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Name: Phil
Country: United States
State: Washington
Gender: Male
Interests: Frisbee, Motorcycles, Calvin & Hobbes, Brewing, Food/Drink and the Preparation of Food/Drink.
Expertise: I'm getting pretty good with a crossword puzzle.
Occupation: Banker
Industry: Banking
Message: message me
Website: visit my website
AIM:  goose xing
Member Since:
10/6/2003
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| but(So here's where recession meets phil.)
I have a job interview coming up. Its in North Seattle.
I'm top 5 (out of 400+) in the WA region right now, but if I take this new gig I risk that due to shitty market.
But its a bunch of non-incentive money.
But if I don't deliver, I'm on the old chopping block in the post bush economy.
But I should be doing that shit anyway...right?
Job security vs. mo' money and potential advancement.
risk it?
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| late to the partyBut I finally started listening to Pandora on me ipod and, like everybody else, I am totally loving it. | | |
| late to the partyMan, I really dig Google's browser, Chrome.
It seems like it runs with minimal resources from my overworked little computer! Thats the main thing I need with the app right now and it seems like they nailed it compared to the other browsers I've used in the past (FF, IE, Opera, etc).
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Anyhows a lot has been going on with me lately and I haven't touched the old blog lately.
Small example- I bought a place.
So I'm not big on the communication thing, sorry. I will try harder for any potential blog perusers and my own chronicle.
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| kegging is frustratingSo there's clearly a leak in my co2 regulator, cause I'm out of gas one day after my force carb began.
annnnd I don't have a wrench to take off one of the stripped couplings on one of my kegs.
annnnd the beer that I did actually get to taste out of said keg was nasty. I thought I had worked pretty hard on sanitation & cleaning of the keg but clearly not. There's five gallons of ruined beer in my keg fridge that I can't even get to if I wanted to as the gas is effing leaky.
Bah. I have two beers that I'm really excited about in fermentation. I'm considering making a basic extract beer to put on tap because I'm concerned that the hard work that I put into those two complicated, all grain brews would be lost due merely to dispense options.
sigh.
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| Belgian TripelIts day two of fermentation on for my latest beer, a Belgian Tripel, and I woke up to go take a peek. I'm using my plastic fermenter for four gallons, even through the plastic its clear that this beer is alive. My airlock is moving quickly, about two or three times every other second. The krausen is rising, so far it looks like a hefty 3 inches.
12.5 Lbs pilsener malt mashed one hour at 153 deg f single infusion. Runnings were hazy a bit longer than last batch, 2 more qts re circulated.
Sparged 3.5 gal at 165 deg f. Collected a scant 4 gallons of wort, there was more in the tun. Should have used the rest to ferment a nice small lager. Lessons learned I guess.
Boiled 1 hr with 1lb candi sucrose (adjunct) and 1/2 lb pilsener DME (just in case  )
OG read a little shy of the spec 1.081, more like 1.065. hopefully the dme and sucrose gave a decent boost. Will have to thief a sample to test another time...I'm late for work
Pitched at 74 deg f, got some orval to culture bottling yeast at another time.
EDIT 08/03/08
Took FG reading today, 2 weeks in secondary left the beer at 1.010, just off of the 1.012 target. Reading past notes reminded me that the OG was running low. I'm interested to see whats going to happen.
Force carbed at 15 psi for one hour...
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