reading less than one suggests the opposite. Pre covid-19 (say late 2018), when 10 year treasuries were in the 3% range, and the S&P 500 was ~28, we had a BEER near 1. Now, with the 10yr treasury sitting at 0.68%, we have BEER values of a minuscule 0.15! Blind use of the tool means stocks are SUPER cheap compared to treasuries. (I know for many here that seems obvious.)
I've been bearish for some time, well before covid - and now the situation is that while we've rebounded from March's low I think the long term trend of the real economy is at best treading water, or more likely a grind downwards which will necessarily manifest itself, eventually, in all stock prices. So while stocks may be a better choice than treasuries/bonds, maybe both are bad and gold/silver is a better temporary refuge, or even cash assuming inflation doesn't destroy it. But if I toss my crystal ball out and stick to analysis such as BEER it's saying the upside for stocks is clear. Thoughts?
TL;DR: Is BEER still a valid measurement tool or are the current economic conditions so completely upside down that until we know what the new normal is, that this tool has been rendered temporarily inapplicable?
Question: I’m perhaps a little out of touch, but I’m being put off ordering a beer anywhere other than my deck. I remember a pint being a pint of beer, not the highly variable thing that turns up when I swap it for anything between $8 - 12. A handle I can grasp, lol but all these other sizes? Anyone else wondering if this is getting a bit out of hand?
Hi there. I'm working on a project I've talked about a little bit over on r/Homebrewing: a floating tilt hydrometer, which measures the density of fermenting beer by measuring the angle at which it's floating, and therefore measures the progress of fermentation. The ESP-12 wakes up every half hour, sends a measurement to a remote server, and goes back into deep sleep.
This is the first PCB project I've ever done, and before I send it off to be manufactured, I wanted to get some eyes on it to make sure I'm not doing anything catastrophically stupid. In particular, I'm concerned about the 3.3+ and GND tracks; I've read a lot about good grounding practice and still don't have a good handle on what best practices are. Also track routing and possible overuse of vias.
Because it's a DIY project I hope to document sufficiently for other amateurs to build on their own without any special equipment besides a soldering iron and maybe magnifying glass. Most of the parts—the MPU6050, the TP4056 charging/protection circuit, and the CP2102 USB UART—are on commonly-available breakout boards, which will be through-hole soldered to the PCB. This has the added benefit of improving the length/width compactness of the end assembly. (The PCB goes inside a test tube, so the ideal shape is cylindrical. This breakout-boards-on-a-PCB setup approximates that, and is sort of cheater's-multilayer, as far as ease of routing goes.)
The schematic is attached below, along with the PCB front/back design. You can also get the KiCad files directly from the github project.
Thanks in advance for your time! I appreciate you taking a look.
Edit 3: Well, it turns out that the tilting hydrometer idea is patent-encumbered, so we had to think of something else. Now, a load cell measures the weight of a sinker immersed in the liquid in question, and the apparent weight reveals the density of the liquid reveals the specific gravity we're looking for.
Since we need to hang something from the top of the fermentation vessel anyway, we figured it made sense to move the PCB outside of the carboy, where battery power becomes an option rather than a necessity. No size constraints means we can mount almost everything on top of the board. (I left the decoupling capacitors alone because I didn't want to have to figure out moving them.)
Since we need two analog sensors now, the battery voltage and the temperature, I connected both to the ADC pi
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Just the title. I don't think I used my hydrometer correctly. I just plopped it in the beer instead of filling the tube.
I know I phrased the question wrong, but let me try to explain.
In BeerSmith my recipe get me an estimated SRM of 6. In the fermenter it looked more like a 14. When siphoning it looked like a 6. When in the glass it looks more like an 8-9.
This seems to be the case with every beer I've brewed so far, so I'm curious what amount of beer (thickness of the container maybe?) is used for SRM calculations.
The units of measurement are on the bloody bottle as well!!!!
An article from americancraftbeer.com listing the world's biggest beer producers and reporting their output in hectolitres.
>Hectoliter is a metric unit of volume equal to 100 liters. It is the major unit of volume used in the brewing industry worldwide. Even in the two countries that have resisted the metric system, the United States and the United Kingdom, the hectoliter is slowly replacing the US beer barrel (117.35 liters) and the UK beer barrel (163.66 liters) as units of beer measurement.
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>Measures equaling “one barrel” differ widely from country to country and between different industries. The metric hectoliter avoids those differences and makes scientific calculation easier.
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>The abbreviation for the hectoliter is hl.
Beers should be a universal unit of measurement...for everything.
People already use beers as a measure of currency, ie, dinner out costs 2 beers (ie £7) and a unit of time (about 20 minutes). It should be the unit for everything. For example 1 beer = 16cm (the height of a pint glass). 1 beer = £3.50 1 beer = 568ml 1 beer = 16cm 1 beer = 20 minutes 1 beer = 200 Kilo-calories
Then using the above, 1mile/hour = 3300 beers/beer.
The possibilities, and the merchandise, would be endless.
