Double Mountain IRA – Good. Real good. Hints of sour cherry. Nice head.
Arrggg…
Today. Today I’m going to work on my projects. Today.
I think I need to make a cork board list our something. Have quiet projects, and loud projects. This might help me figure out the next thing to work on during night hours. Of course, first I need to make room. That should be my priority tonight.
Tonight. One shelf goes up. I’m on this.
Work work work
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Alternate bottle press ideas
While number two from previously sounded pretty cool, I’m not sure if it’s feasible. If I move the silkscreen itself, the silk will be stretching throughout the process…
Ooh! The silk screen is on rails, with the squeegee static. The rails are driven by the rotation of the bottle. It doesn’t account for different bottle diameters though. Right. I’d need multiple gears or another way to physically link the bottle rotation with the screen. Do it on a swing arm, like a bike derailleur?
Tonight
Finish palette first’s teardown. Clean brew supply, including the soaking bottles. Really, I need to finish the bottles just to have enough room for cleaning the other brew supplies.
Then, as I probably won’t have a lot more undeclared time, I need to do my ink transfer test. I got my paint, and I’m definitely getting happy that it’s at a reasonable consistency, but the more I think about it, the more I think it won’t transfer from a nice rubber roller to a glass bottle. That doesn’t mean I have to give up of course.
It does mean I’ll have to completely reconsider the design. I’m thinking as backup options, one of two ideas.
1) Silkscreen with powered rails. Put the bottle in a carrier, hit start and it moves bottle before and squeegee above in sync.
2) Silkscreen with a flexible frame that wraps around the bottle and then rotates through the range, to push against the squeegee.
Not an unproductive weekend
Transferred beer into its second fermenter, though I suck at making a siphon, so I did it old school. Fingers crossed. Mostly broke down one of two palettes. Just took apart the Razer. This is some abysmal looking soldering. I can’t be sure if this is the problem, but it wouldn’t surprise me.
Beer 040915
Weihenstephaner Korbinian 7.4 – thick and syrupy, like an alcoholic mocha.
Black Market Berlinerweisse 3.8 – sour with some fruity undertones. Makes me want some sweet tarts.
Plumbing gives me sad
Someday, you know, like torture our whatever, when I build a house, I’m totally doing the plumbing myself. See, this morning, I went to take a nice got shower but the water never turned hot. The damnable filter was clogged again, and with too little flow, it does nothing. Having a network alert would be awesome. Having a better filter design would be awesome. Having a…
Well, really I’m just not a huge fan of the design. It’s an inline water heater. In the garage of a three story townhouse. A townhouse where the showers are in the third story. It’s basically a who’s who of how to be environmentally stupid in an environmentally conscious way. If I want a hot shower in the morning, I have to start the water going full blast for about two minutes. That’s two minutes of flushing all the cold water from the pipes. I live in Seattle. Here we have some of the most conscientious power generation on the country, as in hydroelectric. So my water heater is gas. How difficult would it be to do electric at the showers. Hell, the showers are back to back, you’d only need one for the third floor. Oh well.
Someday I’ll do my own plumbing. And pull my own cable. And let my own tile. Landscape my virgin yard.
I guess it’s just one of those things where I’m relatively sure I can do most anything if I try. The other day a co-worker was breeding about dickering a gentleman from 10,000 to 5,000 on laying tile on his kitchen and bathrooms. Mind you, my co-worker had bought his own tile. I know I’d just take a week off work, buy a tile saw and get to work. But that how I roll. I can’t think of anything legal that would pay me 5,000 for a week off work, let alone his tile guy’s three days of work.
Alpine Brewing and Green Flash
AB Irish Red 6.0 – totally a soda beer. Downright dangerous. I could drink a sixer and then be surprised I fell down.
AB Captain Stout 6.0 – rich and chocolatey
Tonight I have America’s Test Kitchen
Since I don’t like being out late and having to go to work the next day, I’m taking tomorrow off. (Assuming that today doesn’t continue to be stupidly busy.) That means tomorrow I can get working on projects all the day. Of course, the Wif doesn’t have class until later, so I assume my thoughts of useful time are grossly exaggerated. I should probably just get up at my normal time and try to work quietly.