Engaging in bad behaviors
Fudge shop? Yes, we are buying it out.
Category: Rants and Stories
Modern day Amish
Catching up with Facebook in a coffee shop, just like they used too.
Still a keeper
Doesn’t eat picked beets. Still worth keeping. It’s my baby treating me right on my birthday trip.
[nerd humor]
no one attachment can be larger than 4MG
I see what you tried to do there, business person.
All cultured up
Five inoculated vials of Wyeast 1099. All ready for bedtime in the fridge. Thanks, Santa, the presents worked great!
Brewing it up
After the hybrid batch/fly sparge and 60 minute hop addition.
Killer on the loose
Getting set to mash in a batch of cereal killer. 5.25 pounds of Maris Otter, 1.73 pounds of flaked corn, and 14 ounces of torrified rice.
Mustacular!
Remember the first time you tried a craft beer? The first time you bought wine that wasn’t on the bottom shelf? The first time you wore silk anything?
The first time I used Woodsman Mustache Wax [1] was like that. Oh for all that is holy, this stuff is ridiculous. A little BB-sized ball is all it takes to wax down the whole Fu Manchu.
Clubman, while widely available was going at the rate of about a quarter of a tube per day. This stuff pays for itself. It’s tacky enough that I don’t need to roll the whole thing just to get it to stay in place. The unrolled look is way more comfortable. And I smell pretty frickin’ awesome too. So, yeah, grow yourself a mustache and then pick yourself up some Woodsman.
Now if you excuse me, I’m going to go hang out with Paul Bunyan and chop down some frickin’ trees.
Santa’s Brewery
Thanks to Santa I’ve got a pressure cooker and some other toys. Working on my first set of slants for yeast [1] right now. I’ve got two Wyeast strains in the fridge and could possibly be picking up another depending on what gets brewed this weekend. Still trying to choose from amonst these choices.
- another Belgian dubbel using the PC Dutch Castle [2]
- another run at the Rochefort 8 clone using the appropriate yeast [3] this time or
- veering wildly and revisiting the Cereal Killer recipe from a little over a year ago.
Going with the latter means a trip to pick up some 1056 [4]. The Belgians sound good but I’ve been having a hankering for an easy drinking blonde for a while and, hey, the CK was a pretty good beer if I do say so myself.
Hope your Christmas was as good as ours. How good was ours? Well, Jim yacked on the carpet from treat/bones overload, Morton is still sporting odd bits of wrapping paper and tape on his coat, Oscar barely crawled out of his kitty bong for dinner, and Elizabeth has rearranged her shrine to feature her salt lamp while watching her new movies. It’s going to be hard to top this next year.
[1] http://www.homebrewtalk.com/f163/slanting-yeast-133103/
[2] http://www.wyeastlab.com/hb_yeaststrain_detail.cfm?ID=66
[3] http://www.wyeastlab.com/hb_yeaststrain_detail.cfm?ID=130
[4] http://www.wyeastlab.com/hb_yeaststrain_detail.cfm?ID=8
Czeching it up
Eating lunch with my favorite magpie.