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Back in the day, most linguists went off and gathered their own research data. Since the 60s, though, most just analyze documented grammars or language databases. As a field linguist, I'm the guy who goes out and puts those things together. Basically, I show up in a village somewhere, follow...

Yep, I washed the beads first in water and then with some over-concentrated starsan. I'm swamped with work this week, but sometime next week I'll probably try getting another batch on the stirplate going to see if that makes a difference. At this point, there's no real convention for pitching...

That looks great, evancold! How much were the grommets ultimately?

I'd hesitate to put it in terms of a specific conversion at this point, but in this one experiment the yeast beads produced a less yeast-forward beer. I don't know why exactly that lead to a more bitter beer at this point. It could be that the cleaner profile simply allowed the existing alphas...

Here it is! After a long, angsty wait, I finally busted out the clean and carbed beers and poured another triangle test. This time, I believe, there's a fair comparison to make: there was no acetaldehyde or any other sign of greenness in either. They are identical in appearance and both...

I love being a field linguist, and I wouldn't trade it for anything. Half the year, my office is the picture below. (The other half, it's a dusty library, but at least the beer's better!)

sudo make me a sandwich

Exactly! No offense creamy, but this "my wife and I are thinking about having kids" is total milksop. Your genes want you to do what's natural: organize a raiding party and strike the nearest vulnerable village. Claim their women and horses. So say we all.

I do, though it needs a minor repair to be working again. I probably won't bother testing this batch, though, since I'm pretty sure I had some surface yeast go renegade. I'm going to try running this set of beads through fermentation a few times, and by that point hopefully I'll have gotten the...

Nothing new to report, though I'm going to cold crash these soon for packaging. Both the beers are very clear, and there's relatively little sediment in the bead jar. The beads have started sinking, which I suspect has to do with the release of trapped CO2. Very cool. I really like the...

There's a great passage in one of the Socratic dialogues about how the youth of the day loved luxury but spurned work. If you resent the rising generation, take comfort in the fact that cranky old men have been despising teenagers for at least two and a half millennia! :D

Kids these days, eh?

A friend of a friend tried to start a brewery at 23. Name was Ken Grossman or something. I never heard what happened, but I'm sure it went belly up. Fresh out of college, how good could his beer have been?

Cool! :cross:

In my anecdotal experience, there is nothing more fascinating in this world to young toddlers (~1 y.o. - 2 y.o.) than brewing gear. Given a shallow pan of water, a spray bottle, a vinator, and a couple of plastic bottles, my kid could have entertained himself for hours. Then at 3, he became...

Unfortunately, get used to it. Pregnancy causes some kind of social boundary distortion field. In the period before, during, and immediately after it, strangers and near-strangers will inexplicably feel entitled to say and do things that would be obviously inappropriate under any other...

Yeah, whenever good people like creamy hesitate on the baby making, I'm reminded of the first five minutes of Idiocracy: "A child? In this economy?!?"

Apparently this makes me an outlier, but I didn't actually find the arrival of the new baby to gut my former life and leave it bleeding out back behind the maternity ward like everyone told me it would. I enjoyed it, actually, and in some ways my hobbies have gotten as much or more attention as...

I hear the guy doing the experiment is utterly irresistible to women, too! (Thanks for the plug WortMonger! :mug: I remain skeptical that this could replace normal yeast pitching, but if it does the possibilities for pressurized fermentations are very cool.)