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DisturbdChemist said:
That sucks you cant make it to Hop scholar. Hopefully the rain will hold out saturday. Goose's or Baker street are good. Make sure you get a B-52 brew while you are there
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Noted. Yeah, since they don't open until 2, wifey thought it would be cutting it too close to get back for the show in time. We'll hit it another time.

Switched to water.
 
DisturbdChemist said:
That was November last year. Time flies.
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Yes it does.

Coffee to stay on OT. And for those with a fear of tl;dr you can exit now.

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A manager in another group at work reached out to me almost a month ago to see if I would be interested in a BA role she had open. I told her I knew about it (my manager had mentioned at the time it posted) but figured it needed more than one day a week presence in the office. She then started laying it on thick saying that for someone with my background and skills that one day a week could be made to work along with a few multi-day meetings to kick off big projects. I said fine, I'll think about it and check with my manager and let her know. Well with vacations back-to-back the first chance I had to talk again was this Tuesday. I had some questions and also wanted to confirm that the one day a week + project kick-off meetings was still okay. She said absolutely and even went so far as to say there may be weeks where it would make sense not to come into the office at all. So yesterday I made up my mind and told her I'd apply, had a conversation with HR and left a message with my manager to let him know. Then she calls and leaves a message while I'm at dinner saying that within the year the position would be needing more on-site time - at least 3 days and could I be able to handle that. WTF?!?!?! The only way I can think that this change of mind happened in a couple of hours after I said I'd apply is that I was being played or given a bait-and-switch job. She's going to get a carefully worded email to that affect at the end of day today. Pisses me off and now I think I'll start looking in general and cut out the CT on-site all together. Unfreakin believable! :mad:
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mcbaumannerb said:
Yes it does.

Coffee to stay on OT. And for those with a fear of tl;dr you can exit now.

<rant style="Hello" ragelevel="highest">
A manager in another group at work reached out to me almost a month ago to see if I would be interested in a BA role she had open. I told her I knew about it (my manager had mentioned at the time it posted) but figured it needed more than one day a week presence in the office. She then started laying it on thick saying that for someone with my background and skills that one day a week could be made to work along with a few multi-day meetings to kick off big projects. I said fine, I'll think about it and check with my manager and let her know. Well with vacations back-to-back the first chance I had to talk again was this Tuesday. I had some questions and also wanted to confirm that the one day a week + project kick-off meetings was still okay. She said absolutely and even went so far as to say there may be weeks where it would make sense not to come into the office at all. So yesterday I made up my mind and told her I'd apply, had a conversation with HR and left a message with my manager to let him know. Then she calls and leaves a message while I'm at dinner saying that within the year the position would be needing more on-site time - at least 3 days and could I be able to handle that. WTF?!?!?! The only way I can think that this change of mind happened in a couple of hours after I said I'd apply is that I was being played or given a bait-and-switch job. She's going to get a carefully worded email to that affect at the end of day today. Pisses me off and now I think I'll start looking in general and cut out the CT on-site all together. Unfreakin believable! :mad:
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Dude, that blows goats... I'm pretty fed up with the company I work for. I work my ass off and do things that are far above my pay grade (like building and maintaining Microsoft Access Databases and run reports for the whole management team every month). I do the extra work to get exposure and hopefully oportunity to move up in the company since I don't have that stupid little piece of paper management is wanting to see. Two management positions opened up while I was out on Short Term Disability and since I was out almost a whole month I didn't get my application in until a few weeks after the posting came out. They announced who accepted their offers the end of last week without so much as a call to me from recruiting and the people they chose don't know their poop chute from a whole in the wall. Corporate America sucks. I really need to start working on my business plan and get my coffee shop going, busting my ass to make others rich is getting old.
 
mcbaumannerb said:
Yes it does.



Coffee to stay on OT. And for those with a fear of tl;dr you can exit now.



<rant style="Hello" ragelevel="highest">

A manager in another group at work reached out to me almost a month ago to see if I would be interested in a BA role she had open. I told her I knew about it (my manager had mentioned at the time it posted) but figured it needed more than one day a week presence in the office. She then started laying it on thick saying that for someone with my background and skills that one day a week could be made to work along with a few multi-day meetings to kick off big projects. I said fine, I'll think about it and check with my manager and let her know. Well with vacations back-to-back the first chance I had to talk again was this Tuesday. I had some questions and also wanted to confirm that the one day a week + project kick-off meetings was still okay. She said absolutely and even went so far as to say there may be weeks where it would make sense not to come into the office at all. So yesterday I made up my mind and told her I'd apply, had a conversation with HR and left a message with my manager to let him know. Then she calls and leaves a message while I'm at dinner saying that within the year the position would be needing more on-site time - at least 3 days and could I be able to handle that. WTF?!?!?! The only way I can think that this change of mind happened in a couple of hours after I said I'd apply is that I was being played or given a bait-and-switch job. She's going to get a carefully worded email to that affect at the end of day today. Pisses me off and now I think I'll start looking in general and cut out the CT on-site all together. Unfreakin believable! :mad:

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That stinks. Maybe there is pressure from her manager to have someone at the office more often.

At least some good beer is arriving your way. :)
 
Coffee, packing for the bachelor party, spending the weekend on a house boat. The groom is bringing a keg of the beer he plans on serving for the wedding as a trial run, can't for the life of me remember what it is though.
 
BrewinHooligan said:
Dude, that blows goats... I'm pretty fed up with the company I work for. I work my ass off and do things that are far above my pay grade (like building and maintaining Microsoft Access Databases and run reports for the whole management team every month). I do the extra work to get exposure and hopefully oportunity to move up in the company since I don't have that stupid little piece of paper management is wanting to see. Two management positions opened up while I was out on Short Term Disability and since I was out almost a whole month I didn't get my application in until a few weeks after the posting came out. They announced who accepted their offers the end of last week without so much as a call to me from recruiting and the people they chose don't know their poop chute from a whole in the wall. Corporate America sucks. I really need to start working on my business plan and get my coffee shop going, busting my ass to make others rich is getting old.
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Employee Rule #1....just don't be the slowest gazelle. Being the fastest will just poop you out quicker.
 
PianoMan said:
Employee Rule #1....just don't be the slowest gazelle. Being the fastest will just poop you out quicker.
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You know, it's funny you say that. This isn't the first company that hasn't given me a promotion because I did my current job "too well" :drunk:
 
BrewinHooligan said:
You know, it's funny you say that. This isn't the first company that hasn't given me a promotion because I did my current job "too well" :drunk:
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That's how I ended up jumping departments here. I was too good as a Support Specialist to move me to supervisor. So I grabbed the first Supervisor spot I could. Now I'm too bad at this to make me the Manager this job requires me to be. I'm only bad at it because this job is cat herding, while putting a sweater on an octopus, with a sideline of heavy lifting. Put someone a bit more qualified under me and make me Ops Manager, or put an Ops Manager above me, and maybe one of us will have time to run this department.
 
allenH said:
Ice water after taking the little one to Steak and Shake, and a way too expensive trip to the beer storeView attachment 297953
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Glad you found some! Here's another assclown that apparently has a trust fund so he doesn't have to work and can run around buying beer...
 

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Hey @finsfan , I know you do a beer with Belle Saison... what temp do you ferment at?

I really didn't get any real saison character from that yeast, but it is still pretty early yet.

5 days in, just wanted to see where I was and if I had to do anything additional (heat, etc.)
 
Psylocide said:
Hey @finsfan , I know you do a beer with Belle Saison... what temp do you ferment at?

I really didn't get any real saison character from that yeast, but it is still pretty early yet.

5 days in, just wanted to see where I was and if I had to do anything additional (heat, etc.)
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I fermented 3 different saisons with that yeast at fairly low temps, all between 65-70. Ive heard you can get good things at upper 70's, but dont have experience with that. How long has that been fermenting?
 
finsfan said:
I fermented 3 different saisons with that yeast at fairly low temps, all between 65-70. Ive heard you can get good things at upper 70's, but dont have experience with that. How long has that been fermenting?
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Want me to requote my post? :D

5 days, pitched at 65, let free rise to ~72°.

You get much for yeasty notes in that range?

I know that with more time and some conditioning it's going to be completely different, but expected more at this point.
 
Psylocide said:
Want me to requote my post? :D

5 days, pitched at 65, let free rise to ~72°.

You get much for yeasty notes in that range?

I know that with more time and some conditioning it's going to be completely different, but expected more at this point.
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Ugh. Stop playing with your adolescent beer and let it do its thing.
Freakin' noobs all over, amirite @finsfan ?
 
Psylocide said:
Want me to requote my post? :D

5 days, pitched at 65, let free rise to ~72°.

You get much for yeasty notes in that range?

I know that with more time and some conditioning it's going to be completely different, but expected more at this point.
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Haha totally missed that. Apparently already in DGAF mode.

There were definitely some nice classic belgian notes that I got, but not in crazy amounts. You could certainly raise the temp up at this point, it wouldnt hurt, but since most of the fermentation is done im not sure you will get much out of it. I could be wrong though. Like you said, more time will help to develop more of those phenolics.
 
mcbaumannerb said:
Glad you found some! Here's another assclown that apparently has a trust fund so he doesn't have to work and can run around buying beer...
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Yeah, that's about $400 worth right there. At least it looks like he intends to trade them, but with a haul of that size, I wouldn't be surprised if he is selling them as well. The Last Snow release, as with most special releases here, was messed up. I think it would be better if everyone did their special releases like the BCBS release here, every store starts selling at the same time on the same day, there is no time to go to another store. Zhukov and Last Snow has been hitting different stores for the last week and a half, and it doesn't usually last for more than an hour.
 
finsfan said:
Haha totally missed that. Apparently already in DGAF mode.

There were definitely some nice classic belgian notes that I got, but not in crazy amounts. You could certainly raise the temp up at this point, it wouldnt hurt, but since most of the fermentation is done im not sure you will get much out of it. I could be wrong though. Like you said, more time will help to develop more of those phenolics.
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Alright, was curious about that.

This is also somewhat hoppy, so I hope I didn't drown it out. Wasn't quite sure how delicate those phenolic notes were.

Oh well, first crack, we'll see where it ends up.
 
finsfan said:
Hey, at least he isnt drinking it from the carboy with a straw after day 3. I'll give him credit for that.
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I did pull no less than 3 pints of mild straight off the carboy around day 9. So... you know, don't give me too much.

I'm an alcoholic, is what I'm getting at.
 
finsfan said:
I fermented 3 different saisons with that yeast at fairly low temps, all between 65-70. Ive heard you can get good things at upper 70's, but dont have experience with that. How long has that been fermenting?
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I did 2 different saison with Belle at Florida summer garage temps (95-105), it gets pretty intense at high temps and attenuates like a mofo, both went below 1.000. I love that yeast.
 
Psylocide said:
Alright, was curious about that.

This is also somewhat hoppy, so I hope I didn't drown it out. Wasn't quite sure how delicate those phenolic notes were.

Oh well, first crack, we'll see where it ends up.
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I've done some hoppy saisons/belgians and you wont get that perception of the phenolics like you normally would, but its still there to some degree. Still will make a great beer. Ask @PatrickGoss or @thecadjockey about my Rye Not. Aggressively citra hopped rye saison I used belle in. One of my favorite.
 

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