wacky1980

the framboise was pricey...i think it was like $109 for a dozen 750ml bottles. but it's soooo worth it. i've really been digging on the belgians and lambics lately, and this is right at the top. got a case of founders CBS coming in tomorrow...that's the one that has me really excited this week.

i'm not really sure what they're worth yet. hypothetically, i wouldn't be interested in selling them, but i would be happy to donate one to another collector under the right circumstances.

got a little bit of a buzz on trying out a couple new beers we got in today. sipping on a lindeman's framboise right now. if i can keep the wife interested for long enough, we're gonna try a new belgium blackberry felix next. also drank a 4yo black butte birthday reserve earlier while we bottled up a brown ale. lots of beer related stuff tonight.

i got this crispy boi 9/11 serial from the bank the other day. brand new, no folds, blah blah blah.

exactly. poof can joke, but if you're a collector, even confederate currency holds historical significance. the signatures and serial numbers on those notes are all written by hand. the notes were cut by hand. that shit's 150+ years old. i think it's pretty interesting.

see above post

lol i knew someone would try to crack wise. your post was close enough, i suppose. i was actually given them today. we closed an old bank down last week and these were in the shred pile. a co-worker saw them and thought they might be something, so he grabbed them and brought them to me because i'm a known coin/currency collector at the bank. they're authentic, and they're beat to hell. but i got them into a more presentable state and put them in protective holders. these are actually my first confederate currency. i have american coins that are older, but paper doesn't really have the longevity that coin does. since they're so beat up they're probably not worth a whole lot, maybe $200-$500 for the set. but i haven't researched them all enough to know if any are particularly rare and valuable. oh well, my investment at this point is a couple hours of personal time and $5 worth of currency holders, so it's a win.

i think numismatists are coin-only. not sure though.

ok, well maybe not brand new.. they do have a few years of age to them, but i like to think they're keepers.

been there...it doesn't work.

the only fair solution is we'd have to swap.

halloween's her favorite holiday and she has a little skill with makeup. she did mine in about 20 minutes. hers took a little longer.

had the wife paint me a skullface because i didn't have time to do a proper costume this year. so this was me pretending to be a real dj last night:

took wife out for dinner tonight because we ended up having no kids for a couple hours. we each had a black & blue ny strip, topped with melted blue cheese crumbles. i had a french onion soup side, wife had a salad. and we shared crab cakes for an appetizer. i've never been the person who leaves a restaurant thinking "that was the best meal i ever ate" and today was definitely not an exception. but it was good enough that i don't have any complaints.

of course

never had o'so night rain, but i've seen it on people's lists. a really good, malty porter is kinda hard to find these days. i really like edmund fitzgerald from great lakes. another season of making small batches and zeroing in some recipes, and i'll be ready to start sending out samples. not sure how this cherry porter will turn out, but i'm hopeful. it's got a pretty big grain bill for the batch size, and should clock in over 7% abv if we nail the mash and it ferments out properly (it ought to, because i replaced the english ale yeast from the recipe with a belgian ale yeast that's supposed to be good up to like 10%). damn, i get excited from just talking about it.

our first several beers were ... not good. it's one of those things. anyone can play poker, but it takes a lot of practice to be good at playing poker. we've been doing this for 4 years now, and we've got the process down pretty well, but always improving our equipment and technique. we took a bit of a break from brewing over the last year while my wife and i built our new location from the ground up (literally). but now that we're into the off-season and i have my weekends and evenings back for the most part, i plan on really diving back in. eyeing approx $2500 in equipment upgrades this winter. i'd like to be able to brew 1/2 barrel batches by the spring. it's enough work to make one 5-gallon batch of beer, so if you can double or triple (or more) the batch size in a single session, you end up with a lot more product for pretty much the same amount of work. the idea is to scale up the home-brewing to the point where we can apply for a license and convert the new location into a commercial brewery/brewpub.

it's time to start brewing some beer once again. we're blowing out the cobwebs tonight with a brown ale extract kit. nothing too difficult, mostly just to remember how to ride that bike. then if the weekend plays out like we hope it will, i've got ingredients coming to make a chocolate cherry porter: https://www.homebrewersassociation.org/homebrew-recipe/choc-full-o-cherry-porter/ might even try to barrel-age it. it will depend on whether it's ready for xmas or not. if it's not ready to bottle at least 3 weeks before the holidays, it won't be done in time. so if that happens, there's no deadline on it, and it won't hurt to age it a couple more months in a barrel. after that, i want to try doing a black ipa. it's a tough style to pull off, but i built a recipe over the summer that might be decent. and i have like 5+ pounds of hops in the freezer that need to get used up soon.

I'm almost embarrassed to realize how much it meant to me that my parents actually showed up for something that's been a really big fucking deal in my life for the last 2 years. And I didn't realize it until they blew it off like, oh it's no big deal. This sucks.

just got home from winning the team music trivia competition. my team won again, now 4 years in a row. i left the wife to hang out with the team at the bar while i came home to relieve the sitter. all the boys are asleep except for the 11yo, who's up playing fortnite with his online friends. thinking of cracking open one more cocktail for the night before crashing out...

humihingi ako ng paumanhin, hindi ako nagsasalita ng espanyol. anong kulay ang keso?

only vaguely related, but i saw a dude dressed like a shocker one halloween. the pinkie was even brown on the tip.

Making poop on the company dime.

the roof is on fire isn't all euphamisms for fuckin'. there's like a half a verse dedicated to it. the rest is just oxymorons and pop culture references.

hbd gramps!