Coffee, nice warm delicious coffee. Not enough sleep but that's my own fault. The town is silent today. The snow is a mix of packed snow and ice. It's not soft like doggie likes so she wasn't thrilled when I woke her in excitement to go outside and pee & play. She wasn't having it...nor was I. I couldn't get my hands on ice melt, I tried Sunday & Monday but stores were sold out and there was a line at Lowes at 11 am for a shipment to arrive. Annoying. Anyhow...no ice melt for me.
Just made up a gallon batch of root beer...using 2/3 sugar to 1/3 honey and Vintner's CY17 yeast (what I have on hand and what the hell?). Bottling soon...decided to run the bottles through the dishwasher. Meanwhile, pulled out another bottle of hb robust porter. This one has been in the fridge for a few days now. It still was a slow pour, big head; but that settled and it's better than the one that only chilled for a matter of 6 or 8 hours. Not my favorite recipe overall though...wish I had made more of it with coffee. I'll try a different recipe next time.
I've been thinking about this, I wonder if there is something going on like an infection starting. I've never had that feeling when I drink your beers, but when is the last time you changed the tubing on your siphon and bottling wand? May be worth a shot. Do you dismantle your spigot as well? Maybe do that too. It makes no sense that you use less than the required amount of priming sugar but the majority of the beers you have are always over-carbonated. Even the ones you've sent to secondary and beyond suffer, I believe. It is time to start kegging my friend.
But then again, with the variety you have on hand for brewing, I doubt the Mrs will be thrilled to allow you to have at least 4 taps.
The only solution is I move next door and we build a mega kegorator!
It's my Friday and it was a helluva day. Performance evaluations at work to mostly women = tears.
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Well, I'm a dick...I figure there will be little to no tears if they were doing their job. Or is this just an over-emotional batch? That's the worst.
Would if I could. Apparently they have until 1230 to try and fix whatever the issue is before they'll cancel the flight. Fun..
SWMBO's brothercan buya rollof quarters next time and hit the laundramat.
Having a small pour out of my open jug of cider and calling it a night as I listen to the sleet outside turn into a deluge. No snow...all ICE. We're flocc'ed.
Yeah. It looks like snow, but I was just out there and the way it is barely compacting under foot suggests that it is mostly ice covered in snow. It was snowing, not sleeting, when I was out at 7. When the sun comes out there will be mayhem because the light snow will melt leaving a lot of ice.
Coffee. Sometimes I wish I had a longer drive just to get more coffee down before I get there.
Said no one ever.
@supervisingchildren I will say that the #1 best thing about buying a house or even moving to a place where I had my own laundry was that I didn't have to deal with people. I've had under garments stolen, I've had clothes tossed all over the floor because I waited another 5 minutes before returning to remove my stuff from the washer or dryer (they did not discriminate), and the kicker was the dry clothes tossed in the trash and laundry soap dumped all over them. That did it for me...even over someone stealing bras and underwear.
/end chatty cathy @coldcrash
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