I can connect the dots with the best of them, add 2 and 2 and get 4, put on a rain coat when it is rainy. I am not as dumb as most people think, I am sometimes on the ball. Greg hinted around about his potted dragons and my own pot and pig plaque. I took my A, Greg's B, and took it to C. Above is Greg's famous homebrew label, I thought I might be able to make a nice 3-D living color version. Havn't added the colors, but it looks good. I have never made a dragon before, so imagine this guy with outstretched pink tongue, green and blue highlights on a blue background with the scrolls for the writing. I have also never made a little goblet, one inch taller or smaller, let's call it 2 cm, and now I have. This Bud's for you, Greg....
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umm.. WOW! not only a great surprise (and here I thought I was being more SUBTLE), but the workmanship is top notch as usual!
Wow is right ... The jerk's going to want to bottle the stuff now, though. It's sitting in MY basement ... LOL
Simply amazing, Gary.
So, you lucky people get to hang around together brewing and drinking? Not bad. Is there ping pong or foosball involved too, maybe poker?
Darts - can't do brew without darts!
You do dragons well, Gary.
Thanks Mags, and how could I forget DARTS?
hmmm...I think I even have my dart set from when I worked in a pub in Waterloo in my youts...
I keep threatening to get a poker game together, but it hasn't happened yet. I have my set of darts from college around somewhere, too.
The afternoon when we made the mead up was a lot of fun just on it's own.
A car load of goofballs headed to the apiary for the honey, told teh guy why we needed 20 pounds of the stuff and he wound up giving us a bottle of his mead. Which we drank while we boiled the honey and water and skimmed. Yum.
Mead is long-aging stuff. Greg's got some that's 9 years old that's amazing. The stuff we have aging in carboys (23L at a shot) is only three and a bit "young" tasting the last I checked.
Wow, mead is slow to age, must look into this....
I also have 11 litres of sherry that's no drinkable yet. Yet. It's only four years old. :-D
Is this sherry from grapes in your yard?
Alas, no. It's from a kit.
Five years later, I still don't know what variety of grapes I have. So, not knowing what I have, I can't tailor the process and ingredients to the grapes and have managed to make wine from them that tastes like crap.
The folks we bought the house from planted them and weren't able to explain the variety: they're Portuguese and don't speak English all that well. "Red" and "White" are all I know. :-(
some meads have shorter aging times, some longer.. much depends on what the honey was made from. The taste and natural chemicals in the honey will affect the aging as well as what is needed for the flavours to blend properly.
And then you can have straight no frills meads, nothing there but the honey. Then if you add fruits you have melomels (apples added make it a ciser). If you add spices and herbs you have methaglins, etc.
I make a nice full sized goblet, and steins too, boys....we shall fill them. Perhaps today I should try these things with dragons?
hmm methinks we might be sidetracking gary from actual orders and buying groceries!
but still cool!
I think there is a large population interested in drunken dragons atop steins and goblets, perhaps a far bigger market than piggies.
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