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How did anyone live without ubiquitous wifi? We had an oil change/inspection scheduled for today and I brought my Macbook just in case I could find a stray unencrypted network. When I turned it on, I was asked if I wanted to join the “Northtown Guest” network. Why yes, yes I would.
God bless you, intertubes.

A correction from my last post: I’m now assuming that the taste I don’t like is from using raspberry flavoring, some of which was added directly to the fermented wort before bottling; it’s too much of a manufactured taste for my liking, and I think it gives the beer an unprofessional sweetness. Ah well, I’m [...]

It still has a bit of an “off” taste that I’m attributing to “extract twang,” meaning it won’t be a problem in future brews as I’ll be going partial mash using dry malt extract from now on. Additionally, there’s not much head retention, but you know what?
I brewed beer.

I got this from Elizabeth, who got it from MySpace. Eeeeeevil…

I’ve wanted something like this for a while — though pushpins are fun too — and so I’m willing to ignore the “tell all your friends and give us your personal information because data mining is fun!” aspects. We should buy a map after our [...]

This past Saturday I opened another bottle of my raspberry wheat, which previously had been, um, sub standard. I was hoping it was just too green, and I must say I’m now damn happy with the results. It’s mellowed and blended, with very subtle raspberry flavor now. If I didn’t know that leaving it another [...]

In addition to Synergy deciding that it doesn’t feel like working, meaning I have to type on two keyboards set up at odd angles, the construction on the bathrooms next door has hit “Loud as hell” status. I decided to record some of it so that others could share my pain:

All in all, not getting [...]

On Saturday, I tried the raspberry wheat, and on Monday I tried the porter. It had only been a week, and I knew that they wouldn’t be done for at least another two weeks; I was trying them so that I could get an idea of how beer changes while bottle conditioning, so that I [...]

There is currently a very interesting thread over at Olio (the very amusing message board); I started it to discuss an article on the world’s three most expensive beers, but it has since evolved into a few different things:

A question, poised by myself, of why beer snobbery — appreciating and discussing different styles and insisting [...]