Category: play
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ferm chamber?
Cleaning crap out of the basement today, “crap” being stuff that I’ve been hanging on to because I thought it might come in handy one day. It becomes “crap” the day I trip over it or have to move it out of the way one too many times. Today, one of the items that became… 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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Dumb Ways To Die
Too good not to share: Read.
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World War Z
Strange thing about World War Z: I was all geared up for some brain-eating mayhem but, even though there were zombies galore, there was not one single brain-eater among them. And now that I think about it, I can’t remember a turbo-zombie movie where the zombies ate brains. Turbo-zombies are too busy running around biting… Read.
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bubbling away
This is one of the most active batches of beer I’ve brewed in a long time! It came to life within just a few hours of pitching, and the air lock was full of foam the next morning. I cleaned it out but it just filled up again, so I replaced it with a blow-off… 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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dry run or wet
What’s a dry run called when it’s all about moving lots of wet stuff around? “Wet run” sounds messy. Which is apt, now that I think about it a little bit, because I made one hell of a mess the first time I tried to go through all the steps of moving water from one… Read.
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