Linking to Madsen Cycles could get me a free cargo bike (fingers crossed, then taped together, sealed with epoxy, and blessed by hoodoo shamaan).
You can enter too… but don’t because my chances will be better without you.
Filed under: Misc | Tags: beer, Brewing, minneapholics anonymous, minneapoholics, Updates
Posting has fallen by the wayside, as of late, a chronic problem of mine. Lately my attention has been focused on a new project, Minneapoholics Anonymous. I’ve created a site for the group, here, but it is essentially a group focused on visit noteworthy Twin Cities bars in search of good food, drinks, and friends.
Newsworthy events for this blog include:
- The kegging of my Coffee Porter/Stout kit
- The brewing of my English Pale Ale kit
- The purchasing of supplies for my Old Ale experiment (which I will hopefully brew tonight)
If things go according to plan (read: if I muster the motivation to write), there will be a plethora of posts over the next week or so. Stay tuned.
Filed under: Brewing | Tags: beer, Brewing, coffee, northern brewer, peace coffee, Peace Coffee Stout/Porter Kit
If the world were a perfect place you could drink beer anywhere, at anytime. While it might still be a faux pas to drink during a funeral service or couples therapy, it surely wouldn’t be an immediate indicator of alcoholism. Drinking for breakfast, however, would be perfectly acceptable, even celebrated, encouraged, but most of all, delicious. Why? the simple, yet ingenious paring of coffee and beer.
Now I’m not one to drink before noon–unless I’ve yet to go to bed–but a coffee beer is an excellent way to kick off the morning. There have been many a great coffee beer passed down my gullet: Bell’s Java Stout, Surly Coffee Bender, and Lagunitas Cappuccino Stout come to mind. Soon, I’ll have one more to add to the list: the Peace Coffee Stout/Porter Kit from Northern Brewer. (more…)
This is a test of Flickr’s blogging utility… At right is a picture of of the lifespan of my “Leftover EPA v2.0″ It was long ago kegged and consumed.
I’m not sure I like this… I would prefer an integrated flickr photo addition to wordpress. I’ll probably add picture’s manually in the future.
If you haven’t noticed, I’ve finally updated the “Now Brewing” page. I’ve also included that I drank the Leftover EPA v2.0, which I brewed many moons ago. I don’t rightly remember how it tasted, but here’s what I wrote about it, a week or two after drink it (FAIL):
Beer was tasted on two occasions, once at home and a second time at Andre’s apartment at NU. Both times were served from the keg.
This is written long after the fact…
I remember that the hop character was more pronounced, probably due to freshness, and the sweetness was considerably less than the previous batch.
Wow, what descriptive tasting notes. Anyway, I somewhat achieved my goal of improving the recipe, even if I can’t remember much of the details. I obviously plan on tweaking the recipe again to see what I can improve upon. If I change the beer at all for the upcoming batch, I will probably swap the belgian yeast for a typical English strain, hopefully something dryer. Otherwise, I’ve got plenty of other brewing left to do before Summer draws to a close.
Filed under: Bikes | Tags: Bike, bike polo, Bikes, Fix, flip/flop, Free, Geared, Lightning, Rocky, Thunder
On a rainy weekend day last month I completed two lifelong goals. Okay, one goal was only a couple years old, and I’ve only had the other for a couple months. Regardless, I completed two goals in one day, give me some credit.
For the last couple years, my main mode of transportation has been an old Novara road cycle. I bought it geared, but within a year, converted it to a single speed. Originally, I was just letting it ride on a specific gear on the rear cassette. Then my rear wheel was stolen, so I replaced it and used a single speed freewheel gear. That lasted for about two years, until my breaks (originals I presume) started to not stop, if you catch my drift. As oppose to buying new brakes, I opted for a wheelset with a fix/free flip/flop hub on the rear wheel.
On the aforementioned weekend, I swapped on the new wheels and made some aesthetic repairs to the ride, which I now call Lightning (I call my KM Thunder). The wheelset I bought is as good of a flip/flop I can get for 27″ wheels, according to the Hub salesperson. They cost about $150 for the pair. I ride with 42t on the front chainring and had 16t on the rear. I kept the same ratio when I bought my fix and free cogs. I was able to keep my old tires, but had to buy new tubes with presta valves. (more…)
