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Looks like we have a little bit of a broken pipe problem.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2010/05/catastrophic_le.html

http://www.mwra.com/01news/2010/boilwaterorder1.htm

Just a reminder about how fragile our infrastructure really is. Also a reason to have homebrewing equipment hanging around. An 8-gallon brewpot and enough star san for 40 gallons of sanitizing solution (for soaking rinsed plates, etc) are handy things to have on hand in case of an emergency....

So, I thought I'd share. We got some presents from a friend of ours from http://www.underthenile.com , and have been really happy with their stuff. We just bought some additional footie pjs, since we seemed to have a dearth and Mattie: 1) likes to have her feet covered and 2) dislikes being wrapped in anything.

I know that some on my flist have been looking for some decent but not hideously expensive clothing and I think we've found some....

Anyway, we particularly liked the hippos. Though in real life, they did not appear like hippos so much as like some rendering of the potomac river horse.

Snow piled high
a monarch's pyre
     melting quickly away

So, I took out the ale, brewed on the 17th or so.
For reminders, it was supposed to be 1.061/1.015

High volume of LME, very few steeping grains. I added Yeast nutrient and aerated with an aquarium pump for about 40 minutes. I fermented at 64 degrees from the 17th through the 3rd and then crashed the yeast from the 4th through the 6th. It finished at 1.023, which was a bit high (attenuation of 49%ish). Thoughts? It's not as if it finished obscenely high, so it might have come down to 1.020 if I'd left it in a bit longer or fermented a bit hotter, but I'm not sure. I tend to miss high a lot and now I'm looking for ways I can bring the final gravities down, generally.

8 lb Bavarian Pilsner
.5 lb American Munich
.25 lb German CaraFoam

1.0 ea Fermentis S-33 SafBrew S-33

June 18.

Lowell: much better than meriden.

Mmm...mortensen's....

Yay Tim Horton-wendy's hybrids!

maple-bacon ice cream. I love Michael Symon.

I am writing a paper on BCY and the symbolism within that makes it look an awful lot like a cosmogonic myth in the Eliadean tradition.

For a bit of Irony, I am including Charles Long's attack on the humanities as an inherently imperialistic endeavor (the line of reasoning is that the Enlightenment forces one to make anyone you are studying an "empirical other", whose otherness plays into the imperialist project). Ironic because the Enlightenment, if you listen to Eliade/Long is supposed to replace the sorts of archaic myths that Henry Durand seemed anxious to re-create in 1881 as he entered the liminal space between senior year and leaving Yale (the song was written for the senior glee club concert).

Song in its entirety:

(sung to die wacht am rhein--that song the german soldiers in Casablanca are singing when rick gets sam to start playing la marseillaise)

Bright College Years with pleasures rife / The shortest gladdest years of life / How swiftly are ye gliding by / Oh why doth time so quickly fly / The seasons come, the seasons go / The earth is green or white with snow / But time and change shall not avail / To break the friendships formed at Yale

We all must leave this college home / About the storm-y world to roam / But though the mighty o-cean’s tide / Should us from dear old Yale di-vide, / As round the oak the i-vy twines / The cling-ing tend-rils of its vines / So are our hearts close bound to Yale / By ties of love that ne-ver fail

In after years should troubles rise / To cloud the blue of sunny skies / How bright will seem through mem'ry's haze / Those happy golden bygone days / So let us strive that ever we / May let these words our watch-cry be / Where'er upon life's seas we sail / 'For God! For Country! And For Yale!'


If anyone reading this has seen the second verse before, let me know in comments. I found it among a bunch of manuscript entries in a contest to replace BCY, and had never heard it before (to my knowledge)