three masterpieces

Unwound Apple Wine 

Made and designed By:
Evan Hawkins

This is the packaging for the wine I made last fall.

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I came across this today and couldn’t believe it. If anyone has done this before or tries it let me know.

Cook Salmon in Your Dishwasher

Tasted the pale ale tonight, it has been in the bottle 13 days now. I was good but still needs to age longer. It is 7.4% alcohol and normally the higher the alcohol the longer the beer should age. It tastes a little sweet right now but I think as it matures the hops will become more prominent.

 The color looks good and it holds a great head, we will see about the taste.

Shane you will have to give me an unbiased opinion on Friday.

My good friend Derrick gave me an infamous Fat Tire for my birthday. I had never had one until now and here is what I think. (more…)

Finally got the new valves from Thailand today! Took me about an hour to take the engine apart again and replace the valves. New valves was the solutions to all my horsepower problems. Once everything was back together the bike fired right up and has great pick up. It is finally ready just in time for the warm weather.

Thursday night I bottled the Pale Ale and racked the Oatmeal Nut Brown.

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Friday I brewed another batch of beer, this time I brewed a Nutty Brown Oatmeal Stout. It is very dark, I used a whole pound of roasted barley and 1/2 lb. of dark crystal malt. The original gravity was (more…)

I got the new gaskets for the Honda CT-90 today. I got everything back together with no leftover parts! BUT the engine won’t start….  The spark plug is not sparking, not sure why yet but I will figure it out. It is not leaking any oil as far as I can tell so thats good.

Tonight I racked the latest batch of beer, it is an upper gravity, pale ale. I brewed it about ten days ago and tonight I racked it to get it out of it’s own funk. The ABV for this beer is  (more…)