The Hazelnut porter is kegged and carbonated, The 90 minute IPA was racked to secondary today and the Irish stout is still chilling in secondary. I hope everybody had a merry christmas! Stay tuned for Tasting notes on the Hazelnut porter.
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Brewing Frenzy
This is the third weekend in a row I’ve brewed beer. Alicia (my wife) and I have been ramping up our brewing because now we have a draft system and more importantly a basement to keep the draft system in. The new home built Kegorator will hold 3 five gallon corny kegs plus about a case of bottled beer and keep it all at a nice 40 degrees F. So to fill it we have brewed a hazelnut porter, an Irish stout, and a dogfish head 90 minute IPA clone. The Irish stout and the hazelnut porter are both in secondary and should finish at about 7.5% ABV. the IPA will go into primary fermentation today. So wish me luck and in about a month I will update you all with tasting notes.
Record label
I have several friends that are very talented musicians. Tonight some of us got together for a coffee house premier. It got me thinking about distribution and labels so I registered a new domain, first chance records . com. With a little luck we maybe able to get a real label going here.
Entrepreneurship
This semester I’m taking a couple of entrepreneurship classes. One is about start up funding and the other one is about writing a business plan and getting started from scratch. It’s a bit too early in the semester to tell how hard these classes are really going to be. But the idea is to go from idea to actual startup within a calendar year. It’s part of a contest called Alabama Launchpad that offers a $100,000.00 grant to help get the wining company going.
It’s a great idea in theory but the concept of balancing my existing job with classes and a startup seems almost impossible. That being said if I could actually pull it off I’m sure the reward would be worth it. Not that I have to do all of this alone. So far the faculty at UAB have been extremely supportive in offering advice and contacts to help me along. The biggest obstacle maybe over coming my own lack of confidence. So much of the advice I’ve been given so far seems to be about bravado being more important than trying to plan for everything. Which makes a lot of sense really because you have to have a certain amount of arrogance to risk everything on a venture that may or may not make it. So wish me luck as I take on another exciting semester and maybe start a company along the way!
MBA program continued
My course work for my MBA has been very enlightening so far. I’m beginning to understand that marketing is the philosophy department of the business world. When we talk about marketing it is always a higher level of abstraction and big picture ideas. Accounting so far has been a lot more fun than I remembered it being in high school. At this level accounting is all about financial data management. Statistics is by far my hardest class but that may be because the professor is a complete ass. On the whole though at this point, midterm, I feel pretty good about all of my classes.
MBA program
Just a quick update everyone, I’ve started taking classes towards finishing my MBA at UAB. So far the program is really great, but I’m only a week into things. stay tuned for more updates as things progress.
No computer
My computer will be in the shop till the end of next week. So I’m having to do everything via my iPhone. I’ve been pleasantly surprised at how easy this has been. The iPhone may make a crummy phone, but it makes a pretty good computer substitute.
AwkwardFamilyPhotos.com
I laughed. I cried. I got a little creeped out.
Career day
If you could imagine me in any career what would you pick for me? Any thoughts dear Internet?