bierkergaard

I have jettisoned the iPad for blogging plan. Last week, it made sense but not now. I do use the iPad for my occasional freelance writing gigs. I like the informal riffing on it. Like a harmonica. I feel less pressure this way.  Otherwise I would get all mental. Thus, I have returned to the command center lap top upstairs in the U.S.S. Bierkergaard with the large screen monitor which supplanted the lap top screen that has an ever increasing blob of burned-out pixels. I also secured my wayward seat cushion on top of the wooden chair seat with a wife beater and shoe laces. So, the cushion no longer slips around. It is the small things that make a difference.  So, I went to bottle my Russian Mexican Imperial Milk Chocolate Morita Pepper Stout yesterday and the the hydrometer showed that it is not ready. I can ignore the data but then should gird myself for exploding glass bottles. It will take another week or so from what I can tell. To get ready to bottle however, I had...