Lemon Lemon Lemon

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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Limey

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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more cordials… Yay!

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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struggle on

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

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My 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…

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cp 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…

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Portable 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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spiral

slowly tumbling thoughts round and round, stop they will not struggle in my head

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New 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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