4
servings10
minutes20
minutes2 lbs Brussels sprouts
1-2 Tbsp butter
1/4 c honey
1-2 Tbsp Sriracha sauce
2-3 Tbsp olive oil
Salt and pepper
As I’m reading that Russia tripled their reported COVID death toll, I cannot help but recall an old rule of military intel analysis. If the report is a good thing (e.g. amount of grain produced this year), halve it. If the report is a bad thing (here, the number of people dead from a virus), double it. I never took the maxim literally, but rather thought of it as a reminder that ‘the bearer of bad news’ was not something you wanted to be within the Russian government. Thus numbers picked up from internal reports were apt to be CYA inaccurate.
Not sure if that rule was meant to apply to revised numbers (basically our fake numbers are off by a power of ten, so we’re going to adjust within the half/double rule to produce stats that are within the realm of possibility) or if not (reality was so readily apparent that the official numbers had to be revised close to reality).
We picked up a six-pack of Rübæus this evening and both love it. It smells like raspberries, it tastes like a nice cream ale blended well with a lot of raspberry flavor (reading that they use 3,000 lbs of raspberries in a batch … even without knowing the size of “a batch”, I think there are a LOT of raspberries per ounce of beer produced). So I’m working on synthesizing a clone recipe from a few clone recipes out there. This is sized for a 5 gallon batch
Grain Bill:
| Quantity | Grain | Color |
|---|---|---|
| 7 lbs | Marris Otter | 3°L |
| 1 lb | Honey Malt | 25°L |
| 1 lbs | Wheat | 2°L |
| 1 lbs | CaraMunich | 50°L |
Brew: Mash at 153°F for 60 minutes. 0.5 oz Magnum at 60 minutes. 1 lb whole raspberries at flame-out.
Yeast: WLP060 American Ale Yeast Blend
Secondary:
| Quantity | Ingredient | Addition | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 lbs | Whole raspberries (crushed?) | Secondary | 2 weeks |
Work in progress recipe — original source https://www.homebrewtalk.com/threads/stone-xocoveza-mocha-stout.492778/. This is sized for a 10 gallon batch
Grain Bill:
| Quantity | Grain | Color |
|---|---|---|
| 20 lbs | Pale 2-row | 2°L |
| 2 lb | Roasted Barley | 550°L |
| 2 lbs | Caramel | 60°L |
| 2 lbs | Chocolate | 350°L |
| 2 lbs | Munich Light | 10°L |
| 20 oz | Flaked Barley | |
| 1 lbs | Flaked Oats |
Brew: Mash at 151°F with 40.6 quarts of water for 60 minutes. Sparge 5.53 gal water at 168°F. 90 minute boil with the following additions:
2 oz Challenger hops @ 60 minutes(bittering)
2 lbs lactose @ 10 minutes
2 oz East Kent Golding @ 10 minutes (aroma)
Yeast: 2 pgk SafAle OS-05
Secondary:
| Quantity | Ingredient | Addition | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | Pasilla Chili Peppers | Secondary | 1-2 weeks |
| 2 tsp | Nutmeg | Secondary | 1-2 weeks |
| 5 | Cinnamon Sticks | Secondary | 1-2 weeks |
| 6 | Vanilla Beans (cut into 1″ pieces) | Secondary | 1-2 weeks |
| 8 oz | Cocoa Nibs | Secondary | 1-2 weeks |
| small amount | Coffee Beans | Secondary | 2-3 days |
Dough rolled out and spread with flaxseed oil.
sprinkled with tonka beans, tumeric, rose, red yeast rice, and finally flax meal
Not sure what next — the original part of the video looks like they roll it, but when they steamed it it looks like a sheet of dough on top (and they’re cutting a design into the sheet of dough on top).
Steamed until cooked.
The third Avenger arrived today — pumped it up and we’ll see if this one manages to hold air!
We tested various regulator pressure and hammer spring combinations to see where we get the best accuracy. Using 19.91 grain H&N Barracuda Green pellets. Looks like 1200 psi with the hammer spring two turns in wins.
1200 psi:
Hammer spring at 1 turn:
Left side of top right target has hammer spring at 2 turns.
Right side of top right target has hammer spring at 3 turns.
1400 psi:
Hammer spring at 2 turns.
Hammer spring at 3 turns
1800 psi:
Hammer spring at 1 turn
The second gun arrived and seems to be a refurbished / used gun. Scuffed up, worn o-rings. Pumped it up and lost a couple hundred psi overnight. Better, but not good. Sigh … hopefully our third attempt arrives in a few days.
Made two batches of candied almonds for Christmas presents — the ginger/cinnamon candied almonds are really good, but I think next time I’ll make a batch with cinnamon and a batch with ginger.
The maple ones weren’t as crispy as expected — tasty, but an odd texture.
A few weeks ago, we stopped getting location updates from OwnTracks on our phones. Checking the status, I see an error indicating that the connection failed because my certificate does not have a SAN. Which … true, it does not. I knew some consortium agreed that all certs should have SAN values (and RFCs had been updated to reflect this new direction). Evidently version 2.2.2 of OwnTracks has added SAN verification. I reissued the certificate from my CA and added a SAN. I had to put the cert on both my MQTT websockets reverse proxy and the mosquitto server; but, once both were using the new cert, OwnTracks connected and cleared through the queued updates.
