The wort has been been chilled and transferred to the primary fermenter. The yeast has been pitched. Initial gravity 1.070. I made it up to nearly 6 gallons because of expected losses (cherries) at racking.
There was a messy boil-over at the start of the boil, but otherwise the process went OK.
Winter is really here and I am brewing another cherry stout. This will be similar to the some I did in January, but a little stronger. Continue reading
As mia_mcdavid commented, I did a lot of work on one of my Linux systems last night. As I wrote last week, I had rebuilt one of my Linux systems with Ubuntu, a derivative of the Debian distribution.
mdlbear at the time suggested that I try native Debian rather than Ubuntu. After a couple frustrating evenings trying to get Ubuntu system exactly the way I wanted I decided to take his advice. He was right.
We have been working on our family Christmas letter. In it mia_mcdavid mentions that we are almost done raising our children. It reminded me of this old joke.
The beginning of today’s weather forecast on the radio at 6:50 AM. Specifically, the high is expected to be between -5oF (-21oC) and 0oF (-18oC). Temperature at the time: -9oF (-23oC). But I am coping
I have installed Xubuntu on Antrim, one of my P III systems (I tend to use trailing edge hardware when it comes out of my own budget). The problems I had earlier this evening were due to bad CD’s. I burnt a fresh CD from my ISO download, after throttling back the CD burner to a slower speed. This one worked and I got a clean install. I am posting from it here and now.
Lots of configuration still ahead. I will work on that tomorrow between tasks from my day job.
From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 