Friday, September 30, 2005

Cleveland close to a wildcard slot

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This page on the Cleveland Plain Dealer lays out the possibilities for the tribe catching a ride to the playoffs this year.  Here are the details:

  • If the Indians sweep the White Sox, they win the wild card

  • The earliest the Indians can clinch is on Saturday, provided they win Friday and Saturday and the Yankees take the first two from Boston

  • If the Indians drop the first two games of the series with Chicago and win on Sunday, the best they can hope for is a one-game playoff with the Yankees (at Jacobs Field) or Red Sox (at Fenway) on Monday

  • Also...

  • If Indians go 2-1 and Boston goes 2-1: Boston and New York play Monday in a playoff for the AL East with the loser playing the Indians for the wild card on Tuesday

  • If Indians go 2-1 and Boston goes 1-2: Then Indians win wild card

  • If Indians goes 2-1 and Boston goes 0-3: The Indians win wild card

  • If Indians go 1-2 and Boston goes 2-1: Then Red Sox win wild card

  • If Indians and Boston go 1-2: Then Indians, Red Sox play one-game playoff at Fenway

  • If Indians go 0-3 and Boston wins at least one: Then Red Sox win wild card

  • If both Indians and Red Sox go 0-3: Then Indians, Red Sox play one-game playoff at Fenway

Much as I like the Red Sox and hate the Yankees, I will have to be rooting for the team of evil to further my own team’s chances of getting that last playoff berth.


Posted by Buckethead on 09/30/05 at 04:55 PM
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Bend over, if you have the strength, and kiss your ass goodbye

Holy Shit!

Or at least kiss me goodbye.

It seems that the bird flu is killing nearly everyone that gets it now, according to an aggregate of links at boingboing. Oh, shit. Remember last winter when I was sick for nearly six months with the mystery respiratory illness, gravely ill for three of them? And the winter before that when I had the six-month cold? And the winter before that and the one before that when I got bronchitis and pneumonia?

Gentlemen, I can outwit zombies, commies, and roving hordes of postnuclear mutants, but I have a really terrible, terrible feeling that when the bird flu comes knocking, my number’s up. Nice knowin’ ya.

[Wik]I mean, seriously. This Guardian piece quotes experts estimating an 8-million death floor and a likely 200 million death worst case if this thing figures out how to transmit human-to-human. Which they think it might be doing.

[Alsø wik] The comment thingy wouldn’t accept a hyperlink, so I’ll put it here.  Because I can. 

As an added bonus, it looks as if that strain of Asian Birdy Flu everyone is worried about is resistant to the primary antiviral drug, tamiflu.  Everyone is stockpiling that just in case, but it looks like that won’t help for jack.

A strain of the H5N1 bird flu virus that may unleash the next global flu pandemic is showing resistance to Tamiflu, the antiviral drug that countries around the world are now stockpiling to fend off the looming threat.


Posted by Johno on 09/30/05 at 04:31 PM
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You have been chosen

Perfidy

Attend!  The Ministry has made crucial and important changes to the blogroll!  After a long and painful probationary period involving extensive background checks, lifestyle polygraphs and a couple anal probes, Ted of Rocket Jones has been summarily promoted to the exalted status of “Crony.” This act of generosity and selflessness on the part of the Ministry unfortunately has led to other, unintended acts of generosity and selflessness. 

The #12 slot of the Ministry’s top five list was now open.  After extensive deliberations, the Ministry select committee for blog roll changes (promotions and executions sub-committee) determined that Rand Sindberg’s Transterrestrial Musings should be elevated to that honorable position despite having a name reminiscent of a Futurama character.  His meaty space technology goodness (and offers of sexual favors to committee members) proved to be decisive in the committee’s choice.

This however, left yet another open slot, this time in the Ministry Legion of Merit.  Rather than reward the obsequious pleadings of the millions of blogs who have petitioned us for recognition, the Committee has deigned to recognize a very new blog.  Albion’s Seedling is a group blog founded in the last month by Jim Bennett, author of the notorious geo-political tome The Anglosphere Challenge.

Thank you for your Cooperation
This Message from the Ministry of Minor Perfidy


Posted by Ministry on 09/30/05 at 12:27 PM
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Thursday, September 29, 2005

Carnival of Tomorrow

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A plethora, a cornicopia, a myriad of links about the wonderful things waiting for us to catch up to them in the future, all in one easy to digest post here at the carnival of tomorrow.

My favorites:

A quick summary of nanotech basics.

Apollo 18!

and...

Rand Sindberg describes NASA’s new Lunar plan as Apollo 2.0


Posted by Buckethead on 09/29/05 at 03:59 PM
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Screw federalism, can my computer vote?

That Buck Rogers Stuff

In an article for Wired News, Bruce Schneier writes of the challenges the Supreme Court will face in the future as a result of our swiftly advancing technology.

Recent advances in technology have already had profound privacy implications, and there’s every reason to believe that this trend will continue into the foreseeable future. Roberts is 50 years old. If confirmed, he could be chief justice for the next 30 years. That’s a lot of future.

Here are some examples. Advances in genetic mapping continue, and someday it will be easy, cheap and detailed—and will be able to be performed without the subject’s knowledge. What privacy protections do people have for their genetic map, given that they leave copies of their genome in every dead skin cell that they leave behind? What protections do people have against government actions based on this data? Against private actions?

Should a customer’s genetics be considered when granting a mortgage, or determining its interest rate?

Surveillance is another area where technological advances will raise new constitutional questions. I’ve written about wholesale surveillance, the ability of the government to collect data on everyone and then search that data looking for certain people. We’re already seeing this kind of surveillance by automatic license plate readers and aerial photographs.

In the future, this will become more personal. New technologies will be able to peer through walls, under clothing, beneath skin, perhaps even into the activity of the brain. Sen. Joseph Biden (D-Delaware) rhetorically asked Roberts: “Can microscopic tags be implanted in a person’s body to track his every movement.... Can brain scans be used to determine whether a person is inclined toward criminal or violent behavior?” What should be the limits on what the police can do without a warrant?

These issues will be coming to the court in less than a decade.  Even more outlandish issues will follow quickly on their heels.  In the not to distant future, computers will attain the raw computational power of the human brain.  If we create a machine intelligence is it a citizen, and subject to the same rights as you and I, or is it merely subject to copyright law?  Neuroscientists and programmers are working to reverse engineer the brain.  If you scan your brain, is it you, or are you you?  What rights does a simulated animal have - we are working on that right now.  If you unplug a simulation of a cat, can the SPCA come after you?

Beyond the world of artificial intelligence, steroid use will seem on a level with steam engines compared to advanced genetic engineering.  If you reengineer your nervous system and musculature for greater strength and speed and hti 200 home runs, do you get an asterisk next to your name in the record books?

And what happens when advanced materials technology arrives?  Even short of actual, full-on replicating assembler nanotechnology, it is not hard to imagine that home fabricators could become as common as home laser printers.  Will the free hardware movement be distributing open source specifications for material goods?  What happens when all property becomes intellectual property, and you can have any physical good with merely the software specifications and a pile of dirt?  If the cost of materials becomes functionally zero - as it already is for text, software and media - intellectual property disputes will determine the nature of our entire economy.

Further, specifications for weapons and explosives distributed over the internet could allow miscreants to “print” guns, bombs or whatever right from their home fabricator.

Computer and information technology shows no sign in slowing down, in fact even the rate of increase is increasing.  With computer power doubling in just over a year, every year, how long before ubiquitous monitoring, in real time, is possible?  Can you outwit a million supercomputers with sophisticated and self-learning pattern matching software?  Probably not.

These are only a few of the issues that will be before us in the next two decades.  The pace of change is accelerating, and the world of ten years from now will be more strange than the world of a hundred years ago.  It’s going to be a wild ride.


Posted by Buckethead on 09/29/05 at 03:33 PM
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Objectively pro-Islamofascist

War

This came out Monday, so excuse my tardiness.  A lot of people have linked to it, but if I can’t be redundant here, where can I be?  Christopher Hitchens is without doubt my favorite liberal.  He is also the only well known liberal that I have ever personally met.  He is much shorter in person.  He had this to say about the recent demonstration in Washington:

To be against war and militarism, in the tradition of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, is one thing. But to have a record of consistent support for war and militarism, from the Red Army in Eastern Europe to the Serbian ethnic cleansers and the Taliban, is quite another. It is really a disgrace that the liberal press refers to such enemies of liberalism as “antiwar” when in reality they are straight-out pro-war, but on the other side. Was there a single placard saying, “No to Jihad”? Of course not. Or a single placard saying, “Yes to Kurdish self-determination” or “We support Afghan women’s struggle”? Don’t make me laugh. And this in a week when Afghans went back to the polls, and when Iraqis were preparing to do so, under a hail of fire from those who blow up mosques and U.N. buildings, behead aid workers and journalists, proclaim fatwahs against the wrong kind of Muslim, and utter hysterical diatribes against Jews and Hindus.

Some of the leading figures in this “movement,” such as George Galloway and Michael Moore, are obnoxious enough to come right out and say that they support the Baathist-jihadist alliance. Others prefer to declare their sympathy in more surreptitious fashion. The easy way to tell what’s going on is this: Just listen until they start to criticize such gangsters even a little, and then wait a few seconds before the speaker says that, bad as these people are, they were invented or created by the United States. That bad, huh? (You might think that such an accusation—these thugs were cloned by the American empire for God’s sake—would lead to instant condemnation. But if you thought that, gentle reader, you would be wrong.)

This is not to say that there can’t be meaningful criticisms of the war, or of the way it is being conducted.  But that is not what these people are about.  I saw a car Saturday - likely on his way down to the big fashion meet - with an upside down flag hanging from the antenna.  I am a peaceful man, but I wanted to run that asshole off the road, and then beat him senseless with a baseball bat.  Far to many of these sub-morons simply do not understand, well, anything.  About what America is, or what the terrorists are, or about what liberty might actually mean, or what many have sacrificed to preserve and extend it.  And how they expect to convince others with their asinine slogans and offensive theatrics is completely beyond my comprehension.


Posted by Buckethead on 09/29/05 at 02:58 PM
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Don’t be evil

That Buck Rogers Stuff

These folks think that Google is not living up to its corporate motto: “Don’t be evil.” Here, they explain the evils of gmail.  I don’t think they’ll find a large audience given the near reverence most people feel for Google.  I can see that some of what they say is cause for at the very least theoretical concern.  But the utility of gmail is simply to amazing for me to want to give it up.

Just one aspect of google’s mail interface was enough to sell me - the way it aranges emails by conversation.  The fact that I don’t have to delete emails, and the ease with which I can sort them is enough to make me a satisfied user.  And the spam filtering is the best I’ve ever seen.  All my email accounts now direct their output at on gmail account, where I can archive and search all of my email.  Unless we start hearing stories of abuse, I think I’ll just be reckless and keep using Big Brother Google’s email, map, search and news features.

On another computer security issue, this bit on samizdata is fascinating.  The comments have a lot of info about computer security that is worth reading.

Widescale use of computers is really still in its infancy.  Privacy, security and fraud issues are only going to get more complex, dangerous, and opaque as time goes on. 


Posted by Buckethead on 09/29/05 at 02:43 PM
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Heads up

Lead Pipe Cruelty

Be aware that there is a new, and fairly clever identity theft scam being perpetrated on the unwary.  The security officer here at work (I’m a contractor for a tendril of the Department of Justice anemone) sent everyone this email:

In this scam, the scammer calls the residence or office number of the victim and identifies themselves as an officer or employee of the local court of jurisdiction.  The scammer announces to the victim, that he/she has failed to report for jury duty, and that a bench warrant was issued against them for their arrest.  The victim’s reaction is one of shock and surprise which places them at an immediate disadvantage, and much more susceptible to the scam.  The victim will rightly deny knowledge of any such claim; that no jury duty notification was ever received.

The scammer shifts into high gear, reassuring the victim of the possibility this is all “just a misunderstanding” or “some sort of clerical error” that can be straightened out on the phone.  All they need to do is “verify” their information with a few simple questions.  Any reluctance on the victim’s part and the scammer will threaten that the failure to provide the information will result in an immediate execution of the arrest warrant.  The scammer obtains names, social security numbers, dates of birth, and will solicit credit card or bank account numbers claiming these will be used by their credit bureau to “verify” the victim’s identity.  Family members who receive these calls are especially vulnerable to coercion.  Threats against the victim’s career, should he/she be arrested and now have a criminal record, are frightening and persuasive.

Employees and their adult family members must be made aware of this threat to their personal information and identities.  Legitimate court employees will never call to solicit information, and would send any official notification by standard mail delivery.  Any person receiving such calls should record the scammer’s phone number (if Caller ID is available) and immediately report the contact to law enforcement officials.

I believe that most of our readership is fairly savvy, techwise, and not exactly prone to being duped by this sort of thing.  Nevertheless, forewarned is forearmed.


Posted by Buckethead on 09/29/05 at 01:06 PM
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Wednesday, September 28, 2005

The Delay indictment is utterly wrong-headed

Darwin Award Contender
Bloomberg, along with everyone else, informs us that "House Majority Leader DeLay Indicted for Conspiracy". Elsewhere, "Republican leadership in disarray after DeLay indictment"
"He's the one person they can't replace," Steny Hoyer, a senior Democrat in the House, said earlier this year of Mr DeLay.
I'm forced to point out that this is a perfect example of everything that's wrong in Washington, and by extension, with our entire political system. Tom Delay was indicted first, foremost, and solely for leading the charge to make the US Congress' delegation from Texas match the political makeup in the state. In essence, he played a crucial role in gerrymandering the gerrymandering of several earlier generations of gerrymandering. And when you're egging Dean Wormer's house, well, you're going to break a few eggs.

Tom Delay being subjected to prosecution in this case is wrong. You see, what Tom Delay should instead have been indicted for the inanity inherent in his assertion that the budget's just about as tight as it needs to be, and there's no fat left to cut. And he should be convicted for believing it, as I'm sure he does. Moron.

Steny Hoyer, quoted in the story up top is right - the Republicans are going to have one fuck of a time replacing "The Hammer". I don't know that there is an inexhaustible supply of folks in the Republican delegation with the hubris and stupidity to say and believe the things that Delay has.

If Hoyer's correct, he'll be quite hard to replace, and that's an altogether good thing.

Posted by Patton on 09/28/05 at 05:31 PM
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More jokes that are worth a chuckle regardless of one’s biases

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Or so I thought:
It is late in the OSU-Michigan game on an overcast day. Michigan has the ball on the OSU 3, with 2 seconds left, and down 14-10. There is time for one more play.

Lloyd Carr calls timeout. As the team is coming to the sideline, Lloyd looks to the heavens and says, "God - I've been a good man. A churchgoing man. I've tried to do what's right and I've never asked you for anything. But, this is a big game and if I could get a little guidance, I would be forever grateful".

The clouds part, sun shines on Lloyd and he hears a voice bellow "I Right 39 Pitch Trap".

Lloyd can't believe it! God himself gave him the play! It'll work for sure. The team comes to the sideline and Lloyd excitedly gives them the play. The timeout ends and the teams come back on the field. Lloyd can barely contain his excitement - he's going to win.

Play resumes and the ball is snapped. The Michigan QB pitches to the back. For a split second, there's a hole - which is quickly filled by AJ Hawk, who tackles the Michigan back short of the goal line.

Time expires and Ohio State players storm the field to celebrate. Lloyd is in shock - he can't believe the play didn't work. Lloyd looks to the heavens and cries, "God - why did you call THAT play?"

God looks down, shrugs, turns to his right and says, "Woody - why did we call that play?"

Posted by Patton on 09/28/05 at 05:28 PM
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Well, no shit!

That Buck Rogers Stuff

It may be a lame, pollyannaesque effort on my part to see some good in this; but there is a part of me that actually feels hopeful after reading this:

The space shuttle and International Space Station — nearly the whole of the U.S. manned space program for the past three decades — were mistakes, NASA chief Michael Griffin said Tuesday.

Well, duh.  Space advocates have been saying that for decades.  Three of them, in fact.

Some other choice bits:

Griffin said NASA lost its way in the 1970s, when the agency ended the Apollo moon missions in favor of developing the shuttle and space station, which can only orbit Earth.

“It is now commonly accepted that was not the right path,” Griffin said.

Only now is the nation’s space program getting back on track, Griffin said. He announced last week that NASA aims to send astronauts back to the moon in 2018 in a spacecraft that would look like the Apollo capsule.

Joe Rothenberg, head of NASA’s manned space programs from 1995 to 2001, defended the programs for providing lessons about how to operate in space. But he conceded that “in hindsight, there may have been other ways.”

So, NASA admits that we’re hitting the big red reset button and going back to somewhere in the neighborhood of 1975.  It’s a do-over.  Never mind the fourteen deaths and $150 billion we wasted on the shuttle, and the $100 billion wasted on a nearly useless ISS.

There were several major problems with NASA development programs over the last three misguided decades.  First, doctrinaire approaches to design problems.  Pick a solution and make it fit, regardless of other considerations.  A procrustean space program.  Second, an unwillingness to use traditional design methodologies.  The design/test/build/repeat cycle is almost entirely absent from NASA programs, except for a few aeronautical research projects.  Build early and build often is how you figure out how to do things.  Repeatedly spending millions to billions on empty paper designs that are never built is job security for government drones.

Change these things, and even the decision to go with the Shuttle could have been redeemed.  The basic architecture of the Shuttle system is more or less sound.  Certainly not much less sound than other launch vehicles.  Large rockets do have a tendency to explode.  But where was the experimentation?  We never tested other configurations or cargo versions of the base shuttle stack.  We never lofted the fuel tanks into orbit to see if they could be used as habitats We never added hardware to the system, incrementally modifying the orbiter - let alone experimented with new orbiters that could be used with variants of the shuttle stack.  We never tinkered.  Nothing was done.  We simply kept using the same configuration until it blew up.  Then we kept using it until it blew up again.  Then we started using it again.  What’s that definition of mental illness?  Doing the same thing over and and over but expecting different results?

The tragedy of the death of the Apollo program is that those clever rocket scientists who got us to the moon had thousands of clever ideas for what to do with the hardware we’d developed.  Skylab was just one of them, and that got into orbit more by inertia than will.  But we scrapped all that, and went with the shuttle.  There have been many ideas for what could be done with shuttle hardware, but none have been pursued.  And now we are on the verge of scrapping this system without even having a follow on just like we did in the late seventies.

Given that the people at NASA are actually rocket scientists, this behavior is hard to explain.


Posted by Buckethead on 09/28/05 at 01:37 PM
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False, But True! (And Cheap!)

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Donald Rumsfeld is giving the president his daily briefing. He concludes by saying: “Yesterday, 3 Brazilian soldiers were killed.”
“OH NO!” the President exclaims. “That’s terrible!”
His staff sits stunned at this display of emotion, nervously watching as the President sits, head in hands.
Finally, the President looks up and asks, “How many is a brazillion?”

[Wik] This joke was told to me by a two-time Bush-voting Republican, which makes it all right. I’m no anti-Dentite!

[Alsø wik] C’mon. That’s funny! Brazillion!


Posted by Johno on 09/28/05 at 01:34 PM
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I Bang My Head Because It Feels So Good When I Stop

Music Wonkery

The first thing I remember I was fourteen, and I was lying around my room doing homework and listening to the radio when this noise came on, this crazy sprinting noise, and I stopped what I was doing and listened transfixed from the first note to the last. I felt like I’d been socked in the head and the world had unfolded before me into something bigger, badder and louder than I had ever thought it could be.

That was the first time I heard Guns ‘n’ Roses’ “Welcome to the Jungle.” Ha… fooled you there, crossed you up, didn’t I? This review is about Maiden and here I am yammering away about some hard rock glam hair band from LA. Well, you can cram it if you have a problem, because it relates. And not only because I detect a not-so-subtle musical thread running between G&R and the Maiden, mainly having to do with the quality of their grooves and the fact that they’re a five-piece with a yowly lead singer. No, sir.

Maiden reminds me of Guns ‘n’ Roses because listening to the new Iron Maiden double-live gonzo extravaganza Death on the Road gives me chills all over like I was fourteen again. It takes me back to that age when metal was a thrilling new discovery to this Ohio teenager:  Zeppelin, Ministry, Metallica, Megadeth, Judas Priest, and Maiden. Listening to Death on the Road I feel like I did that time we were listening to Somewhere In Time and then went and got Shawn’s old Chevette with no passenger seats up to 85 MPH out on the back roads of Portage County. I feel like Columbus sighting land after ten weeks at sea. I feel like Neil Armstrong stepping onto Luna Firma. I feel like I just invented wet t-shirt night.


Posted by Johno on 09/28/05 at 11:28 AM
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Tuesday, September 27, 2005

“Mr. Kodak, Mr. Bowie, and Mr. Tickler, your table is ready”

Music Wonkery

What do you want to be doing when you’re 91? Me, my aims are modest. Although it would be thrilling indeed if I were one of those spry nonagenarians who still get around fine on their own, live full lives, and trade witty and cantakerous banter with three or four generations of descendents, I will settle for merely drawing breath and retaining a few teeth, some mental acuity, and the power to fuck at a time and place of my own choosing. That’s not so much to ask, is it?

What does Les Paul do at 91? Well, the inventor of the electric guitar still keeps a weekly gig at the jazz club Iridium in Manhattan and somehow finds the wherewithal to participate in a new album. I say “participate” because the album isn’t so much a Les Paul recording as it is a tribute to the man, sort of a roast in reverse, a féte in which the Gods of Rock pay homage to the god that made them.

The album in question, Les Paul & Friends, American Made/World Played is several things: an enjoyable romp by a past master of the guitar; a guest-packed tribute to that master; and an ad brochure for the Gibson Les Paul guitar. After all “American Made, World Played” is a registered trademark of the Gibson guitar company, and making it the title of a Les Paul record is simultaneously nifty and really, really cheesy. Kind of like the record itself, but more on that in a moment.


Posted by Johno on 09/27/05 at 02:01 PM
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Monday, September 26, 2005

Johno’s Fun With Beer, vol. 2

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For my third brew I went for a semi-clone of the Smuttynose brewery’s Old Brown Dog Ale. I think mine will be a little more bitter than theirs, but probably pretty close. The guy I usually buy ingredients from helped start that brewery, after all. Goodwyfe Johno really likes malty American Brown Ales, so this one is for her.

Third brew: Naumkeag Brown Ale

Ingredients:
6 lbs Munton & Fison Amber dry malt extract
Specialty grains:
1/2 lb Crystal malt 60L
1/2 lb Crystal malt 120L
1/2 lb Chocolate malt
Hops:
Bittering: 1 oz Brewer’s Gold @7.8%
Finishing: 1 oz Willamette @ 4.2%

1 pkg dry Lallemand (?) Doric yeast

Steeped the specialty grains in about 1 gallon filtered tap water for 40 minutes at 160 degrees, give or take. Actual temperature fluctuated between 153 and 175, but I think I am ok as regards making sure high steeping temperatures don’t cause tannins to leach into my wort.

Rehydrated the DME in cold water, according to the instructions of the guy who sold it to me. What a sticky, lumpy pain in my ass. From here on out, I’m using liquid wherever possible. The clear advantage of dry powdered extract, however, is a drastically reduced propensity on my part to nearly sever digits on sharp can lids.

Brought about 3 gallons of filtered tap water to a boil and added the steeping water from the grains. Added the Brewer’s Gold at the boil. The hot break took like forever.

Added half the Willamette at 30 minutes and the rest at 45 minutes, for a 60-minute total boil. Cooled the wort in the bathtub with six seven-pound bags of ice in cold water.
It took less than an hour to get down to below 80 degrees. Added the wort to the fermentor (holding back the trub and hop sludge with a strainer) and cooled distilled water to make up 5 gallons and bring the wort to 69 degrees. Poured back and forth to aerate.

Tasted the wort: nice hop flavor that I bet will fade a bit, and jeeeez it was sweet. I’m not sure about this yeast so I can’t say how the final will shape up; I expect the crystal to donate a lot of unfermentable sugars and the final beer to end up pretty malty. Given the 8 AAUs of bittering hops and the few more alpha acids donated by the first addition of Willamette, this could end up more to my wife’s taste than to mine. Which is fine. I made it for her. (Awwwww!)

Rehydrated yeast in 1 1/2 cups distilled water at 90 degrees for 15 minutes. Pitched, stirred, and sealed fermentor.

OG: 1.048, more or less. Checked three times and got .050, .048 and .046ish, so hey… split the dif.

Checked fermentor at the 24 hour mark and things were bubbling away fine.


Posted by Johno on 09/26/05 at 02:00 PM
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