The Beer Life of Brian

My ramblings on beer, beer making, and thoughts from the world of professional brewing. Plus some other stuff that isn't beer related... like travel... and photography...

Friday, December 12, 2008

Its xmas time again (and a new seasonal beer!)

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Wow, apparently I've kept this blog up for more than three years now. Often times (like these last few months) its been very sparse in p...
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Thursday, October 30, 2008

Yep, a whole month.

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So its been an entire month since I've posted a blog entry. But that's the way it goes I suppose... Being a head brewer has been a l...
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Sunday, September 28, 2008

One more thing I love about Canada... the CBC.

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Frankly, I love the CBC. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Well, the radio at least. I was just thinking that I seem to listen to CBC r...
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Friday, August 22, 2008

Submitted!

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Well, I've submitted my dissertation. "Effects of dark specialty malts on the growth of common brewing bacteria". I'm tire...
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Tuesday, August 12, 2008

What happened to my iTunes -> amarok script?

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Hm, I've got a couple of comments on a post about a script I made a couple of years ago that converts all of your iTunes data into the L...
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Monday, August 11, 2008

Half Cycle Off

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I woke up at 8:00 today. Unfortunately it was the wrong 8:00 and the sun is just heading down. My sleep schedule has been so messed up latel...
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Thursday, August 07, 2008

Hatin' on 0844

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So, last month the university residence people here (Heriot-Watt) upgraded the phone system to a VOIP carrier with much cheaper rates. Howev...
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Tuesday, August 05, 2008

Dissertating

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So this is what my floor looks like these days. I've started in again on writing my MSc dissertation again. Its going alright... we fina...
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Thursday, July 24, 2008

Slave to bacteria

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My MSc project deals with Lactobacilus brevis , a common beer spoilage bacteria. For some tests I'm doing, I need to sample every 6 hour...
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Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Scheduling Software for a Small Brewery

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In the past few months I've been contemplating and working on a wee software solution to a problem that I've seen at many small craf...
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Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Leave your bag at the front counter, please.

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No. On the surface, such a request seems innocent enough. But it also implies that I might be a criminal. I don't like being made to fe...
Monday, July 07, 2008

Back from Belgium

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Yes, I went to Belgium last week. Just 5 days for a quick vacation... and "research". I managed to do some very good "researc...
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Edmonton, Canada
I try to make this blog mostly about beer, but lets face it there are other interesting things in life too. So this is really just my blog on me. I just happen to like talking about beer a lot ;)
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