Category: food & drink
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B goes to market
My Darling B at the farmer’s market this morning. Read.
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Centennial Blonde take two
Brewing Day! This will be my second try at brewing a light ale called Centennial Blonde. I brewed a batch of this about a week ago but forgot to halve the recipe (I was making a five-gallon batch versus the ten-gallon batch the recipe was written for), ending up with a powerfully strong soup that… Read.
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grampa’s
We just had to eat dinner at Grampa’s Pizzeria last night because it’s on Willy Street and it’s new and we’ve been chomping at the bit to see what it looks like inside and we love pizza and we were out shopping for furniture and we hate shopping and it was guy night and I… Read.
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foamy
Monday night we went to a concert in the park and didn’t get home until around about nine-thirty, so I didn’t have time to work on my newest beer-making gadget until last night. Harmonious Wail came to Monona to play a free gig in the park. If you ever get the opportunity to see them,… Read.
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Centennial Blonde Ale
Brewing the last batch with the new brewing equipment went much more smoothly than the first time. If nothing else, I spilled a lot less beer, thanks to an afternoon I spent the weekend before with a guy named Charley. I watched him connect a hose from the mash tun to the pump, then connect… Read.
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brew day!
Guess what I brewed a batch of today? Still trying to figure out what I’m doing. The gadgets work fine, it’s the process I’m still trying to get hold of in my brain. I got nearly everything right today, except for one small mishap with the hose connections. What a mess that was. The one… Read.
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washed up
If you asked me, Is there at least one thing about brewing beer that you dislike, kimo sabe? I would not hesitate a moment to answer: Washing the bottles, no question. A necessary task but a giant pain in the ass. There has got to be a robot out there to do this for me.… Read.
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limping along
I am officially too tired to type, so this would of course be the perfect time to blog because why would I want this to make sense? See if you can follow me all the way to the last full stop. My exhaustion stems from waking up sometime shortly after three o’clock this morning. There… Read.
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American wheat
Just pulled the switch on my first-ever all-grain brew, an American wheat beer for the hot, hot days of July that are almost here already! Wait, half the summer is gone? What the hell? Whatever. I got the recipe from an on-line forum and from all reports it’s eminently drinkable. Well, duh. It’s beer. But… Read.
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the reason we’re here
There is an unresolved argument in academic circles about whether the invention of beer was the primary reason that people in Mesopotamia, considered the birthplace of Western civilization about 10,000 years ago, first became agriculturalists. By about 3200 BC, around the time the Sumerians invented the written word, beer had already held a significant role… Read.
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