Recent content by seatazzz

Not really a drunken thought or rambling, but a poem I wrote this morning for a very dear friend that passed unexpectedly (who ever expects it, I want to know) last month. He and his wife were staunch Irish Catholics, she's actually a teacher at a Catholic school, he went to Bellarmine Prep and...

Had this as my sig for a while. We're attending a wake (celebration of life) for a dear friend today who with his wife was a huge fan of Gaelic Storm, so it seems apropos (my word of the month) for today: So brothers, sisters, it's time to take a stand You can pry my beer from my cold dead...

I kinda feel bad for my echo dot. He lives in the garage, and only occasionally has work to do. Mainly as a timer for brewing or cooking, or checking the weather. Every once in a while he'll ask me to play a trivia game. Yes it's a he, the feminine voice annoys me.

Yesterday made up a batch of mead as the last one is going fast. Today brewing another batch of blond on kveik as the last one is also almost gone. First time in quite a while that there is three weeks between brewdays. Life is seriously getting in the way. Also for some reason (could be the...

Breathe deep the gathering gloom, Watch lights fade from every room. Bedsitter people look back and lament, Another day’s useless energy spent. Impassioned lovers wrestle as one, Lonely man cries for love and has none. New mother picks up and suckles her son, Senior citizens wish they were...

Oh yah, what I did for beer/mead today. Brewing up a blonde that will ferment on kveik, in the house. Also got my latest mead into the baby keg, now on force carb as I want it fizzy. Managed to get a sweet mead for the first time in several batches, I do like it dry but this one is for the...

Update to this one; after letting the keg sit in the house for a week, a few days ago got it back in the kegerator. Chilled, and carbed. It's not my best beer ever, but the cloying sweetness is gone and it's a drinkable beer. yay. Now, was it the yeast, or just letting it offgas in the warm...

In my ongoing quest to figure out just what the hell is going wrong with my lighter beers, brewing up a blonde on some kveik yeast slurry I have. The NEIPA I brew is the only beer that is turning out well lately, and it's done on that yeast; so we shall see.

I'm young, I'm wild, and I'm free Got the magic power of the music in me Triumph, Magic Power aka the absolute best song to belt out at the top of my lungs when I'm driving

Many lines of gibberish Smells Like Teen Spirit, Nirvana *Fun Fact; I used Teen Spirit deodorant back in the day.....

You can't go home but you can't stay here... Closing Time, Semisonic

'She ain't a beauty but she's all right...' Bruce Springsteen, Thunder Road. I wasn't considered attractive growing up (still not so much) so when I DID have a boyfriend, this line meant a lot to me. Yes I know kinda depressing.

Red Star Premier Blanc. All I had available, and I've used it before with decent results. We shall see.

Brewing up the only beer I've been able to do well lately, the House NEIPA with Citra/Mosaic. The other day I dosed the corn lager I brewed two weeks ago with some champagne yeast; wound up too sweet so I'm hoping for some dryness. Will get that back in the kegerator and carbing in a while.

Dear Gut of Mine, Okay okay okay. So it IS my delicious yeasty beer that I've been brewing the past 7 years that has caused your 'issues'. Took the depleted pipeline, as well as the 30-pack of the only store-bought 'lite' beer that I can stomach to figure that out (I did NOT drink the whole...