No fixed plans. Not intent upon arriving.
Today is National Drink Beer Day – Crain’s dining blog Business Courses – Crain’s Chicago Business
Rejoice, friends, because today is National Drink Beer Day. It is that day, once a year, in which Americans are asked to dig down deep within themselves, go the extra mile and actually drink a beverage made of malt, hops, yeast and water.
A new Flickr Favorite by chrossn.
Oktoberfest Wimmelbild illustration for Playboy Deutschland by www.bildbauer.de
More Wimmelbild here: www.behance.net/portfolio/projects
I put the following celebs in here:
RAMMSTEIN’s Till Lindemann
Ricky Gervais
Louis C.K.
Karl Pilkington
Silvio Berlusconi
Steve Jobs
Amy Whinehouse
Yul Brynner
Flavor Flav
Captain Future
Joan Landor a.k.a. Joan Randall
Die Antwoord
Han Solo
Greedo
2 random Stormtroopers
Kermit
Miss Piggy
The Simpsons (are hard to find)
Wolfman
Tony Soprano;
german Celebs:
Franz Beckenbauer
Oliver Kahn
Helmut Schmidt, former Chancellor of Germany
Christian Ude, Major of Munich
Sara Nuru
Roberto Blanco
Thomas Gottschalk
Amos, Imperator of Pop
Uschi Obermaier
Rainer Langhans
Prost!
Uploaded: September 18, 2012 at 11:15AM
Mike Dawes – The Impossible – Solo Guitar by rpoland:
An original composition from Mike Dawes titled ‘The Impossible’. Single and Guitar Tabs available at http://www.candyrat.com. Also available at most other digital music stores like itunes, amazon, spotify etc.
Check out the multi-instrumental ‘Impossible 2.0’, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPLjW9h8jgw featuring Petteri Sariola and Nolly (Periphery)
Visit Mike Dawes at http://www.facebook.com/mikedawesofficial and http://www.mikedawes.com
Mike is teaching guitar, along with his music, over Skype. Contact him on Facebook for more information.
Beer Recipe of the Week: Triple-X on Homebrewers Association:
Triple-X is a rich, full-bodied ale with substantial coffee and chocolate notes that will have your palette begging for more. Extract-with-grains and all-grain directions available!
A present for my cat ‘Rufus’. He began to resent me due to painful ear drops to fix an infection. I would return from work and he would run from me! Now the ears are better I wanted to do something to show my gratitude for his putting up with my torture. Rufus loves boxes as all cats do so this is what I made for him. The music is from my brother Ollie’s band, ‘Parallel Lions’, I hope you don’t mind me using it bro. Enjoy. (here is a link to the music parallellions.bandcamp.com)
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, BILLY BROWNE, 2012. MUSIC BY (PARALLEL LIONS). Broadcast enquiries via youtube mailbox.
You are welcome to share this video via the embed link, or using the URL, but please don’t reupload it without permission.
Enjoy Rufus!
6:45 Flame on. Heating mash and Sparge water.
7:14 Kettle strike temperature is 175 °F. Draining to the mash tun.
7:20 Drained. Mash tun strike temperature is 166 °F. I’m going to let it drop a few degrees before doughing in.
7:25 Mash tun strike temperature is 163 °F. Doughing in.
7:31 Mashing at 151 °F.
8:51 Mash complete. Ending temperature was 152 °F. Vorlauff and lauter.
8:45 Lauter complete. Collected just shy of 3.5 gallons. First running gravity is 1.062 SG (1.056 SG at 98 °F).
8:52 Sparging. Kettle Sparge temperature is 174 °F. Mash tun Sparge temperature is 158 °F. Vorlauff and lauter. Second running gravity is 1.025 SG (1.017 SG at 108 °F).
9:04 Sparge complete. Collected a total of 6-7/8 gallons. Reasonably, that puts the first and second runnings at 3-7/16 gallons each. Boil gravity is 1.044 SG (1.041 SG at 83 °F).
9:11 Flame on. Heating wort to boiling.
9:44 Boiling. Waiting for hot break to subside.
9:50 Hot break has subsided. Adding bittering hops.
10:30 Added flavor hops.
10:35 Added Irish moss and chiller.
10:40 Added yeast nutrient.
10:45 Added aroma hops.
10:50 Flame out and chilling.
11:30 Chilled. Whirlpool and let settle. Original gravity volume is 5-7/8 gallons. Original gravity is 1.053 SG (1.051 SG at 74 °F). Target was 1.046 SG.
11:50 Draining to the carboy.
12:09 Drained. Rocking to aerate.
12:14 Aerated.
My yeast is Wyeast 1764 Rogue Pacman with a manufacture date of July 9, 2012. According to Mr Malty, that implies 50% viability. I made a 2-quart starter a few days ago, which means I should have about 2/3 of the yeast I need. 🙁 I need to do these calculations earlier. I could have made a bigger starter or used more yeast packs. This isn’t going to be a very good yeast experiment. This is also the yeast that it took 8 days for FedEx to deliver to me, so who knows how stressed it was to start.
So here’s the plan. I need 226B cells. My starter has about 150B. I have 2 more smack packs that should each give me 50B cells for a total of 250B.
12:23 Pitched.
1:18 Everything is cleaned and put away. The fermentation temperature is not set yet. The fermentation temperature is set to 64±1 °F.
Sunday, October 7 Kegged. Final gravity 1.016 SG (1.017 SG at 48 °F).
Beer Recipe of the Week: Orpheo Roja on Homebrewers Association:
Orpheo Roja is a clone of Chimay Red, brewed at the Abbaye de Notre-Dame de Scourmont in Belgium. Both extract and all-grain directions available!
Hermit Crab Migration by Steve Simonsen:
Hermit Crab Migration
This morning I received an urgent telephone call from my good friend Pam Gaffin. She was terribly excited about an event that was happening before her eyes. Pam told me it was a migration of soldier crabs also called hermit crabs and there were millions and millions of them she likened it to the migrations of Serengeti. I didn’t need to hear anymore, I loaded my car with cameras and was out the door. Pam told me that this began this morning at sunrise at Nanny point near Concordia. I have heard about this migration for years and knew that it occurred in August, I can’t tell you how happy I am that Pam called. Pam you’re my hero.
Bottle Cap Blues by chris sumers:
This is a short film that I was a part of for Adam Young’s solo Art Show at Common House Gallery entitled: Songs of the Early Riser. Adam had a concept for a video installation. I took his concept and put it into a video. We originally had 4 different edits looping at the show in his installation, but this edit is a compilation of my favorite clips from the three day shoot. This has been the most fun project I have been a part of to date. Sitting around with your friends killing a couple of six packs of beer trying to think of different means to open your next drink is pretty fun. I encourage you to try it.
Adam’s art is amazing. If you have an opportunity to pick up one of his pieces, I suggest you add an original to your collection. He is one of the best dudes ever…
More information/ reviews about the show can be found here:
http://common-house.com/2012/05/14/songs-of-the-early-riser-2/
http://www.vice.com/read/kill-the-engine-the-weird
Homebrewer’s dream poster : Homebrewing
I seriously have no idea what 95% of the information means.
I put stuff in a thing and stir it then beer comes out. ಠ_ಠ