As some people here know, I am a truck driver. Sometimes I have extended runs to other states. This week I went to Kansas and the trip took me about a week. When I got home I had one heck of a surprise. My loving wife had gone and put together a new fish tank for me. I love my fish tanks. I don't know if anyone else feels the same about them but I feel so calm and peaceful when I am looking at my tanks. I can get lost watching the fish. Anyway, I have always wanted a bigger tank. Right now I have 2 ten gallon and 1 twenty gallon tanks. The main problem is that my 20 housed a pleco that is over 12 inches long. He was only about 2 inches when I bought him. He really needed more space and I was starting to feel bad for him. Well, loving wife to the rescue. I am so happy and so is he. We are going to combine 2 tanks into this one and then put a couple of the other fish in one of the 10 gallon tanks that sits on my bar. Here are a couple of pics of the tanks. The smaller one on the left is the 20. We will be moving it and puting the 50 in it's place. The 20 will become my wifes new tank for her schooling fish. She loves to see them move around together. Now they will have more room too.
Well next sunday i will be 40. Another year has come and gone and about the only real things that have changed are that my beer is getting better, one more of my kids moved out, and we lost a couple of pets that we were very close to. Other than that, I felt old last year and I still feel old this year lol. I know what you will say "40 isn't old, you just wait". Well I kind of helped out the years by being a very stupid kid. Everytime my grandfather turned around I was doing something that made him say, "your going to regret that when you get older". Ya, I should have listened lol. Oh well, as I like to say, I am forced to grow old but I refuse to grow up. I still enjoy playing with all the toys in the store that make noise and move. Although I usually get hurt doing it, my wife catches me and I get smacked lol. Well this year my wife says she is going to get me 2 recipes for my birthday, I can't wait. I am going to brew my latest recipe again. My NLO turned out to be a big hit with family and friends but I am still waiting on a member of the forum to get his and give me an impartial opinion. I look forward to any adjustments he has to suggest. Personally I don't think there is much but there is always room for improvement.
I hate to blow my own horn but in this case, WOOHOO!! I am going to brew it again to make sure but I think I found a winner in this one. The color is a beautiful redish brown. Good carbination, which is new for me. And very little bitterness. I really wanted to get a beer that had great flavor but less bitterness, I did it. It has a great hop aroma but with very minimal bitter to it, perfect. I am really exited about this one. My better half says I should send it in to a compitition but I wouldn't know what catagory or anything else, but I would like to have it judged just to get the results. Any way I think I need to go get another one just to make sure lol.
Ah yes, another Sunday with a big screen tv and the NFL Sunday ticket. Got some homebrew in the fridge and chops to go on the grill for supper. AHHHH, lol. After working 6 days this week (almost 70 hours) it is time for some relaxation. So far 2 of the 3 teams I want to lose have and I am watching my favorite team to hate do their best to lose with penalties. I don't want to offend anyone here because we are all friends I would hope, but I grew up a die hard Broncos fan. Anyone who is a true Broncos fan has 2 actual favorite teams, Denver and whoever is playing against the Raiders. Most know that there is no love lost between the teams and us fans follow through with it. Oh well, I am going to finish watching the half and then pop the first top on my latest brew. GO JETS!! lol
I really hate spammers, they just waste your time. If I was looking to buy there product I would look for them. I really don't think I am in the market for "wow gold" or "ball valve plumbing" or even "thistle weed milk". It really makes me wonder if these people find enough people who really don't need their products but buy them anyway. I know websites are not free and it does take some effort and time to spam that much. Even if there was a service out there to do it, you would think it would be too costly. I wish I had nothing better to do with my time than harrass people with a bunch of useless items that are not even worth half of what they are charging for them. Oh well, I guess that is the way the world is heading and personally I think it is a bunch of crap. I logged in today and saw all the comments and was really looking forward to some good input and all I got was a bunch of advertising.
Well crap, sorry I waisted your time on my rambling.
Well, I waited a week and took my sample today. The FG turned out 1.014 after 7 days. I love the flavor and the color is exactly what I was looking for. I am going to bottle this one so the antisipation is going to get me some more, lol. The hops in this are just at the right level that I was looking for. I like to taste the other ingredients as well and I have noticed that a lot of homebrewers seem to think there is a competition to see how hoppy they can get it. I don't mind a big hoppy beer once in a while but for just sitting around and enjoying I like the less hoppy. Anyway, here is a picture of the sample I took just to give you an idea.
Prost
John
Well I think I may have done a booboo. Usually I only have 2 X 1 liter bottles of ice in with my primary to keep the temps just under 70. We have had a little bit of a warm streak to I went ahead and put all 4 in. The bubbles stopped and it is only day 4. I am not sure what the temp is right now as my thermometer has a dead battery. I am really hoping that once the temp rises a little that it will come back to life. I really doubt that it could have finished in just 4 days so I am not even going to take a sample yet. I will be taking a sample on this saturday (day 7) just to see where it stands. I am planning on letting it go for 14 days in the primary and then bottling it. I guess I will just have to wait and see what the beer has to say about that.
