Literary Rejections

Definitely one of the friendlier literary rejections I have gotten. Always nice to get a personal rejection for your writing, as opposed to the first round form rejection>>


Hello Stephen,

Thank you for your submission of "Andante and Allegro" and "Black Pavement."

Unfortunately we don't feel either are a good fit for XXXX XXXXX (edited out).

You have a wonderful talent for creating beautiful scenes with your words, and even though we won't be publishing your work, I enjoyed reading it!

Best of luck to you, and thank you again!

Getting settled in

I am all here and stuff, getting settled in. Hope to begin brewing again relatively soon, but lets face it, I need a thing called a job to take care of my family. Priorities and all.

Simple Mick's Pilsner

Just a simple recipe you can get off www.beerrecipes.org, it's a pretty good starter for new folks, and produces a decent beer. Mostly posting this to be able to finish up a page of the blog (i.e. make it not empty). In other news, moving to Switzerland in less than three weeks.

Ingredients: 3000g Light Malt Extract (liquid) 30g Saaz -60 mins 45g Saaz 20 mins 25g Saaz 2 mins European Lager yeast 12-15 deg 19 litre recipe.

OG: 1043 FG: 1014 Primary Ferment: 4 days Secondary Ferment: 7 days, ready 2 weeks after bottling

Procedure: Boil water, add extract, boil. Add 60 minute hops. When 20 mins remain add 20 minute hops. when 10 mins remain add irish moss. When 2 minutes remain add 2 minute hops. After 60 minutes switch off heat. Cool down and pitch yeast.