Productive!

This weekend has been fun.

We installed new shelves in a couple of closets to expand the amount of horizontal space available for storing junk. Even with the recent great purge, we still have enough junk that some of it is sitting around in piles on the floor. Far better for it to be sitting in piles in closets. Along the way I discovered that one of our closets is a topological anomaly. It’s square in ZERO of its three dimensions. I had to do truly horrible things with a saw to get the shelves to sit square.

Made a batch of “Double IPA” beer. This one had an interesting twist: The instructions said to make a “hop tea” in a smaller boiling vessel rather than boiling the hops in with the wort. Something to do with the high sugars and poor extraction of the bittering acids. In any event, it’s supposed to be a spectacularly hoppy, strong, flavorful beer. I look forward to it, in about a month.

This means that Dwan Brewing Co is operating at a new record capacity: We have 14 gallons in process, all at once! Purchased a couple more cases of 12oz bottles in preparation for bottling day, which is estimated to require 140 bottles. Wheeee!

In other news, my muscles have finally stopped hurting from my recent attempt (Thursday) to keep up with my Navy Seals workout tape. I need to either do that workout more regularly, or not at all.