File this under handy drinking information: How to Decipher the Beer List at Your Local Craft Beer Bar. (Via Lifehacker)
I think I know what my April beer budget will be going towards: The Dark Star Burner.
- Drove across the Bay Bridge to stay over with the Morrises, get dressed up like adults, and have a lovely dinner out on the town where our conversations weren’t interrupted every 3 minutes. God, that felt great.
- Transferred my Belgian IPA to the secondary fermenter and dry-hopped it. The final gravity was 0.001% off, so this batch will have an ABV of 6.3% (must have been that pound of candy sugar the recipe called for).
- Pressed a set of onesies for Scout, a set for Finnegan, a pink shirt for Finn, and two adult sizes for me. I used a heat gun to set the ink, and they will get washed sometime in the next couple of days to test how well the ink stays.
- Resurrected a dead hard drive for a client.
- Drive the Scout into work for the first time in 3 months.
My lovely wonderful wife bought me this as part of my birthday present:
Doing a little more research, I found that the Dugan’s brand was brewed from the early 30’s up until 1963-4 in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and then until 1966 in Rhode Island. At one time, there was an ale, a bock, and a special lager.
I think I’m going to have to recreate this label. Oh, yes.
OH MY GOD I’M IN TROUBLE: Nepenthe Homebrew just opened up on the ground floor of the mill building I work in.
This is a project right up my alley: a DIY Cost-Effective Immersion Wort Chiller, via HomeBrewTalk.
Here’s a great use for spent grain left over from the brewing process: Spent Grain Bread. Via Lifehacker.
This story is, to coin a bad pun, sobering: The Plot to Destroy America’s Beer.
Erna Stanglmayr is even more doleful. She says AB InBev is killing small hops farms like the one she’s run with her husband for 35 years. She predicts AB InBev will pay for its penny-pinching. “When you try to save money on hops, your beers will have less taste,” warns Stanglmayr. “Eventually, they will realize customers want quality beer.”