Down the rabbit hole of sour beer
Mark Bronkalla Over time I have had a few sour beers, but I had not done much exploration of the genre. After the success of the Backyard Berry Sour a.k.a. Pink Beer,…
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Backyard Berry Sour a.k.a Pink Beer
My first experiment with sour beers was a kettle soured beer with fruit. It proved to be very popular and resulted in another 2 batches being made this past summer.…
Pliny Plus IIPA
Like many of my brews this started with a kit – Northern Brewer Plinian Legacy. This is a “clone” of the impossible to find in Wisconsin, Russian River Pliny The…
More Cowboy Candy
We made our last batch of Cowboy Candy 2 years ago and are down to two 1/2 pints and one pint being left. This impending shortage along with the first…
First floor tile project part 3
So we waited a week after grouting for the clean up. In the meantime, the thresholds for the front door and garage door needed to be sanded, stained and varnished.…
First floor tile project part 2
As I mentioned previously, we had gotten notice that the tile was ready earlier than expected. Tile shop also provides the order weight (to 3 decimal places) so we went…
First floor tile project part 1
Background When we built our house 25 years ago we did a lot of the work ourselves. This included all of the hard surface floors – ceramic tile and hardwood,…
Dry Cured Pork Loin Batch 2
After the success of the first batch. I decided to make another larger one. This started with one of the big economy sized pork loins. With this round, I wanted…
D-Bot – 3D printer upgrades
About 2 years ago I built the D-Bot which is a core-xy style 3d printer. What this means is I have a printer with a relatively large build volume of…
Bresaola – Tasting
Today the Bresaola had lost enough of its weight to be ready for tasting. This is a continuation of my previous post on making the Bresaola . Started 1/5/19, tasting…