I don’t know if this actually is weird, but, for the ESB I am attempting to brew, and which has sat in primary for a week or so now, the yeast behavior in the carboy looks weird. I saw this fully acknowledging that I don’t use the carboys for primary fermentation anywhere near often enough to know whether this is weird or not… but I’ve never seen anything like it. On top of the wort/beer is this thick, almost oily-looking layer of yeast and bubbles: The bubbles are, well, they are bursting only slowly. The airlock, at this point, is …
Month: April 2011
Fundraiser for Japan Tomorrow — DRINK GOOD BEER! HELP EARTHQUAKE VICTIMS!
I posted this on Facebook a while back, but I don’t remember if I posted an announcement here. Tomorrow, in Bundang, my homebrew club will be donating a bunch of beer for a fundraiser to help put together some money for the Red Cross Fund for Japan’s recovery in the wake of last month’s devastating earthquake/tsunami. There are details here. I’m personally donating a keg of Saison and a keg of supposedly-Bavarian wheat beer. (Which doesn’t really taste Bavarian at all, but it’s still beer, and I brewed it specifically for this event!) I would love for any readers to …
Put Your Mouth Where Your Money Is
There’s an expression in English about following in action what one says: “Put your money where your mouth is.” This need not have anything to do with money, which in this expression is a metaphor for “action.” (It might include donating money, if one is advocating such behavior, but it need not be limited to that meaning. For example, one could exhort another to put his money where his mouth is in terms of, for example, following through on a claim or a professed belief.) When I was younger, I admired this concept: I liked to suggest people put their …
Brewday: A Mild? Or Not-So-Mild? Northern Brown Ale
Well, I may have screwed up my English mild. (See the update at the end of the post for how it became a Northern Brown Ale.)
Enjoyment
While grading some homework from my course on Popular Cultures in the English Speaking World, something clicked for me. I was reading through student responses to the episode of How I Met Your Mother that we watched together, and discussed. Something that really stood out for me was the way in which people talk about comedy, or entertainment in general. I’ve noticed it before, in the way many Koreans talk about music, but finally I think I put some pieces of the puzzle together. Now, I’m not 100% sure I have something here–it may be that my students are all …