Nutty for nutter!

Courtesy of Butter, we brewed up another batch of the Black Squirrel Nutter. The first one was such a hit and it was gone far too soon. Everyone agreed that we needed to do that again. So after sufficient recovery from the previous night’s festivities had happened (and thanks, Jeremy, it was awesome to be…

Not so sharp

Uncorked a bottle of the riesling while mixing up the peach wine tonight. I think we’re finally to drinkability. It’s still dry for the style, but the harsh fusels were not present in this bottle. It’s about time! Hooray! Yum!

The difficult thing…

…is going to be leaving it in the bottle long enough to properly age. We bottled the gooseberry wine last night and, per tradition, left a little in the bottling bucket to sample. And sample we did. And, well, it is a sweet (in every sense of the word) dessert wine. The gooseberry comes through…

Time machine

Mefi time machine posts are a great way to relive that simpler way of life on the Intarwebs. Case in point: Canadian McDonalds Employee Simulator.

Slightly disappointing

McBee’s Blonde Ale was the first all-grain BIAB I attempted, and only the third overall brew day. There is much to learn judging by the result. I carbed to 2.5 volumes per the style guide. Instead of corn sugar I used DME which was boiled for five minutes and then racked on top of. I…

Anecdata on PC vs. Apple

So I’m in line for an upgrade on my workstation at $EMPLOYER. It’s a negotiated company buy so definitely not retail. Yet the same spec’ed laptop at the Apple store comes in at $6.00 less than the PC laptop that could be coming my way. So, yes, you can get cheap-ass PCs any day and…