Brews you can use

Looking at my first post/TODO list, I seem to have procrastinated more than I thought possible. Nothing there is done, and I’m particularly peeved at myself for not getting anything into bottles for the Upper Mississippi Mash-Out competition, and entries are due tomorrow. I have some good stuff brewed, but it’s all on tap. I meant to spring for a semi-fancy bottle filler, and almost pulled the trigger today, but the desire to get home after a frustrating day at work (there are other kinds?) won out.

I’m considering doing a half-assed bottling job (just filling from the tap and capping on the resulting foam), or maybe just not entering. Not entering would have exactly one benefit — if I signed up to judge at the competition, I could judge the styles I like to brew and enter. The half-assed bottling job has a chance of working, but since the judging isn’t for a couple weeks, oxidation may be a problem. I’m not seeing a clear choice here (other than to get to sleep and save the damned hand-wringing for the next contest).

I think I’m becoming one of the sort who hibernates for the winter. I never used to be this bad. It’s not just the beer stuff: I’ve also abandoned a depressing number of short/quick projects around the house. None of them should take more than 20 minutes and/or a trip to the hardware store, but for some reason, that seems an insurmountable barrier when the kids are “asleep”, and I’m huddled around a warm TV, Laptop, and baby monitor waiting for the next fuss….

This entry was posted on Friday, January 6th, 2006 at 12:21 am and is filed under Brewing.