Throughout the various blogs on Xanga, Live journal, Geocities, and that period I paid for a dot com site, I’ve done these Best/Worst End of Year reviews. 2020 was pretty awful so I felt like changing it up this year. We don’t need any reminders of how the last 12 months went. We had a … Continue reading 2020’s 20 “Okay-est” Moments (AKA my End of Year List)
About 4 years ago my wife and I made a kegerator out of a $20 Craigslist dorm fridge. You can see the process here. The janky little item served me well, I slung some of my favorite homebrews ever on it over the years and hosted quite a few parties using it. Unfortunately 2 problems … Continue reading Building a Coffin-Top Keezer (AKA Kegerator 2.0)
Last week HBO launched their newest streaming service HBOMax. However it might be one of the most confusing streaming launches to date. Several key deals were not in place (and some remain in the dark at the time of this post) such as Comcast/Xfinity, Roku and Amazon which meant if you use your cable box … Continue reading HBOMax- A Guide to a VERY Confusing Streaming Service Launch
The Marvel Cinematic Universe (more lovingly called The MCU) is a series of connected Marvel superhero movies and unless you’ve avoided the theater in the last decade you’re probably well familiar with the silver screen adventures of Iron Man, Captain America, Thor and the gang. Inspired by the Star Wars Machete Order of watching where … Continue reading MCU Chronological Order Re-Watch Reviews, Musings and Judgement
2019 is just days away from ending not just the year but also the decade. As I always like to do, I decided it would be fun to sort of put together a end-of-year list of the movies, TV shows and other things that I loved and hated about the year. While I did miss … Continue reading Best and Worst of 2019 (according to Brad)
2019 in a word was a roller coaster for my homebrewing. I capped off beating 2018’s medal count by 1, got some of my biggest wins but on the same hand I saw a ton of errors and drain pours and my favorite local homebrew shop closed. As we come to the end of the … Continue reading 2019 Homebrew Retrospect & a look at 10 years of homebrewing
Another Great American Beer Festival (GABF) has wrapped and therefore it’s time once again for my GABF HANGOVER post where I talk about some of my favorite discoveries during the festival. Let’s start with the festival as a whole: This was my 9th year to go (4th as a volunteer) and every year the … Continue reading GABF Hangover 2019: Remarks About the Festival and the Beers That Wow’ed Me
A while back when I bought my Robobrew, I was amused by a warning on the box reading “Warning: drinking beer may cause your clothes to shrink”. I laughed then but in a year I’ve found that having time to do a pre-work jog or ab workout with a toddler around just hasn’t been attainable … Continue reading Brewing Beyond Beer pt 1
2018 is coming to a close and for the last 7 or so years on my prior blogs I’d do a Year-in-Review post about things I liked and hated about the year. Now with the dot com site dead, I can make these be a better mix of personal things and the pop culture geekery … Continue reading 2018: Best and Worst List
I’ve been brewing probably for about 8 years or so. I started with a Mr. Beer Kit which is as simple as it gets, then for most of that time I did partial mash with malt extract syrups which is a very comfortable and great way to brew if you’re busy and don’t have a … Continue reading Going “All-In”: A Year of Entering as Many Homebrew Competitions as Possible.
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