Take a tour of Natsmile Ales!

These pics are not in order and are a long time in coming since I'm drinking the batch you're seeing in these pictures six weeks later, but it's my all-grain brewery up and running. These are by far the best beers I have made in the year and a half that I've been brewing. I've brewed a Black and Blueberry Wheat since then that turned out pretty well and a Bell's Best Brown clone as well as something I call 'Little Brother Brown Ale" (A Northern English Ale) from the second runnings of the Bell's clone that registers at 4.2%. It's got brown sugar as a key ingredient along with DME, so we'll see how that works.

I've been up all night; I might sleep all day (The Dunes)

October 3, 2007 - Wednesday

If you never have; stay up all night at least once Current mood: cynical Category: Jobs, Work, Careers I vividly remember the last time I stayed up all night. I was at the tail-end of grad school and didn't have anything better to do so I thought it would be fun to see the sun come up. I called a friend and drank my way through two-thirds of a case of low alcohol beer while shooting the shit (ah, free nights and weekends) and just watched the sky turn colors. It was fun. When you have to work from dusk 'til dawn, though, it loses some of the quaintness. A few days ago I spent the night with my boss watching over 1000 bicyclists spending the night at our park while working their way from one end of NC to the other (hell of a vacation, eh?) This time around it was much less spectacular. I tried to sleep in my desk chair at one point and failed miserably; I grew strangly itchy all over my body, and I was expected to be uber-cheery at 6 am when the bikers wanted breakfast. It was not fun. Do I recommend staying up all night and watching the sky go from midnight to rose to bright as day? Yes; at least once a decade. It's a beautiful and rare thing that should be treated with as much reverence and intoxication as plausible and not bastardized by work requirements. If you haven't, do; If you haven't in a while, plan to, and to those of you recent revelers, cheers! Currently listening : Language. Sex. Violence. Other? By Stereophonics Release date: 29 March, 2005 9:02 PM - 0 Comments