Just a quickie "we're not dead!" post again. There's just not much going on that's long-form blog post worthy lately. Our main project, if you could call it that, is sort of "downsizing" or "simplifying" our lives. Nothing so dramatic as Cage Free F… more »

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 »

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 »

In the past, I've had stretches of maybe a few weeks, a month or so tops, where I haven't gamed much or at all - but as of right now it's been several months since I've done any gaming.  I did convert my main machine to Linux a month or so ago, and did… more »

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 »

A good friend of Jon and ours commented thusly on my Facebook wall: "Thanks for all the commentary from the road. I enjoy your ramblings. It makes me think I may have missed something - not having drunk any beer since college. -)" The thing is that th… more »

Yesterday we brewed the last of 2 Great Fermentation kits we've got; we're finishing these up before moving on to the wild world of All Grain Brewing. During the process, Lizz had a food idea involving beer ingredients, and so she went and worked on th… more »

That's "Fucking Ball ov Sunshine," a secret project Lizz came up with and that we brewed some time ago, photographed as we were testing a sample to see what the specific gravity was at. We know it'll be ready for bottling soon, so we wanted to see if i… more »

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 »

So it's been a while since I've posted (as usual). Not really a ton going on, at least nothing new and thus "blog-worthy," but I am still playing Rift and don't plan to switch games...in a way I haven't felt since EQ1 was the dominant game. A lot of "… more »

It was mid-evening, and we'd finished up our shopping errands and finished dealing with UPS Documentation Fail™ and we were deciding what do to with the balance of the evening. Lizz said, "Let's bottle?!?" and I said, "Sure!" Delores Herbig, st… more »

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 Frida… more »

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 »

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 »