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bbohanon said:
Spent the weekend tilling, scraping and prepping about 600Sq Ft of area in front of the brewshed, around the end of the driveway and over by the side of my house for the the arrival of 9 tons of crusher finings and 6 pallets of patio flagstone that I am in charge of putting in.
Hooray?
:tank:
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I just did the math...the activities involved in completing that patio will leave you sore until 2017 and require about 52 gallons of beer to make you forget how hard it was and offer to help a friend do the same project.
 
I spent last weekend chasing the elusive "Accurate Craigslist Description" on budget tow vehicles for a friend. Out of about seven 3/4-ton SUV's and 4-door pick-ups, one was close, four did not understand the meaning of "little" when referring the rust and two required calling the CDC to test the interiors for various blood-born pathogens.
 
I have to bottle my Westvleteren 12 clone this week and grill steaks for Father's Day. I've brewed two weekends in a row so I'll enjoy this weekend sampling my prior efforts.
 
Spent Fathers Day getting all the flagstone/brick firepit laid around the house and the brewshed along with edging it with railroad ties. This coming weekend is me leveling/backfilling the joints to finalize the project. Then I can brew again in my A/C'ed brewshed (thankfully).
Its really going to look good when its done, but man its some manual labor and I think I picked the worst 2-3 weeks of heat to do this project timing-wise.

Pics of the flagstone project between my house and brewshed:

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Spent the weekend doing my "bachelor party" New England Brewery tour. What a blast! It was me and 6 close friends who are also members of my brew club. Below is the complete itinerary with all the stops we made (although the schedule wasn't exact):

Day 1 Thursday - CT & Western, Mass (no tours):
1) 12:30 - 1:30 Lunch: Pies & Pints (Waterbury, CT)
2) 2:00 - 2:30: Firefly Hollow (Bristol, CT) - Flight or 1 & done. Choose a growler for hotel.
3) 3:15 - 3:45: NEBCO (New Haven, CT) - Flight or 1 & done. Choose a growler for hotel.
4) 5:15 -5:45: Treehouse (Monson, MA) (opens at 5 PM). Flight or 1 & done. Choose a growler for hotel.
5) 6:30 - 7:30 Dinner: The Dirty Truth (Northampton, MA)
6) 8:00 Hotel: Quality Inn, 117 Conz Street, Northampton, MA. Boozing until bed.

Day 2 Friday - VT
1) Free Breakfast: Leave at 10:45.
2) 11:30 - 12:30 Lunch: Whetstone Station (Brattleboro, VT). Choose a growler for the hotel?
3) 1:15-1:30: Meuleman's Craft Draught. Beer shopping.
3) 2:30 - 3:15: Longtrail self-guided tour (Bridgewater, VT)
4) 4:15 - 4:30: The Warren Store (Warren, VT - Lawson's). Beer shopping.
5) 5:00 - 6:00 Drinks & Dinner: Prohibition Pig (Waterbury, VT). Choose growlers for hotel?
6) 6:30 Hotel: Commodores Inn, 823 South Main St, Stowe, VT. Beer shopping? More boozing and/or exploring.

Day 3 Saturday - VT
1) $8 breakfast at hotel: Leave at 10:00
2) 10:00 - 11:00: Beer shopping?
3) 11:30 - 12:30 Lunch: Brewster River Pub (Jeffersonville, VT). Choose a growler for hotel?
4) 1:00 - 1:30: Rock Art Brewery (Morrisville, VT). Flight or 1 & done. Choose a growler for hotel?
5) 2:30 - 3:00: Hill Farmstead Brewery (Greensboro, VT)
6) 3:30: Cabin Camping at Lakeview Cabins (Barton, VT)

Day 4 Sunday - Trip Home
1) Breakfast at campground. Check out at 10:00
2) 11:15 - 12:15 Lunch: Jasper Murdock's (The Norwich Inn, Norwich, VT)
3) 2:00 - 3:00: High Horse or Northampton Brewery (Amherst/Northampton, MA)
4) 4:00: Home
 
Shred said:
Spent the weekend doing my "bachelor party" New England Brewery tour. What a blast! It was me and 6 close friends who are also members of my brew club. Below is the complete itinerary with all the stops we made (although the schedule wasn't exact):

Day 1 Thursday - CT & Western, Mass (no tours):
1) 12:30 - 1:30 Lunch: Pies & Pints (Waterbury, CT)
2) 2:00 - 2:30: Firefly Hollow (Bristol, CT) - Flight or 1 & done. Choose a growler for hotel.
3) 3:15 - 3:45: NEBCO (New Haven, CT) - Flight or 1 & done. Choose a growler for hotel.
4) 5:15 -5:45: Treehouse (Monson, MA) (opens at 5 PM). Flight or 1 & done. Choose a growler for hotel.
5) 6:30 - 7:30 Dinner: The Dirty Truth (Northampton, MA)
6) 8:00 Hotel: Quality Inn, 117 Conz Street, Northampton, MA. Boozing until bed.

Day 2 Friday - VT
1) Free Breakfast: Leave at 10:45.
2) 11:30 - 12:30 Lunch: Whetstone Station (Brattleboro, VT). Choose a growler for the hotel?
3) 1:15-1:30: Meuleman's Craft Draught. Beer shopping.
3) 2:30 - 3:15: Longtrail self-guided tour (Bridgewater, VT)
4) 4:15 - 4:30: The Warren Store (Warren, VT - Lawson's). Beer shopping.
5) 5:00 - 6:00 Drinks & Dinner: Prohibition Pig (Waterbury, VT). Choose growlers for hotel?
6) 6:30 Hotel: Commodores Inn, 823 South Main St, Stowe, VT. Beer shopping? More boozing and/or exploring.

Day 3 Saturday - VT
1) $8 breakfast at hotel: Leave at 10:00
2) 10:00 - 11:00: Beer shopping?
3) 11:30 - 12:30 Lunch: Brewster River Pub (Jeffersonville, VT). Choose a growler for hotel?
4) 1:00 - 1:30: Rock Art Brewery (Morrisville, VT). Flight or 1 & done. Choose a growler for hotel?
5) 2:30 - 3:00: Hill Farmstead Brewery (Greensboro, VT)
6) 3:30: Cabin Camping at Lakeview Cabins (Barton, VT)

Day 4 Sunday - Trip Home
1) Breakfast at campground. Check out at 10:00
2) 11:15 - 12:15 Lunch: Jasper Murdock's (The Norwich Inn, Norwich, VT)
3) 2:00 - 3:00: High Horse or Northampton Brewery (Amherst/Northampton, MA)
4) 4:00: Home
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Sounds like an awesome trip!
 
Just took possession of our house last week, so this past weekend and a good chunk of the future ones will be dedicated to getting it how we want it. Fortunately my parents are coming in to town to help, so I'll be brewing a saison during the week in preparation for the housewarming party in a few weeks.
 
masskrug said:
This weekend? Driving 10 hours to South Carolina. Where do I get a beer?
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Greenville, Columbia and Charleston all have awesome breweries!

G'ville has Thomas Creek and RJ Rockers

Cola has Conquest, River Rat and Swamp Cabbage

Chas. has Holy City and Westbrook

(This list isn't all inclusive)
 
Celebrating a late father's day with my girlfriend's dad and going to her nephew's birthday party.

Luckily, I planned it out and had my brewday on Tuesday instead. That way I can get fermentation going and have a good idea of how it's going instead of being out of town and wondering how it's going.
 
I'm processing 50 broiler chickens this weekend. We raise them from day old until they are large enough. That's enough to get the family through the whole year.
 
Packing to move house on Thursday, trying to buy a car (moving out to where I need my own car to commute), trying to rest my collarbone that was screwed back together in surgery last Tuesday. No, these things are not very compatible with each other.
 
Last weekend I picked up a $100 car for the renter...1989 Ford Escort (in the rust belt!) and proceeded to fix all the safety issue. For $155, including purchase price (not including various debris in the garage used to patch thins together), we had a running, driving and stopping car that passed emissions! He still needs new rear springs and re-packing the rear wheel bearings will only buy him a couple thousand miles (damaged because the pre-load was not set right).

Amazing what just replacing a bunch of vac and breather hoses will do. Apparently brake pistons that are missing chunks out of them do not like retracting (had to pry them apart and drive the 25 miles home without using the brakes).

So this weekend...I have to replace the cat on my work truck because I just can't get the stupid 350 TBI to pass emissions. Stupid thing just runs too rich at idle.

Then I have to re-wire a neighbors outdoor light because the professional electrician did so, so many things wrong.
 
Volunteering at the big annual community fundraiser outdoor festival. Shuckin clams. I also have an item in the live auction, I'm supplying the beer for a barbecue dinner for ten that a few friends are making.
 
Just the regular non brewing activities like bottling, cleaning, drinking, etc. I live an exciting life!

But it's a good life with good beer, good family and good career. Salud!
 
Hanging out with the wife in case she decides to go into labor.

Went to a bunch of garage sales and picked up a fridge/fermentation chamber for the low low cost of free.
 
Loading a huge pile of remodeling junk from my backyard into a trailer and hauling it off to the dump.

All of my fermenters are full, anyway.
 
I am cleaning my garage, raking under all the places that earwigs like to live in, killing every effing earwig possible from the yard and around the house. Not withstanding the moving of my freezers to simplify the use of a ratcheting fermenter lift and making an old table my brew stand.
 
Attempting to restrain myself from wanting to totally annihilate my in-laws for basically disowning their daughter, granddaughters and myself this morning over some imagined insult, all because they always hear only about half of any conversation and take it entirely out of context. :mad: Maybe I should take up Zen......
 
Was house-hunting this past weekend, and next weekend we'll be at my parents' house. Good thing, too, they're the only folks on the planet who have bottles of my last oatmeal stout. :)

Michigan_Wolfman said:
Attempting to restrain myself from wanting to totally annihilate my in-laws for basically disowning their daughter, granddaughters and myself this morning over some imagined insult, all because they always hear only about half of any conversation and take it entirely out of context. :mad: Maybe I should take up Zen......
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Holy ****. I dunno anything about Zen, but I bet beer would help. That sounds intense... better make it a boilermaker.
 
I did get to brew but had a very busy non-brewing part of the weekend.

The Racevan is done and ready for for the July 25th true 24 hours race at Joliet. Theme is even 99% done. I started on my Lord Dark Helmet helmet...it is HUGE.

Found time to load up the old race car with all its spares and take photo's for posting it for sale. Anyone want Saturn SC2 with the ill-advised, owner-installed roadster conversion. Full cage makes up for the loss of structure. All it needs is a seat, harness and fire extinguisher to race. Not even close to street legal.

I got most of the back yard cleaned up (mainly so I could get the Saturn out of the garage).

Started prepping a friends house for sale...sucks when a layoff forces you to take a job out of state only a year after you buy a house.

Finally, kegged my Ordinary Bitter.
 
Family vacation to the North Carolina shore. 110+ people taking over the beach my wife spent her summers at as a child. Enjoying a few beloved southern beers I can't get in Chicago and cherishing my 14 month old son's first experience with the ocean. It's a much needed week in paradise.
 
Two weeks ago:
dyqik said:
Packing to move house on Thursday, trying to buy a car (moving out to where I need my own car to commute), trying to rest my collarbone that was screwed back together in surgery last Tuesday. No, these things are not very compatible with each other.
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Nope, they weren't compatible with each other, which is why I spent this last weekend resting after a second surgery to screw a new plate into my collarbone, and will be resting my shoulder completely for the next two weeks. And not drinking my remaining homebrew thanks to the painkillers.
 

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