Today I brewed up an Irish Stout which the kit claims tastes like Guinness, which would be nice. This was my second attempt at beer, the first of which was a collaborative attempt with the GF. That attempt was an Irish Red, which is now complete, bottled, and the first couple of 6 packs are chilling in the fridge. I wasn’t feeling great tonight, so tomorrow I will be able to really sample how the Red came out. Since there was some manner of dispute about who did more work and/or the quality of the work in brewing last time, I bought my own carboy and brewed up this batch myself.
This was the first time I used a kit requiring the use of grains in addition to malt extract, so it was interesting making the ‘tea’ with the grains. The kit (from The Beer Nut) contained the grains, the socks, the hops, yeast, malt extract (syrup), bottle caps and priming sugar. I was rather impressed with the contents, for the $30 I paid. The basic steps I followed to brew were: Read More
hamster
give me one good reason why we aren’t doing this at work: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/03/18/100kw_raygun_barrier_falls/
BL
we buy all our laser materials off of them
they’re super nice guys
hamster
that’s not a reason why we aren’t doing it ourselves
BL
probably the .5MW of electricity that the thing requires would be the first reason not to do it
hamster
bah, we can get into power generation
we’ll use a bunch of poodles… a poodle-bed reactor
hamster
i need you to start cloning me poodles
BL
i’ll get right on it