Another Ho-Hum Day...
Tuesday, June 14th, 2005. Another 364 days till my birthday. It's coming right around the corner. Anyway...moving on.
Beer tonight. Yes, beer. That's what I said. Going to be brewing it. I'm going to make a concerted effort to document the brewing process on my blog here. I'll give a little time chart or whatever. Who knows. Whatever I feel like actually. I've been quite lax in writing, so I feel that I should try to make up for it.
Tonight we're going to be brewing a Sweet Stout from http://www.northernbrewer.com so that should be interesting. A sweet stout, also known as a milk stout is a stout that you add Lactose. Lactose is a non-fermentable sugar so the yeast that you put into the brew won't ferment it, therefore leaving sugar in your brew and making it a little sweeter. Should be interesting. I've had Mackson's XXX Milk Stout and I enjoy that, so hopefully this'll be similar.
We had some more of the homebrew Porter that we made about a month ago, and that's getting to be quite good. I was very happy with the progress.
Also, I just learned that Sam Caglione, my hero, just published a book about his brewery "DogFish Head" and the trials and tribulations of starting it up. That's exciting considering how Laura and I have been tossing the idea of a brewery as a business around quite a bit. Just worry that the financial aspect of it won't be feasible. We'll see. We're two intelligent...well okay, 1.5 intelligent people (ahhh but who's missing the 1/2???) so we should be able to do whatever we put our minds to... or at least that's what my parents always used to tell me.
In my bathroom at home, there are two hot water pipes that run recessed into the wall and are separated from the bathroom by a metal grate. You can't take off the grate, so it's really of no interest to me... not like I could use it as a garbage chute or anything, but for some reason the cats LOVE IT. Seven just sits there for hours sniffing at the grate peering into the darkness. I don't know what the hell is down there, but it kind of freaks me out. I can just picture the guy from the X-Files that could stretch and would eat people's livers sitting in there all stretched out being very pissed off that someone put a grate over the pipes. Oh well, I'm sure that Seven being who he is, will eventually sprout thumbs and figure out how to pry the grate out of the wall.
B & H Photo Video store pisses me off. Yesterday I went there to cash in on a birthday card from Allison (Thanks!) and they were closed. I had been there the previous day and had been disgusted by their limited hours of operation, so yesterday I made sure I was there in the appropriate time space... No, those bastards were closed. Why? I don't know. Just a sign in the window saying that they will re-open. They probably swindled enough people and made enough profits for the month and figured they would just close their doors to save on payroll. I hate them. I wish there were a camera/computer store in the city that wasn't so damn...irritating.. I mean even if you go to J&R they suck too. You walk in there and it seems like they hire the most illiterate uneducated salesmen EVER. They don't seem to ever know anything and they LOVE to make you feel stupid for not knowing the one fact they DO know about the product. Screw them both, I'll stick to Ebay.
Beer. Drink it. Love it. Brew it.