Alright. It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these. I have a few in the works, an alt-country mix, a show about great drumming performances, some others. But they are still unformed. Today I had an epiphany. I just want to rock your faces off, that’s all. So I put together this mix. … [Read more…]
…in which I take you on a sonic adventure through the beginning, end, and aftermath of a trainwreck relationship. No one relationship in particular, I’ve been married so long I don’t remember any others, really. 🙂 But this is a mix that not only progresses through a series of moods but which also purports to … [Read more…]
Now that the world has ended, what happens next? Thanks to the miracle of MTV, we now have some answers. I have been wanting to do an 80s mix for a while, and as I thought about those songs and that time in my life, I found that the music and the videos for the … [Read more…]
A couple of them actually. Brewing, bottling, and watching men in shiny flying armor pummel the crap out of each other. No photos though. Hopefully I will document the next brew session photographically as well. Well the weekend was successful, though not without its hiccups. For example, when digging out my all-grain brewing equipment … [Read more…]
I plan on brewing my second batch of the year, and my first all-grain batch in a few years. I’ve put together what I think will be a decent little recipe for an Oatmeal Stout. I tried making on once before but I tried it as an extract-based recipe, and you just can’t do extract … [Read more…]
Last weekend John, the Organizer for the Chicago Beer Meetup group on meetup.com, stepped down as organizer. I wasn’t sure if I was the man for the job, but I am definitely the man for the beer, so I stepped up. I am the new Organizer and I’ve scheduled my first event. Chicago Beer Meetup … [Read more…]
Brewing went well on Saturday and I’m very excited about this batch. I’m closing in on perfecting the brown ale, or at least the brown ale the way I want to drink it. Also, today is the 75th anniversary of 3.2% beer becoming legal again after Prohibition. Prohibition wasn’t officially repealed until later in 1933. … [Read more…]
So apparently the Fuggle hops, my absolute favorite, are one of the varieties affected by the hop shortage, about which I am fairly ignorant so I probably need to school myself. Anyway, I’ll be using Willamette instead… but I’ll be thinking of Fuggle.
I whipped up a recipe last night, and Saturday is looking good to get my first brewing session of 2008 under way. I’m behind, as my buddy Bob (who is holding all my equipment for ransom) has already got 2 batches aging. So I’ll be doing a simple English brown ale, which is my favorite style … [Read more…]
For some reason the 3 failed blog entries from this morning just showed up. WTF??? I’ve deleted the duplicates now. But here is my original “Fucking DotNetNuke” rant from earlier, in the interest of full disclosure. I just tried to upgrade the CMS to the latest version and it completely horked the blog. I … [Read more…]