No fixed plans. Not intent upon arriving.
Recipe of the Week: Ebenezer’s Elation on Blogging with Briess:
Think you’re running out of time to brew a holiday-themed beer for your family and friends? This 5-gallon batch of all grain (or extract with grains) spiced ale takes only 10 days to ferment and will taste like you’ve been planning it for months. A cache of gingerbread-inspired spices combines with malty sweetness to fill […]
A Day in the Life of Sustainable Beer: New Belgium Brewery by Rational Middle Energy Series:
It’s pretty hard to look around these days and not see something created with or transported by energy. Companies around the world are looking to reduce their negative impact on communities, increase their environmental stewardship efforts, as well as making a profit. New Belgium Brewing Company in Fort Collins, CO is doing just that and were eager to share that process with us.
The Road Not Taken – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler
Why we are unaware that we lack the skill to tell how unskilled and unaware we are – Boing Boing:
I was always more ignorant than I am now, even though I didn’t feel all that ignorant then. That means that it’s probably also true that right now I’m sitting here in a state of total ignorance concerning things that my future self wishes he could shout back at me through time. Yet here I sit, unaware. Nescient. The evidence gathered so far by psychologists and neuroscientists seems to suggest that each one of us has a relationship with our own ignorance, a dishonest, complicated relationship, and that dishonesty keeps us sane, happy, and willing to get out of bed in the morning.
Knowledge vs. Intelligence · An A List Apart Blog Post:
The difference between knowledge and intelligence is key here. Knowledge is the collection of skills and information a person has acquired through experience. Intelligence is the ability to apply knowledge. Just because someone lacks knowledge of a particular subject doesn’t mean they can’t apply their intelligence to help solve problems. Knowledge is wonderful, but it fades as techniques and technologies come and go. Intelligence sustains. Its borders extend beyond any technique or technology, and that makes all the difference.
Sacred Grounds – The New Yorker:
An obsession with brewing protocol is generally the mark of an amateur—that pitiable person who makes a simple thing complicated in the futile hope of feeling kinship with the professionals.