I like this time at night on HBT

[Lushife]

Well in my time zone it's closer to this time.

Video Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPTVrbs42y8

My kid was born three minutes to midnight, I was so pissed.

 

[45_70sharps]

You can do it from your phone (it's just a PIA) but I'm sure you mean http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwWUOmk7wO0&sns=emthis?

That would be the one!

 

[Varmintman]

Well I think I will brew tonight. Now to decide what to brew. I got enough for a cream ale here but in the winter I kind of like dark and medium hopped beers.

Heck I guess I will just do the cream even though it is a 90 min boil

 

[45_70sharps]

Anyone here tonight?

Hello?

Is this thing on?

 

[Golddiggie]

Anyone here tonight?

Hello?

Is this thing on?

you say somethin???

 

[Leadgolem]

Anyone here tonight?

Hello?

Is this thing on?

Nope, not hear.

 

[snaps10]

Yup. I'm here, but I'm going to sleep now. Goodnight, see you tomorrow.

 

[45_70sharps]

My evening is just about to start.
My daughter is going to bed.
Nothing to do but make lunch for her, get coffee ready for morning, do laundry and clean the kitchen.
Other than that it's just the forum from!

 

[Golddiggie]

My evening is just about to start.
My daughter is going to bed.
Nothing to do but make lunch for her, get coffee ready for morning, do laundry and clean the kitchen.
Other than that it's just the forum from!

Well, aren't you the handy daisy.

Just finished the first pint of the night. 8.8% mocha porter. Damned fine brew.

Been looking up AR parts most of the evening. Think I found the low profile gas block I need, so that I can convert over to a free floating tube (hand guard). Just wish the rest of the parts were in stock right now. Hopefully things will be better after the 20th, when the Shot Show is over. :rockin:

 

[Dan]

Hey 45-70,

I'm here. What's up?

 

[45_70sharps]

Dan! Thinking about a beer to go along with my evening chores.

What are you up to?

 

[Dan]

Golddiggie I know you aren't married, 45-70, If I'm not remembering incorrectly you aren't either. He guys just so we get this straight I don't smurfing judge. I'm marrried in a weird way. Wife is 2,000 miles away. Might as well be two million.

So WTF was I going to say? No idea, you guys fill in the air dead time.

 

[Dan]

45-70 my friend. Not much. Drinking a few beers. Posting on HBT. Wondering if I make a ******* out of myself when I end up drunk and posting. Not doing it now but have.. maybe to many times.

 

[Golddiggie]

45-70 my friend. Not much. Drinking a few beers. Posting on HBT. Wondering if I make a ******* out of myself when I end up drunk and posting. Not doing it now but have.. maybe to many times.

No 'if' about it, more of a 'when'...

Yeah, I'm still single. Have yet to find a woman that can both handle me, put up with me, and has the backbone to not take too much of my sheit. Plus she can't F up any of my hobbies/interests. Like finding a needle in an island of needles surrounded by a sea of needles.

 

[45_70sharps]

I remember that.
That would suck being that far apart.

I've been divorced for about a year, spent near two getting there.

Life's not bad though. Getting better all the time.
I ended up with my daughter through it all so life is good.

Good other than sleep. Between what it took to get where I am, the sleep habits I developed before I knew if I would have my daughter, and my work and housekeeping schedule I don't sleep enough.
Thank God for places like this!
People on car sites go to bed too early.

 

[Dan]

Yes, you put it quite nicely.

 

[45_70sharps]

45-70 my friend. Not much. Drinking a few beers. Posting on HBT. Wondering if I make a ******* out of myself when I end up drunk and posting. Not doing it now but have.. maybe to many times.

You don't have to worry too much about making an ass out of yourself here.
We're not that judgmental.

We've all been there and don't have much room to judge.

 

[Dan]

GD, Sharps, are you guys into making cheese? Seems to be the natural path of homebrewers. I've just recently dwelved into this.

 

[Airborneguy]

Driving around in the rain (I think there's some hail now too).

 

[Golddiggie]

Thank God for places like this!
People on car sites go to bed too early.

What a bunch of wusses...

Might need to go and pull another pint of that porter... Only feeling a little of it right now.

 

[Golddiggie]

GD, Sharps, are you guys into making cheese? Seems to be the natural path of homebrewers. I've just recently dwelved into this.

I've thought about making cheese... Need to land a new job before I get more gear for something like that. I am looking to make a nice wine soon though. I have all the hardware needed for that, just need to get the ingredients for it. Planning to make a kick ass cab sov first.. Something that will be 2-5 years from pitch to glass. :rockin: Yeah, I like the long term products/projects.

BTW, they're talking some more snow tonight, and then more tomorrow. Got the SB ready to rock and roll if there's enough for it.

 

[45_70sharps]

I've never done cheese.
My younger brother, who also brews, has done a bit of it.
Before his new job, he and his wife ( with six kids!) had a goat and made cheese.

I've thought about wine also like Golddiggie.
For years I've eaten salal berries when I was working. They are juicy and sweet but the skin is fairly tough and they have a lot of seeds. In trying to figure out what to do with them the only thing I could figure out was wine!
The problem is I looked up recipes and you need a LOT of berries.

 

[45_70sharps]

OK, we've one person who is still single, one who has to deal with the wife being thousands of miles away for an extended period of time, and one divorced dude.

I normally don't say much of anything about my ex. Internet posts are forever, someday my daughter could read postings and no matter what think of my ex, I want my daughter to figure things out on her own and make her own judgement.

That being said, I've got to post music again tonight. I remember hearing this song while going through the divorce and loving it. Perfect song. I bought the CD. This was the only song worth listening to on it but it was worth the cost. I would play it from time to time, not too often when the daughter was with me. Quit listening to it with the daughter around when my then five year old was asking me why the guy wanted to hit her in the head with a flower pot! Quit playing it around her then.
It's still my ring tone for the ex though. Funny funny song. First time I've seen the video though.

 

[Golddiggie]

From what I've been told, the wine grapes are [generally] thin skinned, which is why they don't travel too well. I think you'd need a metric fruck-ton of berries to get enough to make a batch of wine from them. If you have that many available, then get a press and go for it.

I'm looking to get going on my first batch of wine in the next month, or so. Since I have two more full batch size fermenting vessels (7.75 gallon capacity), I could easily do a 6 gallon batch of wine. Especially once my big barleywine gets moved over to aging vessel.

 

[emjay]

From what I've been told, the wine grapes are [generally] thin skinned, which is why they don't travel too well. I think you'd need a metric fruck-ton of berries to get enough to make a batch of wine from them. If you have that many available, then get a press and go for it.

I'm looking to get going on my first batch of wine in the next month, or so. Since I have two more full batch size fermenting vessels (7.75 gallon capacity), I could easily do a 6 gallon batch of wine. Especially once my big barleywine gets moved over to aging vessel.

I recommend going with the very highest-end kits, if kits are what you're going to do. An extra $50 on 6-gallons of wine is not going to bug you in 2+ years.

 

[45_70sharps]

We've been joined by Canada!

 

[Golddiggie]

I recommend going with the very highest-end kits, if kits are what you're going to do. And extra $50 on 6-gallons of wine is not going to bug you in 2+ years.

I was already looking at getting a kit with skins in it. Probably in the $100-$150 range. Plus yeast and a few other things. I have nutrient already, plus oak (cubes and large chunks). I'd rather get the better kit so that I get something great in bottles/glass when it's time. I'll probably even make up some labels for the bottles. Not sure about the shape, size, or color of the bottles yet. No need to worry since it will be many months (or years) before they get filled. I do have a new champagne corker that I'll be able to use though. :rockin:

 

[bottlebomber]

I've thought about wine making, but it's hard to justify living where I do. The winery I am a club member of does a cellar clearance sale one a year, usually in March. I can get cases of awesome wine of just about any varietal for anywhere from $40-100 for the top end stuff. Wine that costs around $45 a bottle at the grocery store. There is usually decent whites that the wife will drink for $15-20 a CASE. I'm not even sure I could but the bottles for that price. And I haven't been a really big wine drinker lately as it is. I would like to learn to make great mead. So far my JOAM tastes kind of gross. Not sure what went wrong there.

 

[45_70sharps]

I'm not a wine drinker. I think I remember drinking a wine I liked over 20 years ago. I can't even remember what it was.
Not that I've drank a lot of wine. I'm not one to put in an effort to like something. I like it, or I don't.
I want to make salal wine because I've wanted to do something with the berries for years. They're very good, lots of sugar in them and they are so plentiful around here.
Plus I figure that salal berry wine is going to be different than traditional wines. Worth a try.

 

[Golddiggie]

I've thought about wine making, but it's hard to justify living where I do. The winery I am a club member of does a cellar clearance sale one a year, usually in March. I can get cases of awesome wine of just about any varietal for anywhere from $40-100 for the top end stuff. Wine that costs around $45 a bottle at the grocery store. There is usually decent whites that the wife will drink for $15-20 a CASE. I'm not even sure I could but the bottles for that price. And I haven't been a really big wine drinker lately as it is. I would like to learn to make great mead. So far my JOAM tastes kind of gross. Not sure what went wrong there.

Mead can be tricky, depending on what you mixed up, what your goal was, and how you treated it early on. I've had great results to date. One batch took almost two years to become great though. I'm a patient man though, so if I know that something will take time, I'll let it go the distance. I recently kegged up a wee heavy that spent almost a full year in vessel (the majority being on oak in an aging vessel). I have yet to even pour any to glass (been in keg carbonating).

I might have to start a 'dirt nap' batch of something big. Something that will need to age for many years/decades before becoming really great. That way there will be something to drink when I'm being planted.