First stout

I got a little busy and put off bottling my first stout for a couple weeks.

All in all I'm glad I did because I've always wanted to try a little bit longer of a primary but I get impatient. What better to try it out on than a dark style like this?

Anyhow, this is a style some people call a breakfast stout because I put some oats in it as well as some coffee. We tasted a sample at bottling and it's pretty good right now...I'm very curious to see where we end up after bottle conditioning.

With this batch it's official... I have a LOT of beer on deck! I figure I'm set until summer when I plan on doing a batch of Rye IPA.

And this is good as well because we have 5-6 months until next climbing season so it's time to shift attention to the work up for our annual July climb of Beirstadt. There has not been enough snow this year to do get as much snow shoe action as we planned and it's not icy enough for micro spikes either. The plan was to hike all winter but I can see now that each winter might offer different conditions. Next year we will have an alternate plan to go with the snow shoe and spikes....mud hiking isn't exactly appealing so by then I'll have a better option.

Anyhow... Beer! A pile of 220z bombers.

 

Mediocrity

Mediocrity.... I hate you.

I've been thinking it over and I realize that you have co-opted your partner in crime comfort zone and together you have been conspiring to kill me.

Be advised I have come out of the ether now and have designs to destroy you.

I've become an inhospitable host....I see what you have done. I'm coming for you!

A call to tea

Yesterday we enjoyed this tea.

It came to my mind that the contemplation of tea is so much different than coffee. I really have no idea why I have not taken note of this before. I think it's possible that I lumped contemplation together and had not made the distinction. Forces of nature and fate being what they are and the forces of coffee and tea being what they are this day I started making that distinction.

I'm not prepared to add much detail just now, only that maybe tea is a more introspective type of contemplation and coffee is more of an outward expression.

In any event this is all to say if you have not had a nice cup of tea in a while....have one. ;)