Our Hobbies (Non-Computer Related)
Notice: This page is a first draft and will be improving as time allows, so check back again later to see what has changed
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Triple "C" Brew |
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Move over Hair of The Dog Make Room for Ass of The Cat!! |
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Craig’s Crazy Cat Juice |
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Custom Labels for Our Home Brews |
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We have been brewing home brew for over a year now. Now don't start thinking we are alcoholics or something! If we do drink you can bet it won't be some crappy American main stream beer, such as Coors or one of the other crappy bottled water makers sorry attempts at beer. Micro brews are good fill gap beers that are slowly taking away customers from American National beer makers. WOW people wake up.... If you want water with no flavor then stick with WATER, hence the saying that is the rocky mountain water that makes Coors taste soooooo good. I think they are talking about the water that is run off from some feedlot in Colorado, not fresh spring water.
We have made 8 batches of brew so far and enjoy sharing our brew rather than keeping it all for ourselves. We have made multiple winter (BIG) beers as well as a honey brown, raspberry wheat, boysenberry wheat and quite a few variations of them all. I will add more details to the pictures as time allows, so check back later for more..... :-)
The grain in its bag put in the warm water and slowly brought up to a boil and then removed. The green stuff you see above is HOPS!!! Stinky to those that have never been around them, but to those that brew the are like catnip!!! :)
Here you see the boiling water, which is no longer known as boiling water. It is now called Wort.
Raspberry extract used to give the beer the flavor. Added after pitching the yeast.
Wort chiller in the sink being prepared for submersion in the boiling wort. Used to quick bring down temperature of boiling wort to less than 80 F so the yeast can be tossed in.
Tossing the yeast...... The part that causes the beer to ferment. The second picture is me shaking the wort. The only time you are allowed to abuse the wort. :)
The final stage. Covering up the drain valve to protect if from any contaminates. You will notice on top of the lid is the air lock, with allow CO2 out and during fermentation, but keeps any contaminates out of the now fermenting wort. Now 1 week in the primary fermentor followed by transfer to glass carboy.
More pictures to follow when we bottle our brew!
Theresa has started learning a bit more about sewing. She has been learning each time we visit my folks. The following are some of the shirts that she made. Ok so she didn't make the shirts, but she took plain sweat shirts and made them beautiful. What you see is sew into the shirts and then cut our to give a fuzzy look that is really unique.
The pattern you see is a scrap that is sew into the inside of the shirt and then cut out. You can make it as detailed as you want to improve the look.
All the white that you see is the shirt is the shirt, not the pattern, yet the pattern is whole and not cut up. It is hard to give a good description that does the shirt justice.
As a person that works in the computer industry (Intel Corporation), I got a strange idea one day when messing with an old dead hard drive at work...... Hmmm metal platters that are precision engineered to tight tolerances. I got the crazy idea to make a wind chime one day and from that day forward starting slowly collecting old antique hard drives. I started talking to coworkers and enlisted their help in procuring even more drives.
I guess this idea of mine show just how sick I am (geekitus). No cure for the disorder other than to embrace the odd ideas and act on some of them. Here is a list of some of the drives that I have dug up:
- MANY full height 5 1/4 10-14 platter disk
- MANY 3 1/2 semi-modern (5 year old) drives with 1-5 platters
- 1 15" 8418 Sperry Univac Disk Pack. Contained 4 platters plus a couple of thinner platters. Special thanks to Pat Castle for this find!
- Multiple laptop disk drives.
The only thing in the wind chime that isn't from hard disk is the 60 pound mono fishing line.
Below are some of the pictures of the wind chime. The quality is not too good though...
