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Boiling Wort
Not a whole hell of a lot going on. I have been playing with the wiki a lot. I’ve enabled some fun extensions and have been importing data from other wikis to use as a base for some of my extension development testing. I’ve also procured a couple of domains and have entered into a hosting arrangement to host some of the things I’ve been working on so that they aren’t running on my home server. A big thanks to those that have assisted, and please feel free to continue to play around with the BoswellWiki.
I brewed a batch of beer over the weekend. I was making a Sierra Nevada Stout clone, that I call Polemonium Stout. It was the first batch in several months, and it showed. My temps got high to begin with, dropped too low when I was trying to compensate which I couldn’t correct for as I hadn’t thought far enough ahead (nor remembered from previous similar situations) to have boiling water sitting on my extra (homebrew) stove. By the end of the brew day, I drank a few beers with Courtney, who came over to watch, and I think the beer will be a success. It might not have the exact malt profile I was shooting for (as the temps got too low, it may be more fermentable than designed). It is bubbling away now and smells great. Brewing beer is all about ditching the stress and making beer. Papazian couldn’t have coined a better phrase when he said, “Relax, Don’t Worry, Have a Homebrew.”