Let’s get down to brass tacks: I need to write more. The blog has been suffering from regular updates and I hope to change that by, drumroll please, lowering standards! No more need for coherent and well-organized blog posts. Nope.…
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Let’s Talk Beer
Before we get into talking and words and all that extra “content” you have to wade through on the internet just to get to cute pictures of cats or AMAZING AB TRICKS, let’s look at a picture. Nice, huh?…
Skunks, Dancing Dolls, and Floral Beer
I was awoken this morning by something you don’t want to be woken by: the pungent stench of fresh skunk. Had it been sleeping on my pillow? I couldn’t sleep so I wandered into the living room and it was…
Posted in Brewing, Parenting Tagged with: beer, blossom wheat, CH, child harbat, dolls, home brewing, hops, orange, skunks, smell, wheat beer
Adonis
He’s strong and golden, a god among men, a lover among gods. The Festival of Adonis was celebrated by women sowing seeds of wheat and barley, so it’s an appropriate name for a beer. And Adonis was worshiped by girls…
Providing Food and Drink
In the earliest days there were creatures around a fire and someone’s job was to keep the food and drink coming. I trace a hairline in my genetics back to that first server. Despite all the other advances in my…
Portraits and Pints
CH did her first portrait of me, one that required posing and time and deliberate work. This was her first drawing that wasn’t a stylized representation (eyes, mouth, hair) but a recreation of what she saw when she looked at…
Never Give Up
Sometimes you give up too early. I’ve written about beers that didn’t work when I thought they would be great, and others that rose from the ashes to be wonderful. Last night I went out to the beer fridge int he…
Posted in Brewing, Uncategorized Tagged with: beer, brewing, harvest ale, home brewing, malts, spices
Darkness in a Bottle
Ooh, I like the title of this post, it sounds like a noir film. But really it’s all about very, very dark stout all bottled up. As I bottled this I had a taste and I think this is going…
Border Crossings, Beers, and Giant Meat Cylinders
Boy are things changing in Mexico! Here in San Diego the craft food and beer scene is heating up and stimulating the foodie culture south of the border in Tijuana. Craft breweries are popping up, stylish high-quality eateries, and places…
There’s Dark Beer and there’s DARK BEER
Holy crap! I’ve somehow made a black hole in the beer closet! This isn’t just any dark beer, it’s chocolate cream stout. Somewhere in that square fermenter is a bag of cocoa nibs, some cocoa-soaked rum, and vanilla extract. But…
