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Got crazy with the cheese whiz and decided to try my hand at all-grain brewing. Found this recipe and thought I’d give it a try. Due to availability, this is what I ended up with: 7# RAHR 2-row malt Newcaslte Nut Brown Ale is made from a blend of two different beers. Working from this recipe as my guide, I’m attempting to do a single-batch replication using extract. 4# light dry malt extract Second batch of beer finished up — a Belgian Trappist Dubbel (double). Ingredients: 6 lbs Coopers Dry Malt Extract (DME) Made my first attempt at brewing beer last night thanks to Valerie’s thoughtful Christmas gift of a brewing starter kit. I now have a bucket of malty goodness that’s burping CO2 at me. She included a ready-to-brew kit for a German style hefeweizen. From what little bit I know of brewing, it’s about as [...] My first Arduino project was to build a battery capacity tester. I’ve got a box of rechargeable AA batteries, and it seams they’ve been less and less effective. Since most applications require 4 batteries, invariably one of them problem battery makes the rest of them look bad. The Atmel ATMega328 microcontroller has 6 [...] Success has been had … finally! A couple of days ago, a tiny little package arrived from Sparkfun Electronics with my first Arduino kit. Valerie’s response upon finding said package in the mail box, “well, so much for seeing my husband for the rest of the week”. In all fairness, I [...] Working through the picture back-log … cleared out 80+ this evening. Only 1640 left to work through. But, on a plus note, there are now 2 new photo galleries posted — Woo hoo! Pumpkin Patch 2008 The twinsoes must really hate the stroller. This is how they’ll “remember” their first visit to Spina [...] For those just finding this, click to start at the begining.
[ Click to go interactive ] Some trip facts Mileage: 5230 on the odometer (GPS was almost always on, but, not quite) Day 19: The last push home — 406 miles Sadly, this trip came to an end on this last day of travel. The day started with a happy toddler that awoke in her giant “hooo tell” sized bed, as she likes to call it. After packing up the baby cribs and toys [...] Day 13-18: Hang’n around Weiser, ID and the start of the trip home. — 342 miles Dad and I got home to Weiser on a Saturday evening. The stomach bug was working its way through my family at a rate of one person per day, starting with one of the [...] |
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