After a good bit of deliberation, I decided to try the mini-mash version of this recipe. The author was kind enough to point me to it and suggest using very soft water. I completed it with WLP565: Saison 1 yeast. But that’s not all! Using sugar-water, I cloned the yeast from a bottle of Saison [...]
Archive for August, 2008
19 Aug
Army of TWO Review
If you liked Gears of War, check out Army of Two.
It’s basically Gears without the scifi angle, but the gameplay is exactly the same.
The only addition is the “AGGROMETER”. How distracted the bad guys are from the other player. If you shoot at them (miss, hit, or HEADSHOT) the badguys start paying attention to you. [...]
14 Aug
Duchesse De Bourgogne
Almost a home run for the style. If you like flemish reds, this is a must have in your collection.
Serving type was a “1 pint 9.4 fl oz” bottle with cork. The cork needs a review by itself. There’s just enough pressure there to keep the cork pushing out, and the cage seems to be [...]
14 Aug
Bizarre Hunting Stuff
There’s a class of hunter, and it’s probably present everywhere, that is so obsessed with shooting that trophy whatever that he or she will do anything to get to it. Sometimes this is good – they strive to be masters of their art and go on hunting trips at ranches and crap like that. Sometimes [...]
13 Aug
VMWare ESIx
God, did VMWare screw the pooch.
ESXi is released, and they announce that they’re ending the server virtualization product (GSX) and freezing it at 1.0.6, which is just peechy since it doesn’t support OES2 (SuSE) or Redhat’s latest enterprise linux offering. Basically, they got it to a level where they were one version behind “enterprise” and [...]
12 Aug
Hunter Safety and Arms Dealing
I AM SO PSYCHED UP FOR HUNTING THIS YEAR.
I’ve possibly taken it beyond general interest and approached rampant fetishism.
Part of this is because my wife is interested in hunting. She’s also decided that she wants to make wine, which on some level overlaps the brewing hobby. However unlike beer, winemaking is a lot less involved. [...]
11 Aug
Three Philosophers Belgian Style Blend (Quadrupel) Review
If my previous touch with Ommegang was bad, this more than made up for it…
Appearance – A bit less carbonated than I expected, there wasn’t even a pop from the bottle. The pour revealed a bit of a head, which seemed to lay low and stick around. There was a good, but not spectacular bit [...]
11 Aug
The Spoils of Wort: Aged Beer
Cellaring beer has been around since the invention of beer. Storing it for the year was a requirement, with no refrigeration and a growing season that wasn’t all-year-round for most of the places beer as we know it was brewed, cellaring beer was the norm. It had to taste good now, and it had to [...]
