Oh, that would be exciting! Think of the cool names we could call our beer!
Afterbirth Ale!
Placenta Pilsner!
Afterbirth Ale!
Placenta Pilsner!
Current plans are to leave Thursday morning after work and drive to Munising for sex in the Rainbow Falls, then off to Mt Shasta (Anatomy Of A Murder) at Michigamme for early dinner, if they haven't closed again and a walk down to the Devil's Ice Hole at the old mine behind it. Camping at a forest campground on Sturgeon River in the Ottawa National Forest Thursday night. Playing in the forest on Friday at Tibbet's Falls, Canyon Falls, Sturgeon Gorge and Falls, Silver Mountain that evening for sunset and another night camping on the Sturgeon River. Dinner at the drive-in in Baraga, breakfast at the Hilltop in L'anse. Arriving at Camp Lorena Saturday Morning for early beer drinking in the morning, becoming heavy drinking later in the day. Tenting Saturday night and heading home on Sunday.
A pile of quivering flesh for work Monday night.
You make the UP sound so exciting...sex in the falls especially...that never happens up here...
...and you'll be by yourself, right? j/kCurrent plans are to...drive to Munising for sex in the Rainbow Falls...
...and you'll be by yourself, right? j/k
Still not sure I can convince the wife to spend the weekend with "a bunch of drunks"...
I'm leaving early in the AM for my vacation and I'll be out of touch for a bit over a week.
If anybody needs specific directions, contact lschiavo- he can help you out. (Is that ok, lschiavo? ) Otherwise, call my home phone and leave a message. My daughter is staying here (or at the cottage) and she'll call you back if you have any questions about how to get to the cottage. Leave your phone number- we don't have caller ID!
Otherwise, I'll be back around July 5 and I'm looking so forward to doing this. :rockin:
Yes, it does!
Unless I can think of anything better, I'll probably be bringing bacon-wrapped shrimp again. People seem to like it and I can prepare it ahead of time so I only have to throw it on the grill and brush with sauce.
But stuffed pork loin is another possibility. Maybe wrapped with bacon?? It's only 8:00am and I'm hungry!
The shrimp sounds great. Ever have those bacon wrapped water chestnuts? They seem pretty popular at parties around here lately. Wrap just about anything in bacon is good!
I was thinking of doing a Porketta in the crockpot for sandwiches. The local grocery makes a mean Porketta. My mother made one the other day...I almost forgot how awesome it is.
Unless I can think of anything better, I'll probably be bringing bacon-wrapped shrimp again. People seem to like it and I can prepare it ahead of time so I only have to throw it on the grill and brush with sauce.
But stuffed pork loin is another possibility. Maybe wrapped with bacon?? It's only 8:00am and I'm hungry!
I'll brew. With some help of course. Let me know what I should bring. Yooper, we can split the batch unless anyone else wants to take it. Any recipes in mind? I might like an Amber. Its been a while.
OK, things are getting down to the final stages before we set out. Weather permitting, we may be heading out Wed night. We plan to be to the cottage on Saturday morning with just simple tent camping and meals on the road.
We will NOT be bringing Rocky; it would be just a bit too much extra considering our itinerary. He has had a couple big weekends and he really needs the rest. Unfortunately, I will NOT be brewing, either. It's not the gathering up and hauling the gear, it's the time lag to getting back home. We may be blowing off another day in the U.P., which makes wort logistics too cumbersome. It's 8+ hours for us without ANY stopping, and the plan may be that we screw around an extra day while we are in the area, before heading back.
We tried to come up with something that would travel easily and still be damn fine munchies, and the chestnuts wrapped in bacon and drenched in BBQ sauce fits the bill. We also considered beer bread, but with the fish fry and corn bread, that doesn't seem right. We also won't be anyplace where the electric cooler can plug in, so what we bring's gotta maintain liquid integrity, or it's not practical. There goes the lovely marinaded pork loin and things like that.
Where we are staying, 'town' is close to an hour by forest road at moderate speeds, and that entails a party store, gas station, restaurant, and a drive in-really nothing else. There is NO radio in the forest. This is a million acre National Forest with considerable State Forest in and around that. Yooper is maybe 25-30 miles, but half that is good (paved) road.
I'm gettin' keyed!
Oh, and lschiavo, if you can bring your BK and burner, that might be better than mine. Yours is marked for the sized batches we'd do, and mine isn't. Your volume measurements would work better out there. I'll bring a kettle for the heating of sparge water, an extra burner, an immersion wort chiller (it's kind of small, designed for 5 gallon batches), hoses, MLT, HLT, refractometer, etc.
(Bob and I figured out our minor electrical problem- I'll fill you in when I see you.)
Now you guys are giving me the brew bug. I could bring the 20gal BK and an extra MT (if needed) for a 15gal batch? Along with some ingredients of course.
Forgot to add. We plan on leaving Friday morning and hitting a few "points of interest" along the way. Staying the night in Escanaba, where we will visit Hereford and Hops brewpub for dinner and drinks. Then leaving early the next morning to arrive at the cottage 10:30ish - 11ish.
Planning on bringing a dish to pass. No clue what to bring yet. What I do know is that the most important consumable item coming with us will be a keg of Citralicious Pale Ale!!!! :rockin:
Now you guys are giving me the brew bug. I could bring the 20gal BK and an extra MT (if needed) for a 15gal batch? Along with some ingredients of course.
I won't be brewing, but I will bring some beer from a batch that I just brewed. I'm going to be camping about 35 miles from your camp Yooper, according to Google Maps. Since camping I thought it'd be easier to just bring some pre-made.
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Will you have all the brewing "paraphernalia"? I am sure you will set us up but I would hate to get there and no one remembered a thermometer or something.
I'm up for 15 gallons. I will provide the 2-row and Munich. I dont have the specialty grains...at least not enough (yooper you have what we need right?). As long as we have the recipe finalized by saturday morining...I will weigh and crush before coming over. Keep me posted.
I'm hauling some of the brewing stuff out there today. QUOTE]
Will you have all the brewing "paraphernalia"? I am sure you will set us up but I would hate to get there and no one remembered a thermometer or something.
Yeah, I'll have everything except water and the BKs. You can bring your BK and burner, and the hose that we talked about.
Xiang, do you want to brew this as a 15 gallon batch? Or, rather, two 7.5 gallon batches since both my MLTs will only hold 10 gallons total. Let me know, and I'll crush and bring the hops and specialty grains that lschiavo doesn't have. I only have 8 ounces total of Simpson's Golden Naked Oats, so we'll have to leave out a pound of those if we do this as a 15 gallon batch. Unless you have some of the ingredients and what to bring those (crushed already) from home.
I'll increase the size of the starter, and make sure I have everything.
I'll bring the misc brewing supplies (like the refractometer and thermometers), one 5 gallon MLT/HLT, two 10 gallon MLTs, one burner, hoses, one small kettle (the old turkey fryer) for heating up some sparge water, autosiphon. Anything else?
My MLT (10 gallon) is portable. We could do two mashes and combine for a 15 gallon boil?
Forgot to add. We plan on leaving Friday morning and hitting a few "points of interest" along the way. Staying the night in Escanaba, where we will visit Hereford and Hops brewpub for dinner and drinks. Then leaving early the next morning to arrive at the cottage 10:30ish - 11ish.
Planning on bringing a dish to pass. No clue what to bring yet. What I do know is that the most important consumable item coming with us will be a keg of Citralicious Pale Ale!!!! :rockin:
Just a quick list of what I have for ingredients based on Yoopers recipe if you two want to do a 15gal batch:
- Maris Otter (if needed)
- Munich (if needed)
- Crystal 40 - a bit under a pound I think
- Crystal 120 - 2lbs
- Centennial
- Cascade
- water (I think I would have room to bring 10gal)
Equipment I could bring:
- 15gal BK or the 20gal BK
- 10gal MT
- burner
- propane
- small misc. stuff
If doing a 15gal batch is too much of a pain, I wouldn't have a problem brewing a 5gal batch of something else.
Just a quick list of what I have for ingredients based on Yoopers recipe if you two want to do a 15gal batch:
Equipment I could bring:
- Maris Otter (if needed)
- Munich (if needed)
- Crystal 40 - a bit under a pound I think
- Crystal 120 - 2lbs
- Centennial
- Cascade
- water (I think I would have room to bring 10gal)
If doing a 15gal batch is too much of a pain, I wouldn't have a problem brewing a 5gal batch of something else.
- 15gal BK or the 20gal BK
- 10gal MT
- burner
- propane
- small misc. stuff
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