I like this time at night on HBT

[bob1852]

Thanks, fellars.

 

[BobbiLynn]

Congrats AZ!

Yeah, Dan, still awake, talking poetry with my cousin on Facebook, lol. Hmm, yeah, probably bedtime.

 

[LabRatBrewer]

Just took my son to the Go Go's concert. What a great show.

 

[Leadgolem]

Congratulations AZ. May you and your intended find within each other that which you need and desire the most.

 

[passedpawn]

Pappy, you either stay up late or are an early riser. I'm going to put my two cents on early riser.. But wow! Really early today.

hah. Normally an early riser, but I had to finish some work tonight and send some things out before some clients woke up tomorrow. I'm done now, so I'm checking out. Later Dan.

 

[Dan]

Pappy, I'm gonna get a bit sentimental . Can't help myself, just how I am.

 

[Dan]

So I know this isn't My Favorite Country Song thread. I'm a bit drunk tonight if you haven't filigreed that out yet. The song I'm going to play is the saddest loneliest one I know. I truly can relate.

BTW. Where the heck is Stauffbier???

Here's Johnny Cash.

 

[snaps10]

I'm going a little nuts. Since we moved io the new house I haven't set up a place to ferment. This fall and winter were perfect temp wise. I put some buckets under a heavy wool blanket with a temp controller and heater a couple times. This summer has been so hot I haven't brewed in months. Our new house just doesnt work out to ferment in the house with a family of 5.5. I've got grain here that needs to be used, so I'm going to scale back recipes to 6 gallons, empty the keg fridge and crank the temp controller up on it. 2 batches of India Brown Ale a batch of alcohol free pale and a light session pale ale. 4 batches back to back.
Got a new solar heater pump in that's going to be permanent to the new bottoms draining mash tun. Full run recirculating through a RIMS tube.
Hopefully ill get the chance to solder some copper tomorrow. I was going to go with a stainless tube, but copper seems to be more convenient for me now, and I do love the look of shiny copper.

All I have left to acquire for the fermentation chamber is a window a/c unit. My brewing budget is beyond tapped lately though, so I'm gonna just wait to beg, borrow and steal. I have two conicals that it will house along with 8 buckets and a lagering/crashing chamber.

 

[Dan]

Snaps. My phone battery is about to die. Read your last post. WS going to offer my temp controlled freezer. Then remembered I sold it super cheap at the garage sale.

Brothert

 

[TNGabe]

So I know this isn't My Favorite Country Song thread. I'm a bit drunk tonight if you haven't filigreed that out yet. The song I'm going to play is the saddest loneliest one I know. I truly can relate.

BTW. Where the heck is Stauffbier???

Here's Johnny Cash.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVR6LIvmvAU

It's been covered a million times and several versions are pretty good. Heck, JC's version is a cover, it's a Kristofferson song*. I really like this version.
Hang in there until at least 1:18 or so for the bad synth harpsichord. Can you imagine being KK and writing such a great song, selling it, and then having this happen?

 

[snaps10]

Snaps. My phone battery is about to die. Read your last post. WS going to offer my temp controlled freezer. Then remembered I sold it super cheap at the garage sale.

Brothert

Shoot. I've been meaning to call you, Brother. Honest I have. Things have been nuts. The wife started nesting, though if anyone says that it may be their last words spoken. Needless to say, the house looks really nice, the nursery is painted and she's cleaned the carpets. (Though she wants to do another pass with a deeper carpet cleaner). The two oldest will be home from their trip to visit their mom in Oklahoma in a couple weeks and we want to have a couple projects done. She gave me a stern warning about having time to brew this week but not having time to straighten up the garage. "Yes, Ma'am!"
Ill give you a ring soon. Promise.

 

[Leadgolem]

I find that I brew until I run out of bottles. Once I have a batch and no where to put it, I stop for a while.

 

[grathan]

I seriously underestimated the need for lighter beers this summer. Already gone and Summer hasn't hit its stride yet. Oh well..at this pace the cycle for next summer will hit late fall and I will x7 the batches for light hybrid brews.

 

[Stauffbier]

BTW. Where the heck is Stauffbier???

I'm here brother. I've just been lurking a lot lately. I'm a very lazy typist, and when I've been working a lot I tend to not want to type at all. It's silly, because it doesn't require much energy to type. When I'm exhausted it seems like a huge task, though.

I took today off, because I just needed a break!

I hope you're well Dan. I know you're going through a lot of changes with moving lately. I can imagine it's been tough for you.

 

[Leadgolem]

I'm here brother. I've just been lurking a lot lately. I'm a very lazy typist, and when I've been working a lot I tend to not want to type at all. It's silly, because it doesn't require much energy to type. When I'm exhausted it seems like a huge task, though.

I took today off, because I just needed a break!

I hope you're well Dan. I know you're going through a lot of changes with moving lately. I can imagine it's been tough for you.

I hear ya. It's no so much that typing takes much effort, it's the thinking of what to type that can be an effort when you are out of it.

 

[TNGabe]

I find that I brew until I run out of bottles. Once I have a batch and no where to put it, I stop for a while.

Bottles aren't my problem, at least not any more. I brew until I run out of fermenters, then I buy more fermenters. Or at least I was buying more, I've been at 13 for a while. Have a batch to bottle now to make room for the one that's getting it's soak on with some 'stirpool' hops. On the bright side, I'll eventually have 60+ gallons of sour beer to enjoy.

 

[Leadgolem]

I use my bottle supply to limit my brewing on purpose. Otherwise I'd have so much homebrew I wouldn't have any place to put it.

 

[Leadgolem]

I just tasted the nectarine mead. My first impression, yuck. Then again, it was all stirred up after transferring off the yeast and removing the nectarine pieces. It might be better once it's settled again.

 

[Leadgolem]

I guess I must be shy. Almost every time I talk to my neighbors I've been drinking. I bet they think I'm a drunk. Oh well, hopefully they think I'm a nice drunk.

 

[opus345]

Got engaged a week ago. Figured some of my non-Tap Room "friends" may wanna know.

Nicely done! Congratulations! No Tap Room sarcasm here.

 

[Thunder_Chicken]

I guess I must be shy. Almost every time I talk to my neighbors I've been drinking. I bet they think I'm a drunk. Oh well, hopefully they think I'm a nice drunk.

There is a guy down the street who always has a beer in his hand, and drinking in public doesn't seem to bother him. 7AM, driving to work, there he is in his yard with his beer. Walking down the street at 11PM, yep, with his beer. Nice enough guy, but I don't know how/when this guy eats, sleeps, or works.

 

[opus345]

There is a guy down the street who always has a beer in his hand, and drinking in public doesn't seem to bother him. 7AM, driving to work, there he is in his yard with his beer. Walking down the street at 11PM, yep, with his beer. Nice enough guy, but I don't know how/when this guy eats, sleeps, or works.

Sounds like someone interesting to go talk to on a hot summer night.

 

[Leadgolem]

There is a guy down the street who always has a beer in his hand, and drinking in public doesn't seem to bother him. 7AM, driving to work, there he is in his yard with his beer. Walking down the street at 11PM, yep, with his beer. Nice enough guy, but I don't know how/when this guy eats, sleeps, or works.

Yeah, I'm not that bad. I don't drink in public.... often...

 

[TNGabe]

Good day at the office so far. Found what loooks to be 100% complete Chemcraft Senior Chemistry set today for $6. Not really sure what's it worth as I can't find one this complete anywhere online.

 

[beaksnbeer]

Caramelizing some onions, racked a 2 gallons of mead onto some papaya whilst drinking my Paters-bier

 

[TNGabe]

Whew, 12 hrs at an auction, even with going home and couching out for 2 hrs is a crazy long day. The guys working must be half dead. On the bright side, I spent $140 and am conservatively planning on getting 1000$ back. The chemistry set is crazy. It's got uranium ore in it. Crazy mint, just unbelievable.



I stayed the last 2 hrs just to buy some dang jar lids. Beats digging ditches.

 

[BobbiLynn]

Good evening!

I guess I must be shy. Almost every time I talk to my neighbors I've been drinking. I bet they think I'm a drunk. Oh well, hopefully they think I'm a nice drunk.

I love getting drunk then going to visit with my neighbors! I know they think I am a drunk. But I only have the one set of neighbors, so it's just one family that knows about my beer obsession. And they love it when I bring them homebrews to sample.

Against all advice, I listed the blackberries for sale again this week through our local farmer's guild. On Saturday, my deadline to get them up for sale, there was hardly a berry to be picked. I listed them anyway because there were so many big bright red ones, new ones, some barely starting to turn black. Family, and my berry picking partner, Laura, thought they would rot before ripening. But nope, now 3 days later, and I've got 2 days left to get them picked, blackberries are baaaack!!!

Laura lined up another job for this week, she didn't think we'd be picking this week. I didn't dare tell her I listed the berries. So picking by myself. I've developed a new method that I call "Drive-by Picking". Take your riding lawnmower or 4-wheeler, whatever you got, and ride around to each bush, grab the berries and go to the next one. Just pull up to it, like a drive-through window. Screw trying to get the berries that are hard to get to, the best ones go along the path. Today I was doing drive-bys, going up the path in one direction, pick all the berries on the driver's side, then turn around and go back the other way. No sense reaching across to grab and go with berries from the passenger side.

Anyway, I only put a limited amount up for sale, the rest of what I'm picking this week will be to start more "blackberry wine"(not sure if my concoction would count as wine but I like it). And I raised the prices. $3.75 a pint to $4.50 a pint, and $7 a quart to $8.50 a quart. Because, I'm the only farmer in the guild that has any. So if customers want berries, they have to pay my price. I sold out the first 8 hours of the 3-day sale(time to place your orders). So I cornered the blackberry market in my area, I'm running a monopoly here!!! :rockin:

 

[BobbiLynn]

Looks dangerous, TN.

 

[beaksnbeer]

Looks dangerous, TN.

Nope, says no poisons or dangerous chemicals......unless you count Madam Currie

 

[Leadgolem]

Good evening!



I love getting drunk then going to visit with my neighbors! I know they think I am a drunk. But I only have the one set of neighbors, so it's just one family that knows about my beer obsession. And they love it when I bring them homebrews to sample.

Against all advice, I listed the blackberries for sale again this week through our local farmer's guild. On Saturday, my deadline to get them up for sale, there was hardly a berry to be picked. I listed them anyway because there were so many big bright red ones, new ones, some barely starting to turn black. Family, and my berry picking partner, Laura, thought they would rot before ripening. But nope, now 3 days later, and I've got 2 days left to get them picked, blackberries are baaaack!!!

Laura lined up another job for this week, she didn't think we'd be picking this week. I didn't dare tell her I listed the berries. So picking by myself. I've developed a new method that I call "Drive-by Picking". Take your riding lawnmower or 4-wheeler, whatever you got, and ride around to each bush, grab the berries and go to the next one. Just pull up to it, like a drive-through window. Screw trying to get the berries that are hard to get to, the best ones go along the path. Today I was doing drive-bys, going up the path in one direction, pick all the berries on the driver's side, then turn around and go back the other way. No sense reaching across to grab and go with berries from the passenger side.

Anyway, I only put a limited amount up for sale, the rest of what I'm picking this week will be to start more "blackberry wine"(not sure if my concoction would count as wine but I like it). And I raised the prices. $3.75 a pint to $4.50 a pint, and $7 a quart to $8.50 a quart. Because, I'm the only farmer in the guild that has any. So if customers want berries, they have to pay my price. I sold out the first 8 hours of the 3-day sale(time to place your orders). So I cornered the blackberry market in my area, I'm running a monopoly here!!! :rockin:

Oh, it definitely counts as wine. I haven't seen blackberries at good prices this year. I guess I'll just have to grow my own.

Nope, says no poisons or dangerous chemicals......unless you count Madam Currie

Actually, it says no dangerous poisons, or explosive chemicals. I guess they didn't count uranium as poisonous.