• 11 Oct 2009 /  Beer, Home Brew

    7lbs Light LME
    1lb Crystal 60
    10oz Chocolate
    6oz Malto Dextrine

    2oz Fuggles @60min
    1/4oz Fuggles @15min
    WLP002 English Ale Yeast

    Porter and Mead

    Porter and Mead

  • 16 Jun 2009 /  Beer, Home Brew
    • 12 lb Wildflower Honey
    • 1oz Saaz @60
    • 1oz elderberries @60
    • 1oz elderberries@5
    • WLP720 sweet mead
  • 24 Apr 2009 /  car, radar

    Arrived home to my new radar detector sitting on the door step. I hadn’t really planned on starting my “stealth install” project until the weekend but i couldn’t just let it sit there. So I opened her up and proceeded to identify my solder points for extending the buttons and the led display. The buttons were super easy to test and validate. My unit (Escort 8500) only has 3 buttons, so 6 wires in total. The led display will prove to be the biggest pain. I have 6 solder points i need to release =/ Not entirely sure at this point how to easily get them released. so in all i have 12 wires to run out of the unit to the remote install location. I happen to find a ton of old phone cord that has 6 wires, so it looks like i’ll be running 2 of them.

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  • 30 Mar 2009 /  Beer, Home Brew, all grain

    So i decided to give all grain a try. Picked up 2 kegs from craigslist (one bud, one coors). After cutting the tops with an angle grinder with stainless steel discs i decided to see if they fit on my hurricane burner (a bit late i know). Well the bud keg fit great, but the inside diameter of the coors was 1/8″ too small and would be unstable. Lucky for me another local homebrewer was looking to go all grain as well and the coors keg fit on his burner. So i am still looking for 1 more keg before i do my 1st all grain batch.

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  • 30 Mar 2009 /  Home Brew

    Hopped on craigslist today and found an add for some homebrew equipment. 2 carboys and a primary  bucket were my main interests as well as some extra bottles for $75. There was a good bit more than I originally thought (ad didn’t list everything), so I think i got a good deal.

    • 2 5 gal glass carboys
    • 1 7.5 gal primary bucket
    • 2 carboy brushes
    • 36 wine bottles
    • 94 beer bottles
    • 3 drawer plastic cabnet (had most of the bottles in it)
    • air lock
    • beer bottle capper
    • wine bottle corker
    • 25′ airline tubing (0.o)
    • 1 melted and 1 broken racking cane
    • 2 5′ sections of tubing
    • 100 corks
    • hydrometer
    • floating thermomoter
    • funnel

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  • 30 Mar 2009 /  SQL, Work

    I needed to query my results to a text file. Using xp_cmdshell i was able to accomplish it very quickly.

    EXEC master..xp_cmdshell’bcp “SELECT *  FROM yourdatabase.dbo.yourtable” queryout “c:\test.sql” -c -T -x’

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  • 24 Feb 2009 /  Beer, Home Brew

    10.5 lbs Pilsner

    2lbs light candi sugar

    2oz Saaz

    .5oz Haller

    WLP500

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  • 24 Feb 2009 /  Beer, Home Brew

    3lbs Pale LME

    3lbs Wheat LME

    1lb Honey Malt

    1/2lb flaked oats

    1oz Saaz @60min

    1 tbsp Irish Moss @ 45min

    1 tbsp Elderberries @45 min

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  • 24 Feb 2009 /  Beer, Home Brew

    10.5 lb Wheat LME

    4oz Melanodin

    9oz Caramel 40L

    1oz Chocolate

    8oz Munich

    1oz Hall Hersbrucker @ 60min

    1/2oz Hall Hersbrucker @ 15min

    WLP380 Hefeweizen IV Ale Yeast

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  • 24 Feb 2009 /  Beer, Home Brew

    5lbs Pale LME

    5lbs Amber LME

    1lb Carapils Malt (steep)

    1lb 40L Crystal Malt (steep)

    1/4lb Chocolate (steep)

    1oz Bullion @60 min

    1/2 oz Goldlings @30 min

    1oz Goldlings @ 1min

    WLP028 Edinburgh Scottish Ale Yeast

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