Hummingbird Lane Homestead + Studio
I’m glad I get to call Mama’s Crowbar my neighborhood dive. Interesting crowd, cash-only-beer-only, and always some great local drafts on. Happy hour $4 pours seals the deal. I suppose I should do a real review, but for now I’ll just say I enjoy Mama’s Crowbar on Congress a lot.
Brewing in a more properly-equipped kitchen changes everything.
Since restarting my homebrew hobby after our move to Portland, my brewing interest in wild ales has exploded. With some inspiration from people like Mike at The Mad Fermentationist and Dmitri over at BKYeast, I decided to explore the realm of cultivating the “terroir” of Munjoy Hill.
10.7 the iOSification of my favorite operating system
“natural scrolling”? fix in general control panel
double click windows to minimize
not always showing scroll bars…. finder preferences
no icons on the desktop? WTF?
let me turn off that stupid 3D dock
Launchpad? Really? Piling icons on the screen is the wave of the future, apparently.
The first brew I made was a simple one. My intention was to start the pipeline of funk anew. After trying to resuscitate a 7-month old batch of East Coast Yeast ECY20 Bug Farm, I ultimately had to pitch some fresh Wyeast Lambic Blend 3278. After an overly enthusiastic churn session with the wine degasser, fermentation quickly took off.
I have started with an easy formula, one very close to my first sour brew from almost 3 years ago. 50% light and 50% wheat DME with an addition of maltodextrin near the end of the boil. The fruits of these labors will not be known for a while. I’ve made arrangements for longer-term storage for aging in a friend’s basement, but I’ll check in and update things here from time to time. I plan to do this with all the batch entries I publish online.
My first full track day. Running with COMSCC on May 31st, 2010.
My first attempt at brewing two beers at the same time was a real challenge. Plagued by constant boilovers and missed readings, I still managed to get through it. One batch was Portsmouth’s Kate the Great clone for a club barrel project and the other was an American wheat beer. Shot a little video after fermentation started…
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cg6uOZXtNA