Spring is coming

It’s that time of year where I find myself idly clicking over to the fantasy baseball team’s league site in the event there is news. Random moments of considering draft strategies fill my commutes. I’m even considering adding fantasy baseball podcasts back into the commuting rotation. Pitchers and catchers report soon, no?

Like a boss

Worth it for the Winnie the Pooh line if nothing else: Twin Bed. [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCCV_nB7HJk

Drone

This is eerily great and horrible all at the same time. Conference call ambiance [1]. I’ve listened to it for a few hours and it totally enhanced my flow since working felt like I was ducking a horribly long meeting. http://conferencecall.biz/

Commercial yeast origins

It came to my attention that Mr. Malty (generally awesome) [1] has compiled|published|what-have-you a number of charts (2) that identify the brewery source for various strains sold commercially. I’m a Wyeast man myself so the Wyeast Strains Chart [2] is where I’m at. There’s a separate chart for the White Labs [3] folks too. Some…

Goals past and present

I pretty much failed at 2013’s goal of tasting and grading 50 beers. I did pretty good at the front part of that goal, mind you, but it’s the second half of the process that proved difficult. I did a reasonably good job of exploring the world of Trappist abbey ales and found an IPA…