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My Fridays in a nutshell. Mondays too, come to think of it.

Would a normal person say it's reasonable to hold up dinner time in order to pick a bunch of hops in the rain with the hopes of claiming a $2 prize? No. But would a homebrewer do it just to claim the title of "His Hoppiness" over the one other (non-brewing) guy that enters hops in the county...

Sounds like a great way to speed-run a couple barrel aged imperial stouts frome fridge to near ambient Temps.

Start doing some patrols to see if you can spot one (or a couple) of these guys going to town. Just because tomato hornworms are massive doesn't mean they are easy to see.

Took my first go at making garlic pepper rutabaga chips. Peeled, steamed, then sliced them. Turned out a bit dense and chewy. Could be worse. And I managed to use up two whole rutabaga.

Like the top of the tomato fruit or plant?

Thanks to @Rish for digging up the exact example I was thinking of, but totally forgot where it was. Fatwashing is good at extracting flavor from fats (like bacon grease). But I think it's unnecessary for things that are sorta fatty and added coldside (like coconut). I've got a jar of black...

"Better" is subjective. Is an all pilsner malt Helles better than an all Munich malt marzen? In my earlier days, I've certainly tried my hand at toasting 2-row to mock Vienna, Munich, or biscuit malts. I've even soaked and toasted for DIY crystal malts.

Otherwise pyramid would be my bet if I had to stack buckets. Which I can't, because I have two different sized buckets that I don't even ferment in anymore.

Adequately strong bleach also works as a cleaner. Try soaking a used BIAB in a hot 1:10 bleach solution after a PBW soak and marvel as the grossness removed.

I should give kohlrabi a try, as I wage war against root maggots in my radishes, turnips, and rutabaga. That big one definitely had early maggot damage, and a couple late ones as well. That and rapid growth makes most things freakish. After topping it, that big one was still over 5lbs. And...

Yall made me go check on the rutabaga. I was simultaneously amazed and unhappy.

The weekend has been : Work can go pound sand. Though it'd be nice if I were old and retired, and could actually tell my employer that.