Posts by Hookinfish

    Thanks Lunker. They are starting to slow fermentation a little now and the Costco apple juice is starting to clear up. I think the apple ciders should be ready for secondary fermentation on Wednesday. I need to find some bottles for bottling soon. Or maybe a small keg which is a lot easier to sanitize. When the temps lower a little more I will start to make some French salami too. That's always a hit as well as the duck prosciutto. :)

    Well I took my Dental Admissions test this last Wednesday and scored fairly well. In order to celebrate I decided I was going to make some Chicha de Manzana a Chilean favorite that I couldn't find on my last trip.


    Apparently Chile has sent all there apples to the US because of an apple shortage in the US. A friend that works in major produce tells me at least.


    Anyway I started with 2 gallon jugs of organic fresh pressed and pasteurized cider from Sonoma county. I pitched 1/3 packet of some S-04 ale yeast and put the air locks on. I figured this would not be enough so I went out and got two more gallon jugs but I have one filled up with 5 cups honey, enough water to go to the top and some yeastex nutrients with some wine yeast this is the beginning of some hopefully tasty mead. The other jug I used a COSTCO apple juice not from concentrate with out preservatives and put the last third of the ale yeast and some yestex nutrients. Well they are all bubbling away and have me very thirsty. The Chicha should be ready for Thanksgiving and the mead maybe for New Years. :toast:


    Anyone else make there own brew?


    Good job on the bug. Thats crazy hearing that racket and not knowing what is going on. Glad to hear DFG is doing there job too but talk about some interesting measures to do so.

    Same thing happened to me diving off the coast here in LA. I use a 50/50 solution of white vinegar and isopropyl alcohol. I fill each ear up with the solution using a dropper after a dive and so far I have been fine. I smell like vinegar for a little while but its better then an ear infection.

    Did you have a dive flag up?


    Looks like the other yak has a dive flag up at 1:18.


    That was a close one. Maybe send the video to the local harbor masters? How do you go about getting a hold of these jerks?


    That is a good reason to want to free shaft right there. You would just need a little pirate flag when the shaft hits there boat.

    Looks like it could have been a great day with these last two pictures and the other of you with the mackeral I think they are. Hopefully the kayak wasn't damaged and the equipment aside from the floatline was recuperated.


    You have any pictures? What about same day fedex options to California? It sounds amazing. I took a cabezon to a Japanese restaurant the other day and they prepared it for me. It came out awesome deep fried with a ponzu sauce,