13th Anniversary - Taittinger N.V.

Batch #45 Resin

Rye-only starter. KAB flour. Double overnight refrigerated rise.

Batch #42. Crystal clear, light straw, effervescent, generous head. Flat aroma and malt profile. Clean hop bite.

Batch #46. Clear. Reddish brown. Fine head. A bit of hop aroma. Malty with good hop bite.

I wrote about the Sisterhood for March Vladness and the Sex Pistols for the RS 500.

Batch #45. A touch cloudy. Thin head. Golden brown. Bitter but not much else.

Batch #44 Pine/resin and bitter finish.

mattmillsart:

[Bite] 2018 | Digital

Batch #43. Poured clear and golden. Little aroma. Fine head. Malty with neat bitterness. Did not notice the fruitiness of the previous bottle.

Batch #23. Cider!

Batch #34? Very homebrew.

Batch #42

Dense head, golden yellow. Malt nose. Super bitter, piney.

Batch #43. Fruity, sweet.

Batch #36. Nutty.

Before.

On grad school and Boy Scout camp and playing drums for The RS 500.

My eighteenth podcast for Razorcake is available now, featuring music by Collate, FCC, sister, brother and more!

The long-awaited sliver of Black Flag and baseball fandom intersection at You Don’t Know Mojack. Thanks to Ryan and Brant.

Cabildo Quarterly #12, summer 2018 is available now! With new writing from Kaylee Duff, Timothy Berrigan, Kelli Stevens Kane, William Repass, Kurt Morris, Paula Coomer, Daryl Gussin,  Margaret Emma Brandl and Howie Good. Click here or get at us for hard copies.

My seventeenth podcast for Razorcake is available now! Featruing new music by Lithics, 

My review of Stephen King’s new one is up on Chicago Review of Books today.

My sixteenth podcast for Razorcake  is available here, featuring new stuff by Spirits Having Fun, Protomartyr, Radon and more.

I review Mike Faloon’s new free jazz book here for Vol. 1 Brooklyn.

My review of Meg Wolitzer’s new novel is up on The Collapsar.

Primed with 3oz brown sugare

FG 1.013 (7.48% ABV)

17 22oz bottles

3 12oz bottles

Racked to secondary

1oz Simcoe pellet

1oz Centennial pellet

1oz Cascade pellet

New England Style

11lb 10oz Rahr 2-row 

1lb CaraAroma

1lb Flaked Wheat

5gal strike @ 165*F

60min sac. rest @ 150*F

1.5gal  sparge @ 170*F

10min mashout

Collected all

Boil

60min 10mL Hopshot

10min ~1oz Amarillo whole flower

10min ~1oz Cascade whole flower

0min - 1oz Simcoe pellet

0min - 1oz Centennial pellet

0min - 1oz Cascade pellet

Chill to 90*F

1oz Simcoe pellet

1oz Centennial pellet

1oz Cascade pellet

Pitched 1pkg Safale US-05

OG 1.070 

Dead Trend’s third release is available now.

With new stuff by Messthetics, Screaming Females, ExMaid, Secretary Legs and more! Click here.

I talk to those hosers at You Don’t Know Mojack about “Double Nickles” here. Dig it!

New flash fiction up today on Gimmick Press. Dig it!

I wrote on their debut album for The RS 500.

I wrote about Weird Al’s ‘Polkas on 45’ for Memoir Mixtapes.

Also, my eleventh podcast for Razorcake is up now.

4th Cook - Brisket & Turkey

17 lb packers cut

Trimmed and cut in half (lengthwise)

<¼ cup salt

¼ cup ground black pepper

Used ¾ of rub

Cooked 6 hours at 275*F

Spritzed with cider/red wine vinegar/water (25/25/50)

Internal temp 165*F

Wrapped in paper and held in oven overnight

Cooked 5 hours at 265*F

Internal temp 200*F

12lb turkey

Added ¼ cup ground pepper to remains

Cooked 2 ½ hrs at 265*F

Wrapped in foil with 1 stick butter

Cooked 1 hr at 265*F

Internal temp 165*F

Seasoning was just right. Sat for 3 hrs before eating. Cut brisket too thick.Turkey should have come out sooner.

To commemorate the first anniversary of you-know-what, Dead Trend has recorded a cover of New Order’s “Age of Consent.” Check it out here: https://deadtrend.bandcamp.com/track/age-of-consent-2017

3rd Cook - Brisket

ala Franklin

50/50 salt/pepper

12 lb packers cut

275* F

6 hours naked

5 hours wrapped (paper)

30min rest

……………………..

Great beef from New Gloucester, ME.

Wrapped at start of stall. Not done at end of 11 hours. Increase set temp? Nice smoke ring. Good seasoning. Decrease salt.

Wherein I interview Constance Squires about her new novel “Live From Medicine Park”

The fifth anniversary issue of Cabildo Quarterly is available now! It features new writing by  by Gale Acuff, Brendan Kiernan, Natalie Crick, Sean Arenas, Changming Yuan, and Rex Thomas.  Available online at .pdfsr and issuu. Dig it! 

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FG 1.005

Primed with 2/3 cup of brown sugar

24 22oz

3 12oz

Looks clear, orangey. Fruity nose. Resin pine taste and sticky finish.

Racked to secondary
1oz Chinnook pellets 13.4%
1oz Centennial pellets 10.4%
1oz Simcoe pellets 12.6%

Tom Waits FTW

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politico:

Ivanka Trump, who has kept a low profile since moving her family to Washington, is beginning a quiet push on the same women’s economic empowerment agenda she advocated on the campaign trail last year.

On Thursday night, President Donald Trump’s eldest daughter hosted a dinner party with a group of CEOs at her new Kalorama home—the stated purpose, according to two attendees, was for Ivanka Trump to solicit ideas on how to promote women in the workforce and fight for issues like paid maternity leave.

The working dinner party marked Ivanka Trump’s first step toward trying to influence policy in her father’s administration. Trump’s most high-profile first daughter stepped down from her executive position at the Trump Organization, and separated from her eponymous fashion line last month, to serve as an outside support system for her father and her husband, White House senior adviser Jared Kushner. But Thursday night’s dinner marked Ivanka Trump’s foray into politics on her own, since moving to the nation’s capital.

Attending the Thursday night dinner was Walmart CEO Doug McMillon; General Motors CEO Mary Barra; Ernst & Young CEO Mark Weinberger; Johnson & Johnson CEO Alex Gorsky; investment banker Adebayo Ogunlesi; JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon; Trump’s head of the National Economic Council, Gary Cohn; and Dina Powell, the former Goldman Sachs partner who recently joined the administration to advise Ivanka Trump and Kushner.

Read more here

Ivanka 2020

https://megamart.subpop.com/releases/pissed_jeans/why_love_now

1. Waiting On My Horrible Warning

A guttural garbled mess. Better not admit you like it.

2. The Bar Is Low

Is any song more fitting of these times? It’s a pop song.

3. Ignorecam

Like the Bataan Death March, then nirvana.

4. Cold Whip Cream

Let it fly! Throttle wide open.

5. Love Without Emotion

A loping beat with crooning lyrics and guitar.

6. I’m a Man

Agreed.

7. (Won’t Tell You) My Sign

This one is totally fine.

8. It’s Your Knees

If Black Sabbath had covered Metallica.

9. Worldwide Marine Asset Financial Analyst

As a worker, this one speaks to me.

10. Have You Ever Been Furniture
Feeling the angst on this one.

11. ActiviaSludgy. 

Crepuscular.

12. Not Even Married
It’s an angry sound, but catchy.

michaeltfournier:

My review of Aaron Gilbreath’s book of essays is up on Chicago Review of Books.

*Don’t

michaeltfournier:

Check out the article I wrote about my Spam key for McSweeny’s Internet Tendency.

150g poolish
340g KA AP
45g rye flour
225g water

30min autolayse

8g salt
¼ tsp instant yeast

2 hour fermentation

Formed baguette

2 hour fermentation

49min at 425*F (first 15min steam)

200g poolish
400g KA AP
200g HM Rye
200g Water

30min autolayse

Adapted from http://www.breadcetera.com/?p=71

300g poolish

200g KA Rye

550g KAAP

450g Water

15g Salt

2 tsp instant yeast

Autolayse

Add salt and yeast, knead by flap-and-fold

Let rise

Split into two

Let rise

Make boulets

Let rise

Bake @ 425*F 40min (15min steam)