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At Oregon Country Fair site…

At the Oregon Country Fair site today, working on setting the community village up. Its beautiful although hot and if you are going to be in the neighborhood, come and see me. listen

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This is my second try, I’m trying to come up with the right word here, phoning in the blog post with the jott system. It’s an interesting system, I make a phone call and what I say into the phone presumably, becomes a post on the blog. Right now I’m walking towards the bus on a beautiful Friday afternoon in Eugene(?), 85 degrees out, the Olympic trials are just beginning around town and there are people from all over the country who are ….. just getting settled. In all, it’s a lovely day.listen

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I’m now testing the Jott system, by which I blog by voice. listen

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Glen’s Best Bitter

I haven’t been as consistent as I’d like to be in keeping up with homebrew recipes, posting all the details of my brews. Life gets in the way of blogging sometimes. My dad and I are going to brew up a batch of bitter trying to reproduce ‘glen’s best bitter’ which you used to be able to get at the Wild Duck before they closed up shop. Following is a (preliminary) guess at what might be in such a brew. Who knows how close we’ll come, as it’s mostly a stab in the dark. They stopped producing this, my dad’s favorite beer, before I was of legal drinking age, much less interested in reproducing beers. I haven’t ever tasted the original and Dad knows basically nothing about the elements of beer. So, between us here’s a guess. If you have any additional information about this beer, or suggestions, I would greatly appreciate them.

2 Lbs American 6 Row Pale
1.5 Lbs English Mild malt
1 Lb American Caramel, 40 L
.5 Lbs Munich
.1 lb flaked barley for head retention

3.5 lbs dry light extract

1 oz centennial 10% boiled 60 minutes
.5 oz willamette 5% boiled 15 minutes
.5 oz willamette or sterling, 4-5%, boiled 1 minute

White Labs British Ale yeast (WLP005)

We’ll go for this one sometime in July. We were going to brew it today, but he’s not feeling well.

The Next President

Finally, a presidential candidate who knows something about effective public speaking.

“There’s not a liberal America and a conservative America – there’s the United States of America.

There’s not a black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America – there’s the United States of America.

The pundits like to slice-and-dice our country into Red States and Blue States; Red States for Republicans, Blue States for Democrats. But I’ve got news for them, too.

We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don’t like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States.

We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States.

There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and patriots who supported it.

We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.”

– Barack Obama in his Democratic National Convention Keynote Address.