I got cider in bottles. Right on. Just… not as well as I’d like. There was waste, inexact filling, pouring cider all over the carpet. So basically it was a Tuesday. A Tuesday for Saturday morning. Kinda lame.
So I look positive. How did what I did today go well, what failed. How am I moving forward.
I’m seeing a peristaltic pump for the cider, probably strapped to a range finder. No creating siphon, no random overflow.
I should set up my auto picture thang before next bottling day. I dropped my phone, luckily it was in the dump bucket.
I left something between a quart and a gallon in my primary fermenter. I know I’m not supposed to get it all, as the bottom is nasty, but that seemed excessively cautious. A sensor on the tube, probably looking at opacity levels, could tell me when I hit bottom. This thing will need to be experimented with.
Before next anything, I need to get some proper cleanser. I think I ran enough water to win a marathon. That was a pun.
So… Good effort. Everyday my goal is to improve.
Bottling Day
Next time u need some proper cleanser. It took way to much water for sanitizing stuff due to my going happy with the bleach. I have bottles in the washer getting heated. Water is going for the priming sugar. Gonna siphon to my carboy, add the priming sugar, give it a shake, let it style and go!
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I need to sanitize the caps. And this is why we talk through steps.
I think…
I have a giant spool of wire. SoonTM I’ll start modeling cryptozoological things in Blender. Take that, and grab the length of edges and use it to create a list of edges for making wire forms for doing paper-mache. First I need to learn to use Blender.
Another light idea
Take multiple rounds of glass.
On each one add a polarized film. Make rough spots on the film on one for the sun, the moon, and stars. Maybe clouds also.
Add tint to the different rounds so as to provide day and night, storms, whether, maybe even lighting.
Build an array of LEDs to change hue, but not so much brightness.
Rotate the differ rounds at different speeds.
Seems likea lot of work, but it might be dope looking. I always liked the polarized window turning in Blade Runner. I don’t believe Deckard is a replicant. I don’t believe Lola is a dude.
#teachthecontroversy
Process
Ordinal sketch:
Photoshopped (painting on a separate layer on top of the sketch, in previous days I’ve also used tracing paper and sharpies, it’s actually a pretty effective method.)
Traced in Illustrator. No longer the worst trace I’ve ever used. But Freehand 1.0 running on a Mac I found behind my old workplace is better.
Logo
Thinking of a fox with antlers in silhouette. Also corners and doors. It’s all corners and doors.
Beer 012115
At the Rhein Haus on Capitol Hill.
Ommegang – Abbey Ale
Like always, Ommegang is complex. It tastes like beer made of chocolate fondue blackberries. Good stuff. So good, it’s gonna be the Wif’s second beer.
Hillebrand – Original Singe Rauch
Not bad. Nothing that makes me take note, beyond it’s incredible not badness. Went well with my German style pizza.
Followed up at the Triple Door
Elysian – Backstage
Meh. It was a pale. I love their fish tank and ambience though. I also shouldn’t drink after a quart if I want accurate opinions. I give it two tetras.
Protected: Christopher
A lesson in archiving
I just took pictures of a shirt I printed something like a decade ago. My buddy wants to use it for his bands album out something, which I’m definitely down with. Unfortunately, if I have the vector image of it anywhere, it’s bit anywhere obvious. Thus, why I need to figure out an archiving system, and since I have no system I took pictures at zero dark thirty and will soon turn into vector. Lesson learned.
Not that I really tried
I amost got working on LightBeer, but I can’t find my soldering iron. I played games instead. On the other hand, my phone’s power button went to seed. I mangled apart my phone and abused it with the tip of a screw driver. Problem solved. Cider is still fermenting. Slowly, very slowly. Still at about 1.010, need to get down to 1.004 and hold.