Update

I did some of the exerciese of Legs and Back Friday and Kempo on Saturday. WOW! Kempo is going to be a cardio day, for sure! Was busy Saturday till about 12 noon. At that time I went to the store to get some boned chicken on sale. Since I was out, I also got a few other groceries items as well. Also, stopped by the local Wal-Mart for some cheap pop for my sons graduation party in a month. $3.99 a case. WOW! Is that ever cheap!

Today, weather permitting, my wife and I are going to work/finish the pond. I initally dug it to close to the fence and the outside rocks kept falling in. So I moved the left wall of the pond 2-3 feet to the right. (What a mess!) Luckily, it has been raining enough were the rain has smothed out the dirt walls for us. Looks nice now. We just need to put in the liner and the fun part, rearranging the rocks. Some of those rocks are PRETTY heavy!

BEER TALK
I made a Munich Helles yesterday. It is a German style lager. Everything was going good until it came time to cool the wort, unfermented beer. My connection from the hose to the chiller broke! I looked for a replacement piece, but did not have any. So I ran down to the local Mom and Pop shop hardware store and bought 2, just in case it happens again. Got it on and chilled the wort down to 60*. This beeer needs to ferement at 50*.

So I had to put it in the freezer for a while. I wanted the tempereature of the wort to be close to 50* before I pitch, add, the yeast. If I didn't do that, I would have taking a chance of the yeast going to sleep and not doing their job, ferment the wort.

When it starts to get cold, yeast will put on a portein jacket to stay warm. They don't know that the temperature is only going down 10* or so. This morining, the beer is fermenting away. I did not think I would see such activiy from lager yeast in such a cool environment!
If you look close, you can see some tiny little bubbles, CO2, coming out of solution. That is aluminum foil over the top of the glass ferementer sitting in my chest freezer. That is a temperature probe on the right, it looks like wire or something. That keeps the freezer a constant temperature which thy yeast like.