Just needs a bit of fine tuning.

Took my first trip around the block on Goldie. I still need to finish the exhaust, but it runs, shifts, brakes, and sounds pretty bitchin....

My neighbor Doug was a judge for the Belgian table at our homebrew contest, and commented that he really liked a Belgian Dark Strong Ale.  ...

I brewed up a Belgian dark strong ale last month, and I picked up a couple commercial versions for sampling. This is the first. Very tasty s...

A nice foamy Krausen after just a few hours.

I started my Berliner Weisse at lunch, by getting the 24 hour full wort souring underway. I also picked up some lactic acid to use later, if...

We enjoyed a little bbq fish skewers for dinner, complete with eggplant, cherry tomatoes and artichoke hearts. Then we settled in for a scre...

We walked up to burger hut for some yummy burgers this evening. The second walk I've been able to go on since wrecking my foot. Little b...

Nothing like 15# of Swiss to get the party started

I pulled a sample of my English Brown Toast off the primary fermenter after 7 days.  It is a bit on the light side of the Southern English ...

What happens when you have a random two day heat wave? You watch an entire season of 24 off the DVR, while polishing off a few beers and a b...

We have a cat that wanders through our back yard nearly every day, usually stopping for a cat nap on our back porch. He's a little skitt...

From left to right: wine, mead, cider > >

I bottled my Golden Bitter last night. My first real attempt at an English pale, pretty much landing perfectly in the middle of the best bit...

I harvested about 15 pounds of ornamental plums today at lunch. I soaked them for an hour in hot water in my mash ton, which softened them. ...

We just had a nice rolling earthquake in Chico. Well we felt it in Chico, no idea where it centered from. Sent from my iPhone

Susan got me a Bluemoon sample pack since I wanted some lighter summer beers to sip on, while I'm planted on the couch resting my wound....

Hard to tell, but the entire top of my foot is bruised. Really easy to see it up by my swollen toes.

While enjoying an evening walk, I tripped on a rock, then landed badly on my right foot, rolling it over. It immediately hurt, and was throb...

As the subject says, I got the taillights mounted, as well as the engine. I was waiting on a shipment from Thailand to arrive containing th...