Category Archives: Culinary

April 17, 2012

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At the grocery store, I see they had fresh day old Maine Mussels at the seafood counter. They were cheap at $4 for a 3-Pound bag so I picked some up. I don’t usually shop for specific recipes so I took them home and tried to find what I had and if it matched up [...]

March 11, 2012

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I’m wearing a short sleeve shirt today and riding around the mountains with the sun roof open. I even opened the back window so Goomba could get some fresh air for the first time in a car since October. We received a few inches of snow this week but it’s melting pretty fast and the [...]

March 6, 2012

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via the March 2012 issue of BeerAdvocate Magazine: Join the Discussion! Let’s be honest. Lately, there’s been a lot of negativity in the beer world. Much of this is due to the vocal minority distracting  communities like BeerAdvocate.com and others. With their strong and frequently exercised voices, their din can often discourage others and make [...]

February 15, 2012

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Keurig Vue System (via): Brew Stronger. Brew Bigger. Brew Hotter.™The revolutionary Keurig Vue™ Brewer works together with the new Vue™ packs to deliver the ultimate brewing experience. Fox News: Green Mountain will begin selling the new Keurig Vue brewers in “coming weeks” for $249.99–more than double the price of its basic Keurig machine. But the [...]

February 9, 2012

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When you are operating a website that enables communication between users, there are a lot of very important considerations to make such as how much you provide to the user. Can they post publicly or is this a private person 2 person service? What sort of features do you build in to enable more connective [...]

January 16, 2012

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On Sunday the 8th, I had dinner with my girlfriend and that was my plan for the last solid foods until today, the 16th. The 8 day fast became a 6 day fast which is disappointing but I was invited to an event where the food being served was simply unavoidable. I’ll write more about [...]

January 4, 2012

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In my last two posts (1,2), I explained my relationship with beer and the act of cellaring beer. These were fun posts to write but now it’s time to discuss some of the finer aspects of beer. There are sections that I feel are best explained by the experts and will help keep this post [...]

December 27, 2011

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In our last post, I dived into what inspired me to get into beer as an enthusiast and, in this post, we’re going to talk about clearing of beer and various styles. Enjoy! After a year of beer mania, I now have 100 beers aging upright in a closet at the rear of my cabin [...]

December 21, 2011

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There are men who spend their entire life enjoying a beer each day after work. The cold and crisp taste from the comfort of a bottle shape that has remain unchanged for decades is something to look forward to after a hard day of work. Most men have a beer in their fridge…somewhere and there’s [...]

November 14, 2011

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Espresso consumption is an aesthetic experience, like tasting a vintage wine or admiring a painting. It is a search for beauty and goodness and improving the quality of our life. As it offers such subjectively ineffable ‘goodness’, devoid of defects, the only adequate reaction to it is astonishment — astonishment that can give birth to [...]