My birthday present arrived 2 months early today - a 26 gallon Heavy Duty kettle from MoreBeer.com. We ordered well in advance this time mostly because of last year’s debacle. This year it was not on backorder, and it shipped within a day or two of ordering - But I am not going to complain [...]

So I finally got my 3 Zeus rhizomes in the ground yesterday. Donna and I put in a new 6′ x 2′ bed on the other side of the fence from my Liberty bed in the back yard. I pickaxed the hell out of the ground underneath the bed (about 8-12 inches worth), and mixed [...]

I have been chipping away at my to-do list for BrewzNET - its going painfully slow compared to what I want, however an hour here and a few minutes there just isn’t cutting it for getting major blocks of work done. I’ve added context menu items to the Pipe, Tank and Coil designer classes that [...]

My rhizomes from Freshops came in today - 3 fatties of Zeus. It is supposed to have a character very similar to Columbus / Tomahawk, and considering the scarcity and outrageous prices of that variety this year - yay me. I am slightly worried because the variety book indicates they are succeptible to mildew, but [...]

So I’ve spent the better part of the past few months upgrading the BrewzNET infrastructure around a few things. That has resulted in some great new features, but it has also broken several things as well. I think in general it has been a great step forward to what I want, so I guess I’ll [...]

I have moved my homebrewing-related blog posts from the First State Brewers’s blog over to this one for the time being. I found that most of the posting was being monopolized by me, and since I am not the president anymore, it probably wasn’t really appropriate. Another reason is that I’ve been looking to find [...]