Wait. Who decided that the plural of LEGO is LEGO and why did everyone just decide to go along with this insanity?

Here we go! Wild yeast capture attempts from mostly juniper berries collected on various hiking trails near(ish) Breckenridge, CO #wildyeast #fermentation #homebrewing

Picked some more juniper berries and (I think) chokecherry flowers at Dinosaur Ridge. I'll try capturing some yeast from these guys as well when I get home. #wildyeast

Picked some Juniper berries at Sapphire Point outside of Breckenridge CO. When I get home they'll go into a yeast starter and we'll see if we can get a good culture for making beer. #wildyeast #fermentation #homebrewing

This morning I woke up with Fernando by Abba playing in my head. Until I went to find this link I didn't even know it was by Abba, I only know it from an episode of Malcolm in the Middle. https://youtu.be/dQsjAbZDx-4?si=nGA8VTnKDTPfxXxf #amsonginmyhead #music #abba

After a bit of hiatus I've got one angle cut off of the future mantle. What should I do with this triangle? I'll have two of them when all is said and done. #woodworking

This is the (pseudo) Sahti I brewed. It's pseudo cuz I did a simple infusion mash instead of a traditional step mash. I used Cypress boughs instead of Juniper because that's what I've got growing. Fermented with Espe kveik instead of the traditional Hiiva […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

I mean, he can't really control what his parents named him, better to attack him for his terrible ideas and terrible incompetence. Attacking the culture shows that we don't give a shit about those people, and that then makes our arguments that our proposed policies would benefit those people […]

Suki in front of the Sakura tree. #dogs #dogsofmastodon #malamute

I've got one for Music Women Wednesday: I just discovered Lyncs. She is a singer, songwriter and producer; her music has an alt-pop/new wave feel. Here's her song Dancing on the Freeway: https://song.link/s/5m2i6V4DhbEdF4hOSQvASO #music #musicwomenwednesday #lyncs

A Tune Tuesday theme of Unexpected Whiplash, meaning songs that change between genres, beats, tunes, etc mid song. I can't think of anyone better at this than Shpongle (most of their tunes are basically 2-4 songs rolled into one). So here is Around the World in a Tea Daze […]

This morning I woke up with Sabotage by The Beastie Boys playing in my head. It's probably been at least a decade since I even listened to this song, I wonder where it came from? https://song.link/s/0Puj4YlTm6xNzDDADXHMI9 #music #beastieboys #amsonginmyhead

Still trying to figure out a name for this beer. It's basically Sahti wort: cypress infusion with Kaljamallas (Finnish roasted rye) providing the color. A good charge of bittering and flavor hops from California grown Centennial hops and fermented with my […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Mika Laitinen (of brewingnordic.com and author of Viking Age Brew) was on the Basic Brewing podcast talking about Taari a Nordic baked mash beer (presumably similar to Keptinis?) if anyone is interested: https://www.basicbrewing.com/podcasts/radio I haven't listened myself but Mika is a great […]

Today Ironheart has given us a new epic soundtrack/melodic bass offering: Iron Sacrament https://youtu.be/lR-r0ZMng98 #music #ironheart

for Music Women Wednesday I'm offer this talented Ukrainian musician Jerry Heil and her song CATHARTICUS https://song.link/s/0h515vyyNVzcmpkSB1r2Oh #musicwomenwednesday #jerryheil #music

the creators of YAML really caused a lot of people to miss out on a lot silly of fun by not making the file extension .yam

Today I learned about cluster figs, a close relative of the common fig, but they grow huge and make their figs in bunches. I wondered why they aren't more popular, but I guess they have less desirable agricultural qualities and aren't considered as tasty. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ficus_r...

So I was searching for sourdough recipes and everything is "no knead" but you have to do like multiple "folds" (which definitely isn't kneading) with half hour rests in between and it's way more annoying than kneading, especially when I have a mixer with a dough hook. So I searched for […]

This is a pretty good chill cover of A-Ha's Take On Me. Gave me the goosebumps. https://song.link/s/25EhSAtPhtbC2AwhvmDHj6 #music #walkofftheearth #coversong #aha

Making some irreversible cuts to this walnut slab. Praying I don't screw it up. #woodworking

I want to make sourdough bread, but I'm also lazy and impatient. So I just had an idea of making pseudo sourdough bread, where I add sourdough culture (or maybe discard) to a dough, but also use quick rise yeast and make it like a quick rise yeast bread, still getting flavor from the sourdough […]

Anyone ever used roasted chicory in a beer? #homebrewing

So I've got some cheap mango nectar that I'm gonna dump into a keg and top up with water to make a seltzer/soda. But I got to thinking that I could add some more flavors to that water, by boiling some cypress boughs in it, and/or some other herbs/spices? I have tons of fennel seed, mint and […]

Drinking that sahti on nitro tonight. #homebrewing #beer #currentlydrinking #sahti

Sahti on nitro! This is pretty awesome. The smoothness of the nitro pour really works well with the maltiness of the Sahti and the cypress comes through nicely. #homebrewing #sahti #currentlydrinking

Time to learn something new. #homebrewing #nitro

It got much better #sunrise #mthood #loowit

Kind of a pretty sunrise today. #sunrise #mthood #loowit

Plum tree does not care that it's Feb 10th #greenthumbs #bloomscrolling

This week's Thursday Five List has a theme of "Smells Like Teen Spirit." Songs you listened to when you were a teenager. I'm digging back for this one: Bob Marley & The Wailers - Jamming https://song.link/s/3GIChxHmuLmBm5PTNZGDtj Queen - The Prophet's Song […]

Can these hoses be (easily) repaired? I'm guessing not, but would love to be wrong. If they can't be repaired can I at least recycle it? #fixthings #repairreuserecycle

I figured out a way to hold the stupid molasses jug over the kettle while it takes forever to drain. I'll be fermenting this with wild yeast I captured from some flowers I picked in The Bahamas. #fermentation #molasses

I got my hands on what is supposedly the Ancient Egyptian sourdough culture that made some headlines a few years ago. On the left is the culture in white flour and on the right is emmer flour I've milled myself. I'm gonna build these up and make some bread […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Doing some masking and mocking up the slab for its transition into a mantle. Our fireplace is in a corner. This is the underside (obviously). #woodworking

The Tune Tuesday theme today is "My Name Is" not slim shady, but songs with people's names in the title. Almost immediately the song Astara by I Exist popped into my head. It's a sweet melodic dubstep love song that puts a smile on my face. https://song.link/s/7LpIouxOxJzia26GZvmgkC #music […]

Suki's been really itchy lately so she got the donut this morning and a bath this afternoon. #dogsofmastodon #malamute #donutofshame

Kettle gong! Another brew day complete. #homebrewing #kettlegong #beer

The last bottle of Saison du Muscat. A wild yeast saison fermented on Muscato wine pomace (the left overs after pressing grapes for wine). It's got a nice fruity wine character melded well with the saison. There's a hint of oxidation as the beer is a few […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Sahti hot scotchy. A hot scotchy is a unique brewers cocktail that consists of hot wort (the sweet sugary liquid that gets fermented into beer) and (surprise) scotch. I wonder if a dash of bitters would work here, making it into a true cocktail? #currentlydrinking #cocktail #hotscotchy

Sahti brew day today. Up before the sun because I'm a glutton for punishment apparently. #homebrewing #sahti #sunrise

Christmas Cactus is blooming again so Merry Christmas everyone!

ok, based on my grains I currently own, I've come to the conclusion that I should brew Sahti next. So that's sorted. Now to cobble together a recipe and build up some yeast starters for brewing this weekend. #homebrewing #sahti

I made a finish for the cutting board from beeswax and mineral oil. I put the first coat on today and it's looking pretty nice and shiny. #woodworking

I've never seen a tree branch do this before. This is a cherry tree. I'm guessing I should prune this off completely but I'll wait a bit if anyone has another idea. #cherry #pruning #gardening #weird #horticulture

Made some cuts for the black walnut cutting board (left) and charcuterie board (right). Doing the finer grit sanding now and warming up some beeswax from my hive with mineral oil for a finish. #woodworking

Modifying my resumé website so I can pass a URL param and then I can just click on things like the company name, job title, start and end dates and it instantly copies the text of the thing I clicked to my clipboard so I can paste it into application forms a bit faster.

I was looking at a plaid shirt of mine this morning, and at how intricate the weaving of the cloth was, and how like 150 years ago that shirt would have been considered super fancy and expensive as hell, but now it's just a meh $15 shirt from Costco because […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Took an inventory of my malt supply, preparing for upcoming brew days: 17lb pale 2 row 13.5lbs white wheat malt 5.75lbs pilsner 6lbs German wheat 6lbs dextrapils/carapils 2kg kaljamallas (finish roasted rye malt) 3lbs old rock solid DME (light) 8oz old aromatic amlt 1lb old crystal 40 4oz old […]

I set up a free project on Hygraph to store the data for my personal resume/portfolio site, mostly just because I wanted to play with/learn GraphQL a bit. This morning at ~4:30am a Hygraph sales person based in Germany called my phone and woke me out of a dead sleep. So now I'm looking at […]