32 is a batch of beer that carrie brewed up for my birthday. it’s an India Pale Ale recipe, with a few modifications (which are a secret, even to me).
an update: it just went from primary to secondary fermenter, with an gravity drop from 1.083 to 1.020. if you’re playing along at home, that’s an ABV of 8.332%! yow, looks like we’ll be putting this exclusively into 12oz bottles.
will report again in a few weeks with the finishing gravity.
with all the blogging companies being bought up by major media companies, i thought i’d throw my hat into the ring.
my one lonely blog is not worth 25 or 40 million dollars, but i’d entertain the idea of being acquired by an enormous company with deep pockets.
i promise that i would then write favorably about whatever product and/or service you’re foisting upon the public. even if it has nothing to do with my daily life.
also, i will put hotlinks to your website from mine, thereby increasing my street credbility and also your pagerank score with google (at least infinitesimally, in theory).
edinborough is a scottish ale, and our 5th batch brewed. we recently bottled it and will report more when we drink it. (brewed from a scottish ale kit from homebrew heaven). we modified the recipe by adding more malt, and priming it with DME instead of corn sugar.
Danvers is a honey wheat beer that carrie brewed. it’s fantastic!
Coupeville – a rasberry wheat beer that carrie brewed. it’s good – a bit light on priming sugar, so not as carbonated as it could be. but quite tasty.
Bedfordshire is our 2nd batch of beer brewed at home. we’re not entirely sure of the style or origin; it was a “mystery beer” kit purchased from homebrewheaven.
given the amount, variety & frequency of hopping, we assume it’s either an India Pale Ale, or another sort of pale. (hence, the “bedfordshire” name). it’s just about ready to drink, so that will help us out a bit, too.
Antwerp was our first brew – a belgian ale. (kit from homebrewheaven.com)
not a bad first attempt. nothing went wrong, less a few bottles we didn’t adequately rinse out the sanitizer and they tasted slightly of iodine.
not especially remarkable, but not bad either.
mikeyboy.com has once again changed content management systems.
what does this mean? it depends who’s asking! for anyone who reads this (my god, why do you bother reading this?) anyway.
for a normal visitor to the site, you’ll notice things look a bit different, and the organizational structure is new.
hopefully this means the site will be easier to navigate. it also means, that’s it’s much easier for me to create new content — so i have one less excuse as to why i don’t do that more often.
for any geeks in the audience, i’ve switched from the mambo server content management system to the drupal framework.
why? various reasons.
this is the story of how i ended up with mouthwash in my eye.
part of my morning routine, is to rinse with mouthwash (typically, in my mouth only). dispatching overnight breath before i go to work in the morning seems like a good thing.
on this particular morning, i must not have been paying attention… i ended up, as i was putting it in my mouth, with blue mouthwash beginning to flow down my chin. to avoid it ending up on my shirt, i threw my head and upper body forward, so it would drip into the sink instead.
as my head came forward, the bottle of mouthwash came down towards the sink basin. at a greater rate than usual, given that i was heaving forward in an attempt to keep the mouthwash off of my shirt (which, ironically, was a similar shade of blue to the mouthwash so it probably wouldn’t have been too noticeable).
nora is our kitten, and she’s a handful. she was one of our fosters, who we adopted on January 4th, 2005.
picture of nora sleeping on the couch
