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It did, for once! Knocked out two in about 8 hours, quite proud of myself.

Ambitious double brew day planned; pressure fermented lager first, then house NEIPA. Strike almost to temp, pouring down rain outside, great day to stay in the garage and brew. Tomorrow is busy all day what with weekly mom visit then work, so all in one day this time. Will be dead tired but...

(yes I know I post way too much in this thread but it's fun) Dear Beloved Cats, Use your new automated catbox more so Mamma can show her coworkers when you pee and poop via the app for said new catbox. Sincerely, I am way too easily entertained

Dear Redacted, If the Midwest USA is anywhere near where a branch of the company I work for (that rhymes with Zider) (and has to do with trucking) (so I can make them pay for it) I might just hit you up. Sincerely, I need a vacation

Dear Peppermint Candy That I just Made, Thank you for not turning into a crystallized hunk of hard-to-clean-up-mess because I finally figured out what the issue is. Sincerely, I have too many damned hobbies

Dear Too Tired, I don't live in an area where ice fishing is a thing, but the only justifiable reason I can find for ice fishing is that the fish are already frozen before you take them home. Sincerely, that's the beer talking

Dear Future Me, Yes, there is a big competition coming up. Yes, you have three beers entered, one meh, one okay, and one just about the best NEIPA I've ever brewed in my humble non-BJCP trained opinion. You will not, I repeat NOT, get all butthurt when said NEIPA does not win a medal because...

Dear Going Back to Coffee, You ARE funny. And many things sound funny in my head. Unfortunately my lack of filters usually lets them out before I can edit them. Sincerely, going back to this extremely tasty NEIPA now

Would use a basement but we don't have one, house is on a concrete slab (our development was built in the late 60's as low-income housing). Everything is either on shelves in the garage or in the rafters, or in random rooms in the house. Much of our disposable income over the years has gone to...

Here's our boy Sherman, in his favorite spot on the arm of the chair I usually sit in. He's about 11, weighs almost 20lbs, and is the biggest lovebug. Sullivan is a bit harder to capture, will get him later.

Things we found while cleaning one of the rooms in our house this weekend: 1. Daughter & son-in-law's wedding pictures. still needing to be framed. They were married in 2017. (We love them dearly but we're lazy like that). 2. Tempered glass screen protector for the nav screen in husband's...

Yesterday visited my favorite apiary and picked up 6lbs of wildflower honey, which as soon as I got home was transformed into 2.5g of what will be a blackberry melomel. They were out of their blackberry honey, tasted the wildflower and immediately said yes. Added the first dose of fermax this...

Dear Confused Keanu, I think he meant anti-vacuuming. Sincerely, I had to read it five times before I figured it out.

Dear Mr Anti-vaccer, 1. I just spent almost $250 on a catbox, cannot afford a roaming vacuum/cat taxi (at least according to youtube) that would shortly be completely jammed up with my younger dog's hair (seriously it's everywhere). Also said young dog would either try to mate with it or kill...

Dear New Automated Catbox, WHERE YOU BEEN ALL MY LIFE??? Sincerely, my house doesn't stink anymore yay!!

This one will be a bit long, so skip to the question at the end if you want to. We've had cats the entire time we've been together (24 years this year). At last count we've been owned by seven (we have two boys right now). All of them have been the goodest kitties. I'll post some pics later...

Photo is a bit fuzzy, but that just looks like a big clump of yeast to me. It can do funny things like that, especially in mead which has a pretty high alcohol content, meaning the specific gravity might be close to or lower than 1.000, allowing things that don't usually float to well, float...

Sounds overcarbed to me. There's good posts over on the Bottling/Kegging forum, but what has worked for me in the past is: turn off the gas to the keg. Release the pressure via the prv on the keg, sloooooowly. You don't want foam coming out of the prv. Let it sit, with the gas still off, at...

Left a couple of competition beers way too late (will not admit exactly how late but most everybody in the PNW knows what comp is coming up in the next two weeks so yeah that one), so brewing up the blonde tonight, and the NEIPA tomorrow. I am lazy as all get out, procrastinate on cleaning if I...

I just use a simple heat lamp (the kind with a clamp) set where it can't melt anything. Takes a bit longer to get the temperature where I need it, but since I don't use my ferment fridge for kveiks (those just go in the house) it rarely turns on unless it gets super cold in the garage...