Two new batches in the hole.

• Lemon honey ginger beer
  
  
  • 1 can Cooper's Kits Brewmaster Series Wheat Beer (yeast tossed in the trash in store, can of malt extract kept)
  • 1 packet Danstar Windsor Ale yeast
  • 1 packet Bru-Vigor yeast nutrient
  • 6 pounds tallow honey
  • 8 ounces shredded ginger
  • 3 lemons (peeled wedges from 2, zest and juice of the third ( Read more... )

24 Apr 08, 17:00 CDT
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Supply run to DeFalco's with the roommie: more yeast, bottle washer, B-Brite cleaner

24 Apr 08, 18:00 CDT
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Run by Fiesta for fresh fruit juice (no preservatives!); 1 gal cherry limeade obtained.

24 Apr 08, 19:00 CDT
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Review Jack Keller's Lemon Wine (3) recipe; little modification needed.

• I ( Read more... )

24 Apr 08, 04:00 CDT ( Read more... )

• I've been haunting a local coffeeshop more and more again. This has allowed me to run into people and chat, quite nice when a whole bunch of them are up and about to leave town.
  
  
• It's interesting to see how people change over time. Physically, mentally, and in other ways too. People gain weight, lost weight, put themselves into unseemly or ( Read more... )

Funny how, when you intend to go to a function/meeting and not drink a thing, you end up needing time to sober up afterwards.

Query
Wait, wait, it's summer and you're not drinking Pimm's? What gives?

Response
Ich prefere to drinke of thinges the whiche ich kan prepare bifore-hand yn a large picher. Also, ich wolde fayne use ower blendre as much as possible, for no thynge pleseth me mowere on thes dayes than the whirringe and crushinge of ice with gode syrup and ( Read more... )

I seem to have fallen in with a particularly drunken group of tangueros lately. Seriously, as much as I've been wanted to pick up this style for the last two years, the last thing I need is a friend who in all likelihood has a drinking problem: I've spent enough of my life babysitting others. (I say this as someone who, among other experiences, has ( Read more... )

It's the funniest train wreck I've seen in a long time.
"MOTHERFUCKER, I’LL OUT DRINK YOU THREE-TO-ONE. ANYTHING! YOU PICK IT, I’LL DO THREE FOR EVERY ONE YOU DO, YOU FUCKING KINDERGARTEN DRINKER!"

And
El Bingeroso gets through the first three shots relatively easy. Mermaid shows up five minutes later with four more shots. El Bingeroso and I stare ( Read more... )

Good beer is good for you. (You all really should have Jack William Bell friended if you don't already.) Bell also links to a post by PZ Myers about how this process works, and how it was shown that humans are irrelevant to the yeast's purposes in producing ethanol.

A comment to the Myers post presents the following argument:

Now it is such a ( Read more... )

Go watch this. Courtesy of Mr. Healy at CT.