snakeplissken

I'm gonna go buy a 50 pound sack of base malt, most likely one called Simpson's Golden Promise. It's suitable for all scottish ales and any beer with need for a mellow, approachable base characteristic with good fullness and round characteristics. So to me that means a 70/80 shilling and an IPA. The scotch will be all base with a few percent of mild chocolate...
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So I have a theory about Matthew McConaughey. Basically it's like this; He is Jimmy Dean. You know, the sausage guy and country singer. But how? Simply put, time travel. Sometime in the near future Mr. McConaughey will accidentally craft a time travel device while trying to engineer a high capacity nitrous-clearing electronic bong from a snorkel, a blow dryer, and an old Wet Vac....
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Just got back from the hop farm where I purchased some rhisomes to get my own hop garden going. I picked up a Northern Brewer, Cascade, and a Santiam plant. The Santiam is the oddest as it's a rare hybrid of Tettenanger bred right here in Corvallis. I had to drive down a cow trail in my little vdub to get down to the farm....
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I went to the doctor voluntarily for the first time in about thirteen years today. Long story short, I got some steroids for my honker. It may clear up my sinuses. If not, I plan to buy a cordless drill and a copy of Time Life How-to: Trepanning. I also discussed my fitness plan with her a bit and we seemed to agree that what...
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Das Twinkiebrau is in the bottle, lurking dangerously. I brewed another beer this morning, a sweet stout. I used a ton of chocolate malt and it made the house delicious. I was away getting a growler and when I came back I thought it smelled just like hot cocoa. Mmm.

I made pasta e fagioli last night. So tasty. Class starts again on Monday. Shit,...
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I pulled a 100% on my third midterm in process engineering. That really helped pull the grade up, as did a low A on my big-ass term paper. Pretty happy with that. Still shitting tacks waiting on the Physics grades. Shitpoo.

Bottled about 6.265 gallons of nut brown today in a record two hours. Go me. Next I bottle the infamous Twinkibrau. Probably during the...
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Finals are done and over. Thank shit. The only one I have any worry about is Physics, because his tests are such major fuckers and the final was no exception. When class averages are in the 50's on tests, you should really rethink them. But no, he just curves the shit out of it. Most people I've talked to are happy just to pass.

Next...
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Looking at classes for next term. I have a little freedom to choose some bac-core classes this time around. My required class will be some further engineering stuff. So far for my freebies I'm considering taking Wine in Western Culture and maybe some music type stuff. Possibly some horticulture. The wine class would be fun more than anything, but some horticulture could be valuable for...
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It's dead week. Scampering to get shit done all week and I actually am now. Final paper for Writing, check. Big-ass research paper for Engineering, done. Everything else, done enough.

Now I shall hit the gym and blast it to the max or something. Whatever the kids are saying, hell I don't know.

I'm thinking about chili for dinner. I'm such a soup whore, I...
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Midterm test friday in food engineering. yeeha. Should be fairly easy as we were given examples of the problems yesterday. If you can do the examples, you can do the problems. I've been getting over 100% my last two homeworks, so it'll be cake. Physics, on the other hand, can fuck right off.

I had a hot pastrami on onion bread with pickles, pepperoncini, tomatoes,...
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