I like this time at night on HBT

[Dan]

Social pressure cooker.
Katy Perry - ET Lyrics

Ya know LG? At one point I would probably have said eww to your past post. Luckily, my daughter has opened my eyes a bit to music. (EDIT) And so have you LG!

I like the song you posted. Will admit, don't like every song you have posted but that ain't you. That's my closed mindedness. Give me time.

 

[Leadgolem]

It's been chemistry to rescue twice so far. First drano crystals to fix my bathroom sink drain a couple days ago. Then Goo Gone to get rid of the stubborn adhesive residue on a wine bottle for me.

I've got my beer all bottled with priming sugar. My cider is in the bottling bucket with some bentonite powder. For some reason I was thinking that would be ready to bottle tomorrow. It's more likely to be 3-4 days though.

The rice is cooling for the new batch or red rice wine. Once I'm sure it's all the way cooled off I'll harvest the previous batch and use the discards in the new one. That way I don't need to use more dried RYR or rice yeast balls. The main batch will go back in the drink dispenser and get some bentonite powder. Once that's cleared I'll pasteurize and bottle it. I'd like to age some this time and see how it changes.

 

[Leadgolem]

Ya know LG? At one point I would probably have said eww to your past post. Luckily, my daughter has opened my eyes a bit to music. (EDIT) And so have you LG!

I like the song you posted. Will admit, don't like every song you have posted but that ain't you. That's my closed mindedness. Give me time.

I consider that song to be metaphorical, and therefore non-creepy.

 

[Dan]

Just got an update on SpotTheStation Space station. (Thank you PP)

Seems as though it always appears overhead around 4-5 in the morning. Man, I'm dead asleep at the time. Do you think NASA would change their schedule for me? Ahahahah..

 

[passedpawn]

Just got an update on SpotTheStation Space station. (Thank you PP)

Seems as though it always appears overhead around 4-5 in the morning. Man, I'm dead asleep at the time. Do you think NASA would change their schedule for me? Ahahahah..

Don't worry, you'll get some evening shots.

 

[BobbiLynn]

Have you seen this video, I got lost on youtube. He thought he killed this guy, but the guy was just knocked out. This was earlier this year. Then a couple days ago he was arrested for beating a guy to death because he says he was drugged and assaulted. A sad story, really.

Kai, the hatchet wielding hitchhiker. Original unedited interview and his story checked out although he did lie about where he was from, but gave that wink.

 

[passedpawn]

Happy Sunday folks.

Dan, you're right! With good friends you can pick up right where you left off. Even after many years.

It's hot today here, as well. So I'm getting my PBR on whilst grilling some meat!

Cheers!

Dang, that is exactly what I wanted to be doing today. But it did not happen.

 

[Stauffbier]

Dang, that is exactly what I wanted to be doing today. But it did not happen.

Sorry it didn't happen for you.

Once the weather gets hot I grill almost every Sunday.

 

[Dan]

Have you seen this video, I got lost on youtube. He thought he killed this guy, but the guy was just knocked out. This was earlier this year. Then a couple days ago he was arrested for beating a guy to death because he says he was drugged and assaulted. A sad story, really.

Kai, the hatchet wielding hitchhiker. Original unedited interview and his story checked out although he did lie about where he was from, but gave that wink.

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

This was the guy that saved somebody and now he his being arrested? Cause he killed a guy, if I remember right (didn't re-watch the video) a guy ran a person down and was trying to kill another after that? That's when our "Trevor Hall" looking peace lover to the killer out.

 

[LabRatBrewer]

The rice is cooling for the new batch or red rice wine. Once I'm sure it's all the way cooled off I'll harvest the previous batch and use the discards in the new one. That way I don't need to use more dried RYR or rice yeast balls. The main batch will go back in the drink dispenser and get some bentonite powder. Once that's cleared I'll pasteurize and bottle it. I'd like to age some this time and see how it changes.

What's the purpose of the bentonite powder?

 

[bottlebomber]

What's the purpose of the bentonite powder?

It's a clarifier... Something about being positively charged and neutralizing negatively charged sediment, or some such.

 

[BobbiLynn]

This was the guy that saved somebody and now he his being arrested?

Yeah. Just 3 months in between incidents.

 

[Dan]

So much for anybody else being a protective citizen.

 

[Leadgolem]

Happy Sunday folks.

Dan, you're right! With good friends you can pick up right where you left off. Even after many years.

It's hot today here, as well. So I'm getting my PBR on whilst grilling some meat!

Cheers!

I have got to buy a grill this year. I didn't have the money last year with buying my house.

What's the purpose of the bentonite powder?

It's a clarifier... Something about being positively charged and neutralizing negatively charged sediment, or some such.

Pretty much. It's got a pretty strong charge, so other particulate matter tends to stick to it. That forms large enough clumps that they drop out of suspension.

 

[Leadgolem]

Here's an innovative use for yeast.

 

[Leadgolem]

You know, I'm really getting to like tequila.

 

[Leadgolem]

About a month ago, I took the trub from a batch of concord wine that went a little meaty added salt to it to make it a saturated salt solution and bottled it. It's pretty much soy sauce now. Not so fruity as when I bottled, and much more meaty. Interesting experiment. In another couple months I'll side by side it with some commercial soy sauce and see how things stack up.

 

[LabRatBrewer]

Any of you late nighters have a favorite lager you can link me to. Since I can now control the temp down to nice cold levels I thought I'd brew a lager. Thanks.

 

[Leadgolem]

I got the large red rice wine batch harvested. I was looking at the beverage dispenser it was in. I think I misremembered. I think it's a 3 gallon dispenser. So I've got about 1 1/2 gallons of red rice wine. Back in the dispenser after removing the starch solids, and with 1 1/2 tsp bentonite powder in it. Sorry, no pictures. My camera battery was dead and hasn't charged yet.

I mixed the leftover starch mass with the now cool rice. I did this with my hands, the rice paddle thing wasn't cutting it. It's really red, like fatty ground beef red. That's hanging out in a food grade 5 gallon bucket with an airlock.

I was going to make ice cream again tonight, but I might pass. It's late and I'm kinda tired.

 

[Varmintman]

Mmm 4 more days till I am grilling over a campfire. It has been raining all weekend here so I have been working inside. A buddy had a mini 4 wheeler that he has no spark and it will not run. I spent the better part of a day finding out what was wrong with the stupid thing simply because it is a cheap Chinese knock off. Turns out you can not get parts for those so I am going to take a ford ignition module and wire it in:rockin:

Pretty much got everything ready for camping and have been thinking about brewing a gallon batch up there. Not sure how that will work though because I will not be able to control the temps at all.

 

[BobbiLynn]

So much for anybody else being a protective citizen.

He wasn't arrested for hatcheting the guy in the first incident in California, because he was defending lives, he was supposed to be a key witness in the attempted murder case against that guy. But 3 months after that, he was arrested for killing another guy in New Jersey, beating him to death. People are saying it's because the man drugged and assaulted him, Kai retaliated by beating the guy, supposedly with the blunt end of a hatchet. It's a tangled story and many people are supporting him, as some sort of vigilante. Caleb "Kai" Lawrence, crazy tale about a very "out there" guy.

Anyway, enough about murder mysteries, I can't sleep. Well, I did sleep, a couple hours. I have to go back towards home on Tuesday, doctor appointment, will check on hubby and family, my dog, the chickens, the crops. If it looks like I can have our place to myself, and hubby continues to stay with other family members, I'll stay a little while. Just going to play it by ear. My son is expecting me back and now my daughter is planning to transfer to a school in Gainesville for the start of the new semester in the Fall. It would sure be nice to have both my kids close by. Not sure what is going to happen next. I guess I'll migrate between the farm and the city and see where I end up.

 

[Leadgolem]

...I guess I'll migrate between the farm and the city and see where I end up.

Citifarm, or maybe the pharmacy?

It seems like I forgot to do something yesterday, other then make ice cream, but I can't remember what...

 

[passedpawn]

Good Evening HBT Brothers and Sisters. Monday is finished. Woof. They can be a trial.

Ray Manzarek, The Doors, dead at 74 today.

For your late night soundtrack, please direct your attention to the keyboards of the late Ray Manzarek, of the Doors. He founded the group with Mr. Mojo Risin.

 

[Stauffbier]

I'm having my mind blown while watching the Weather Channel. My heart goes out to those in Oklahoma. The images are gut wrenching.

 

[LabRatBrewer]

I'm having my mind blown while watching the Weather Channel. My heart goes out to those in Oklahoma. The images are gut wrenching.

Moore, OK is about an hour away from my Dad's place. So amazing and sad.

 

[Stauffbier]

Moore, OK is about an hour away from my Dad's place. So amazing and sad.

Interesting that you say that, because I believe my dad is pretty close as well. He lives in Wetumpka. I'm not sure exactly how close that is.

It is indeed very sad.

 

[Dan]

I'm having my mind blown while watching the Weather Channel. My heart goes out to those in Oklahoma. The images are gut wrenching.

Yes, very sad. When I lived in central IL tornadoes would come through on occasion but nothing remotely as devastating as what Oklahoma experienced. Many people just had their lives turned upside down.

Passepawn..

Now there's some take delight in the carriages a rolling
and others take delight in the hurling and the bowling
but I take delight in the juice of the barley
and courting pretty fair maids in the morning bright and early

Where's that from? A PP original? :rockin:

 

[Leadgolem]

I should post something profound....Yeah, I got nothing.

 

[Leadgolem]

I bought and assembled my grill today.

Nothing fancy, but it's well made. The store would have assembled it for me, but I prefer to do that myself. That way I know for certain it was done correctly.

I could have gotten a 3 burner with the extra side burner for a little less money. It really felt like a piece of junk though. So I decided to go with one with fewer features that seemed to be reasonably well made.

 

[Leadgolem]

On another note. I made some, I guess you would call it cinnamon pudding.

4 cups 2% milk
3/4 cup heavy cream
2 cups sugar
1/4 cup corn starch
1/4 cup ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
A dash of ground cloves
Two dashes of salt

I heated that on my stove until the corn starch set. It's in the freezer, once it's chilled I'll stick it in the ice cream maker. I don't like all the cream in most ice cream. I'm hoping thickening it with corn starch will give me a nice consistency without the greasiness you get from lots of cream sometimes. I got the idea from making custard cream.