Middlin' good...
Oct. 11th, 2014 07:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpDidn't get as much done as I had hoped, but more than I expected.
Doesn't that sound like a riddle!
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The highlight of the day consisted of stopping by the store that sells brewing supplies this afternoon, to take advantage of their free beer-making presentation. This, the result of having scored most, if not all, of the elements required to ferment some wort and bottle some beer at a garage sale for next to nothing. Once my immediate crazy rush is done, I think I might try out the equipment with a batch of something easy to make (although to listen to the guy at the store, pretty much all of it is easy).
As a happy aside, it turns out this place also fills paintball CO2 tanks, which is what I've been using, together with a special fitting, in a SodaStream that, similarly, was picked up at a yard sale. Although "official" SodaStream tanks capable of carbonating 60 liters of water run about $20 if you trade in your empty (or $40+ for a new unit), I'm happily getting refills for something like $3 (reusing my 12-oz capacity tank, naturally), which makes the SodaStream unit very cost-effective. Until learning that I can get a refill from a place about a mile away, refilling involved something of a drive, with a concomitant investment in time.
Cheers...
Doesn't that sound like a riddle!
The highlight of the day consisted of stopping by the store that sells brewing supplies this afternoon, to take advantage of their free beer-making presentation. This, the result of having scored most, if not all, of the elements required to ferment some wort and bottle some beer at a garage sale for next to nothing. Once my immediate crazy rush is done, I think I might try out the equipment with a batch of something easy to make (although to listen to the guy at the store, pretty much all of it is easy).
As a happy aside, it turns out this place also fills paintball CO2 tanks, which is what I've been using, together with a special fitting, in a SodaStream that, similarly, was picked up at a yard sale. Although "official" SodaStream tanks capable of carbonating 60 liters of water run about $20 if you trade in your empty (or $40+ for a new unit), I'm happily getting refills for something like $3 (reusing my 12-oz capacity tank, naturally), which makes the SodaStream unit very cost-effective. Until learning that I can get a refill from a place about a mile away, refilling involved something of a drive, with a concomitant investment in time.
Cheers...
