(N.B. Brent wrote this back in November) So let’s give you some background. I’ve been doing Crossfit-style workouts 5 days a week for 6 months, and have gone Paleo for 2. I just got a job as a traveling consultant, and I’ve been scared to death that my “per diem” was going to take my diet and send it to [...]
Happy New Year! It sure has been a while. 2011 was a crazy year, having more ups and downs than most of the years before it. As far as beer goes, we made some great beers, attended our first National Homebrewers Conference in San Diego, and settled on plans to move to Adelaide, Australia to open our brewpub in a [...]
This year Big Brew Day fell on Brent’s scheduled weekend to brew; this was good for two reasons! 1. Brent was the one running around the house trying to brew while 20 friends were hanging out on the patio & in the backyard, and 2. I got to get in the kitchen and turn out some great beer-themed food! I [...]
There is so much in the way of beer geekery and gadgetry out there, I feel like i have to share this stuff I stumble on! And it’s just getting wasted on my Facebook page; time to make productive blog posts about the creative, beer-related stuff out there! Call me a hipster if you want, but I love my bicycle. Bicycles [...]
Last weekend I participate in Fuggled’s International Homebrew Project; aimed to get some hombrewer’s together around the world to pick a recipe, brew it and then blog about it This year’s recipe was a remake of a 1933 Barclay Perkins Milk Stout. Frankly, before this came up, I’d never heard of it; shameful to be sure! Kristen England from the BJCP [...]
Those of you who follow me on Twitter have had your ears bent about this topic quite a bit lately, but it’s so exciting I just have to share it, you know?!? I’ve been slowly (veeeerrrryy slowly) chugging my way through Chris White & Jamil Zainasheff’s book “Yeast” recently; it’s fascinating stuff, and has inspired me to try my hand at [...]
I expanded my world a lot in 2010. After starting this blog, I went back to my dormant Twitter account, and really started trying to connect with people as passionate about beer, wine & food as I am; it wasn’t hard. I barely had to swing a cat and I found hundreds of people who felt like I did! Twitter [...]
It’s been a long time coming, and last night the Tequesta Brewing Co. finally opened its doors to the public for a “soft” opening. I use the term soft very loosely because as you can see below, this was probably the most packed soft opening I’ve seen in my life! As I wrote about in July the Corner Cafe and Brewery [...]
I don’t normally make New Year’s resolutions. In the past I’ve made them in order to hold myself accountable to do specific things; get my drivers license, lose 20 lbs…blah, blah, blah. Never works. I didn’t get my drivers licence till I was 27 (10 failed resolutions later) and I go up and down those 20lbs based on what exciting [...]
My compost worms no longer love me. It’s sad, but true. The main diet that my happy little compost worms lived on up till recently was spent grain (the leftover grain from brewing day); that was until I finally decided to try my hand at making my own bread from it, instead of feeding it to the hungry, hungry wormies. [...]
Life has been crazy this past month (thanksgiving, finals, surgery etc….), and I failed to complete our DC/DE trip update… I’m sorry! I’ll pick up where I left off; Delaware! I think this picture pretty well sums up what a great trip we’re having at this point : I was definitely a little wary dragging my parents out to Delaware [...]
Day #3 We had big plans to spend most of the morning in the Smithsonian Museum of American History and then hit the Georgetown waterfront for a late lunch. After a couple of hours wandering the amazing exhibits, my folks were done; too much walking the day before called for a lazy, sun soaked, beer in hand afternoon by the river. [...]
I love Lagunitas’ beers. One of my most memorable craft beer epiphanies was tasting Hop Stoopid for the first time and being one of only two people at the tasting who liked it. Actually “liked” is not a good way to describe it; I did cartwheels over it, angels chorused and I think I almost cried. It was the moment I [...]
Day #2 in D.C. saw us hit the National Mall starting at the Captiol Building and a walk down to the Lincoln Memorial and back. Amazingly, even though Brent grew up in New Jersey (so close!), he had never done this either! It was quite a walk, probably 6 miles or so, so we’d built up quite the appetite. Another [...]
So, first things first. An apology for being gone from the blog-o-sphere for so long! School has been busy, my folks were here for a month from Australia and we took a great trip to D.C. and Delaware. D.C. and DE were great! We got to drink a myriad of beers we don’t get to drink at home, saw some [...]
