The other night Matt and I enjoyed an evening of delicious beer and good conversation with his cousin Arnie, a farmer in western Iowa. We talked of many things – capitalism, service, agro business, the promise of technology, and the virtues and vice of pecan pie verse the fur pie (I’m still not sure which [...]
Monthly Archives: November 2009
What the F#!% Is This???
you’re fearless instructor? NLP hucksters have finally dragged their knuckles into the world of skateboarding creating one of the more enjoyable new paramounts of on-line douchebaggery I have come across in a while: From: The Underground Skater Friday, November 20, 2009 Dear Friend, Are you absolutely frustrated by how difficult it is to learn new [...]
Shepard Fairey/ Glen E. Friedman Print of Jim Muir
Shepard Fairey worked his mojo on a photo by Glen E. Friedman of elder skater Jim Muir who was hurt earlier this year in a surfing accident. There are a limited press of 450 of these signed by both Shepard and Jim Muir. The proceeds are going to help Muir pay ongoing medical bills. Get [...]
A Short History of Hops
This just in from the Zythophile blog: By itself this does not prove hops were used in beer, just “in drinks” (in potibus in Hildegard’s original Latin). But in a later chapter, on the ash tree, the abbess wrote: “If you also wish to make beer from oats without hops, but just with grusz [gruit], [...]
Spark R&D’s Splitboard Binding
A buddy of mine just picked these up for his splitboard he plans to take out for the first time this year. I haven’t had a chance to see them yet, but they look pretty sweet.
9 DIY Homebrew Rigs
This is a great survey done by Popular Mechanics on different beer brewing set-ups. #4 is pretty slick, me thinks.
Russian River’s Supplication Ale
Here’s a pretty interesting video from Chow.com where the cute and knowledgeable host talks with Russian River Brewing Company’s brewmaster Vinnie Cilurzo about the process of making this beer and the unusual yeast, Brettanomyces, that they use.
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Prepping Your Cornelius Keg
Here’s a good article on prepping your cornelius keg to serve your homebrew.
Dry Hopping
We’re brewing a Bell’s Two Hearted Clone this weekend for our second batch of beer. The thought on this was that with a clone we’ll have something to compare the final product to and, hopefully, have a better idea of what we are doing well and what we’re doing, well, not so well. Not to [...]
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