Monday, December 25, 2006

zymurgy...

    primary
  • orange blossom mead
  • scotch ale (roughly a Traquair House Ale clone, but much stronger)


  • secondary
  • Trip Sixes (somewhere between a strong tripel, and a quad)
  • Pliny The Red Headed Stepchild (approx IBU 480)
  • petit sirah/zinfandel (Estate Ltd Ed 2005)
  • grapefruit wine


  • drinking
  • saison
  • orphan imperial stout (B2)
  • apple wine
  • special bitter (B4)
  • vanilla stout (BIU)
  • honey porter (BIU)
  • gluten free cocoa beer
  • Wet Diaper (100% wet hopped IPA)
  • orphan beer #2 (B3): unintentionally overhopped super strong bitter (~9.5%);


  • planning
  • rosemary imperial stout half the grain bill is Weyermann Carafa II)
  • chocolate brownie imperial stout
  • cherry barleywine
  • super secret experimental belgian


  • retired
  • Ellen's IPA
  • winter wheat wine
Audre Lorde on guilt...

"I have no creative use for guilt, yours or my own. Guilt is only another way of avoiding informed action, of buying time out of the pressing ned to make clear choices, out of the approaching storm that can feed the earth as well as bend the trees.
“The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism”, p.130