MessyMissy’s Place

Yet another attempt at sanity

Archive for June, 2008

Saturday’s stout was a great success! Beyond that though, we sold the civic Saturday too. I have to admit that I’m pretty bummed to see it go, but its for the best, I suppose. Sunday we finished the beginnings of a raspberry pale ale. We’ll have to see how that goes. [...]

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Interested in the Brewing Process?

Friday, June 27th, 2008

I love HowStuffworks.com it’s the greatest, and it didn’t fail me with an article on how beer fermentation works and how beer works in general. Check it out!
On another note, YouTube is another great reference. My favorite so far has been learning about All Grain Brewing from Chris Knight. Currently I’m doing [...]

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Well things have been interesting on the brewing front. We moved our second batch to a secondary fermenter Wednesday. Everything was going well, but apparently there was a failure to take into account the possibility that aeration via the funnel and all that might cause a new burst of fermentation. We ended [...]

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Fiesta Charra - DeWitt, Michigan

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

As you may or may not know, I love Mexican food! I try to go out to different restaurants and try as many different things as I can. Though lately I’ve been having trouble deciding what to try. But that’s a different story. The latest place we’ve gone was Fiesta [...]

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So far, so good with the brew…

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

The first batch of Rev. Porter has been bottled! We managed to do it Saturday night. It took longer than I expected and I think I ended up with Sediment in the bottom of some of the bottles, but hey it’s my first try. Now to wait for the carbonation and hope [...]

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Homebrew…

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

Well we’ve taken the plunge and decided that it would be much more cost effective to brew our own beer. We’ll have to wait and see if it actually turned out though… But hopefully we’ll have a nice porter in a couple weeks.

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So as I walk around campus I always encounter these great, usually 2 color, stencil graffiti works. Granted some are better done than others, but hey that’s ok.
I finally got out today and took some pictures of some of them. The ones I caught were mostly centered around Morrill Hall and [...]

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