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Sandy is heading my way tomorrow. Managed to sneak in a brew session today. Obama's porter, an ipa, and apfelwein. Got a bit windy but only one leaf in the cooling wort. Btw I am in se ct but at a high enough elevation that I laugh at storm surge. Just looks like a big power outage to me.

As far as I can tell, making yogurt is very simple. 1. Heat milk to 180, hold for ~15 minutes to kill nasties 2. Cool milk to 110, just open and uncovered is OK 3. Pitch 1-2 TBSP active yogurt cultures 4. Allow to ferment at ~110 for 6+ hours 5. Cool and serve (optionally strain thru...

SWMBO is Gluten free so I must every now and then make some beer for her. Today I made my second ever GF beer. Another IPA. Last one I didn't like that much. It had what I have come to believe to be the Sorghum twang. And it was super strong and dry. I used all 9.9# of extract last time and...

Trying a dry yeast belgian today. Like a Belgian Blonde. OG 1.051 shooting for high attenuation for 6% ABV. Mashed at 149°F. Pitched yeast at 2 PM and now at 10 PM there's a krausen forming and I had to switch the fridge over to cooling mode. So far I like this yeast. We'll see if it makes a...

Wifey wanted me to update her iPhone to the latest OS today. I am so glad I have an Android. I got started at 8AM today and after backing up a few times and downloading then installing the update and now restoring a few times, it's still going on. This is so stupid. When my phone got a new OS it...

Feels like it could become a tradition. Let the wife and kids try to go shopping. I'll brew. Though only the baby went shopping, and it wasn't until 6 AM, and I didn't start brewing til 10. Still. Black Friday brew day rocks! Best use of a day off, IMO! It was sort of spur of the moment...

Been making my IPAs to 7-8% ABV but they were always coming out not so good. Then I had a brewpub IPA that was like 5.5% and it was awesome! So I decided to give it a go, and now I happily drink my 5.25%'er

Beer name: Beeritator Named after a dinosaur, by my 8YO daughter (don't believe me?). She loves to write beer labels. She's not really into dinosaurs, so I guess it was just that it sort of rhymes with beer, that she thought it would make a good beer name. I want to make the beer, but what...

Watching Clayton Bigsby. An all time classic!

I can taste the 0.25 oz of late hops I used. I was like, "what's that taste? It's almost sweet or flowery... oh it's Willamette!" 4% ABV, 100 calories, $0.15/pint... FTW!

Just kegged up an Apfelwein I made just a month ago. From 1.065 to 0.996... that's 9% ABV! That's what I'm talkin' about!! :ban: Glad I made another two weeks later that might actually get some time to age before I down it.

What is wrong with me? I have 4 kids: 7, 5, 3, and 1. The neighbors have only two: 7 and 5. They hosted several weeks ago, for the two oldest kids. Now it's my turn to host their kids. Got them all crying, then the wife bailed me out, and now they're upstairs playing. As long as they don't...

I had to ferment my IPA outside my temp controlled fridge. I brewed it Friday. OG 1.067. Yeast is US-05. Now it's sitting there bubbling away but it's up above 80F...and has been all day!! Is it too late to install a swamp cooler to try to get some control over the temperature? I'm thinking it...

You are what you eat. Or in my case, you are also what you drink. Today I realized nearly half my daily calories come from beer. That's right, I normally eat about 900 calories and drink about 700 calories. Breakfast: 200-300 calories. Lunch: 400-500 calories. Dinner: 100-300 calories. I...

Not as bad as you might have been thinking... I hate waking up in the morning to responses to the comments I forgot I left on facebook the night before half drunk (or more). On Friday, I had thought maybe I'd make a blog post. Then I thought I'd decided not to do it. Found out today - no...

It's been probably two months since I brewed. I'm about to run out, so I had to make it a priority. I took the day off and brewed in the AM. Instead of leaving the house at 6:30, I went to start making beer. Six hours later, I was done, and now I have an IPA, a Stout, and an Apfelwein fermenting...

I brewed this one up 1/1/10 and finally pulled the trigger and kegged it. I wasn't sure whether I should keg or bottle, but it's been a while since I bottled, so I figured keg it. I'm still anxious about whether I should quarantine the siphon and other plastic stuff that's touched this...

Normally I do dual brew days. Two 5-gallon batches in around 6 hours. Usually I'm pitching on the first batch around the 4 hour mark. Pretty good. But I want to do better. Since the baby was born three months ago (kid number four) brewing has really slowed down. Once since then. As opposed to...

Must have drank too much last night, I got quite a hangover today. My hands are numb and I'm having visual hallucinations. At least I get to just sit here in front of my computer for the next eight hours now. By then I should be ready to do it again.

Digging through the back of the fridge, I found a beer labelled 9% IPA. Since I just kicked my latest IPA and haven't put the replacement on tap yet, I knew it was the perfect time to drink it. I am not sure when I made it, bit it was probably in the fall. Anyway it was frigging awesome! I was...