I like this time at night on HBT

[emjay]

I think you're supposed to age them all according to the following formula:

Aging Time = Your Lifespan + 2 years

Yeah... that's probably correct for my Amarone...

 

[Leadgolem]

Anybody familiar with aging times of different wines?

A little bit. Typically a red wine needs to age at least 5 years. A white is usually two.

Some wine kits have had the tannin removed and replaced with tannin recovered from wine aging barrels. If that's what you've got, then about half the aging time is about right. They don't strip all of the tannin, just some of it. So it still needs time to go through it's chemical stages.

This is why I don't brew with tannin. I'm not that patient.

Leadgolem, I gotta thank you again for the cool avatar. Your happy little drinking buddy Thunder Chicken - it really does fit my attitude and demeanor. Cheers!

Your welcome. It seemed appropriate.

 

[Leadgolem]

 

[Thunder_Chicken]

How long to age wine? I dunno, it ferments out in less than 2 weeks usually. Some stuffy old bastard will call you a sinner if you dare sample before 100 years. Who knows? The wine you get at the store is generally a few years old and is often OK. I'm told that after 20 years wine turns into unicorn semen and all sorts of magical things happen then. Just make sure to use the proper glassware and let it breathe; it's been cooped up in that bottle for a long time and needs some air.

 

[Thunder_Chicken]

Starstylers - Keep On Moving

That's what I'm talkin about!

 

[emjay]

Only about 10% of commercial wines supposedly benefit from additional aging.

I've got an Amarone, old vine zinfandel, pinot noir, and gewurztraminer on deck. Just wondering if I can expect any to be really good sometime next year.

 

[Thunder_Chicken]

Only about 10% of commercial wines supposedly benefit from additional aging.

I've got an Amarone, old vine zinfandel, pinot noir, and gewurztraminer on deck. Just wondering if I can expect any to be really good sometime next year.

I think it depends on your definition of 'good'.

 

[Dan]

We got two beers after each forty fives days at sea. Pretty sure we got four on his one.

In her glory and the last of the F-4s and A-7's.

1985, at sea. The USS Midway. Home port. Yokosuka $

[ame][/ame]

 

[Leadgolem]

I just got back from simulating my new morning commute. 40 minutes. Not to bad. I was afraid it would be more like an hour.

 

[petie]

40 minutes would be awesome. I got an hour and fifteen minutes at an average of about 62 miles an hour.

 

[Melana]

40 minutes would be awesome. I got an hour and fifteen minutes at an average of about 62 miles an hour.

Hour and fifteen is better than 40 minutes. Wait... Different topic sorry.
Carry on.

 

[brewingmeister]

40 minutes would be awesome. I got an hour and fifteen minutes at an average of about 62 miles an hour.

You either live right by an on ramp or you are in the middle of nowhere if you are averaging 60+

Either way an hour and a quarter is damn long.

 

[Melana]

You either live right by an on ramp or you are in the middle of nowhere if you are averaging 60+

Or you drive really fast on the highway

 

[brewingmeister]

Or you drive really fast on the highway

Have you ever heard of traffic?

 

[Melana]

Have you ever heard of traffic?

I live in Massachusetts.... What do you think?

 

[brewingmeister]

Ugh massholes. you're ruining all of New England.

 

[passedpawn]

My commute is about 50', and about 5 minutes if you include making coffee, taking the dog out back for potty and feeding, and skimming the paper.

 

[brewingmeister]

Did you, or anyone else here with a long commute, choose to be that far out or did it just end up like that somehow?

 

[Leadgolem]

40 minutes would be awesome. I got an hour and fifteen minutes at an average of about 62 miles an hour.

I thought I was going to be closer to an hour, but I start work at 7:30 am. So, my commute is just before rush hour traffic starts.

You either live right by an on ramp or you are in the middle of nowhere if you are averaging 60+

Either way an hour and a quarter is damn long.

Alternately, you work strange hours so traffic isn't really an issue.

My commute is about 50', and about 5 minutes if you include making coffee, taking the dog out back for potty and feeding, and skimming the paper.

Now that's what I call a nice commute.

Did you, or anyone else here with a long commute, choose to be that far out or did it just end up like that somehow?

I'm not entirely sure this is directed at me, but no I didn't really choose that commute. I worked my way into a department that I liked at a building that was a 25 minute commute in traffic. No highway driving either. The company reorganized some of the departments. Now I work for a main section of the company that is in the corporate building. They want everybody in that main section of the company in the same building. So, I have to commute to the new building. Go through a mandatory shift change, etc, etc, for that location.

 

[brewingmeister]

Well yeah you and to everybody else basically. I'm just curious how these long commutes end up happening. House first or job first or what went down to cause it?

 

[Leadgolem]

Job, then house, then job changed locations.

 

[Stauffbier]

Hi friends!

Check out this beauty. A German client of mine just gave me this. I told her I'd like to start making pipes as a hobby, and she went and grabbed it and handed it to me.

A friend has been doing some research, and it turns out it could be from the late 1800's possibly.

If so, I can't believe she gave it to me. She does really like my employees and I, though. She's always giving us stuff...

 

[Leadgolem]

Hi friends!

Check out this beauty. A German client of mine just gave me this. I told her I'd like to start making pipes as a hobby, and she went and grabbed it and handed it to me.

A friend has been doing some research, and it turns out it could be from the late 1800's possibly.

If so, I can't believe she gave it to me. She does really like my employees and I, though. She's always giving us stuff...

That's pretty cool Stauff. Do you smoke a pipe? I thought you were more of a once a week cigar guy?

 

[Stauffbier]

That's pretty cool Stauff. Do you smoke a pipe? I thought you were more of a once a week cigar guy?

I do indeed smoke a pipe. Maybe 2-3 times a week. I am indeed a once, maybe twice a week cigar smoker. The cigars are more seasonal, though. I smoke a pipe all year round and cigars in fall and winter.

 

[Leadgolem]

Hmm, the bread for the pizza turned out ok. Nice and lite. The bubbles where a bit larger then I wanted for my target texture. I believe punching the dough down a couple of times while it was in the fridge would fix that though.

TN, I haven't made the focaccia because I don't have all the ingredients. That will definitely be the next bread recipe I make though.

 

[Leadgolem]

Interesting. Since I'm on vacation I could basically get sloshed every night if I wanted to. A couple of years ago that would have sounded like a great idea. Now, not so much. I've had a few drinks since I went on vacation, but I haven't actually gotten drunk once. I suppose that's a good thing? I am a bit bored right now though. I got the spare room cleaned out completely. Walls and floors scrubbed, some previous resident sprayed soda on all of the walls. Got all of the holes in the walls filled. It's just waiting for paint. Then I can start putting it together as an actual guest room.

I don't think I mentioned this, but there is a skunk that likes to hang out on my back property. It dug a hole under my gate to it so it could come and go as it pleased. It also dug out a space under two of my sheds. Not primary burrows, at least I don't think so. More like hiddy holes in case a fox or something was around. Yesterday I dug a trough right under my gate and filled it with fast set concrete. I did the same for the burrows under my sheds. Hopefully it will stop hanging around my property.

 

[Leadgolem]

11,000?

And one.

 

[Leadgolem]

 

[snaps10]

I'm a 47min commute each way. I guess I could move, but a) who would want to love in this cesspool, and b) this job is a rung on the ladder for me.

 

[Leadgolem]

Hopefully you can use that rung on the ladder to climb out of the love cesspool.

I rebuilt a day bed frame for my mother today. The angle iron cross supports had broken. Not the end pieces, the ones in the middle that make the frame more rigid. She also didn't like that it was difficult to make the bed with the metal frame rising so high on three sides. I ground out the rivets for the cross supports with my angle grinder. Punched the rest of the rivet out. Then cut a couple pieces of 2"x72"x1/8" stock down so it was the right length. Drilled holes on either end, and bolted through the rivet holes. I haven't drilled through metal since Jr high. I burned up two bits before I remembered I needed cutting oil. Oh well, I'll remember next time. After that, I cut legs out of 4"x4" stock. Took a groove out of each one so the they would fit around the angled frame with my angle grinder. Lined those all up under the corner braces, drilled a hole all the way through and bolted it to the frame. Altogether it came out fairly well.

It looked kinda like this when I started. Not as fancy though.

My mother likes how the interlocking wire of the frame feels under the bed, but actually dislikes everything else about day beds.