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Re: Batch 16-003 MTF Berliner Weiss

paulegibson2 — Mon, 15 Feb 2016 22:52:28 -0000

I kegged this batch over Presidents' Day weekend. Two and one-half gallons in a keg, 3 bombers. I'm trying to force carbonate a keg for the first time. I did 40+ PSI for about 36 hours. Right now it's super foamy. Maybe too much CO2. We'll see if it integrates over the next day or so. May have to start bleeding off some CO2.
The flavor (in the roughly 4 ounces doses I get from a foaming pint glass) is really good. Quite tart… really more sour than I thought I'd get from this approach. Makes me eager to try something else using the same Milk the Funk souring schedule.

Re: Photo taken on November 12, 2015 at 04:38PM

paulegibson2 — Thu, 12 Nov 2015 21:08:47 -0000

Playing around with IFTTT on iPhone. :)

Re: Batch 15-016 Steampunk II

paulegibson2 — Mon, 09 Nov 2015 23:47:32 -0000

Checked on fermentation. Going fine, but no blowoff needed.

Re: Batch 15-011 Groktoberfest

paulegibson2 — Wed, 09 Sep 2015 00:07:16 -0000

Packaged this weekend. Transferred to bottling bucket, then filled a 1.5 gallon minikeg before adding priming sugar. It was about 4.75 gallons into the bucket. Added 2.6 ounces table sugar (based on Brew Friend calculator) after boiling briefly with 1/2 cup water in the microwave. Filled 3 1L swing-tops, 4 .5L swing-tops, 13 12-ouncers and 1 bomber.
Somehow my FG reading was 1.020, when I'd had two previous readings of 1.016. Something screwy about that.
The sample from the hydrometer jar was pretty good. Maybe a hint of sulphur. The minikeg is "lagering" in the chest freezer, with sugar or CO2 added at this point.

Re: Batch 15-007 American (Dark) Brown Ale

paulegibson2 — Thu, 03 Sep 2015 20:34:38 -0000

So, 6 months later: I've dumped most of this beer. It was far too dark and muddled for me, with a crazy bubbling, brown head. However, tasting it now, it's bitter, but smooth initially. There's a slightly medicinal quality to the nose. Not off-putting, but there if you look for it. It's stout dark, and really comes across like a Robust Porter or stout. The bitterness is pretty clean, and a good balance for the sweetness. It was way out of whack towards the bitter initially. It's actually fairly tasty, now. I'll never brew exactly this recipe again, but I'm certainly learning about the power of time to force change on a beer that may be too far off in a certain direction initially. A drinkable beer, now, which it certainly was not months ago.

Re: “The Matrix” and Free Will

paulegibson2 — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 11:42:48 -0000

Note: this post really doesn't have anything to do with Sam Harris' talk, etc on Free Will. It's just something that I've been thinking about and wanted to reference it in my post. Sorry for any confusion.

Re: Resolution Check-In 3

paulegibson2 — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 13:33:01 -0000

One thing that has evolved that I am a little concerned about, but haven't yet decided how to address is this: I have been allowing myself to eat a piece of fruit between meals. This started as essentially "dessert," where I would end a meal with a pear or apple or banana. But I have been allowing myself in mid-morning an apple and one again between lunch and dinner.
I kind of don't want to punish myself for having a bit of fruit... but it is not exactly in keeping with my resolution. I forbade any snacks...
Also, I found myself once this week snacking while preparing dinner... as if somehow that counted against dinner.
But last night, during our weekly game session, the gang brought Oreos and I didn't have any. So I felt pretty good about that.

Re: MacMerc.com: Controls on Apple's 3rd-Gen-iPod-Shuffle-style replacement work on most iPods

paulegibson2 — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 11:56:02 -0000

It's unfortunate that the +/- doesn't control volume on the iPhone. Hopefully we see enough 3rd Party vendors implementing these controls that we have other choices than the crappy (and highly-prone to failure, IME) Apple buds.

Re: An Open Letter to Leo Laporte

paulegibson2 — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 23:39:18 -0000

Interesting discussion on this very topic on Leo's blog http://leoville.com/2009/03...