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WTF Is Going On?

webmaster — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 07:02:24 +0000

So, yeah, it’s been a while. Long story short, I am now the Head Brewer at Silverton Brewing Co. Long story slightly less short, I’m also the only brewhouse employee for the time being. A 70-hour week means I managed a day off. I’m planning a minor shift in focus in that direction, blog-wise. There are a lot of tips and tricks that professional brewers will find helpful, and home brewers may not.

I know that most of you come here to drink from the cup of home brewing glory, and rest assured I have been able to sneak the occasional batch in this spring/summer. I’m going to get all those recipes and tasting notes up in the next few days. There’s also some really fun stuff in the pipeline for the fall as well, including my first recipes using Brettanomyces. Stay tuned.

Sup?

webmaster — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 05:13:03 +0000

In case anyone was wondering what I’ve been doing in stead of blogging, here’s (part of) the answer. I finally got around to revamping the Silverton Brewing Co. website. It’s now 100% Flash-free, and 100% grammatically correct (probably). Also, I don’t know if you’ve ever poked around in some HTML source that was generated by at least three people using at least two WYSIWYG editors, but I definitely earned my Wheaties today.

http://www.silvertonbrewing.com

…And We’re Back

webmaster — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 00:44:21 +0000

Hello (again). My apologies to regular readers (Google Analytics assures me there are some) for the long absence, but getting internet access was an unexpected ordeal.

Silverton is interesting, and brewing is interesting, and I’m sure I’ll be writing plenty about both in the long, cold months to come. For now, though, shiny things!

Ad Nauseam?

webmaster — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 21:23:14 +0000

Well, I just re-upped for two more years of hosting. It isn’t like the bill is large by any conventional definition, but bandwidth has been steadily increasing (which is a good thing!) to the point that it’s on my radar. Which is a roundabout way of justifying the fact that I finally signed up for Google AdSense. I know it’s tacky, but I’ve done what I can make the ads unobtrusive while still keeping them “above the fold”. They also won’t display on the front page, so daily visitors (Analytics assures me there are a few) won’t see any ads at all. And I hope it goes without saying that if the ads turn out to be largely irrelevant and/or the revenues aren’t significant, they’ll disappear entirely.

If you have any suggestions on a better way to implement the ads, or just thoughts on their existence in general, please comment or Contact Me.

BBR Interview 3

webmaster — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 00:25:26 +0000

James Spencer and I did another interview for Basic Brewing Radio, and this time it was even in person, which was a lot of fun. It deals with gravity measurements and some of the intricacies of using refractometers, and concludes with a call for additional data that will hopefully corroborate my final gravity correlation.

BBR Interview 2

webmaster — Sun, 16 May 2010 15:07:49 +0000

I was on Basic Brewing Radio again this past week, talking about the Yeast Pitching Rate Experiment. If you’re reading this you’ve probably already seen the results, but now you can have them read to you in a dulcet baritone.

One Year Later

webmaster — Sat, 15 May 2010 15:50:14 +0000

One year ago today, I decided I didn’t really want to be fat anymore, and was going to lose 35 pounds in the next year. I didn’t quite make it, but I can say that I’m probably in better shape now than at any time since that last high school water polo game. I seriously recommend that anyone with similar goals move within walking distance of a gym.

Note the precipitous change in slope once it got warm enough to run outside.

West County, Vol I & II

webmaster — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 20:29:57 +0000

I realized these weren’t readily accessible in the new site layout, so now there’s at least a post for anyone who wants to reminisce.

Links, to spare some bandwidth:

West County (MP4, 35.4 MB) | West County 2 (MP4, 73.0 MB)

BBR Interview

webmaster — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:42:58 +0000

I was interviewed on last week’s episode of Basic Brewing Radio, discussing yeast starters and some recent experiments. Greetings to anyone visiting as a result. Feel free to poke around a bit.

I've been... Brewdotted? Slashbrewed?

Yeast Starters Three-dux

webmaster — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:46:38 +0000

I’ve finished the last starter needed to round out my aeration experiments. Once again, the main post has been updated with the full data set and some additional thoughts.