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Amy 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).

Was playing around with the New Belgium website & found this fun little photo montage maker

I was recently contacted by a publisher from Lambert Academic Publishing who was interested in publishing my dissertation as a 'print on demand' monograph. I decided not to take them up on their kind offer & have instead published the full text right here on my website free of charge.

To read it online please click here: http://jason.defay.org/?q=node/108  Or to download a PDF version you can click here http://defay.org/jason/academic/J-DeFay_Dissertation.pdf