As you may or may not remember, I made a lemon cordial at the same time as I made the lime and cherry cordial. I’m very pleased with the Lime and meh about the Cherry. The Lemon has a LOT of potential, but I think it’s going to need to age a bit before it…
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I think it just threw a rod… Good thing it’s Friday! Have a great weekend everyone!
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So I managed to pull it off… I made a double batch of the Lime cordial and I’ll be a monkey’s aunt if it didn’t turn out better than the last batch! I’m really excited about it! I tried some straight and with the Lemon Codial and then finally with some Sierra Mist…. I wasn’t…
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I’m trying my hand at some more cordials. I’m thinking this batch should turn out pretty good, though I’m concerned that I may have added the simple syrup too early and it may cause the flavor to not be what I want. Apparently adding it too hot can cause some degradation in the flavor overall….
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slowly closing the night’s sweet embrace slipping away ever clawing reality fighting for life drown it in the oblivion make it sleep, never to wake
Read moreMy cordial/liqueur
So you’ll remember, maybe, back in January I made some cordials or liqueurs (whichever you want to call them). Well I finally did the final decant and wow and I pleased with what I’ve got! The Lime was wow! I mixed it with some lemonade. Holy cow! I took a sample down with us when…
Read morecp non-interactive followup
I finally got around to finding the alias that was causing my issue with the “cp” command in Linux. I modified my .bashrc and simply commented out the line that read: alias cp=’cp -i’ I also took the opportunity to add in some of my more favored longer commands, which has really been nice. Like…
Read morePortable Feast in “Old Town” Lansing
Bryan and I have found a new breakfast spot that we absolutely love, Portable Feast & Friends. The restaurant is on Turner Street in Old Town. We’ve gone there the last 3 Saturdays and every time the quality of the food is superb and the staff keeps my coffee cup topped off. That is one…
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Read moreNew stout experiment – followup
As you may have read, Bryan and I broke the stout recipe into 5 separate 1 gallon carboys to test that addition of various things in the secondary fermentation. We bottled the Dry Hopped one and the Control on Tuesday and we bottled the remaining 3 last night with the help of our Igor. (Thanks…
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