We ran into some troubles because of a bone-headed screw up a few batches of beer ago and needed to find out if we had wrecked our beer with an inappropriate temperature too early in the process. If we had failed to exract fermentable sugars, or enough fermentable sugars we didn’t want to waste another [...]
Monthly Archives: January 2010
Iodine Test to Check Your Mash
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Dry Yeast
So we made our 3rd and what appears to be our most successful batch of our IPA on Monday evening. The entire process went incredibly smoothly, from mash to sparge to pitching and it seems the few variables we shifted were the right ones producing a yield we were hoping for. Our 2nd batch of [...]
Posted in Beer, Instructional, Recipes Tagged AHA, Brew & Grow, dry yeast, homebrewtalk.com, howtohomebrew.com, IPA, slap pack 1 Comment
NYT Article on Growlers
“Growlers have been around since Christ was a child,” Mr. Granger said. “We’re not doing anything new.” In the late 19th century and the early 20th century, both The New York Times and The Brooklyn Eagle regularly published contentious stories about the containers, which then took the form of small galvanized pails. The articles cataloged [...]
Waxing Your Snowboard
Waxing your snowboard is a pretty enjoyable and brainless way to help stoke your excitement for your next trip. Here’s what you need: A Work Space This gets a bit messy with shreds of wax turning your floor into a curling rink so make sure you’ve got a garage or basement or some place that [...]
Posted in Gear, Instructional, Snowboarding Tagged Dakine Snowboard Paste, Goo-Gone, Half Acre Daisy Cutter, Swix Snowboard Wax 2 Comments
Winter Sport in the North Country
I recently got back from a trip up to northern Michigan and on the way we drove through a few small towns built on the shores of lakes. It drifted me back across the frozen landscapes of my childhood, staring out at tiny little houses dotting a barren white expanse, hard water as they call [...]
Posted in Biking, Motorcycling, Review Tagged Ice Fishing, Ice racing, minnesota, Snowmobiling, South Dakota, trapping, winter sports Leave a comment
Shaun White Pulls a 1280 Double McTwist
Damn, this kid is as good as he is ginger ugly. Well, almost as good.
Don’t Waste That Bacon Fat, Make Some Bourbon
Bacon, bacon, bacon, blah, blah, blah. Blirrr, blam, blatz. Farb, harr, flim, flim, flim. Bacon, bacon… Oh, what’s this? Bourbon? Cookies? The New York Times of all places has a recipe for a bacon infused Old Fashion. Here’s a few other ideas on how to use that delicious porky effluvia.
If God Didn’t Want Us To Eat Animals, Then Why’d He Make Them Out Of Meat?
Yeah! What that subject line said! A to-be-published meta-analysis in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition supports my view that animal fat is nowhere as bad as we’ve been told a thousand times. It says: During 5–23 y of follow-up of 347,747 subjects, . . . intake of [more] saturated fat was not associated with [...]
Peep Show #1
Holy crappers I can’t wait to get back on a mountain!!! It looks like Heavenly will be my first victim for this season. Can I go now??????
Beautiful Losers
Just finished watching this documentary “Beautiful Losers” about the group of artists that rose out of the Alleged Gallery on the lower east side in the early nineties. Some of them I knew by name, Shepard Fairey, Harmony Korine etc., but I recognized the work of all of them. It’s really good stuff and a [...]
Posted in Review, Skateboarding Tagged beautiful Losers, Graffiti, Harmony Korine, Mark Gonzales, Shepard Fairey, Skateboarding 2 Comments