ORIGINAL POST (Written 14 Nov. 2011): So, a few weeks ago, my friend Rowan and I got together at my place and brewed up an “experimental beer” — in the weizen style — using a very unusual ingredient. This post is coming so much later because we decided to keep it a secret till other people tried it, and then bust out the surprise. The secret ingredient of the beer is… Pasta. And no, we’re far from the first people to try it. In fact, it was a thread at Homebrewtalk that got us considering the idea. Dry pasta, after …
Month: November 2011
A Society Without Debate
UPDATE (25 Nov. 2011): So, I got some of my facts wrong. I first heard the news about the FTA vote verbally, in the form of a couple of rants about how it went down. When I read the article, the wording was such that it didn’t contradict what I’d been led to believe had happened. So read the following with a grain of salt, and see the comments — especially that by Charles — afterwards. I’m going to leave the post as is, as a reminder to me to get the facts straight before I go off on my …
Wonder Indeed…
Miss Jiwaku was once offered a job to travel to Indonesia, accompanying K-pop groups like Wonder Girls and translating for them. She was not, I must note, impressed with the fact she would be traveling with a pop group she considers a blight on Korea’s international reputation; for her, it was about getting paid a decent wage for honest work. Unfortunately, the organization offering the job — a Korean TV network tasked with making Korea look nice and plain and innocuous abroad, in English — did not offer her a decent wage. The wage was, well, laughable. One imagines maybe …
Competition Brewday: Wonmisan Sour Pale Ale
As I mentioned in my earlier post, I brewed two beers today. I am trying to make a unique post for each beer recipe or batch I make, so I can update them separately. Since I’m not disclosing the recipe for that until after the contest, I’ll just say that I have high hopes for this beer to turn out as I want. I’ll be souring the wort starting sometime tomorrow morning, and boiling it sometime on Sunday or Monday, depending on how the souring proceeds. I managed to get my hands on some lacto delbrucki, but I won’t be …
Competition Brewday: Wonmisan (Bukhansan?) Pale Ale
Well, today (18 Nov.) was a big day. I brewed a split double-sized batch. I think I really need to start doing more small batches, and more batches that are split after the boil. The split-double batch that gets two different boils is a lot more work. However, I managed to economize on time by carefully making sure I was multitasking on stuff that usually wastes time when I move from one step to the other, like heating up the first runnings while the second runnings are sparging. However, I also slowed this brewday down significantly by taking (perhaps too …