Or, “How Nephilium Popped My (beer) Cherry”.
So with all the posts by Nephilium and Kinnath, I decided to dip my toe into the beer making hobby. I don’t drink the quantities I used to (not a bad thing), so I opted to follow Nephi’s advice and go with nano brew kits from Brooklyn Brew Shop. The kit with brewing supplies was just under $60 but I will be making many batches with it. The recipe kits run about $16.
Okay, before you IPA haters jump on your soapbox(and not a peep out of you, Ted), I chose single hop IPAs for a reason. I wanted to learn about the flavor and aroma profiles of the different hops. So there.
Anyways, the kit comes with pretty much everything you need. Grains, hops, yeast, sanitizer. For the process, it has a gallon jug, an airlock, thermometer, plastic tubing, and a racking cane. Since I made this batch, I’ve added a beer hydrometer and grain bags(you’ll see why). Everything else I needed I had on hand.
First off, everything gets sanitized. The instructions direct you to mix half the sanitizer with a gallon of water, the rest will be used during the bottling process. I’ve done a couple of modifications that I think make the process easier for me. I weighed the sanitizer and now I mix up a quart and also have a small spray bottle filled with sanitizer. It really made my life easier.
After that, comes the mash in. It takes an hour, and you have to keep track of the temperature. It needs to stay between 144-152 degrees, with it being stirred every so often. You’re basically making oatmeal here. You don’t use the whole amount of water. There’s a pot of water at the right temperature waiting to be added later. You also need an extra pot because the “wort” that’s created by steeping the grains gets poured over the grains twice.
So after an hour, “mashing in” is done. You raise the temperature to 170 degrees and strain into another pot. The liquid and additional four quarts of 170-degree water get poured over the grain twice.
As you can see from the photo, this is why I went to grain bags. I made a bit of a mess.
Next, we go to the boil. For this particular kit, it’s a 60 minute boil with hops added at specific times based on the recipe. Once the boil foams, you reduce to heat to a point where it’s just boiling, and start the process. I used the digital scale I use for charcuterie for weighing out the hops.
You lose 20% of volume during the boil, which leaves you a gallon of wort. Cool it on ice to 70 degrees and into the jug. I added a hydrometer to my supplies because this is what tells you if you achieved the specific gravity(sugar content) the wort needs to ferment to the proper alcohol level. This is also where you add the yeast(“pitch”) and shake to mix and add oxygen.
The sanitized tubing is stuck through the cap about an inch, and the other end sits in a bowl of sanitizer. The first couple of days is where the most aggressive fermentation takes place, and the airlock isn’t up to the task. After a couple of days, the tubing is replaced with the airlock, and then it’s time to wait for two weeks while fermentation does its thing. I’m using the guest bedroom closet that doubles as my “root cellar”. Close the vents and it stays a consistent 60 degrees during the winter.
The other purpose for the hydrometer is the determine if the beer has reached the proper alcohol level. I didn’t have one for this batch, so I crossed my fingers and hoped the recipe was correct.
At this point, the fermented beer is siphoned out of the jug and into a pot containing a half cup of water and three tablespoons of honey. The beer is flat, so this is the sugar that will ferment and provide carbonation. The beer is siphoned into sanitized bottles and placed back into the cool, dark closet for two weeks. I screwed up and lost my prime towards the end, so I ended up with six pints, instead of seven.
After two weeks, it’s time to chill, pour, and see if I made something actually worth drinking.
Hey! That ain’t half bad. Citrus notes from the Cascade hops, creamy mouthfeel with just a little bitterness on the finish and just the slightest hint of residual sweetness that will probably go away over time.
I’m enjoying this hobby, so far. It’s not saving me any money and given that we’re in the Golden Age of craft brewing, it’s not like I can’t find dozens of awesome beers at the local grocery store. I chalk it up to my toddler “me do it!” mentality. It goes well with gardening, canning, charcuterie, etc. The second single hop IPA is in the closet and I have a Cream Ale cold fermenting in the bar refrigerator. Next up is a batch of raspberry mead from the recipe Kinnath posted. When Spring comes, other things will take place of brewing to keep me busy, but when it’s like this outside, might as well make beer!
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Oooh…tell us more about that!
Little Kings Cream Ale was the drink of choice for underage Cincinnati when I was underage.
The Cream Ale lager is from recipe at the local brewing supply shop. That was actually pretty fun, as it involved translating a five gallon recipe involving extract and grains into a one gallon, all grain recipe.
The only downside is that it takes a long time. Three weeks for the first stage, two weeks for the second stage, and then bringing down the temp for a couple of days. Then bottling and a two week wait. Nephilium posted a method to shorten the process that I will take advantage of the next time I do a batch.
Every time I open the fridge to see how it looks, the aromas are awesome. It’s clarified, so it’s also a beautiful clear, dark amber color.
Cream Ales are my favorite summer beer.
If this tastes as good as it smells, I will be doing many batches. Using the bar fridge doesn’t confine me to certain times of the year.
Well done! I’m going to do what you did, a good starter kit
Add the hydrometer and grain bags. It takes an afternoon, but the beer is pretty darned good and there’s the self satisfaction of knowing that you did it yourself.
Okay, before you IPA haters jump on your soapbox(and not a peep out of you, Ted)
Do I at least get to thank you for the hat tip?
You hate the international phonetic alphabet too?
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And your last photo reminds me of my dearly departed Goldie.
A snow dog is a special pet. Adler is a nose hound. He gallops around the yard plowing the snow with his nose. He comes to the back door with a snow cone on his snout.
Wait, what happened to Danton?
Who’s Danton?
I thought that was his name. You got him just as I was leaving CA. Some kind of exotic breed related to German Shepard.
Chopin. He’s eight now. He and Adler romp in the yard all day long. But that dog definitely doesn’t hunt.
Chopin, that’s it. I knew it was something froggy.
It’s the wife’s fault. That added to his litter name is even worse. Chopin Yetzer von Zorro.
Jesus.
Yeah, if he’s eight, you must have gotten him when I was already in Texas. He and the Wonder Dog are pretty close in age.
She is totally hating us right now. She got her fur shaved down, then we cooped her in a car and hotel rooms for several days, dropped her in a new house where she promptly injured her paw on some sharp gravel, and then got the Cone of Shame.
Just wait until she meets cactus. I predict piles of shit in your bedroom.
FWIW, Chopin was Polish.
Towns in my native Mississippi are named for Kosciuszko and Pulaski, so I decided at some point to remember to pull for guys from other lost little backwards places. I don’t have a drop of Polish blood, but I follow the country a bit and even got to work in Krakow recently.
Nice job with the beer, it looks great and glad it went well for you!
As a legendary man once said, “I like beer.”
Thank you!
Rock on Spud.
I do (occasionally) miss drinking an IPA.
This isn’t actually what you think of when you think of an IPA. The bitterness is very well controlled. I was afraid I wasn’t going to like it, but it’s very drinkable.
Man, you guys are like chemists, knowing all that stuff. If I was still a drinking man I’d be thinking about moving in next door, just to “help”. Keep up the good posts.
Allow me to go off topic: What’s the Difference Between White and Brown Eggs?
Related: “Omelette of Asparagus” – A Recipe from 1787
Brown eggs are the ones they use on cooking shows to show off how sophisticated they are.
I actually buy brown eggs just because of the appearance. And there really isn’t a price difference that I’ve seen.
An Asian lady that I know intimately believes that brown eggs are ‘better’ because that’s what she had in her village. They are more expensive at the store ’cause other folks must believe that too.
True story, I live in a rural township, last census was 278 if I remember correctly. 1 Asian.
278 in your township? Jeepers, why not just move into town? Ick.
“Intimately” are we both using that word the same way?
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I hope so
Moar Asparagus recipe
I seem to be on an asparagus trip. I blame it on 1) I like asparagus 2) it is easy to prepare 3) it is on my radar since my tiny, female feline downed one in a matter of seconds last night. I know veggies are in cat-food, but I have never seen a cat eat a whole vegetable like that.
I had oven roasted asparagus next to a salmon filet tonight.
How the salmon got into your pajamas we’ll never know.
I definitely had to let it cool off first.
Coincidentally, we did stir-fried asparagus with sesame seeds and red bell peppers last night. The good weather let us set up our jet-engine 100,000 BTU wok stand outside and get that wok actually glowing red hot.
We love asparagus in our house. It runs = or > $3.99 per lb. here in NYC and Lawn Guyland but, oddly, in Manhattan’s Chinatown I’ve never seen it over $1.99 per lb.
I like asparagus, but don’t eat it often. When I was a kid you could find it literally growing in ditches around here. My mom had some planted in the yard as well. But back then I didn’t like it. *shrugging gif*
I think I may have shared this story before. When I was stationed at Ft. Ord, we would conduct the bulk of our field training about 3 hours away down at Ft. Hunter Ligget. Our convoys always stopped at the same place on the side of the road- a giant asparagus field in the Salinas Valley and hundreds (sometimes thousands) of soldiers fanned out into the asparagus field and relieved themselves. I always thoroughly was my asparagus.
So, if asparagus makes your piss smell like asparagus, does piss make asparagus smell like piss? This could be a Glibs version of Mythbusters!
Salmon tonight and the side was asparagus with Parmesan. Simple to make and great to eat.
It’s the chickens. I buy my eggs from a local guy and we’ve had all kinds of colors. Brown most common, though.
Short answer; not a damn thing.
The breed of chicken determines the color of the egg ?. You can get dark brown, light brown, speckled, green or white depending on what type of chicken you have. We have had a number of breeds, I can’t taste any difference between the shell colors.
I’ve noticed a difference in shell thickness, but none in taste.
Funny story about farm-fresh eggs:
My mom has a flock of chickens, and she periodically gives me some eggs. One day, I was frying some up and got one that I couldn’t crack. I knocked it on the counter, then on the side of the cast iron pan, and I still couldn’t break the shell. I even held it above my head and dropped it on the hardwood floor. Nothing. I was acting out of curiosity at this point. I placed the egg on the concrete outside and pounded it with my cast iron Dutch oven. Finally, it cracked in half. It looked like it was 100% eggshell with a tiny empty cavity in the middle. No sign of any egg white or yolk.
My mom is always amused by egg oddities; she frequently texts me pictures of eggs with two yolks, three yolks, some kind of weird gunk inside, etc. I put the all-shell egg into a plastic bag and took it over there a few weeks later. I jokingly said to her, “Mom, I’d like to return this egg,” and put the broken egg on the table. She stared at it in confusion for a second then turned to my stepdad and said, “That’s where the fake egg went!”
I guess they have fake eggs that they place in the coop to signal to the chickens to lay their eggs there, and they must have accidentally picked that one up and put it in the dozen that they gave me. We all had a laugh about it.
Ha! Good one.
Yes, chickens occasionally lay weird eggs, double or triple yolks, super small ones, or strange shapes.
I got the first 2x yolk in my life a few weeks ago. I thought I learned from Looney Tunes that they x-ray those things before shipping ’em out.
I had a friend who raised chickens for a while. He added too much oyster shell to their diet and couldn’t crack the eggs. The a couple of the hens started pecking holes in all the freshly laid eggs. He doesn’t raise chickens anymore.
Lol!
We love the double yolks. They’re good luck, you know.
Not for the chicks that never were!
Ha! Eggcellent
“Brown eggs are local eggs and local eggs are fresh!” Brought to you by New England Egg Producers.
And Yeah, what Mike S and KSue said.
That is exactly what when through my head as I read this thread!
I remember a friend who, about 25 years ago, used to make pony kegs of homemade beer. It was pretty tasty, but always gave everyone bad farts. Is this a not uncommon problem, or what was he doing wrong?
That would be unfermented carbohydrates in the final product. They ferment in your gut instead.
Not a brewer, but flatulence is usually from gut flora metabolizing oligosaccharides. I would guess that if he deactivated the enzymes (by getting them too hot) or not letting that step go long enough, he’d leave too many in the finished product.
OT: Breaking news – Jussie Smollet has been charged with filing a false police report. This is going to get interesting.
*shocked face*
But yea, I need to add popcorn to my grocery list.
Same here. Between this and Bernie going on the campaign trail again, my current supplies of popcorn are NOT enough.
Posted in the last thread but since no one is there: Bernie Sanders on Division Politics | It’s Wrong, Unless It’s Against the ‘Billionaire Class’
I believe it has been said here before, but replace every mention of “Jews” from Mein Kampf with “the 1%” or “billionaires” and you get a usual Bernie speech. However, I for one will relish watching him fleece his supporters yet again.
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TRIAL OF THE CENTURY!
TRIAL OF THE CENTURY!Jussie, who? You must have imagined something./MSM
Great write-up, Spud. If you’re gonna keep with this hobby, get some StarSan FYI: Don’t fear the foam, and RDWHAHB.
Thanks, Mike! I have a few packets of sanitizer to work through, but I’ll keep that on the list as a replacement. I keep what I have on hand in a small tupperware container. 4gm makes a quart of sanitizer, which is plenty for a batch of beer. I make up another quart when it comes time to bottle. Instead of getting one batch from each packet, I get four. We’re talking very little money here, but the conservative in me approves.
Yeah, a little does go a long way.
So I bought a mickey of Larceny today to give it a try. Very good. A little different than most bourbons I’ve had (or the Kona Big Wave is messing with my taste buds…which I doubt). Almost a tish of smoke like a Scotch…? I’m terrible at describing what I taste, but you must know what I mean…?
It’s a poor man’s Elijah Craig. There is a little smoky note to it. I drink it neat and use it for a mixer.
StarSan! When I was brewing, I’d make a gallon dilution of that to rinse all the gear in and fill a spray bottle with it for all the things I’d inevitably forget to sanitize. Also, PBW. That stuff is magic.
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Did you inoculate with brettanomyces?
I will never be able to achieve the heights of Royal Magreb.
Cough, cough, ’90 Beaucastel.
’93 Jamet.
Great job, Spud! My wife picked up a kit for me years back but I never got around to trying it.
Damn you people for all of your compelling hobbies!
Thanks, Tundra! When I get into January and February, this is right up my alley. Hunting season is over, projects are done, and I’m pretty damned tired of winter.
On topic, and I love this song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzZcBceUZJw
Well I’ll be here around supper time, with my can of dinner and a bunch of lies….
Classic
Coincidentally; from the same album, this is my favorite song(s) from that little band from Texas.
link works?
I linked to Fool for Your Stockings last week. ’59 Strat and an old Mexican peso for a pick add up to an intriguing tone; not epic, but solid and intriguing. I spent many an evening drinking in an apartment across from Ardent while Eliminator was being recorded watching a few things come and go.
Ahhh shit. Try again.
You should really cover that grill, man.
What kind of pup?
Call me crazy, but it looks almost poodle-ish? Let’s see how wrong I am…
Looks like a wirehair pointer.
The problem is that I use the grill year round. That pile on the table is the cover. I’ve actually had that grill for 14 years.
Pup is Pudelpointer. The breed was developed in Germany in the 1880s. And yep, it’s a cross between an English Pointer and a German hunting poodle. He points, retrieves and is a waterfowl dog. And he doesn’t shed. The German Wirehaired Pointer has Pudelpointer in it.
Fuck yeah! I’m not crazy!…much
When it comes time to change my avatar again, I’ll put up a picture of him.
sometimes he looks like a civil war soldier, sometimes he looks like Animal from the muppets. One halloween, he sported a pink mohawk.
Just shitting you. Stainless steel covers all kinds of sins. I have a Napoleon like that. Every use the rotisserie?
Quite a bit. I’ve done many chickens, boneless leg of lamb and prime rib.
I love mine. That back burner works like a charm.
Cooking veggies in the drip pan is my go-to lazy cook technique.
Who cares if it didn’t save you money. It looks fun. Other than not having enough primes, what will you do better the next time? Might as well not repeat your mistakes if I give it a try.
One I’ve already addressed. I added a hydrometer which takes out a lot of guess work. Using grain bags also makes life easier when it comes to doing the sparge, but it requires more attention during the mashing in, because the grain isn’t uniformly distributed. I also slightly over carbonated. The amount of honey I used for bottle conditioning was for one gallon of beer, and I only had 3/4 of a gallon.
One of the bottles I opened last week starting foaming over. I tried putting my thumb over it as I turned towards the sink. Yep, it rained beer all over the kitchen. I didn’t lose more than a couple of ounces, but I had to wipe down and mop the whole kitchen.
Rained beer? How is that a mistake?
It didn’t land in my mouth. It just created a sticky mess.
Personally, I don’t like sticky messes landing in my mouth.
There was this one gal..uh, never mind.
Back when I was brewing (and probably still today), a common argument among the beer nerds was “can make your own beer for cheaper?” I think the consensus was; if you don’t count all the “stuff” you need to do it, then yes, you can make beer cheaper than similar-type beers. The caveat being, you can’t beat the BMC’s* on price, but you can beat them on flavor.
*Bud, Miller, Coors
I ran the numbers a few times and in my case it was just like you say. In terms of ingredients, it varies, but generally speaking the more exotic or the more complicated the style the more money you can potentially save. The comparison isn’t quite right, though, because like you say the big deal is the flavor aspect. It’s not so much that you’re trying to make Sierra Nevada Pale Ale on the cheap in your house, it’s that you can make the exact beer you want–that nobody else makes–on demand.
That beer would be a nice complement to today’s lunch.
https://ibb.co/9wTkP0K
That looks good
Not bad. It’s Freshness Burger.. That and Mos Burger are the only decent burger chains here.
Hey, at least you can get a decent burger.
?>? (At least for today)
I do love me some Mos Burger.
They use some super strain steroid jacked tomatoes.
Side note but how do you feel about Lotteria or Lucky Pierot? I do dig the really cheesy cheese-bugers Lotteria has and Lucky Pierot’s got them thicc burgers.
Not a fan of Lotteria’s sauces. It’s a Korean burger chain I believe, so that’s to be expected.
There’s a local place here that puts pork short rib meat and kimchi on top of a burger with havarti. One of the most orgasmic hamburgers I’ve ever eaten.
Love kimichi, but what you’ve described isn’t really a “burger”.
The pork and kimchi are on top of a hamburger in equal amounts, not in place of. Or-gasmic. And qualifies as a burger.
Havarti has been our cheese of choice for a spell now. Great on burgers, grilled cheese, etc.. throw a slice on the flat-top until it turns crispy, lacy, and brown… it’s very yummy.
Hmmm. I’ll give it a shot sometime.
Has Lucky Pierot expanded? I thought they were just on Hokkaido.
Well done! I was bracing myself for a plate of wriggling sea creatures.
Dinner will be Okonomiyaki. Probably toss some octopus in it.
Thicc?
https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/brit-awards-2019-busty-kelly-14028117
You could cake that much makeup on a sumo wrestler and achieve the same effect.
Better than Kinky Kelly.
And JB, why didn’t you link this story if you were looking at The Mirror?
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/boss-broadcasts-himself-having-sex-12182138?utm_source=taboola&utm_medium=display&utm_campaign=organic
That sure as hell beats surfing the Internet during a conference call.
Didn’t see it. The Busty Kelly story was in my Google news feed. I have it trained.
Yes, would, and I’m frankly enthusiastic that it’s not an article about that other person.
You can’t start a thicc thread in Spud’s article without linking to Demi Rose.
Zion tumbles; Nike stock might as well.
How’d you like to be the company that injured the greatest college baller of a generation?
Zion left in the first minute, and Duke’s down by 10 at the half * sad trombone *
Nike’s new Take A Knee campaign hardest hit.
That was my first thought when that play happened…. somewhere a Nike executive just put a gun in his mouth.
How much did it cost them to get Zion to go to Duke and wear Nikes? And they become the first major shoe brand to actually injure a star player. OUCH!
I doubt it is an exec, but the employee responsible for the dook relationship is probably sweating bullets if not already fired.
On topic: I’m having some beer.
Off topic: I’m glad people seemed to like the first ‘As Seen on TV’. I think I’m already going to go off topic with the second article and do a movie next.
On Topic: #metoo
Off Topic: Do it!
I mean, it still fits sort of, I watched the movie on a TV.
If it is a movie often seen on TV, the I’d say it’s still on-ish-topic. Run with it.
No, I watched on a TV in film school. I’m trying to do sort of forgotten shows/movies that actually had a big impact on culture or the industry.
Post away, C. The Glibertariat always seems to fill in the gaps.
I vote for Hong Kong Fooey.
Seconded. Man, I loved that one.
For the fans.
Thirded. Hong Kong Fooey was some damn good stuff.
Number 1 Super Guy!
#1 Theme song
Saturday morning cartoons were the best.
I was Hong Kong fooey one year for Halloween. It was the lame plastic apron and poison plastic mask with the rubber band holding it to your face.
I loved that show.
And Meadowlark Lemon did his voice…sort of.
I LOVED Hong Kong Phooey.
Hong Kong Fooey, Nana nana na na nah.
Congratulations to Mojeaux, the only one in the entire thread who spelled Hong Kong Phooey correctly. Fooey on all of you.
It was a wonderful example of the Saturday Morning Cartoon genre at the time.
I loved Scatman Crothers.
Those who are old enough to remember should watch an old episode. Holy crap, was it terrible.
Oh, and go watch “Superfriends” too. It was the cream of the crop. And perfectly horrible. “Wonder twin powers, …. Activate!”
So, so, so bad.
American children’s TV was pretty much inept until the late 80’s/ early 90’s.
Well, to look at it logically, the first cartoons were experiments. The people who grew up on those experiments imitated live action on a low animation budget, it wasn’t until the 3rd generation in the 80s that the creators of animation had grown up with fully fledged animation and began to tweak it, and the budgets got larger.
On your topic: I enjoyed your TV article; thank you very much for writing it.
Off topic but tangential: Just finished season 13 of It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia and it might be the strongest season of the whole run. I’m a sucker for TV being self-referential and for breaking the dramatic narrative in experimental ways.
I never got into that show. But, way back my sister told me about a contest FX was having where you create a show and send in a pilot and the winner would get a show. All the actors I had used previously had moved away and I didn’t know any other local actors (rural life) so I wasn’t producing anything at that point, so I didn’t enter. But the show that won that contest was ‘It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’.
They really tapped into something dark in the national zeitgeist. The show is like a wicked doppelganger of Seinfeld or Friends; none of the protagonists have any redeeming qualities whatsoever.
I haven’t watched that show for a while, but I will have to check out the latest. It’s some hilarious dark comedy. The Wade Boggs episode is my all time fav.
Indeed – when describing it to a friend some years ago, I went with, “they’re all bad people”.
“I got something for you”. Also, Black Hans?
https://www.foxnews.com/us/elderly-woman-in-georgia-reportedly-shoots-at-suspected-home-intruder-twice
Actor Jussie Smollett charged with felony for allegedly filing a false police report
Does this mean FOS was vindicated?
Maximum penalty is 3 years prison for filing a false crime and it is a felony. My guess he pleas down to some sort of misdemeanor where he gets 6 months probation. He’ll then donate a large sum of money to an organization for the victims of hate crimes, be called a hero and go back to acting with no damage to his career.
A lot of regular black folk are pissed off at him.
He’s going to end up facing multiple charges I’d guess. Some federal.
I’m not seeing the MSM losing interest, either. How could they? They’ve been following it non-stop for weeks.
Fun times ahead!
One of the network morning shows was on in the hotel this morning (thanks guys!) so got to hear whoever it was and their ace reporters soft pedal this story with lots of weasel words and caveats.
Just looked at wiki. His given name is Justin. I could see going along with Jussie if your parents saddled you with that name, but using that as a nickname. That guy’s got problems from way back.
He does seem to have an attention-seeking personality – “my name is unique!” is part of that.
He’s an actor – are any _not_ attention-seeking?
Perfect name for his situation. Isn’t that what they always used to say on the evening news when some new wrinkle came up in an on-going story?
“This just in…”
The phony threat letter will likely be a federal charge. Man, what a fucking idiot.
One of them days. Ad some furnace troubles I had to take care of. Then when I was resting afterwards my vape mod said ‘Volts too High’ and wouldn’t work. Took out the batteries and cleaned the connections, then it said volts too low. Then I changed the atomizer, then it would turn on. Messed with the thing for a few hours, tried to have a cigarette but didn’t care for the taste anymore. was too late to go into town to the vape shop to see if they could figure it, so I went to the gas station here and got a Juul type thing. Got home and decided to try the mod one last time and it’s working again. I guess at least now I have some sort of backup if it happens again.
Backup is good. I have a backup for my Juul. Being not Juul, it’s been hounded out of business in the US so I stopped buying pods for it.
+1 regulatory capture
Pussy
I did two beer kits that were presents from a friend.
The chocolate stout was great and I had no issues making it. The Belgian ale was a F’kup. I screwed up the second fermentation in bottle with too much honey.
I told my self I like honey so a bit more should be better. I opened the growler I used and it volcanoed off the roof of my kitchen.
It was delishous but I spent 30 minutes cleaning the kitchen.
Lol! If only we could have done this for the volcano science experiment in school.
Beer volcano and a hooker factory
That’s when you roll with it, aim the bottle at your wife and shout, “I just won The Indy 500!”.
*Of course this line of thinking is why divorce is likely in my future.
That would go poorly.
It’d have to be a milk stout for that to work
Secondary fermentations are tricky.
They aren’t if you follow the directions. In my case I treated it like cooking instead of baking. A little of this more of that.
Savage.
https://twitter.com/SallyMayweather/status/1098440020053147648
Hard LOL
That’s terrific.
WARNING: Do not click the following link if you have sleeping family members in your house that you don’t want to wake with maniacal laughter.
https://twitter.com/Imamofpeace/status/1098390622808039431
Please tell me that’s real!
*sad trombone*
Followed by mariachi band
Who is still hanging about? You all better not be drinking on a school night.
Good Morning Glibsters
Bit of insomnia is keeping me up. Travel does that to me.
Afternoon for me. I’m just hanging out, cooking up some Carnitas for dinner.
Its 11:25PM and reading this post made me thirsty
I think I’ll see if I have a beer in the fridge.
A beer ain’t drinking.
I’m up still celebrating the Heels win over dook at Cameron Indoor Outhouse.
Was watching a DVR’d show, when I was done Steven Colbert was on, talking about Trump’s quote from Charlottesville “There were good people on both sides” ( I think he was interviewing the reporter that got that response, but I didn’t watch enough to find out exactly why that’s still a thing. Anyway, this is one of the things (and it’s something that happens even here) that rankles my feathers. I really don’t think EVERY SINGLE person that doesn’t agree with me is evil by default. But I guess that’s where we’re at now.
In the world of progressive, late night comedy that’s the way it is. One more reason none of them can achieve more than a fraction of Johnny Carson’s ratings.
I’m not just talking comedy or progressives. I hear it all too often everywhere, from good people on all sides (see what I did there) attributing malice to every person that disagrees with them.
I don’t experience very much of that in meatspace. Online, yeah, it happens a lot.
I’m late to read it but good work Spud. You make me believe an all thumbs simpleton like me could (maybe) brew his own beer.
From the “at least they don’t try to hid it” department…
The top article at HuffPo right now is…..
Tucker Carlson curses in a clip from an interview that didn’t air.
Yup. That’s it. Bigger story than Trump even. Much bigger than our hero-victim getting charged. Yup. A conservative talk-show host said a bad word.
To Carlson’s credit, he apologized for cursing, but said this: “On the other hand, it was genuinely heartfelt, and I meant it with total sincerity”
Nice!
Couldn’t even make it through the whole video, the guy’s whole argument was people pay you, therefore your thoughts don’t matter. I wonder who pays him?…
She is the one politician so dumb that I’d believe she didn’t know about it.
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2019/02/20/clapback-master-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-finally-addresses-the-conspiracy-machine-trying-to-take-her-down/
She just reminds of this one girl in one of my college poli-sci classes I took for fun (I was a Film Major Theater Minor, she was a poli-sci Major) that went on a rant about Jefferson and the constitution and was really confused when I corrected her that when the constitution was written Jefferson was in France.
Fake news!
@CPRM, you were saying you wanted your As Seen on TV spots to be shows that had some cultural relevance. In re Hong Kong Phooey (1974). It took the martial arts zeitgeist of the time and parlayed that into a superhero format accessible to kids. Judo and
take one’s doughtae kwon do and kung fu were very popular, and they hadn’t hit their peak yet (“Everybody was Kung Fu Fightin’”). And let’s not forget the Bruce Lee movies (Enter the Dragon was released in 1972). I am not making the case that Hong Kong Phooey was creating cultural significance, but it did reflect one big piece of early 70s culture.Yeah, I know, but the other part of what I want to do is focus on ‘forgotten’ or ‘overlooked’ shows or movies that had a big impact. Which despite my fondness for Captain Power, seems to have been right in line given the responses.
Apparently AL Gore had a stroke. I have no other explanation for this.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/energy/al-gore-says-northam-should-make-up-for-blackface-scandal-by-opposing-gas-pipeline-project
It’s the new 5 Hail Mary’s and 3 Our Father’s.
If you are a believer that at least makes sense. It’s directly connected to your misdeeds. This… is another story.
Epic trolling.
https://dailycaller.com/2019/02/20/philadelphia-mayor-goggins-mental-illness/
Play stupid games win stupid prizes?
Give them credit. Imagine Trump nominated her to be Secretary of Commerce. She’s completely unqualified but the Dems can’t do anything because all the intersectional boxes are checked.
And to be fair, she can’t do any worse.
Chafed, we’ve seen that the current operating principle of the Democrat party is “Orange Man Bad”, so it doesn’t matter how qualified or intersectional a candidate is, they will attack on anything and everything, real or fabricated.
Goggins said her mental illnesses materialized after she stopped snorting cocaine in 2005.
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Losing belongs in air quotes.
https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5c6db9abe4b0e2f4d8a231a9
That one did it, I’m tagging out for the night.