About a month ago, we got a wild phone call out of the blue from some B-W friends we hadn’t talked to in, like, a decade. They were inquiring about our Calico Duck (a whole other story). At any rate, that call introduced me to the wonderful thing that is Jawbone Radio. Last night, I …
Monthly Archives: September 2008
T-15 Inklings Ale (2nd attempt)
For an explanation of the origin of this ale, see the entry for the first attempt. A few batches on now from last year’s Inklings Ale debacle, I thought I’d tackle the recipe again and bring some to the Glen for the Thomas Parker Society. The CAMRA recipe calls for some Diastatic Malt Extract and …
Vitamin volcano cake
I recently learned some things about vitamins. Above all, do not store gel-cap vitamins anywhere near the stove. The lovely sculpture you see above was created by storing multi-vitamins not ON the stove top but on top of the backsplash/control panel of the stove. Not all gel-caps are filled with powder. These particular vitamins were …
T-14 Albino Amber
Brewed 2/23/2008 On one of my online shopping excursions to The Grape and Granary, their ingredient kit for “American Amber” caught my attention. After the Brown ale experiment, I’d decided I wanted to go Red. I fiddled around with BeerSmith a while, but was never really satisfied with what I was designing. Then I saw …
T-13 Brown Fox
The Brown Fox certainly proved to be quite the wily beast. Not only did it start out as one thing and end up another, it continued to morph in the bottle from a barely acceptable brew to something that has been something of a crowd pleaser. My intention with Brown Fox had been to develop …
T-12 Simcoe Pale Ale 2
Brewed 2/9/2008 My summer experiment with Simcoe hops was so successful that I thought repeating it would be in the best interests of science. You know, that whole repeatable results canard of which they’re so fond. Of course, I can’t just do exactly the same thing. For one thing, I’ve added the partial mash to …
When there’s no white board
Woke up this morning unable to find a white board, notebook, spare envelope, or even a pen. Until it was too late. width=”300″ height=”101″ class=”alignnone size-medium wp-image-312″
Grand Ol’ Grandparents
Grandparents’ Day was on Sept. 7. In keeping with my being late for just about every holiday, public and private, here’s my homage. I only have one grandparent still living (Hi, Nana!), but I have fond memories of Granny & Grandpa, and Papa. On this Grandparent’s Day, I’m resurrecting a poem I wrote in the …
Awake, My Soul: The Story of the Sacred Harp
Thanks to Jeffrey Overstreet for pointing the way to this wonderful film on Sacred Harp, or shape note, Singing. You can watch it for free this week by going to this link.
Some thoughts…
On playing disc golf in the dark with glow-in-the-dark discs: Champion/candy plastic is the only way to go. The white discs I had were still too opaque to be useful. Be sure the park you’re at is actually, you know, dark. Playing in the dark is challenging; constantly being blinded by night glare then having …
