Author Archives: kimerer_brian

Bottled Beer

Posted on September 15, 2013 by kimerer_brian

The new beer is in the bottles. We got 50 bottles of beer out of this batch, and it didn’t taste sour and it didn’t get siphoned onto the floor (mostly). In fact, the bottling went very smoothly with minimal … Continue reading →

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Interesting

Posted on September 8, 2013 by kimerer_brian

Today I managed to rack the beer from the primary fermenter to the secondary fermenter. That is technical beer jargon for siphoning the beer out of the nasty, crusty, jug that exploded…. into a nice, clean bottle so it can … Continue reading →

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Update To Mess

Posted on September 2, 2013 by kimerer_brian

Yesterday, I posted that I had made a mess with my beer project. Little did I know. That was a piddly little girly mess with a couple of tiny little dots of beer foam in the bucket. Oooo. Oooo. That … Continue reading →

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Mess!

Posted on September 1, 2013 by kimerer_brian

As promised in my previous post, here are some more brewing photos. This morning I put up a 5 gallon batch of Honey Porter to ferment. And what a mess I made! Yikes! I think this is inherently a messy … Continue reading →

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Brewing

Posted on August 31, 2013 by kimerer_brian

I am brewing again. I just got back to this after the disappointment of a bad batch last Spring. The bad batch was caused by a combination of poor sanitation and old yeast that took an extra day to start. … Continue reading →

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Zucchini

Posted on August 18, 2013 by kimerer_brian

This……  is a zucchini. I didn’t believe it either. And the funny thing is that this variety is supposed to look like that. This is a Round Zucchini, Cucurbita pepo. I didn’t know such a thing existed until I saw … Continue reading →

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Storm Glass

Posted on July 28, 2013 by kimerer_brian

I have an Admiral FitzRoy Storm Glass. What is that? It is a glass tube that is filled with “stuff” that crystallizes in curious ways to predict the weather. They have been around for eons, but were made famous by … Continue reading →

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Beer Update

Posted on June 29, 2013 by kimerer_brian

Today I tasted the beer again after letting it rest in the carboy for a couple of weeks. Not a good outcome. It tasted nastier than ever. So……. I dumped it. I poured all 5 gallons down the drain in … Continue reading →

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Feverfew

Posted on June 26, 2013 by kimerer_brian

We have a little Feverfew plant that has taken up residence in our stone wall out back. I was struck by this image with the little white flowers poking out, so I photographed it. Very bucolic.

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Beer Tasting

Posted on June 16, 2013 by kimerer_brian

Last week I tasted the beer that I had put up to ferment a couple of weeks before that. Here is the result: Yeah. That bad. Stinkzoid. The beer tasted so bad that I just put the cap back on … Continue reading →

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