Buying a House
We're almost to closing on the house we're buying. We got the final mortgage commitment and appraisal. We've only got a few details to wrap up before the closing, including title insurance. Doing some research on title insurance, as well as the ownership history of the property (www.masslandrecords.com), I'm thinking it might be a good idea. I had no idea how much information about land ownership, mortgages, liens and everything was available online. You can totally stalk people using this (I maybe, maybe not have tried looking things up... ) But it was useful to find out how complex the ownership history has been on our home for the past 25-30 years of scanned records in the database. Given the ownership history over the last 83 years, I think we'll be getting title insurance to cover us. We also learned more than I think I wanted to know about our sellers finances.
My husband bought me a glass carboy for Christmas, and I used it for a secondary fermentation process. That brew was crystal clear. So excited to try it in a week or two. There was zero yeast or off product in that brew. I have some leftover clean bottles from bottling my latest summer ale, and so we're going to make sarsaparilla this weekend, which will require a quick trip to the local brew store to pick up the extract. But now, the extra clean bottles, mean some soda! Somehow making my own soda seems less horrible that drinking the mass produced metal cans of soda. Though, it's not any more healthy with all of the sugar involved.
Brewing can be a time consuming and smelly process. Sarsaparilla should be really quick, some recipes even call for using old 2-liter bottles. Basically all you need is soda extra, sugar, water, yeast (can use bread yeast, brewing yest might taste better). Make sure you boil the water, sugar, and extra (boiling out all the germs), then once to a cool temp add yeast (60-80 degrees), cap, wait about 2 weeks, and drink. The only thing to note is if you chose to use glass bottles I would highly recommend sterilizing them. I sterilize bottles after cleaning them of any debris by capping them with a small piece of foil, then baking in the oven at 350F for two hours (basically auto-claving them.) You could also using a sterilizing agent like B-Brite from your local brew store, dunk in B-Brite solution, then rinse solution, then dry - but the process is a lot messier, includes a lot more time, and a lot more labor. I'm a big fan of spending time on the set up, and letting the oven do the rest.
We're supposed to go to a Roller Derby on Saturday - which should be really exciting. I've never been to a roller derby and I'm not sure if I should be scared or excited. It's kind of both.
My husband bought me a glass carboy for Christmas, and I used it for a secondary fermentation process. That brew was crystal clear. So excited to try it in a week or two. There was zero yeast or off product in that brew. I have some leftover clean bottles from bottling my latest summer ale, and so we're going to make sarsaparilla this weekend, which will require a quick trip to the local brew store to pick up the extract. But now, the extra clean bottles, mean some soda! Somehow making my own soda seems less horrible that drinking the mass produced metal cans of soda. Though, it's not any more healthy with all of the sugar involved.
Brewing can be a time consuming and smelly process. Sarsaparilla should be really quick, some recipes even call for using old 2-liter bottles. Basically all you need is soda extra, sugar, water, yeast (can use bread yeast, brewing yest might taste better). Make sure you boil the water, sugar, and extra (boiling out all the germs), then once to a cool temp add yeast (60-80 degrees), cap, wait about 2 weeks, and drink. The only thing to note is if you chose to use glass bottles I would highly recommend sterilizing them. I sterilize bottles after cleaning them of any debris by capping them with a small piece of foil, then baking in the oven at 350F for two hours (basically auto-claving them.) You could also using a sterilizing agent like B-Brite from your local brew store, dunk in B-Brite solution, then rinse solution, then dry - but the process is a lot messier, includes a lot more time, and a lot more labor. I'm a big fan of spending time on the set up, and letting the oven do the rest.
We're supposed to go to a Roller Derby on Saturday - which should be really exciting. I've never been to a roller derby and I'm not sure if I should be scared or excited. It's kind of both.
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