After Thanksgiving clean-up, I picked up a new beer to brew. I picked up the Pliny the Elder – Double IPA kit from more beer on Friday. This aggressively hopped beer made the house smell like a brewery with its 90 minute boil and loads and loads of hops. Hops in the mash. Hops...
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As I finish the first batch of beer, which hasn’t killed anyone, I have two additional batches rolling. The second batch, Lawnmower Ale, was racked to secondary fermentation without any issues, though, the yeast was very active and Kraeusen blew out of the airlock. I have decided to switch to a two-piece airlock that...
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We swam out to the sea turtle cleaning station, and I still don’t know what exactly this means. The tide was starting to come in and it made the swim a little tougher. We swim to the buoy where the cleaning station is supposed to be. After a 30 minute swim, we see nothing....
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After the sunrise trip to the top of the Volcano, we headed back down the long winding road to sea-level. We passed a few groups of bicyclists, who watched the sunrise then use beach cruisers with great brakes to coast 10,000 ft down to sea-level. We had a Jeep. Upon reaching the coast, we...
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Hard to believe that it has been over a week to get the Maui visit up on the site. Needless to say, life since the trip has been crazy with work and lots of planing. Thursday we headed to Maui for a long weekend. After our trip to Iceland and London, we were stuck...
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