Scientific conferences are now happening inside World of Warcraft. That should help with travel costs, but on the downside it’s harder to get smashed and wake up in a competitor’s hotel room*. *** (*) Seriously, the bar is the most underrated part of a conference. Sex isn’t even an essential point – I missed out …
Beer Blogging
75 Years Ago Today
Beer became the only legal alcohol in the United States. (Why today is not a national holiday baffles me.) On April 7, 1933, Prohibition was modified to allow beer with no more than 3.2% abv. It was the beginning of the end, as Prohibition was officially repealed on December 5th of the same year.
Friday Beer Blogging: Sam Adams Irish Red
I have a friend who thinks Mich Ultra is an exceptional beer. I nearly get sick from even thinking about drinking it. So you can imagine how I took his recommendation to try Sam Adams Irish Red. I didn’t even know they MADE an Irish Red, so I decided to give it a try. My …
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Friday Beer Blogging – Tim F’s Midwinter Stout
Homebrewing goes on nonstop, although otherwise I’m mostly too busy to go near a blog. But since it’s Friday, and since I promised beer blogging when you guys voted us to the top in that crazy Wizbang contest, here is the latest brew that is just about done bottle fermenting. White Labs Irish Ale yeast, …
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Happy December: Open Thread, Beer, Other Stuff: Early AM Edition
It’s 3:45 am. I’m looking at the CNN Web site. I notice a spelling error that annoys me.
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Monday Beer Blogging
Enjoying my first bottle from my batch #2, a medium porter made from a mix of extract and grains. So much for low expectations, that’s a pretty damn good beer. The gravity only dropped from .05 to .02, but the extra sugar and the grain residue makes a respectably rich beer with a fine head. …
Monty Python’s Holy Grail
I promised myself I wouldn’t drink on my vacation and get some stuff done around the house, play with the dogs, etc. I just went over to Kroger to pick up a couple things, and walked past this. How could I resist? It’s Monty Python’s Holy Grail, and it was brewed to commemorate the 30th …