Hello boils and ghouls! errr… yeah.. Anyways, here’s a few pictures of the “Crypt” from which all the wonderful poisons are made! Note the red PSP on the right side – guess whats being played!

Gallery!

Overview	Left Side	Right Side
Immersion Chiller	The Boil - Note the Hop Bag!	Tools of the Trade

It’s hard to picture brewing quality beer out of what looks like a nasty garage with crap scattered about, but it is possible with attention to details.. Notice the excessive use of towels for example! I keep the fermenters in the blue bin to keep them off the garage floor. When I’m done I’ll chill the wort down to 75-80 degrees and then pour it into the fermenters. While traversing through the air they are getting hit with some colder air and then aerating as they funnel into the bucket/bottle. This gives the yeast oxygen to get cracking with. It’s a very delicate dance while for a good hour or so are spent simply making sure the house doesn’t burn down while I watch videos or listen to music from my PSP. That thing is irreplaceable when it comes to portable comfort!

Cleaning kegs has become one of those… things. It’s like when you have been up real late and you just ate the last bowl of chili. You know the crockpot needs to be cleaned out, but damn it you just want to go to bed! Well, you have to force yourself to clean it out otherwise it’ll dry, or grow, but you do the next best thing. You stick the pot under the sink and pour some dish soap in the pot and fill it with hot water and go to bed – WIN! That is the elaborate metaphor for what I accomplished to tackle the inevitable conflict of the keg, the kitchen faucet and sprayer, and me. I hate the kitchen sprayer because it doesn’t fully close off the faucet so I have water coming out of the sprayer, and more water still coming out of the faucet. UGH! I need hot water, but I don’t want to waste a ton of water in the process. Usually I stick a jug under the faucet and pour it in the keg after it is full while using the sprayer to fill the keg at the same time. As you can imagine, water usually ends up on the floor or myself as I will inevitably miss the narrow hole of the keg because the hose of the sprayer is just 3 inches shy of letting the faucet actually get inside the keg. If it hasn’t caught on by now, details like these are the largest contributors to pissing me off other than that guy who insists on picking the urinal next to me when there is plenty of other perfectly good urinals NOT next to me and then decides he wants to talk to me and THEN tries to make eye contact by leaning over while chatting it up. Moving on! Read the rest of this entry »

Alright.. so the citrusy/fruity character I originally thought wasn’t right is actually in style for this beer. Not quite what I had thought, but you know at least now I’m more educated – er hiccup. How about that color? Just need to work on getting it crystal clear. Over time, however, this beer WILL clear – I’m just drinking it before the yeast completely settles. I’ll take a pic as it clears out.

So, How to make apple wine. Well, here’s where you start – 5 Gallons of apple juice from concentrate with no additives with the exception of Vitamin C, also known as Ascorbic Acid, 2lbs of dextrose, 2 packets of yeast, and a 6 gallon jug (PET better bottle), and an airlock:

The stuff legends are made of!

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Ribs. I like them. These are not your typical moo cow ribs, but it was the smallest rack I could find (Gotta play it safe). For this BBQ I used a combination of Mesquite and Apple wood chunks. They smoked for about an hour per pound. I would up it to about an hour and 15 minutes per pound. Read on for the goods.

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New clip: Clickety clicky!

Some people consider a jam playing covers. I, however, do not. A jam to me is when you get a couple people together and just play whatever the hell comes out of your instruments. Sure, some of it sucks all kinds of ass, but there’s gems that fall out here and there. Ever wanted to hear a REAL jam? Well, you’re in luck, just click this link: SuperJam!! <— This is the kind of stuff that comes out after a few beers and a bit of boredom, can’t imagine how well we would do on a GOOD day, cuz we never have those … Need to get my guitar tuned up from A, cuz A sucks.

There’s a general update on the Holytestmix that I effectionately refer to as the “Holy Test Mix, Part Deux”. Whats new with it? Added a section of riffs to be tightened up, and also cleared up the quality a bit. Another new one is also available.. this scratch track is just one guitar riff repeated over and over with a delay… its pretty roomy… not sure where to go with it but you can listen anyways, UGLY TEST <–clicky. Enjoy.

So I’ve been jammin around with a good friend of mine Mason and since I’ve had this recorder it’s been a blessing as far as being able to jam some stuff, rewind, and recall the cool parts. Read the rest of this entry »

This is electric.. in total writing time I’d give it about 30 minutes.. in total recording time… prolly about 15 minutes. This is a scratch idea I came up with for a song… It has some iffy moments, but I’m still getting the hang of recording on this thing, damnit. Here it is: RIGHT CLICK HERE, SAVE TARGET AS!!! For the love of Peter and his 5 friends save some damn bandwidth and just DOWNLOAD the track! if you rip it off I promise I’ll come slit your gonads.