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]

So what cider recipe / method are you using? Mom just finished pressing 4 gallons of gravenstine cider for me, which we are freezing until we have some other varieties ready to mix it with, but I am planning on producing a lot of hard cider and cyser fairly soon... I am going to do the cyser with the mead-making equiptment Hank bought, but I also want to experiment with more traditional cider. In fact, do you know someplace I can get a used barel for making cider in? I am sort of wanting to experiment with making things in barels and decanting later, since I also make things to decant into and that is the medieval way of doing it.

[mattyc9.livejournal.com]

Ever heard of a little thing called eye/hand coordination? Productive indeed!

[sablebadger.livejournal.com]

Hey, I've been meaning to ask you..

I know you're a broke ass college student, but you wanna buy some brewing stuff cheap? I think the chances of me getting back into it are pretty damn slim, and this stuff takes up a lot of space. And before you ask, no I don't have any idea how much.

badger

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Hey! Ursula and Nicole mentioned you guys might have an opening for a paladin/healer/fighty-person of some kind in the gaming group - how much beer would encourage you to consider me for the part? I'm friendly, clean, house-broken, and not half bad with dice... :P