I like this time at night on HBT

[CreamyGoodness]

The site was acting weeeiiiirrrrrd!

 

[Varmintman]

My wife does something like what you were explaining but uses egg and bacon in the pastry. Man that is just heaven warm or cold

 

[CreamyGoodness]

Man that sounds good. Tonight Im on bachelor chow since the wife is on business, so I think I'll channel the spirit of my grandmother and make some macaroni with squash.

 

[Varmintman]

I think I am going to brew tonight so I am going to have well lots of beef. I love my beef.

Speaking of brewing has anyone heard from Bobbi Lyn. I miss hearing some of her brew concoctions and I think she brews more often than Coors and Bud combined

 

[BobbiLynn]

Speaking of brewing has anyone heard from Bobbi Lyn. I miss hearing some of her brew concoctions and I think she brews more often than Coors and Bud combined

Right here and today I tasted my regular pale ale from a kit, one I made a couple days after the apple gruit and it has the same awful taste to it but minus the apple. I thought I had opened the wrong fermenter! Not in a hurry to bottle either one of them. Just closed the lid back up. So now 10 gallons or horrible beer and gruit(they were sitting next to each in a different spot of the house and I think they got too hot). I was tasting to see how close to bottling they were, so they are still unfinished beers. If I don't decide to just dump them both but probably not because....

I am going to switch to kegging and fermenting right on the kegs. I assume this is possible? Going to clean out a spot in the kitchen for the kegerator.

And I did brew today a small batch but nothing special. I'll still do the brew day dance for the amber ale.

 

[Varmintman]

And I guess I get to do a brew dance for tonight. It is snowing here and I am looking forward to a great brew night

Sorry your beer does not taste good

 

[Leadgolem]

I'm up way to late. Had this written before my last reply to Snaps.. I'm a bad poet and I know it. Doesn't stop me though.

Oh boy
Once again
Insomnia has set in
Me and that old mocking bird
His songs these last few hours I've heard
Why so loud in the middle of the night
does that bird sing in the moonlight
Outside the grass and trees are green
It's in my bed I should be seen.

Interesting, the pseudonym for the main character for the story in my head is mocking bird.

If I were clever, I'd space my posts out. But those who know me know I am sort of a feast or famine person.

So my latest thought is this. Would you rather live in a time without cell phones, desktop or laptop computers, or live back when the phones were Landlines, including partylines. Pagers and public pay phones and no internet?

Or live in our time with all the advances in technology?

I would prefer to have the modern technology. Even with it's pitfalls, I think the benefits outweigh the costs.

 

[Varmintman]

The more I think about the technology the more I am in favor of it. If it is needed such as in medical field you can use it but the things like phones if you choose like I have you can cancel them. I guess I would like to have them and not use them rather than need them and not have them

Still have not started the brew yet. But I am going to do it I am

 

[Leadgolem]

Hmm, these might be fun for Halloween too.

 

[opus345]

The site was acting weeeiiiirrrrrd!

i thought i was having the threesome.

 

[lschiavo]

And I guess I get to do a brew dance for tonight. It is snowing here and I am looking forward to a great brew night

Sorry your beer does not taste good

Sorry for that. We hit 70. Usually nobody has worse weather than us. It must be because were stuck between two great lakes. It's always cloudy or windy or snowing. Like today it warmed up nice once the sun came out...then wind!

Glad you got a brew in. I really need to brew a batch.

 

[Varmintman]

Man I need to get into the groove. I never drink before I get the mash going and I only have 30 minutes left and not a drop passed my lips yet. I am losing it I fear

 

[Leadgolem]

I had some of my red rice wine. I added a little simple syrup to up the sweetness, and it was good. If I hadn't made it myself, I would swear there was fruit in it. The big batch I put together on Sunday already has liquid in with the rice. So I'm hoping the batch will come out well.

 

[lschiavo]

Speaking of technology, I can be just about anywhere and check HBT on my phone. We just got 4G here too so it's fast. I helped my old man install a tv antenna on his house today the system he got doesn't have enough power to feed more than one tv. One minute and I had him a booster ordered from my phone. I really only use my phone for important stuff like HBT, pron and work (I love the navigator. got me to a customer's house today that I would never have found). I also have all my music on it. Plug it into a set of computer speakers on the job and I'm rockin'. Keys, wallet and phone...my checklist before I leave the house in the morning.

 

[lschiavo]

Man I need to get into the groove. I never drink before I get the mash going and I only have 30 minutes left and not a drop passed my lips yet. I am losing it I fear

No worries, I got you covered.

 

[lschiavo]

I had some of my red rice wine. I added a little simple syrup to up the sweetness, and it was good. If I hadn't made it myself, I would swear there was fruit in it. The big batch I put together on Sunday already has liquid in with the rice. So I'm hoping the batch will come out well.

Remind me to make some rice wine. I really need to do that.

Is the red rice you use "red yeast rice"? I have been taking that for cholesterol... I have seen some cloudy examples of rice wine. Do you make any effort to clear yours?

 

[Leadgolem]

Remind me to make some rice wine. I really need to do that.

Is the red rice you use "red yeast rice"? I have been taking that for cholesterol... I have seen some cloudy examples of rice wine. Do you make any effort to clear yours?

Red yeast rice yes. Monascus purpureus, the statin producing bug. I'm using that in conjunction with the rice yeast balls. I had a RYR batch only, but the yield was disappointing.

I didn't make any effort to clear the last batch, though I probably will the large one I'm making now. I didn't yield enough from the last batch to make losing some in the clearing palatable. Without clearing it does look gross, like V8.

 

[Dan]

Red wine thought of the night.

Many moons ago when I was 30 pounds lighter and 27 years younger I was an Aircraft Electrician's Mate Second Class. My ship was the Midway, home ported out of Yokosuka, Japan. Think I have mentioned that before

There was a Willie Nelson song playing on the jukebox back then. I think it was even old at that time; called, "On the Road Again". My friends and I put a few different words to it. "On the road again" was replaced with "out to sea again" because we sure as hell spent the majority of those years on the ocean blue. The other part of the song replaced "making music with my friends" was sung "fixing airplanes with my friends" and "highways" was replaced with sealanes.

For a young man with all life ahead of them there was no better place to be. We made a difference. I still work around young people and it is amazing the vitality and spirit they have. I was once like that. Invincible.

For any of you who think I live to much in the past I wouldn't argue that.

Anyway, here's an old song that to me is about being with my friends, fixing airplanes and being young. Life was all in front back then.

 

[bottlebomber]

Drinking my first bottle of the NZ hopped IPA with Nelson and Galaxy. It's delicious, but these hops don't seem as assertive as US hops. I used about 12 ounces between the kettle and dry, and it just doesn't club you like the Citra/Simcoe/Columbus etc.

 

[lschiavo]

Red yeast rice yes. Monascus purpureus, the statin producing bug. I'm using that in conjunction with the rice yeast balls. I had a RYR batch only, but the yield was disappointing.

I didn't make any effort to clear the last batch, though I probably will the large one I'm making now. I didn't yield enough from the last batch to make losing some in the clearing palatable. Without clearing it does look gross, like V8.

I love V8! I'll drink it.

I am collecting info because I go big or not at all. I just don't have time to mess around with little batches. You and a few others are steering me in the right direction. Thank you for that.

It's almost kimchi time again. Last year I made a 5 gallon batch. It was gone far too soon.

Wow! We are having a thunderstorm here now. At least it's not snow...

 

[lschiavo]

Red wine thought of the night.

Many moons ago when I was 30 pounds lighter and 27 years younger I was an Aircraft Electrician's Mate Second Class. My ship was the Midway, home ported out of Yokosuka, Japan. Think I have mentioned that before

There was a Willie Nelson song playing on the jukebox back then. I think it was even old at that time; called, "On the Road Again". My friends and I put a few different words to it. "On the road again" was replaced with "out to sea again" because we sure as hell spent the majority of those years on the ocean blue. The other part of the song replaced "making music with my friends" was sung "fixing airplanes with my friends" and "highways" was replaced with sealanes.

For a young man with all life ahead of them there was no better place to be. We made a difference. I still work around young people and it is amazing the vitality and spirit they have. I was once like that. Invincible.

For any of you who think I live to much in the past I wouldn't argue that.

Anyway, here's an old song that to me is about being with my friends, fixing airplanes and being young. Life was all in front back then.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gdlyi5mckg0

My grandpa was an electrician aboard ship in WW2.

I heard that today is Willie's 80th birthday...

 

[Dan]

Ischiavo, you're right. Today is his 80th birthday! How did a country western pot smoking hippy ever live that long? Happiness is my guess.

 

[lschiavo]

Ischiavo, you're right. Today is his 80th birthday! How did a country western pot smoking hippy ever live that long? Happiness is my guess.

I think your state of mind has a lot to do with it. I quit worrying last year sometime. Everything will work out...that's my philosophy now. I don't but smoking pot probably really helps you get to that point.

I have missed your presence here Dan. I hope your excursion was good for you. Raising my glass to you right now

 

[brewingmeister]

yep, look at that dirty f'n hippy...

 

[lschiavo]

Drinking my first bottle of the NZ hopped IPA with Nelson and Galaxy. It's delicious, but these hops don't seem as assertive as US hops. I used about 12 ounces between the kettle and dry, and it just doesn't club you like the Citra/Simcoe/Columbus etc.

Now we know. I would never put North Zimbabwe hops in my beer in the first place but someone has to try.

 

[Dan]

Ischiavo. There is something about you that is unique. BTW. I don't know what Zimabwe hops are but wouldn't put them in my beer either. Might be some lions and tigers that go with them.

 

[lschiavo]

Ischiavo. There is something about you that is unique. BTW. I don't know what Zimabwe hops are but wouldn't put them in my beer either. Might be some lions and tigers that go with them.

I am an opinionated prick that likes to get along with other people whenever possible. That may be unique. I think we are very much alike my friend.

Zimbabwe hops would have a strong catty flavor and maybe zebra and widebeast tones. I'm only guessing though...

 

[bottlebomber]

Ischiavo. There is something about you that is unique. BTW. I don't know what Zimabwe hops are but wouldn't put them in my beer either. Might be some lions and tigers that go with them.

Agreed! He's a good chap.

I am an opinionated prick that likes to get along with other people whenever possible. That may be unique. I think we are very much alike my friend.

Zimbabwe hops would have a strong catty flavor and maybe zebra and widebeast tones. I'm only guessing though...

Well for my beer they added definite tones of poverty, with nuances or exploitation and foreign aid. They're pretty good for bittering though.

 

[Varmintman]

Man I must have been snot slinging rip roaring drunk last time I brewed. I have never had to wash my brew pot BEFORE the boil much less clean the burner. Man my stuff was sh!tty dirty and I am being kind saying that.

Hehe I need to brew more with my friend since we got the drinking bit down just fine.

 

[lschiavo]

Agreed! He's a good chap.

Well for my beer they added definite tones of poverty, with nuances or exploitation and foreign aid. They're pretty good for bittering though.

You are the $hit! Poverty and foreign aid has to add a lot to the bitterness. I bet a half ounce for bittering would be fine even for a 10 gallon batch. Then use some happy hops for flavor