The House of Gordon: Lifetime dream fulfilled

What's Brewing in the Brewhouse?

On Deck:
- Batch 046: Black IPA
- Batch 047: Hopburst IPA

Primary Fermenter #1:

- n/a

Primary Fermenter #2:

- n/a

Secondary Fermenter #1:

- Batch 045: Proper Oktoberfest

Secondary Fermenter #2:

- n/a

Secondary Fermenter #3:

- n/a

Bottle-Conditioning:

- Batch 043: British Bitter

- Batch 044: Common Cleveland Steamer

Garage Fridge:

- Batch 030: Saison Dupont clone

- Batch 034: Coffee and Oatmeal for Breakfast

- Batch 037: Dark Mild Ale

- Batch 038: Gordon Original Pilsner

- Batch 039: Booker's Porter

- Batch 040: Spiced Winter Ale

- Batch 041: Farmers' Almanac Maple Porter

- Batch 042: Colonial Amber

Empties:

- Batch 001: South of Cleveland Brown Ale

- Batch 002: Gordon's Irish Red Ale

- Batch 003: Kilt o' the Leprechaun Stout

- Batch 004: Coopers Christmas Ale

- Batch 005: Classic English Pale Ale

- Batch 006: Chocolate Bar Porter

- Batch 007: Diamond Notes Pale Ale

- Batch 008: Schnottzenbrau Alt

- Batch 009: Ram's Bladder Bock

- Batch 010: Double Cardiac IPA

- Batch 011: Pompous Mongrel

- Batch 012: Micawber's Meticulous Mild

- Batch 013: Fresh Hop (2007) Pale Ale

- Batch 014: Carolinian Slightly Smoked Porter

- Batch 015: Gordon Lightfoot Porter

- Batch 016: Joe Jackson Tripel

- Batch 017: Honey Molasses Porter

- Batch 018: Maple Pumpkin Ale

- Batch 019: Apfelwein

- Batch 020: Chocolate-Vanilla Stout

- Batch 021: Razzmatazz Raspberry Ale

- Batch 022: Vintage Hop (2007) Pale Ale

- Batch 023: Obama Inauguration Holiday Ale

- Batch 024: Get In Mah Belly! Scotch Ale

- Batch 025: Centennial Madness

- Batch 026: Canadienne Bière Brassée dans le Garage

- Batch 027: Maple Pumpkin Ale v.2.0

- Batch 028: Bitter, the Appropriate Beer Style

- Batch 029: O'Scharffen Berger Irish Stout

- Batch 031: "The Devil's Bats" Belgian Golden Ale

- Batch 033: Maple Pumpkin Ale v.3.0

- Batch 035: Orange Pale Ale
- Batch 036: Gaius Plinius Secundus

FAIL:

- Batch 032: Blanche de Greensboro witbier

(Dead yeast? No carbonation even after carbonation drops were added to each bottle.)

Sunday, June 21, 2009

Lifetime dream fulfilled

Nationals Park. Day before my birthday. Saturday June 20, 2009. Toronto Blue Jays vs. Washington Nationals.

Sec 127, Row E (2nd row), Seat 2.

Bottom of the 4th inning. Toronto's Brett Cecil pitching. 1B Nick Johnson is the first Nats batter of the inning, 3B Ryan Zimmerman on-deck.

Johnson fouls one straight down into the dirt and it dribbles towards Zimmerman.

Zimmerman picks it up and turns to the crowd at the edge of the backstop netting. He makes eye contact with me and James. He then lobs the ball in our direction. It veers towards James on the aisle and his long arms reach it before mine. He hands the ball to me with the statement, "You're the one who loves baseball, what am I going to do with it?"