This week rollcall

some grade A snark for these dark times

monday:  working from home between bouts of homeschooling
tuesday: working from home between bouts of homeschooling
wednesday: working from home between bouts of homeschooling
thursday: working from home between bouts of homeschooling
friday: working from home between bouts of homeschooling
saturday: scramble to find something to entertain kids that isn't homeschooling
sunday: scramble to find something to entertain kids that isn't homeschooling

no beer brewing?

Arod wrote:
no beer brewing?

not really :(  got one brew day in the first weekend of the lock-down: the imperial stout that's about to be transferred into a whiskey barrel.  but a brew day = abandoning the kids to the missus for most of the day, and she's already doing a ton of childcare, so it's a hard sell.  that being said, just yesterday she was dissatisfied with the current beer selection in the house and asked me if i had everything needed to make an IPA, so fingers crossed maybe there's another brew on the horizon…


related:

I know who Winston Chang is!

The great thing about having a 12 year old is you can put them to working helping you brew the beer, and they don't help drink the results. We actually got her to do some nice homeschool work last week, but today she's back to goofing off. Ungraded distance learning starts April 14. I'm glad my kid is a middle schooler and not in high school.

We bottled the "mild" raspberry sour I was asking about a while back. Thinking it will be a nice summer refresher. Also had a bottle of the quad I bottled maybe a month ago…after nine days it was super boozy but after a month it's starting to taste nice.

sweetcell wrote:

Arod wrote:
no beer brewing?

related:

Dubbed Generation C - the first generation of humans who do not know of life without coronavirus.

Space wrote:
We bottled the "mild" raspberry sour I was asking about a while back. Thinking it will be a nice summer refresher. Also had a bottle of the quad I bottled maybe a month ago…after nine days it was super boozy but after a month it's starting to taste nice.

I never commented when you were talking about that sour, but you when straight to graduate level stuff with the Sour's and Quads
Haven't even considered that stuff.  I'm still unable to make a drinkable DIPA (although I've been know to drink my mistakes, I just make sure never to share those batches)

and getting your 12 yr old to help (with out $$) …I can barely get mine to do their homework and get the laundry in the basket
Although there are very few steps I feel I need help with, I could never imaging getting them to sanitize the bottles or clean out the fermenter

Well your daughter is an entrepreneur/ businesswoman

hutch wrote:
Well your daughter is an entrepreneur/ businesswoman

part of the problem…$10 for a chore, they are like "meh, make it $20 and I'll consider it"

Arod wrote:

hutch wrote:
Well your daughter is an entrepreneur/ businesswoman

part of the problem…$10 for a chore, they are like "meh, make it $20 and I'll consider it"

If you’d just teach them the space Benefit/value math, they could turn that $10 into $12.63 of enjoyment.

Arod wrote:

Space wrote:
We bottled the "mild" raspberry sour I was asking about a while back. Thinking it will be a nice summer refresher. Also had a bottle of the quad I bottled maybe a month ago…after nine days it was super boozy but after a month it's starting to taste nice.

I never commented when you were talking about that sour, but you when straight to graduate level stuff with the Sour's and Quads
Haven't even considered that stuff.  I'm still unable to make a drinkable DIPA (although I've been know to drink my mistakes, I just make sure never to share those batches)

and getting your 12 yr old to help (with out $$) …I can barely get mine to do their homework and get the laundry in the basket
Although there are very few steps I feel I need help with, I could never imaging getting them to sanitize the bottles or clean out the fermenter

Ah thanks, don't give me too much credit though. Both were just extract kits bought of or Northern Brewer. The quad is supposed to be a copy of Westy 12, so I figured if it's half as good as the real thing it's probably on par with most American quads. And the fruited sour…just a kettled slightly soured witbier. Definitely isn't going to complete with Joose from the Answer.

I figure no way am I going to come anywhere near the Other Half beers in my fridge so I haven't done a hoppy beer in a long time.

And to be honest, I exaggerate my 12 year old's help. She did help me once, when her mom wasn't home and she saw I really, realty needed help with something and I probably bribed her with something. :)

Arod wrote:

hutch wrote:
Well your daughter is an entrepreneur/ businesswoman

part of the problem…$10 for a chore, they are like "meh, make it $20 and I'll consider it"

Exactly!  My wife has offered to pay my daughter good amounts of money just to do her basic house chores, and she still refuses. Why should she? She knows her mom will take her on shopping sprees every other weekend regardless if she does anything or not.

I remember when I was a kid, I was shoveling cow manure for pay far less than the minimum wage. All while being forced to listen to Joe Diffie. And I didn't have the option to refuse. Sigh.

Space wrote:
Also had a bottle of the quad I bottled maybe a month ago…after nine days it was super boozy but after a month it's starting to taste nice.

give the quad another 3-4 months in the bottle, should taste amazing by then.

Sure was fun deleting my PTO request for going to Costa Rica this week
Least I can quarantine in the Airstream

Appreciative wrote:
Sure was fun deleting my PTO request for going to Costa Rica this week
Least I can quarantine in the Airstream

Ha, just deleted my PTO for next week too.

replacements/alvvays/J Roddy - today 5 years ago, Echostage
alvvays/frankie rose, today 2 years ago, 930
pedro the lion, john vanderslice, today 1 year ago, RNRH

I got nothing this week

https://www.obama.org/
5PM

head down to the white house to protest. saturday and sunday was alot of fun.

next shows?  ;D