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What a difference a week makes! I let the cedar soak in vodka for a whole week, since the beer was taking it's sweet time fermenting, and this is the result. The chips are MUCH darker than the original, and the vodka is at a lower level. Guess the cedar really soaked up a lot of the liquid!
Alexa Winner==
STEUBEN and Veronica Varekova host AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION reception and silent auction==
STEUBEN Flagship Store NYC==
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Later on Christmas Day, it was time to head back to the airport & fly out to Tampa. Here's Bethany checking into our AirTran flight - and she even has her Lion hat on! It came from the same place as Gordon & my silly hats!
Ah, next up is the Witty Ki! This was my attempt at a fruit beer... I sliced up 6 pounds of fresh Kiwi and plopped the cubed chunks right into a light wheat beer! Based the recipe on one in Extreme Brewing, by Sam Caglione. The beer was good last Summer, at the SUUSI Homebrewer's Tasting, but it was EVEN BETTER with another 5 months in the bottle! Too bad this is the last bottle of this tasty treat! I'll have to brew another fruit beer soon :)
Day 151/365 - My 2nd homebrew, Witty Ki, in the fermenter & ready to be bottled! Note the scum still on the rim of the carboy from the initial, explosive, fermentation...
When I first brought the carboy out, I was a little nervous that between the fermentation problems & the extended fermentation time the beer might be ruined. However, after getting a specific gravity reading on a sample, I cooled & tried it, and it still tastes pretty good -- and that's not even bottle aged yet!
The ABV was a little lower than I expected on this one; only about 3.8%, assuming I measured right. The taste is pretty decent -- the kiwi really comes through in the flavoring, but not as a tart fruity taste. More like the subtle orange taste to a Blue Moon or a beer of that ilk...
I endded up getting 26 1/2 22-oz big boys out of this batch, or over 4.5 gallons of beer! Not too shabby... Hopefully a few weeks in the bottles will improve the taste even more -- I'll be taking this one with me to SUUSI this year, for our homebrew tasting workshop!
The mash level is pretty high on this beer - we're brewing 10 gallons today, and using 34 pounds of grain, including the 3 pounds I smoked yesterday.
My Cousin Ellen's backyard, as it stands now. She's had an ongoing battle with the city about a drainage canal they're building in her backyard. At least now she's got a little bit of her own backyard, with a fence. Here's what it looked like a year ago: www.flickr.com/photos/awinner/2274247939/in/set-721576039...
Cake baked for Stephanie & Dan's engagement dinner... The picture is one I took when we all went out to the Florida Botanical Gardens a few months back, which you can see here: www.flickr.com/photos/awinner/3188795400/in/set-721576123...
St. Michael Church from the South over the Elbe River
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The day after finding this, the blow-off tubes were still getting quite a bit of foam through them. At least the whole fridge isn't a mess!
Amazing how quickly things change - we transferred this beer into an aging carboy just 10 days ago, and now a thick white pellicle has formed on top of it. That means the bacteria are doing their thing!
Gordon tried out the peeler I bought for breaking down apples on a pear instead this morning. The results were pretty impressive!
The lagers a week later... They still look pretty much like they did last week: www.flickr.com/photos/awinner/5078323532/. Rich, dark & tasty looking!
Day 117/365 - What a Monday! Let's see if I can sum up the highlights...
One MRI refused (guess the insurance company doesn't think I really have a problem in my hand or neck)...
One tree down in my backyard...
One BBQ sauce created...
One dinner cooked (this was probably the bright point of the day -- that pork was GOOD)...
And now, one (or a few) beers drank...
Time to relax & say GOOD-NIGHT!
Bethany knitted some Demon Gloves for Gordon for his birthday - these will match his Demon Hat very nicely!
Amazing what a few weeks can do! Here's the wedding beer about 3 weeks into it's secondary fermentation. It's become amazingly clear & actually a little bit darker than when we transferred it the last time!
Day 252/365 - My hand is almost back to normal! Today, for the first time since early this year, I can straighten my pinkie ALL BY ITSELF! The muscles are still weak, but they're starting to work again! Definitely an improvement from before the surgery: www.flickr.com/photos/awinner/3643425339/
Carboys ready to be filled with JUUniper Pale Ale. After my brewing disaster last week, I went out & bought some Beer Haulers to put around my carboys instead of relying on handles... They seem to work VERY well, and I had NO sticky floors this week :)
Wasted kiwi, after fully emptying the carboy... I can't believe that 3 weeks ago, this stuff all looked a nice, juicy green!
The moon, shot from my backyard last night. I realized after I had taken this that it looked really similar to some 'moon shots' I took awhile back, and then I realized -- it was just about 30 days ago, and so the moon was in about the same phase -- no wonder it looked similar!
Shelby Hovanesian, attacks and shoots a scoring goal that gets the score 4-5 on April 5, 2024 at the Matador Pool. Photo by Mackenzie Ferguson.
What a difference 10 days make! This is the same bedroom @ Yamile's house that 10 days ago had no floor (or furniture) -- see it here. Yamile had to move in while Greg was still working on getting the floors down, but he's working around her pretty well, and aside from the quarter-round around the walls, her bedroom is livable already.
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187
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Skoda Fabia R4
Chassis No. 136 - plate : VIS 158 (MAU)
Team / Owner: Rajesh Ramdenee / MAU
driver: Rajesh Ramdenee / MAU
ASA-MICHELIN Challenge Cup 2023 / MAU Mauritius Rally Championship 2023
09-09-2023 // AWINNER overall
23rd run of Chassis 136
20th run of Rajesh Ramdenee in this car
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