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Jason's blog
Thomas' first day of flight school
Sun, 2011-07-17 10:06 — Jason
On a recent Southwest flight from Sacramento to San Diego, the captain invited Thomas to come check out the cockpit. It was so cool when we were 30,000 feet over LA & Thomas got his first flight lesson. He looks pretty confident to me!
Home brew setup
Sun, 2011-07-10 10:28 — JasonHere's a picture of my backyard home brewing setup at the start of a beautiful brew day in July
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I've got a March pump behind the 20g Blichmann kettle that I use to move the hot liquids around. On the day I took this picture, I was getting ready to brew a 10g Belgian Tripple based on the original made at the Westmalle Trappist monastery. This is my first attempt at a Belgian style beer and I adapted the recipe from Sean Paxton's blog.
Bottling Day
Sat, 2010-09-18 10:29 — JasonToday was bottling day for two batches of ale I recently cooked up. Here's a picture of my backyard bottling setup
I use a light weight folding plastic table from CostCo to hold everything. I use one ice chest to hold sterilizer & soak my bottles and caps in there & pull them out and line them up on the right as I fill. I stick a sterile cap on each bottle so they keep things from falling into the bottles and I don't have to search for them when it's time to cap.
Home brewin
Sat, 2010-07-10 18:47 — JasonAmy got me a home brew kit for Xmas & I've been busy making beer ever since. I've made about 10 batches of beer, starting with a kit so I could follow a simple couple of steps to learn how to make beer.
Since my first kit batch, an Imperial Ale by LD Carlson, I've taken a class at my local brew shop and made an Amber Ale, Red Wine from a kit, a Fat Tire clone brew (twice), hard cider, a dry hopped American Ale, and Apricot Ale with a wheat beer base.
Today I'm brewing my first IPA (India Pale Ale) and used a program called BeerSmith to come up with my own recipie (based on a local IPA I recently enjoyed).
The hard cider and apricot ale were both disasters, but everything else has turned out pretty well. I've got high hopes for my IPA (recipie here).
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