I heard this the other night listening to a Brew Strong podcast. JZ and Chris White will have a new book this year, title I think “Everything You Need to Know about Yeast”.
This was taken at John Tipton’s house a couple years ago, and the pic has been on my fridge out in the garage getting wet and warped. Here’s a scan before it gets too messed up. From left to right is Vern Wolfe’s belly (Vern owned a small vineyard in California, is BJCP certified and is Alabama’s best meadmaker), Todd Swearingen (my sensei, but the student has become the masta), Adam Arnett (badass Marine Major.. don’t mess with him), John Doe (Brant doesn’t want the ABC Board to know that he is associated with law breakers, and since they are monitoring this website, I won’t provide his last name… It is definitely not Warren), me, and Scott Oberman (featured in the L.A. Times for his blatant Alabama law breaking).
It must be tough to be away from family. But I bet you have some really good friends over there. I hope you guys enjoy as much as you can while staying safe at the same time.
One of the things I do now is take pictures of barns. I’m not very good at photography or anything. I just steal my daughters digital Kodak sometimes when I drive around Lee County sight seeing, which sure beats the hell out of being chained to a desk cranking out billable hours. These are from a trip to Little Texas, an area south of Auburn on the way to Tuskegee, near the Tuskegee National Forest.
Here’s some pics I just stumbled onto while searching a backup drive. These are just a few pics taken of “the dungeon” (which is what my kids used to call the basement I used for homebrewing). I guess I took these pics just before we moved. They don’t show the whole brewery, so there must be more pics buried somewhere.
I continue to very slowly move stuff over from my old blog at resipsaloquitur.auburnbrewclub.org. I just don’t spend as much time behind the computer nowadays. I don’t think I’ll be entering any more homebrew competitions, but I didn’t want to lose this info in the shuffle cuz it took me a long time to put it together over a few years time. I’m sure I missed a few and might update them if I ever spend the time looking through my files.
Two of these were my favorite: (i) a Cranberry Kolsch at the 2005 Music City Brewoff. This was my first ever award, and Priscilla and I drove straight home from Nashville to show the kids, then the next morning to my grandparents’ house in Athens, Ala. to show them.. I was so happy to have gotten a ribbon at all, and a blue one at that! Thanks to Todd Swearingen and John Tipton for their advice on that one, and (ii) a Best of Show American Barleywine at the Blue Ridge Brew Off in North Carolina in 2006. I remember Tom Meier on the phone with someone from BRBO at an RCB Big Brew announcing the results to us… I just couldn’t believe him when he said it.. I kept thinking the phone line was dead and he was messing with us.. it was surreal when it dawned on me he wasn’t kidding.. I jumped in the air.
Brewing through the BJCP and entering everything in multiple comps was alot of work (frustrating at times), alot of fun, and very educational. If you’re a homebrewer, you should give it a try!
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res ipsa loquitur (rayz ip-sah loh-quit-her)
n. Latin for “the thing speaks for itself”
Listed below are beers I’ve brewed that have received at least a 30 in BJCP sanctioned competitions. I’ve made it a long term goal to get at least a 30 for every BJCP style, indicating that the beer was “Very Good (Generally within style parameters, some minor flaws).” This is also in pursuit of completing the Brewing Program for Mastering World Beer Styles. Of course, I always hope they score even better, with a score of 38-44 indicating the beer was “Excellent (Exemplifies style well, requires minor fine-tuning)” and a score of 45-50 indicating the beer was “Outstanding (World-class example of style).”
I hope to eventually post all the recipes of the beers that have done well.
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Seen in the Oct/Nov Great Lakes issue of the Brewing News… nice work, very poetic.. in a dark way. Discussing the early 80s:
American beer had bottomed out in a puddle of colorless swill, flamed out in pursuit of the lowest common consumer.
Here’s a pic of one of the Auburn Brew Club member’s refrigerator. Brandon Herrick is an AU grad student (of age for sure) and has his priorities in order. Notice the content of his fridge. There’s a decent supply of condiments, about a pint and a half of lemonade, a carboy of fermenting wort, and a keg of German Pilsner.
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I’m clearing off my 2 year old piece of junk Palm Treo getting ready to get my hands on a Droid (so many features, and I’m loving the freedom of the cloud and freedom from Microsoft).
Here’s some pics from late September (I think?) when fellow RCB’rs Todd and Tonya (together affectionately known as Todya) were here. These are at Kiesel Park’s dog park. I heard Kiesel Park was donated to the City of Auburn by someone who thought there’s already too much focus on sports in Auburn. So one of the rules at Kiesel is no sports. The dog park is cool and can get very active. If you’re making a special trip to Kiesel with your dog, always bring a gallon of water to dump in the dog bowls while you’re there. Makes it easier for everyone since the closest spigot is a couple hundred yards away.
Beware. There’s alot of chasing, slobbering, panting and humping that goes on at the Kiesel Dog Park.
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