Posted by admin on October 31, 2008 at 6:50 am
I’m a noob. I’ve been thinking about homebrewing for a few weeks, and when we got a phone call from my boyfriend’s brother in Iraq, he said that he wanted to give it a shot too. Since he’s coming home on leave in feb, I figured it’d be fun to have a couple different types to choose from, then he could pick what to brew.
So we went out and bought a full home-brew kit with everything, a 6 gallon glass jug, a 5 gallon one, a 5 g bucket with the spigot, all the other paraphernalia that goes with it, and the kit came with our choice of a mix. Since my boyfriend isn’t too fond of ambers, but loves hef, we got the wheat beer mix. Anyway, we sanitized everything carefully then boiled our water, added the 2 syrups, (one was the actual mix, the other was wheat syrup or something to replace the sugar).
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Posted by admin on October 6, 2008 at 12:38 pm
Since I’m starting a new job next week that pays quite a bit more, I have been thinking about finally starting to remodel my house, starting with the bathroom.
First off, this is a small place, 800sq/ft, 2 bedrooms. It wasn’t exactly supposed to be a full-time house, I suspect. Its in an area with a lot of vacation homes. The way I see it, its plenty large enough for me right now, and when I get married later and move away, I can have this vacation place on the lake (it was fairly inexpensive too).
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Posted by admin on August 19, 2008 at 1:03 am
My favorite under $15 wine recomendation:
Estanice Cabernet Sauvingnon
Average Price $12 in VA. Available in most wine retailers
Tasting Notes:
Every year its a consistantly good bottle of wine. I have never had a bad vintage. It will easilly age for 10 years, however is always drinkable now.
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