I like this time at night on HBT

[brewingmeister]

I love mustard, tell me a story.

 

[bob1852]

Home-made mustard...oh my. We need to talk. I am a fan of German sharp and horseradish mustards for brats, heck even just for with cheese. I go through Beer & Brat mustard such that it is on the grocery list every other trip. I *should* make this stuff in bulk.

This is a pretty solid recipe.....made with my home brewed mild. But it is pretty spicy. Perfect for sausages, salted/cured meats, and cheeses...

http://www.foodandwine.com/recipes/spicy-beer-mustard

 

[LabRatBrewer]

I am going to start a new thread on this when I get copies of the ABC opinion letters, but the ABC is using the new law AB1425 (which according to the legislative history was meant to make it easier to donate homebrew to charities...on its face a nice idea) to shut down all homebrew festivals in California. {note - Homebrew, not craftbreer fests}. The Southern California Homebrew Fest (last year about 2000 members from many clubs attended) is in serious jeopardy this year. As the ABC is[mis]-interpreting the law, any homebrew club that collects due s and has tastings (among non-certified (or in their language non-bona fide judges) is apparently in violation of the new law.

 

[Thunder_Chicken]

This is a pretty solid recipe.....made with my home brewed mild. But it is pretty spicy. Perfect for sausages, salted/cured meats, and cheeses...

http://www.foodandwine.com/recipes/spicy-beer-mustard

The only thing that leaves me scratching my head is the amount of honey. I'm not a fan of honey mustards. I'm maybe an atypical American who hates having sugar and sweetness in all of my foods. If I omitted it would it still be a good dry mustard?

I suppose I could just make it and add the honey last.

 

[ChefRex]

This is a pretty solid recipe.....made with my home brewed mild. But it is pretty spicy. Perfect for sausages, salted/cured meats, and cheeses...

http://www.foodandwine.com/recipes/spicy-beer-mustard

Thanks Just placed an order at Amazon for 3 lbs of mustard seeds, not that this thought hadn't been planted long ago!:rockin:

 

[passedpawn]

Thanks Just placed an order at Amazon for 3 lbs of mustard seeds, not that this thought hadn't been planted long ago!:rockin:

Oh jiminy not another DIY build...

 

[Thunder_Chicken]

I'd like to get a grinder and start making sausages, too. Red Bones (BBQ & beer joint, highly recommended by me) up in Sommerville MA makes fresh sausage daily and it is unbelievable.

But I am also trying to lose some weight, so maybe now isn't the time for that.

 

[bob1852]

The only thing that leaves me scratching my head is the amount of honey. I'm not a fan of honey mustards. I'm maybe an atypical American who hates having sugar and sweetness in all of my foods. If I omitted it would it still be a good dry mustard?

I suppose I could just make it and add the honey last.

IIRC, I made it without the honey and allspice....

 

[passedpawn]

Ima gonna make the following mustard. It's exactly as I like it. I'm doing 50% yellow seed and 50% brown (in truth, I don't know what I'm doing). I have the seed on order from Amazon.

http://blog.cookingchanneltv.com/2013/07/20/homemade-dijon-style-mustard-recipe/

 

[Thunder_Chicken]

IIRC, I made it without the honey and allspice....

That sounds about right. I'll give that a shot. I've got most of the necessary in the house already.

 

[Thunder_Chicken]

I just checked my brew log spreadsheet - today is the 1-year anniversary of my return to brewing. I've got 4 cases of great English pale ale bottled, 2 cases of wonderful Merlot aging, 4 month old apfelwein in secondary, a lager in primary, and ingredients for a Baltic porter on order due Thursday. It's good to be back!

It's interesting how times change. I remember building my own fermenter in college from buckets and parts at the hardware store. There was no internet, no HBT. There was a LHBS but it was in the next town over known for bucking the norm. Entering the LHBS felt like walking into a crack den. "Wasn't this all illegal a few years ago?" was the thought that always went through my head.

I really see brewing as part of a whole foods / fermented foods movement. My wife really wasn't a fan of me getting back into homebrewing, but she recently read a book by Michael Pollan called Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation. It discusses bread and cheese and beer making in their practical and historical contexts, and she's getting interested in the idea of fermented foods at home. She's OK with the cabbage turning to sauerkraut on our counter. She always liked sauerkraut, but was a little skittish about actually trying to make it. She is a great baker and she is now seeing how all these methods are inter-related.

 

[passedpawn]

I just checked my brew log spreadsheet - today is the 1-year anniversary of my return to brewing.

Nice comeback!

Howdy late niters. No idea if the polar vortex is still vortexing you all, but if is, stay warm. Here's a ditty for your late nite soundtrack from Janis Ian. I think this might be one of my favorite songs ever (I've got a lot of those). I really liked Janis Ian a lot back in then.

 

[mhurst111]

I just checked my brew log spreadsheet - today is the 1-year anniversary of my return to brewing. I've got 4 cases of great English pale ale bottled, 2 cases of wonderful Merlot aging, 4 month old apfelwein in secondary, a lager in primary, and ingredients for a Baltic porter on order due Thursday. It's good to be back!



It's interesting how times change. I remember building my own fermenter in college from buckets and parts at the hardware store. There was no internet, no HBT. There was a LHBS but it was in the next town over known for bucking the norm. Entering the LHBS felt like walking into a crack den. "Wasn't this all illegal a few years ago?" was the thought that always went through my head.



I really see brewing as part of a whole foods / fermented foods movement. My wife really wasn't a fan of me getting back into homebrewing, but she recently read a book by Michael Pollan called Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation. It discusses bread and cheese and beer making in their practical and historical contexts, and she's getting interested in the idea of fermented foods at home. She's OK with the cabbage turning to sauerkraut on our counter. She always liked sauerkraut, but was a little skittish about actually trying to make it. She is a great baker and she is now seeing how all these methods are inter-related.

I'm the same way. 20 years of homebrewing. Things have changed a little . Friends used to think I was going to wind up in jail ( for brewing, I still may wind up in jail, but not for making beer). Now they are interested in learning how to do it.

If you haven't seen How Beer Saved The World, watch it with your wife. Based on what you said above, she will love it.

 

[Thunder_Chicken]

I'm the same way. 20 years of homebrewing. Things have changed a little . Friends used to think I was going to wind up in jail ( for brewing, I still may wind up in jail, but not for making beer). Now they are interested in learning how to do it.

If you haven't seen How Beer Saved The World, watch it with your wife. Based on what you said above, she will love it.

Heh, I think that was half of the fun - making beer AND doing something borderline illegal (it wasn't, but brewing in the dorm under the age of 21 was probably frowned apon. I didn't ask.). I brewed a lot of old dusty Coopers kits in my dorm microwave. Wowed my friends in the dorm suite with the quality of the beer (it WAS really good). Good times.

 

[beaksnbeer]

Been brewing for 20+ myself, kegging for almost 17. We moved to Florida 14 years ago, and my 4 tap beer fridge was the last thing on the truck and the first thing off, I still remember the looks of our neighbors at the Apartment complex and having to show the manger the Fed and State regs on brewing beer and wine so I could keep it

 

[lschiavo]

I am going to start a new thread on this when I get copies of the ABC opinion letters, but the ABC is using the new law AB1425 (which according to the legislative history was meant to make it easier to donate homebrew to charities...on its face a nice idea) to shut down all homebrew festivals in California. {note - Homebrew, not craftbreer fests}. The Southern California Homebrew Fest (last year about 2000 members from many clubs attended) is in serious jeopardy this year. As the ABC is[mis]-interpreting the law, any homebrew club that collects due s and has tastings (among non-certified (or in their language non-bona fide judges) is apparently in violation of the new law.

That sounds like legal and not drunken rambling. Beer and good food should be free for all to enjoy.

 

[lschiavo]

I unplugged my phone which was randomly playing awesome tunes to check in here. I still love you all but ...out!

 

[Dan]

I am going to start a new thread on this when I get copies of the ABC opinion letters, but the ABC is using the new law AB1425 (which according to the legislative history was meant to make it easier to donate homebrew to charities...on its face a nice idea) to shut down all homebrew festivals in California. {note - Homebrew, not craftbreer fests}. The Southern California Homebrew Fest (last year about 2000 members from many clubs attended) is in serious jeopardy this year. As the ABC is[mis]-interpreting the law, any homebrew club that collects due s and has tastings (among non-certified (or in their language non-bona fide judges) is apparently in violation of the new law.

Wait. What you talking about there LRB, I was on a saurkraut and mustard reading spree and saw this. Maybe I missed a previous post. Youre? sounding a bit lawyerly. Which in this case is obviously for us homebrewers a good thing in this predicament. What's going on again? I dont grasp new topics quickly.


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[Dan]

Wait. What you talking about there LRB, I was on a saurkraut and mustard reading spree and saw this. Maybe I missed a previous post. Youre? sounding a bit lawyerly. Which in this case is obviously for us homebrewers a good thing in this predicament. What's going on again? I dont grasp new topics quickly.


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[Dan]

Back to my than normal not what I meant sat postings. Iphone got knocked of my desk my sone fool yesterday. (Yes it was me) and craxked the glass again! Think I would have learned the first time and bought one of those military indestructive cases for it but I didnt so now im back on this Samsubg spending sone time in pergatory. My laptop is so slow its just easier to type on a phome havent had a pc, aaide from at work ib years

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[Dan]

Goodnity goig to waitvtill I getvmybiphone fixed. Less painfully for us all

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[Dan]

Okay ladt poy. Not sur why yhe firstvof thesecfour came out almost norms. I didnt do anything different. Im soery. I just cant text on this phone. I nicr full desktop keyboar I have enough of a time with even with simplebeditibg. Forget this dang thing. See yiu either vsck at work or in a week or so

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[Stauffbier]

I didn't know you could write in Russian Dan!

I hope you get your phone back quickly bro.

Have a good night everyone!

 

[Thunder_Chicken]

Okay ladt poy. Not sur why yhe firstvof thesecfour came out almost norms. I didnt do anything different. Im soery. I just cant text on this phone. I nicr full desktop keyboar I have enough of a time with even with simplebeditibg. Forget this dang thing. See yiu either vsck at work or in a week or so

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I should quote this in my signature. It's poetry, pure poetry.

 

[lschiavo]

Okay ladt poy. Not sur why yhe firstvof thesecfour came out almost norms. I didnt do anything different. Im soery. I just cant text on this phone. I nicr full desktop keyboar I have enough of a time with even with simplebeditibg. Forget this dang thing. See yiu either vsck at work or in a week or so

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Now that is a prime example of drunken ramblings. Let's not forget our roots. We can still speak of intellectual things as long as we're drunk and rambling...Dan seems to have it figured out.

 

[lschiavo]

Wait. What you talking about there LRB, I was on a saurkraut and mustard reading spree and saw this. Maybe I missed a previous post. Youre? sounding a bit lawyerly. Which in this case is obviously for us homebrewers a good thing in this predicament. What's going on again? I dont grasp new topics quickly.


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Back to my than normal not what I meant sat postings. Iphone got knocked of my desk my sone fool yesterday. (Yes it was me) and craxked the glass again! Think I would have learned the first time and bought one of those military indestructive cases for it but I didnt so now im back on this Samsubg spending sone time in pergatory. My laptop is so slow its just easier to type on a phome havent had a pc, aaide from at work ib years

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Goodnity goig to waitvtill I getvmybiphone fixed. Less painfully for us all

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Okay ladt poy. Not sur why yhe firstvof thesecfour came out almost norms. I didnt do anything different. Im soery. I just cant text on this phone. I nicr full desktop keyboar I have enough of a time with even with simplebeditibg. Forget this dang thing. See yiu either vsck at work or in a week or so

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Thumb tack!

 

[lschiavo]

You still up Dan? I'm here.

 

[Dan]

You still up Dan? I'm here.

I'm up. Thought I'd try this on my laptop. Pretty painless except the pages take forever to load and the letters are on a time delay. I do not understand this laptop. It is a cheaper one and runs off windows 8. Crazy thing is I can watch NetFlix and YouTube videos on it with ease. That's about all it's good for, without more patience than I possess. This post only took me about 5 minutes to to write, or wait.

Goodnight

 

[lschiavo]

I'm up. Thought I'd try this on my laptop. Pretty painless except the pages take forever to load and the letters are on a time delay. I do not understand this laptop. It is a cheaper one and runs off windows 8. Crazy thing is I can watch NetFlix and YouTube videos on it with ease. That's about all it's good for, without more patience than I possess. This post only took me about 5 minutes to to write, or wait.

Goodnight

Does porn work? I bet it does. We are being herded like cattle by the almighty advertisers. Resist with all your might. You sobered up. Good for you Goodnight.

 

[Melana]

Thanks Just placed an order at Amazon for 3 lbs of mustard seeds, not that this thought hadn't been planted long ago!:rockin:

Next thing... Grow your own horseradish. It's so easy to grow....