Category: play
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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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shake ya ass
Biking home from work I got stuck behind a guy who was showing off to anyone who would watch by leaning way back in his saddle and riding no-hands down the trail. We all felt so insignificant that we would never been as cool as he was. I would’ve passed him but, just as I… 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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the catch
We were watching the movie John Carter of Mars about a week ago and there are two scenes – two! – where the princess of Helium, Dejah Thoris, falls from an airship, or some dizzingly high precipice, and John Carter prevents her from from going splat on the ground by jumping to an amazing height… Read.
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trial boil
Firing up the electric brew kettle with the newly-live control panel! Brew buddy Scott came over last night to facilitate the last step of bringing the control panel on line, which was literally bringing it on line – connecting it to the main circuit breaker panel. He’s done this before; I haven’t, so I took… Read.
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just one more
Just one more reason in my very long list of reasons not to move to Mississippi any time soon. Screen shot taken from The New Yorker’s interactive map of craft breweries across the US. Read.
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lake trout dinner
Lake trout grilled on the trusty Weber for dinner tonight. I laid out two fillets on a sheet of tinfoil with a dollop of butter – *bliss!* There was a moment of doubt when it seemed as though the fire was too hot to do a proper job of cooking the fillets all the way… Read.
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Eldorado
Well, I did not do hardly anything I planned to do today, except go out to breakfast with My Darling B, and drink beer. So the day’s not a total loss. We went to Eldorado Grill for breakfast, first time we’ve ever been. It’s one of those places we’ve driven past almost every day for… Read.
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