[Bong O. Boi]

In my constant search for some sort of meaning to my life, I've been experimenting in making beer. So far, I've made a nice Canadian style brew, a Czech pilsner, a kick ass hard strawberry lemonade and this super heavy brown nut/ wheat beer that makes you feel like you've eaten a full meal with every bottle. At 14% alcohol, a bottle makes you rather cozy- feeling too.

So today I bottled up 35 bottles of Dogbolter Ale. It's a dark, heavy, really tasty English ale. After doing some tweaking (more like tweaking with a big hammer) with the sugar and malt in the recipe, I've managed to come up with a delicious 17% alcohol content. By next Friday evening, I'll be angry and drunk.

When I went to Seattle in August for Hempfest, my x-gf's brother took me to a little microbrewery in Mountlake Terrace where I got turned onto to Red Ale. Nectar of the fucking gods. The little microbrewery down the road from us makes a superb Red Ale too. I think that will be my next attempt.

Honestly, what I'd really like to do is get one of those stovetop stills off eBay and make my own gin. I can get juniper berries from my mom's yard. The wife, however, has put her foot down at that idea. It horrifies her enough that I drink the 'shine my neighbor hooks me up with. She's convinced the slug will blind me. C'mere, baby...I got a slug that'll blind ya.

Anyhoo, here's a pic of my Dogbolter before I box it up for the week. Apologies for the Corona bottles. A coworker gets them from his neighbor. Beats buying new bottles.

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