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So I’ve been building my baseball handicapping software.  OK, it’s a gigantic excel spreadsheet, but I like to at least sound cool.  Or geeky.  Or geeky cool.
It’s a monster.  I hope it works now.  I’ll know if it has a chance soon.  I am planning to populate it with the data from the current season […]

The Big East kicks off its games tonight.  I’ve got Pittsburgh as an 11 point favorite.  They are giving up only 6.5 at your friendly neighborhood sports book.  I’m taking the Panthers and laying the points.  It would be nice to start Saturday with two wins in the bag already.  UAB won outright for an […]

Two more college games tonight, one of which is a conference game - Southern Miss at UAB.  The line is set at S. Miss -9.5.  I’m taking UAB and the points.
Got off to a rough start with the Hawaii pick this week.  Hopefully UAB can not get pasted.   I’m hoping the results will get better […]

Let’s roll:
Visitor   BrewBrainSpread   Home   (My Play)
Lions +3.7 at Bears  (Lions +10.5)
Bengals -11.9 at Browns  (Bengals -5.5)
Seahawks +5.8 at Colts  (Seahawks +8.5)
Giants -11.1 at Chiefs  (Giants -9.5)
Buccaneers +9.4 at Redskins  (Redskins -7.5)
Titans +0.2 at Jaguars  (Jaguars +2.5)
Raiders +0.3 at Texans  (Raiders +9.5)
Ravens -3.9 at Patriots  (Ravens +2.5)
Jets +4.0 at Saints  (Jets +6.5)
Bills -5.1 […]

Week 5 of the college football season kicks off Wednesday night with Hawaii at Louisiana Tech. All Division 1-A Conference matchups are below:
Visitor   BrewBrainSpread   Home   (My Play)
ACC:
Florida State -3.2 at Boston College (Boston College +5)
Clemson -6.3 at Maryland (Maryland +13.5
Virginia Tech -12.6 at Duke (Duke +16.5)
Virginia -3.2 at North Carolina (Virginia +14)
NC State […]

So, secretly I’ve been keeping a couple blogs going.  I’m going to just go ahead and start posting my sports stuff here too.  I mean, if you like brewing and drinking beer, you probably love sports, amirite?
I’ve been posting poker and sports betting stuff over at blogspot - a little blog I started recently called […]

For those of you who are semi-new to brewing your own beer via the all grain method, I can’t recommend grain school highly enough.  I am now drinking my first batches of three beers brewed post-grain school, and I can’t say enough about what the education has done for the quality of my beer.
I think […]

I tasted the half-carbed base recipe for my grain school batches last night.  As expected, it is a very good beer.  It’ll be a pleasure trying to drain that keg quickly to make room for batch #4.
I haven’t decided what Batch #4 should be yet.  While the brewing in the immediate future is primarily for […]

I’m starting anew with Grain School!  I attempted grain school around a year ago with small one-gallon batches, but for various reasons, I gave up quickly.
I’ve been throwing recipes together and generally having success. The beers I’ve been serving up are usually very good. That said, when I throw Pale Chocolate and Crystal […]

Yes, I am reviewing a BMC.   I will type my brew review as I suck down a Miller Genuine Draft.
I had what I believe was a Bud Light at a baseball game two years ago.  I hated it, especially as it warmed up.  Prior to that, I can’t remember the last time I tasted BMC.  […]

OK, so the Boston Lager I think was one of the first reviews I did on my blog.  Tonight I tackle the Boston Ale.
The pour is crystal clear pale yellow/orange with a moderate/smallish white head that lasts sufficiently.  It leaves plenty of lacing down the glass.
The scents are mostly floral, slightly piny hops with some […]

Another year, another BCS flop.  They got it wrong again.
Two (or is it three?  I don’t know since I’ve been boycotting) years after Boise State defeated Oklahoma in the Fiesta Bowl to win the BrewBrain Official National Championship (BONC), it has happened again.  A non-BCS conference team has earned the honor.
I hereby officially congratulate the […]

If you haven’t tried the Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale, do your taste buds a favor and go getcha some.  I maintain that this is the finest session IPA available on the market.  There are IPA’s I find more interesting, or more of a treat, but there are none I’d rather sit down with for an […]

Wow!  Now I know what those emailers were talking about.  It seems I haven’t blogged for a while and left some loose ends, well, loose.  I apologize, and I’ll try to keep on top of things a bit better.
The fact of the matter is, I haven’t been brewing lately.  Not because I haven’t wanted to, […]

I managed to finish up the keezer Friday night!  Woot Woot!  My home brewery is now complete with one small piece of equipment left to purchase.  I still need a heat source for fermenting in low ambient temperatures.
Here’s a photo of the thing:
From left to right is my beer fridge, fermentation freezer and keezer.
Here’s a […]

Not long ago, I bought a six-pack of North Coast Brewing’s Old Stock Ale - the 2008 vintage of their Barley Wine.  I’m drinking sipping the first one now.  The remaining five bottles are sitting pretty in my fermentation chamber at 64 degrees.  Too warm?  I hate to refrigerate them and stunt the growth, so […]

I really like Alton’s show on Food Network.  He’s fun to watch and quite informative.  He did an episode on beer brewing - extract with either a partial mash or steeping grains. I can’t tell which without seeing the rest of the episode, which I haven’t seen. I’ve only seen the video below.  […]

I now have all the equipment I need on order.  The keezer build will be completed very soon.  Once I receive everything, all I’ll have to do is sand the collar, drill the tap holes, attach the collar to the freezer and attach everything.  Oh, and of course I’ll need to go get the CO2 […]

That’s right, I’m now the happy owner of a second deep-freeze that I converted into a fermentation cabinet.  Actually, there is no real conversion.  I’ve simply plugged the freezer into a temperature controller that’s keeping the temperature at a steady 65 degrees, give or take a degree or so.  And, I’m making good use of […]

I am happy to report positive keezer progress.  Yesterday, I ran an errand to the homebrew shop and ordered most of the hardware I’ll need.  I’ve got the CO2 tank, shanks, etc. ordered and made it home with two kegs.  I’ll pick up some other things, including some good faucets online.  By next weekend, I […]