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How much do you drink a day? (Equivalent of 12 oz / 341 ml bottles)
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Bye, Bye Bodensatz |
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Bodensatz |
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2009.04.05 @ 21:56 |
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 It's official - we're moving! But trust me, I think that most of you will find it to be a very good thing! It will probably take a year or two, but everything is going to be migrated to a new site that I'm co-developing with my wife - Urban Hippy. All new material is already going over there - for the last few weeks.
The new site is sort of a logical extension to this site - it includes all of my beer and brewing activities, along with lots of other related activities which have been creeping their way into this site over the years like home preserving, coffee roasting, making sauerkraut, and so on. And it includes a lot of the related stuff that my wife does, too.
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Bodensatz |
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2009.03.23 @ 18:44 |
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| I just got back from the LCBO - one of the government owned liquor stores here in Ontario. A buddy of mine was over earlier today to pick up some stuff I had for him, and he very generously pushed 10 bucks into my hand with a stern warning that it only be spent on beer. Being unemployed with a $0 budget for beer, I was very happy to take his money, and as soon as my wife awoke from her nap I went off to oblige him!
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Bodensatz |
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2009.03.05 @ 18:26 |
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| In-and-of itself the Creemore Premium Lager is a very good beer. It is a golden colour going on slight copper (lighting here is poor unfortunately). The nose is clean with no estery notes - proper for a lager. I'm not getting any malt nose off it either - which is neither here nor there for a lager (you can have malt nose, or not, depending on what type of lager since there are a dozen or more beer styles under the banner "lager"). There is a distinct and ever-so-slightly sweet malt character on the palate - not thick and overwhelming, cloying; but solid and rather pleasant. Because of this I'm actually surprised I'm not getting a malt nose - gave it a very good swish in my glass but nothing.
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Bodensatz |
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2009.03.02 @ 16:26 |
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| Well there you go, after 12 years of service at Nortel, I've been cut! And as you may know, because of their Chapter 11 status, there is no severence package. Oh well. While life will be a bit tough financially, we were expecting this and preparing for the worst. In fact, since I've seen the economic downturn coming like a trainwreck in slow motion for a good 3 or 4 years now, I have been stockpiling food. No worries, there is enough on hand to feed the family for months to come.
My only disappointment with being cut and not having a paycheque in the forseeable future, is the fact that spring is just around the corner, and in April my wife and I usually start hosting our "Brew 'n' Q" backyard parties, where I run the grill and smoker all day, while brewing beer and serving the fruits of previous labours. This year things will change a bit on the food front. Actually, even for most of last year the food had turned into a pot luck. And this year my friends will be picking up the slack even more.
But the problem is with the beer, since I'm the only one who brews. And won't have the money to provide my friends with awesome beer at my parties!
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Bodensatz |
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2008.10.25 @ 07:55 |
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 It's hard to believe that while one of the best beers I think I've ever brewed was a stout, that I haven't brewed one in the 12 years I've been in Ottawa! Until yesterday, that is. I did something a bit unconventional with it as well in that I used Weyermann Carafa III in place of all the Roast Barley. The reason being that it is dehusked and so does not impart the acrid astringency that dark roasted malts can otherwise do.
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Bodensatz |
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2008.07.13 @ 07:55 |
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 I see a lot of chat on the local Ottawa blogs about the new bottle return policy forced upon Beau's Brewery of Vankleek Hill, Ontario. Some of the finer details of the following report may be off, but the gist is still there.
Beau's recently started selling their Lugtread beer in ceramic swing-top bottles. The deposit was $2 per bottle, redeemable only at the brewery. I'll also add as an aside that both the 750ml ceramic swing-top bottles, as well as the 2L (3L?) growlers are collected by homebrewers for their beer.
Anyway, It didn't take any time at all before they had the 750ml bottles for sale in the LCBO, and this created a strange situation where if you brought the bottles back to the Beer Store like anything else bought at the LCBO, you got 20 cents back for your deposit. But if you brought it back to the brewery, you got $2. That's quite a difference!
Then the LCBO declared that Beau's could not offer a $2 return deposit at their brewery - they had to offer the same 20 cent return deposit as the LCBO. And so a lot of customers went into an uproar over it.
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Bodensatz |
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2008.07.09 @ 17:11 |
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 If you live in Ontario like I do, please visit this website to look up who is your Member of Provincial Parliament, and please send them a letter similar to the one below. Or simply cut-and-paste the one below, which I just sent to mine. Of course you should change the name to that of your own MPP.
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Bodensatz |
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2008.06.29 @ 09:46 |
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| I just added a new article on building a stir plate. Just making a quick note of it here and pointing to the article, because this will show up in my RDF feed, but the original article will not.
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2008.06.25 @ 20:36 |
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 I've been doing home canning for about 13 or 14 years now, and have been making pea soup for 5 or 6 maybe. Typically, I cook the soup all day long in the slow cooker, then eat some and can the rest up. But I've often thought that it must be possible to just toss all of the raw ingredients into a mason jar, put the lid on, and can it up. The stuff should cook just fine while canning, especially since anything with meat in it like pea soup should be processed in a pressure canner at 15 psi.
So I finally got around to trying it - here's what I did.
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Bodensatz |
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2008.06.19 @ 12:10 |
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 Another year has come and gone, and BSNBB is but a memory once again. Sigh. To recap, about a decade ago now a group of a half dozen or so brewers here in Ottawa started a mailing list. For the longest time it was just 5 or 6 of us, but then about 8 years ago the list started to expand. More and more brewers were signing up - but not just in Ottawa - right across the country. 7 years ago we decided to have a "Big Brew" - which is what you get when a bunch of brewers haul there breweries to someone's house, and they all brew a crazy amount of beer, drink beer, talk about beer, and so on. The first event was here in my back yard in Ottawa, and every spring we do it all over again at someone's house.
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