Category Archives: Miscellaneous

.. to all. Hope yours was as good as ours.

Happy Thanksgiving to all.

Remember that Elephant Ear plant we had last Summer? Here is a memory refresher. Well, it has gone dormant, so we cut it off and de-potted it for the Winter. There was a surprise when it came out of the … Continue reading →

The second batch of beer is in the bottles. I got 50 bottles out of this batch, and this time I posed them for a formal portrait before allowing them to skitter away to their crates. You can count ’em … Continue reading →

Tonight we popped a couple of the beers out of the first batch to see how it is coming along, and the results are in: Beer It will still be a couple of weeks before it is completely ready to … Continue reading →

The next batch of beer is now bubbling happily in the carboy. I put up a batch of Honey Porter yesterday. This one has two pounds of honey in it instead of just one, so it is bubbling even faster … Continue reading →

It is nearly a week later, and the beer is sleeping quietly in the basement under its blanket. The thing sitting on top is a min/max thermometer which I use to monitor the temperature of the beer as it matures. … Continue reading →