Holy Strong Beer w/ Crop Circles
So today we decided to take our Milk Stout that measured out at a MASSIVE 2% alcohol and bottle it. More than likely it's going to be a super sweet very very very non-alcoholic beer, but whatever. We had the bottles and if we end up pouring them out or seaoning beef with them so be it.
So at the end of the bottling process I decided that I would take the specific gravity of the English Ale that we brewed on Friday... Yeah, I was worried that the Yeast Smack Pack that we used wasn't that great and that we would have another beer that was hovering around 3%...
so to check the gravity we use this little hydrometer thing that sinks to a certain level...a high gravity means that there's still a bunch of sugar in the beer, well this time it came up as 1.02... using our calculations that means the beer is currently at 11.3% alcohol. I was amazed... Damn .. looks like that's going to be an Old Ale or Barleywine style beer. Think we'll end up drinking that around Christmas time to allow it to mature. Either way it was a nice little upper considering the failure of our Milk Stout.
The other interesting thing was the today when I got home, I walked outside to look at the Jungle and I was shocked... There, slightly off to the left is a crop circle... "A crop circle?" you say...yes.
There's a 3' in diameter circle pressed down in my lawn. I don't know why. I don't know where it came from, but I really woudld like to find out. Hopefully it'll bounce back up so I can mow it before it rots there, but I doubt it. I think that tomorrow after work I'll go and get a pair of sheers or something from the hardware store so that I can cut down the jungle before I mow it.
I personally think that it was Princess Jill and her kittens that went and made a nice little area to lay in the sun, but I'll never know. Anyway, I got my lawn mower in the mail today, so that's sitting here on the floor of my living room in pieces.
It's resterant week in the city, so Wed. Laura and I are going to Blue Smoke to get some ribs and some beer (Surprisingly they have quite the good beer selection) so I'll explain that further once I head over there.
Anyway, it's time to relax.