I’m just learning this brewing process and it’s about one of the most enjoyable problem solving exercises I’ve tackled in my life and I’ve tried a few. This morning on the bus I was trying to walk my amateur self through the process of how I would modulate my beer’s alcohol level either higher or [...]
Monthly Archives: February 2010
The Secret to Dry or Sweet Beer
Posted in Beer, Instructional, Review Tagged Beer, Enzyme, homebrew, HowtoBrew.com, John Palmer Leave a comment
6 Things to Know Before Making Your Snowboarding Trip to SLC
I’ve been going out to Salt Lake City pretty consistently for the past 5 years, at least once a season, to indulge in what could arguably be the best snow in the world. Over that time I’ve learned a couple things that are worth sharing. It’s cheap to fly there. Real cheap. Typically it’s about [...]
Posted in Instructional, Rentals, Review, Snowboarding Tagged Alta, Aspen, Buttermilk, Expedia.com, Mt. Rose, Reno, Salt Lake City, SkiUtah.com, Snowbird, Snowmass, Solitude, The Canyons, Utah Ski & golf, Wasatch Mountains Leave a comment
Ski Goggles With Embedded Camera
Liquid Image had ski goggles with an embedded video camera on display at the 2010 International Consumer Electronics Show in January. It’s run on an SD card that can hold around 2 hours of video or 16gb of data. They’re pricing out at $150 which makes me a bit suspicious of the quality of the [...]
7 Chefs, 7 Breweries @ Hot Chocolate
I just scrubbed this from Half Acre’s blog. Sounds awesome, almost awesome enough for me to jump on it despite it being so spendy. Check it out: Half Acre is taking part in a big collaborative beer dinner on Feb 22, 2010. Every year, Mindy Segal, owner of Hot Chocolate on Damen, throws a celebratory [...]
Posted in Beer, Event Tagged Chicago, Goose Island, Half Acre, Hot Chocolate, Lagunitas, Mindy Segal, Revolution Brewery, Surly, Three Floyds Leave a comment
You will die, not now, but it will be horrible and humiliating
I know this isn’t normally our bailiwick here at OA but I have recently been spending every minute I can spare watching Werner Herzog documentaries, largely for the sheer hilarity of the voice overs. My favorite so far is My Best Fiend, an exploration of his relationship with Klaus Kinski. The man is, I think, [...]
Posted in Review Tagged Curious George, Documentary, Klaus Kinski, My best fiend, Werner herzog 1 Comment
I’m Going to SLC!
Be back soon… maybe.
Posted in Snowboarding Tagged ridecanyons.com, SLC, The Canyons, transworld snow, TransWorld Snowboarding Leave a comment
Hunter S. Thompson & the Vengeance for Screwjack
Wayne Ewing was friend, Road Manager, and biographer to the late Hunter S. Thompson and is, in my opinion, the only documentarian to ever successfully pierce the thick, well-considered wall that Thompson kept between himself and the rest of the world. If you haven’t yet seen it, stop what you are doing right now and [...]
Posted in Pyro, Shooting Tagged Deborah Fuller, Don Johnson, Hunter S. Thompson, Johnny Depp, P.J. O'Rourke, Screwjack, The Rum Diary, Wayne Ewing 2 Comments
Tahoe Is Rad As Hell, But It’s Time For Us As A Species to Talk Seriously About Gassing the Hippies Once and For All
I knew when we saw the married couple of hasidic midgets at the airport that magic was in the air, real and ancient magic, the kind of magic that builds nations, changes lives and alters the course of human history. Those little buggers in their devotional doll clothes had clearly been sent by central casting [...]
Posted in Beer, Gear, Rentals, Review, Snowboarding Tagged California, Chicago, Craigs List, Diamond Resort, Harrah's, Heavenly, Heidi's Pancake House, Kirkwood, Lake Tahoe, Mt. Rose, Red Hut, Reno, The Tower Leave a comment