So apparently there was an accident or somesuch along my commute to work today, and 19th Ave through Golden Gate Park was closed off. Everyone was getting detoured down Fulton and trying to squeeze through all the little streets to get to the other side of the park.

I duck down one of these streets and end up driving through the beautiful, treed heart of Golden Gate Park, and I realize...wow, my morning commute is some people's dream vacation.

Hey, maybe this delay isn't so bad after all.

Wort on the stoveHad a couple friends over for Teach a Friend to Homebrew Day on Saturday. We brewed up a baltic porter using some yeast from a previous baltic porter. Yeah, I forgot to check that I wasn't brewing two of the same thing back-to-back.

Things went well, which means only one thing went haywire. I racked my first porter into secondary just fine -- then I noticed the spigot was leaking a bit. Man. Read more