Whine, pout, stomp those feet, cry, do whatever you have to, but make it very clear that your Christmas will totally suck dirty clown balls if you don’t get this personal hovercraft. Hey, it’s only $14,000.00! Has the future ever been more affordable?
Monthly Archives: October 2009
Racking Cane Sanitation and Use
Our first batch of OA Bitter is kicking and screaming it’s way through the birthing process as I write this, so it’s time for me to start thinking about bottling this stuff for the second fermentation. One seriously important step in the bottling process is getting the beer out of the carboy, away from the [...]
Posted in Beer, Instructional Tagged Home brewing, homebrewingvideo.com, Racking Cane, The Replacements 1 Comment
Hunter Thompson on The Edge
Matty’s post below reminded me of this, one of Thompson’s finest moments on paper, from Hell’s Angels: With the throttle screwed on there is only the barest margin, and no room at all for mistakes. It has to be done right . . . and that’s when the strange music starts, when you stretch your [...]
Motorcycle Ride Through
I was searching the internets, digging around for great beer themed vacations when I hit beertravelers.com and stumbled on a tradition from the small South Dakota town I grew up in, Brookings. Brookings was generally not a very exciting place, just a regular little prairie town filled with good hearted honest folks of a mild [...]
Posted in Beer, Event, Motorcycling, Pyro Tagged Beer, Brookings, Harley, Jim's Tap, Motorcycles, Ride Through, South Dakota, Sturgis Leave a comment
Dawn Patrolling This Morning!
It’s 5:41am on this cheeeely autumnal morning and my fat, broken bones are up and out of bed. That could only mean one thing: DAWN PATROL! Thas’ right, meestah, me and Trevor are heading down to the Wilson skate park this morning, for the first time in probably a month, to do some slight tearing [...]
Posted in Skateboarding Tagged Chris Haslam, Dawn Patrol, Green Day, Wilson Skate Park Leave a comment
Re: Session @ the Fizz in Chicago
Teton Gravity’s latest in snowporn RE: Session will be showing at a watering hole in the Lake View side of town on November 12th. Here’s the modest write up from the site, behold their mastery of understatement: The award winning producers at Teton Gravity Research (TGR) present their newest 16mm and HD film, Re:Session. This [...]
Posted in Beer, Event, Gear, Snowboarding Tagged Chicago, Re:Session, Teton Gravity, The Fizz Leave a comment
Pumpkin Chili
I promised this recipe in my post about New Holland’s Ichabod the other day. This here pumpkin chili recipe comes to us by way of Dr. Pants Laroo. Send all complaints and questions to her. Thanks Pants! Ingredients 1 cup onion, chopped 1 cup yellow pepper, chopped 4 garlic cloves, minced 2 tablespoons oil 2 [...]
Brew Your Own Beer Video Sequence
I like this guy’s style and his laid back approach to the process of home brewing beer. I’m starting with a Malt extract so we’ll be skipping these first two steps. He also skips the yeast starting, which I think is helpful, so I’ll post another video with that in the future. The Mash: The [...]
New Holland’s, Ichabad
Last night I had a lovely and surprisingly feminine evening of shopping, sewing, accordian playing and drinking with my wife and a friend of ours who is making our soon-to-be awesome Halloween costumes. After retiring a decent bottle of Cotes du Rhone I ducked under an umbrella for some beer and cigarettes. The rain was [...]
Posted in Beer Tagged Chicago, Cotes du Rhone, Halloween, Ichabod, New Holland, Pumpkin Ale Leave a comment
Quinoa Mushroom Soup
I scrubbed this off the Backpacker.com blog. It’s a delicious soup that is easy to haul with you on hikes or multi-day bike rides. Quinoa-Mushroom Soup Serves 2-4, 1/2 cup dry shiitake mushrooms, sliced 2 cups baby chard 2 cloves garlic, sliced 12 snow peas or green beans, cut in thirds 1 cup quinoa 1 [...]
Posted in Biking, Hiking, Instructional, Recipes Tagged backpacker.com, Belgian Ale, quinoa Leave a comment