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Support your local, independent restaurants and stores! (#Realfood)

Written by:Jon Craig
Published on January 23rd, 2012 @ 08:55:00 am , using 896 words, 51 views
Posted in Local, Home, Food
This morning, during my shower, while I was getting dressed, and riding in the car on the way to the office, I rough-drafted a post in my head. It was going to talk at length about how the rise of mega-chains has killed diversity and local flavor in pr… more »

All-Grain Batch #1: SUCCESS! (#beer #homebrew #homebrewing)

Written by:Jon Craig
Published on November 7th, 2011 @ 08:08:00 am , using 265 words, 3466 views
Posted in Home, Homebrewing
Yesterday was "learn to brew" day, and as planned we brewed our first all-grain batch during this event.  Everything went exactly as planned and all gravity and yield targets were met or slightly exceeded and the beer is happily fermenting at home in ou… more »

Golden Apple BrewWerks update! (#Beer #Homebrew #Homebrewing)

Written by:Jon Craig
Published on November 2nd, 2011 @ 09:00:00 am , using 178 words, 530 views
So we haven't brewed much lately.  Our Secret Project IBA is in secondary and will be kegged soon, and thus revealed to the unsuspecting world.  Er, at least homebrew enthusiasts in our area, anyway.  We'll be brewing our first all-grain batch, an ESB,… more »

And now for something totally different.

Written by:Jon Craig
Published on July 25th, 2011 @ 08:32:00 am , using 830 words, 2582 views
And so with this post, I risk alienating or even offending 50% or more of my readers. A month or more ago, I made a post about the original purpose of this domain, and mentioned I may be recovering the magazine's issues from archive.org.  Well - I can'… more »

Our local food/beer/etc community is amazing. (#Beer #Homebrew #Homebrewing)

Written by:Jon Craig
Published on July 15th, 2011 @ 01:50:00 pm , using 310 words, 417 views
Posted in Local, Home, Food, Homebrewing
One thing we've always noticed about our local food business community is that, at least to us - admittedly outsiders, not employed in the business - it seems that the businesses are very friendly and supportive of each other.  There does not seem to be… more »

And so it ends! (The first batch anyway.) #Realfood

Written by:Jon Craig
Published on June 13th, 2011 @ 07:42:00 am , using 350 words, 928 views
Posted in Local, Home, Food
The earliest email I can find referencing it is from November 2010 - so it seems its been about 8 months that we've been involved with the "Chicken Cabal," and now our first batch of chickens is done. We did a "trial run" of 20 birds on Tuesday the 7… more »

We can't stop here... (#BatCountry #RoadTrip #beer)

Written by:Jon Craig
Published on April 11th, 2011 @ 09:53:00 am , using 1993 words, 1275 views
As I begin penning (so to speak) this entry, it's around 8 o'clock on a rainy Monday morning, the memories still ultra-fresh of this trip that I simply must chronicle. It would be all too easy to chalk this up to "you had to be there" or "you wouldn't… more »

An exciting and varied weekend! (#Realfood #Homebrew #Abunchofotherstuff)

Written by:Jon Craig
Published on January 10th, 2011 @ 07:55:00 am , using 1066 words, 386 views
Posted in Local, Home, Music, Food, Homebrewing
Our weekend was extremely varied and exciting! Did a lot of new stuff, and something we hadn't done in ages. So we knew this band-with-a-cool-name, We Are Hex, was playing at The Black Sparrow (best bar in all of Lafayette, perhaps the world) on Fri… more »

Guinea fowl processing. (#Realfood)

Written by:Jon Craig
Published on January 9th, 2011 @ 11:24:00 am , using 576 words, 817 views
Posted in Local, Home, Food
Today Lizz and I went to Wabash Mountain Farm to help(and learn how to) process 2 guinea fowl roosters. Please note that by "process," I do mean kill, scald, pluck, eviscerate, and cool said birds, so that we can eat them. Given that, some of the ph… more »

Brew Day #2: Success! (#homebrew #beer)

Written by:Jon Craig
Published on December 20th, 2010 @ 07:54:00 am , using 196 words, 1011 views
Posted in Local, Home, Food, Homebrewing
We started our second batch of beer on Saturday. It is a Northern English Brown Ale (BJCP style 11C), from a recipe of mostly my own design - (click for link to recipe on Hopville). Dead Like Me was a great show. ;) Nothing overly special, but should… more »

Russian Imperial Stout! DA! (#Beer #Homebrew)

Written by:Jon Craig
Published on December 16th, 2010 @ 07:39:00 am , using 285 words, 307 views
Before I get onto the main subject of this post, I just want to mention I took a couple bottles of our first-ever homebrew, a black IPA, to the club meeting on Tuesday and it was well-received. "Doesn't have the typical 'kit flavor'" was said by more t… more »

Coffee adventures! And more! (#Realfood #Coffee #WAPF)

Written by:Jon Craig
Published on December 8th, 2010 @ 07:52:00 am , using 566 words, 355 views
Posted in Announcements, Home, Food
For years, we've liked quality coffee. We'd been ordering fresh-roasted whole bean coffee from Intelligentsia, located in Chicago. We'd have our coffee within a few days of it being roasted, as opposed to mass produced commercial coffee, which may hav… more »

Beer: bottled. Tattoo: done, but healing. (#Homebrew #Bodyart #Tattoo #Tattoos)

Written by:Jon Craig
Published on December 7th, 2010 @ 08:18:00 am , using 193 words, 255 views
Posted in Local, Home, Food
Last Tuesday, I got my first tattoo. It's healing, so I'm not ready to post a picture yet, but if you have me friended on Facebook, there is a rough picture there. By next week it should be ready for photos. Lizz is getting her second tattoo today, a… more »

Beer, bows, and, er, planes... (#Homebrew #Realfood #Beer)

Written by:Jon Craig
Published on November 29th, 2010 @ 07:19:00 am , using 610 words, 518 views
Posted in Local, Home, R/C Flying, Food
Couldn't think of a "B" word for planes. :D My first batch of homebrew is coming along exactly as it should. On Saturday evening we transferred it from the primary fermenter to secondary, drawing a small sample to test for specific gravity. It was… more »

Ok, ok, really still alive. (#Beer #HomeBrew #Gaming #MMO #MMOGaming)

Written by:Jon Craig
Published on November 22nd, 2010 @ 07:49:00 am , using 499 words, 372 views
Posted in Gaming, Home, Food, CD a Week
I'm still alive - and we're still planning to do the "CD A Week" project. I've just been taking a little break from the "ZOMG MASSIVE INPUT/INFO COMING AT ME 24/7" world of Twitter and Facebook for a little while. Sometimes it gets to be a bit much an… more »

Nope, not dead. (#gaming sort of - #eq #everquest also sort of)

Written by:Jon Craig
Published on September 17th, 2010 @ 05:55:00 am , using 446 words, 1134 views
It's been quite a while since I've written here. Mainly we've just been busy doing a ton of new things, and I haven't had much time to write. That, and to be honest, most of the things we've been doing aren't overly appropriate for discussion on a pub… more »

Still here! (#Gaming #MMO #MMOGaming)

Written by:Jon Craig
Published on April 26th, 2010 @ 06:07:57 am , using 295 words, 1120 views
Posted in Gaming, Local, Home
I haven't written much lately, as there just isn't much "happening." I'm playing Warhammer Online, but there's really nothing "exciting" to write about. I play, it's fun, and things are good. Heh. I'll be doing my future gaming-related posts over @… more »

A confusing mess of stuff! :D (#Homebrew #RealFood #MMO #MMOGaming #Gaming)

Written by:Jon Craig
Published on March 22nd, 2010 @ 06:04:34 am , using 489 words, 497 views
How's that for an interesting collection of unrelated hashtags!? Well, that's what happens when you blog about everything you're doing, rather than focusing on one subject. ;)I haven't written much lately, mainly because there hasn't been a lot to w… more »

Dog: acquired!

Written by:Jon Craig
Published on November 24th, 2009 @ 07:40:03 am , using 66 words, 539 views
Posted in Pets, Home
We were approved for adoption via Midwest Boston Terrier Rescue and on Saturday we drove up to Niles, MI and picked up Daisy. :) She and Roxy (and our 5 cats) all get along great, and Daisy seems very happy in her new home. Had her vet-checked yesterda… more »

Not much going on...

Written by:Jon Craig
Published on October 26th, 2009 @ 07:02:32 am , using 135 words, 549 views
... other than just general "stuff."It's too cold and windy to ride, so we're not able to do that. It's also too cold to paint, so I've got no new awesome rocket pictures to show. I'm working on getting back into R/C flying, but the items haven't a… more »

Not much to write about...

Written by:Jon Craig
Published on October 14th, 2009 @ 09:18:39 am , using 192 words, 473 views
I haven't written a lot this week as there isn't much to write about! It's getting cold here already, so hobby activities tend to slow down. I've got finish painting some rockets, but I've been waiting on a > 60°F day to do it. Looks like I'm not… more »

Monday morning mishmash!

Written by:Jon Craig
Published on October 12th, 2009 @ 06:04:23 am , using 402 words, 704 views
Posted in Local, Home, Food
I haven't done a Monday AM mish-mash in a while so here goes! :D Had a totally awesome weekend! Saturday started off with a trip to the Feast of the Hunter's Moon. It was our first time going. Yeah, we've lived in Lafayette for 6 years now (and M… more »

Surgery went great!

Written by:Jon Craig
Published on October 5th, 2009 @ 05:58:07 am , using 91 words, 371 views
Posted in Home, Health
Her surgery went great! Got it done on schedule Friday morning, she stayed overnight in the hospital and then came home Saturday around noonish. Her first thought, in the hospital parking lot was "we don't have any O'banon, do we?" So it was off to D&… more »

Razer Naga!

Written by:Jon Craig
Published on October 1st, 2009 @ 06:29:05 am , using 684 words, 2925 views
terribad iPhone shot of Razer Naga.Yup, that's a Razer Naga MMO Gaming Mouse. It's a terrible iPhone shot, but it was late and that's all I had time to get. I'll get better shots of it + write up a full review within a few days. But, so far, I lik… more »

Could be a slow-posting-week...

Written by:Jon Craig
Published on September 28th, 2009 @ 06:06:46 am , using 150 words, 1159 views
Posted in Local, Home, Health
I've got a pretty busy week, so it could be a slower posting week than usual! Mostly good, mostly fun, but definitely busy.Wednesday's my 15th wedding anniversary, so I'm off work and we've got a full day of fun stuff planned. Hard to believe it's… more »

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