{"id":1770,"date":"2013-10-18T12:14:14","date_gmt":"2013-10-18T16:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam-jackson.net\/beer\/?p=1770"},"modified":"2013-10-18T12:14:14","modified_gmt":"2013-10-18T16:14:14","slug":"site-news-so-whats-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2013\/10\/18\/site-news-so-whats-up\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2605 Site News: So What&#8217;s up?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:9393,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/adamjackson\\\/5837080227&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20190131115318\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/adamjackson\\\/5837080227\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-05 07:12:43&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-20 21:31:12&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-02 21:33:07&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-17 16:37:17&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-01 06:01:50&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-18 09:22:03&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-02 23:47:14&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-10 21:44:47&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-21 15:49:43&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-25 15:17:36&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-25 15:17:36&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<figure style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a title=\"View &#039;Lake Champlain in Vermont&#039; on Flickr.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/adamjackson\/5837080227\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img  loading=\"lazy\"  decoding=\"async\"  style=\"display: block; border: 0px;\"  alt=\"Lake Champlain in Vermont\"  src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABAQMAAAAl21bKAAAAA1BMVEUAAP+KeNJXAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAAAlwSFlzAAAOxAAADsQBlSsOGwAAAApJREFUCNdjYAAAAAIAAeIhvDMAAAAASUVORK5CYII=\"  width=\"640\"  height=\"424\"  border=\"0\"  class=\" pk-lazyload\"  data-pk-sizes=\"auto\"  data-pk-src=\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2444\/5837080227_4a3c9ce908_z.jpg\" ><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lake Champlain Vermont. Photo taken with my Canon AE-1 Manual camera.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div>There hasn&#8217;t been a lot of posting here lately. So I&#8217;ll give a brief update for anyone that cares and then go back to obsessively hoarding beer and working on the ultimate Untappd badge available, &#8220;Type II Diabetes&#8221;. Okay but serious, lots has been happening lately so I thought a bulleted update would be fun.<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>It&#8217;s getting cold up here in Vermont. This week has been quite nice but the orange leaves are falling away.<\/li>\n<li>Just spent 7 days in Seattle &amp; Portland OR ticking beers and meeting trading partners. Brought home some good stuff and got 150 new reviews under my belt. I&#8217;m pretty sick of beer and then I got home and opened a Heady Topper and forgot about swearing off beer for a month!<\/li>\n<li>Haven&#8217;t traded much lately. Shifting my beer budget to Bruery \/ Crooked Stave beers and buying more local stuff. I can spend $50 at Hill Farmstead and drink very well. Why would I spend that $50 and send all of those to California for even comparable beers? So trading is sort of going away unless they&#8217;re a regular trading partner.<\/li>\n<li>The lack of beer hauls posts has been nice. I used to stress on getting all boxes in by the end of the month in time for beer hauls and now I don&#8217;t so that&#8217;s much easier. Plus my Flickr is full of beer photos and it just looks depressing.<\/li>\n<li>Homebrewing is going well. I haven&#8217;t tasted the sours that were brewed 6 weeks ago but honestly, I probably won&#8217;t start tasting them until it&#8217;s been 3 months. Opening up those bungs, risking extra bugs to get in there and introducing oxygen isn&#8217;t worth tasting a sour that&#8217;s too young.<\/li>\n<li>I finally started using Fermcap control for my imperial stout. It worked great! I used a blow off tube anyway since the gravity was over 1.100 but didn&#8217;t need it. I didn&#8217;t lose any beer to fermentation but the trub is pretty intense and I&#8217;ll lose more beer from the oak chips. We&#8217;ll see how this one turns out but obviously a high ABV stout can sit in the carboy \/ keg for a long time before I tap it.<\/li>\n<li>Oh and we had the floors refinished in my place. Their oak floors and were looking pretty bad. Moving the full size kegerator outside wasn&#8217;t easy nor was everything else I owned moving into storage but the floors like GREAT.<\/li>\n<li>I may do a blog post about northwest beer. You guys up there are doing great things but Holy Hell, you love your fresh hop beers.I&#8217;m sort of sick of fresh hop beers now as it was almost all that was on tap. Kind of ridiculous.<\/li>\n<li>Since our cold weather has held off, as for brewing, I&#8217;m thinking of doing a rebrew of my galaxy baryleywine and perhaps a rebrew of my coffee porter which, because I&#8217;m white trash, received a Venti of Starbucks espresso shots\u2026like literally, I go into Starbucks and ask for 20 shots of espresso to be put into a venti cup and I pour that into the keg. It was a great beer but two college guys crashing at my house back when I rented it out to strangers drank all of it one weekend so I only got to have 1 glass of it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So that&#8217;s the update for now. Oh and I&#8217;m probably going to take November and December off from drinking beer. I&#8217;ll drink at tastings for if people stay with me but daily drinking will be put on hold. Personal reasons but it should be a nice palate resetting and will help me save a bit more money as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There hasn&#8217;t been a lot of posting here lately. 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