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Today I brewed with Chris Hunt over at Moccasin Bend Brewing company in the St. Elmo region of Chattanooga.  We made up a batch of Pumpkin Seed Pale Ale.  Maris Otter and Crystal with Fuggles and Simcoe.  I now understand Joe’s fascination with Simcoe.  They smelled like tangerines in pine trees.  Delicious.  I would love some of those in a nice tall glass of IPA.

 It’s good to brew with other brewers, because everyone does something different.

I learned a great deal from him about troubleshooting and emergency engineering.  Mainly because his gear kept falling apart.

I can’t jab at him, he has the capacity to mash a 5 barrel batch, and most of that they built themselves.  I wish I had a 5-barrel version of the Brew Magic.  It could have ladders and slides and such to get to all the levers.  Like an adult version of the child’s game, but twice as fun.

 Anywho, I’m sore and tired now, going to bed.

Trying to get the most out of the blogs.  I got some cool themes to update your blogs with.  Check it out!

Updated the Wiki on the Brew Magic site.  Added all the content from the manual and started organizing it.  Still need to get the recipe program up…

Working on upgrading Brewthology to run on PHP5, and maybe add some cool AJAX functionality.

I’m working with Bryan Peretto of the Knights of the Mashing Fork [http://www.kotmf.com] - He is the original author.

Interesting - I’m thinking about pooling together great homebrew club apps into one big package.  Just need some more willing developers…

I’m thinking the next thing I need to do is upgrade my Chiller to have a more compact footprint, or build a fermentation room. 

I think the Chiller will be better received by the wife…

Gave up Beer for Lent.  It’s hard to run a homebrew club when you’re not drinking.

 I think I’ll give up something else for Lent next year.  I have 18 gallons of Pale Ale (8 of which are I2PA) conditioning from before Lent started.  The hardest thing about giving up beer is having gallons of it at your fingertips.

 Next year I’m giving up something else.