Breakfast Stout

December 1, 2012 

Here’s the first of the real Project entries.  Today I made a breakfast stout from a kit I bought some time ago.
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This kit is old enough that the yeast pouch had gone bad and I had to get a new one, delaying things for a week. As you can see, though, the new yeast pack is fine.  A “breakfast stout” (at least how I made it) is an oatmeal cream stout with added coffee.

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It was rainy out so I brewed inside — perfectly doable with an extract brew.  The sparge was entertaining with all that oatmeal in the mash — it made a very viscous wort.
 
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In fact, the wort was so viscous it blew the airlock right off the primary carboy and I had to switch to a blow-off hose.

I don’t have a picture for it, but I steeped 1/3 lb of cracked coffee beans in some rye whiskey and added it to the seconday.  This made for a pretty tasty beer.

Rummikub

October 18, 2012

Putting away our Rummikub set after a game tonight, Lis and I realized we’re missing a tile.  It could have been missing for some time now.

This is a photo of one of the old tiles, taken so we could send it to the company to see if they still make this style of tile.  They don’t so we had to order a whole new set.

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Reboot

I am rebooting this Project 365 blog.  But I am changing the format, emphasizing the “Project” portion rather than the “365” portion.  I will be posting photos & entries about projects I am doing — around the house, hobbies, big cooking projects, that sort of thing — as well as travels and other themes of interest.  What I am trying to avoid is the mundane day-to-day, taking a photo just to have a photo.  But I’m trying to have more structure than when I’ve allowed myself to skip days previously.

I do have a few good photos from the past few months that I will post for catch-up.  I’ll use today’s date to keep the blog in order, but post the photo’s actual date in the text.