This morning I racked my Northern Brown Ale to a keg, which left me with a healthy cake of London Ale yeast and I didn’t want to just leave it in the fridge. Given a discovery I made about my attempted ESB (the Cry Havoc yeast was fine, the carboy wasn’t), I decided I’d better keep my promise to Miss Jiwaku and brew up a Mild. So I brewed up this mild. It’s certainly not a beer I’m dreadfully eager to make — not like, say, a big fat Belgian Tripel — but I am curious to see what a …
Month: May 2011
Two Good Korean Films
I don’t watch a lot of Korean films these days, in part so few good ones are put out, but also because none of the good ones actually play in my neighborhood. No, it’s all junk in my neighborhood, and I’m busy enough that sometimes it’s hard to justify the trek out to Seoul to see something worth seeing. But the other day, Miss Jiwaku dragged me to a couple of great films that were showing in Guro. The first was the omnibus film If You Were Me 5 (시선이 너머). I never managed to see the third and fourth …