Beer, cider, friends, fun... and the GRE.

[glasseye]

This weekend was rather productive. I:

- Went to the farmer's market with ursule.
- Started a batch of hard cider made from apple cider bought at said market (pure juice, no preservatives!)
- Cleaned up yeast blow-out from the aforementioned hard cider.
- Finally bottled the pumpkin ale that I started in November. 8.1%, and darn tasty.
- Hung out with ursule, tejolote, and ryunohi during a general craft night at our place.
- Consumed beer, scotch, and pizza with the aforementioned people.
- Hacked together a holder for engraving coin dies.
- Did a bunch of GRE practice questions.
- Went for a nice walk through the forested area of Ravenna Park with ursule.
- Played some video games (okay, so this wasn't exactly productive).

Comments

[aelfgyfu.livejournal.com]

Well, I already have one of those. :-P

[sablebadger.livejournal.com]

Glass is easier to sanitize than plastic or wood. Wood has some benefits if you can get a decent clean barrel, in that wood has some natural antiseptic properties. But it can also impart off flavors especially the american grown oaks. English oaks impart much less flavor to drinks fermenting in them, but the silly english cut most of their trees down, and the oak they used in period to store and ferment is not really available for construction of barrels.

If you want a nice barrel with a wax/parafin lining to get the look, and the cleanliness you can check the J something Townsend catalog that I am sure you know about. the recreation catalog mostly focussed on colonial, but with some period stuff.

badger

[aelfgyfu.livejournal.com]

Jas Townsend - my friends! ;-) I have bought many radom little fiddly items from them. I keep eyeing their barrels as water barrels for events too, but so $! :-P