Well, I’ve just sold my story, “Toxoplasmosis of the Brain; Candidiasis of the Esophagus; Candidiasis of the Trachea; Candidiasis of the Bronchi; Candidiasis of the Lungs; Kaposi’s Sarcoma; Pneumonia; Tuberculosis; Stab Wound in the Belly; and Bus Accident” to The Machine of Death, Volume 2. I had a story about Japanese yakuza (gangsters) in...
Read more →One of the folk-beers of South America is called “chicha,” a brew that is today most often made with corn of some kind — often malted corn, and traditionally chewed to allow conversion of starches into sugars. (Corn lacks the enzymes that wheat and barley have for self-conversion, so the enzymes were sourced from...
Read more →Finally! Yesterday afternoon, the wood chips Miss Jiwaku ordered for me arrived, so now I can start trying to smoke various grains and foods! I got the stuff in a few different forms. For traditional wood chips, we got two bags of hickory (and now I guess I have to make home-cured bacon, right?)...
Read more →For those following at home, this is the second brew I’ve done in the course of two days. I discussed the grist for this brew here, and since it’s a split batch I figured go back at rip out half the details from my earlier post, to make a separate post for the beer...
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