Margaritifer Winery’s 3rd Wine is in the Bottles! This morning, Molly and John came over and helped us bottle The Canali Cab 2006 Cabernet Sauvignon. It all went very smoothly, and we managed to finish before the weather got stinky hot. I had a couple sips of it, and I think it’s going to be …
Miracle Drain Opener!
So, I came home a little tipsy last night and dumped a bunch of vegetables into the garbage disposal. Like A LOT of vegetables. Way more than was good for it. The sink became totally clogged. First thing I tried was sticking my hand in there and then running the garbage disposal for a while …
My first yogurt!
Ok, remember how I told you about fermentation a few posts back? Well, we did some more fermenting last night and made some Yogurt! The directions we followed are here, along with some excellent information about what exactly yogurt is and what you can do with it. If you don’t feel like leaving my site …
Me? Overextended? Nah.
I’ve been an insane ball of energy lately. I’m reading about 20 books and 10-20 magazines now, I’m learning 2 different programming language, making wine, planning events and more events, blogging and updating a lot of personal sites, running a growing business and a couple fun businesses, taking golf lessons, planning to start making cheese, …
Fun Fermentation Facts
I’ve been learning a thing or two about winemaking lately. I will now share one of those things with you. The process that converts grape juice (or other fruits, or grains) into wine is ethanol fermentation. Here’s the formula: C6H12O6 –>2 CO2+ 2C2H5OH + Energy Released (118 kJ mol-l) At the most basic level, that’s …
Margaritifer #1!
We bottled the first Margaritifer wine a couple weeks ago: Martian Red Australian Shiraz (23 liters; from a kit). We acually bottled it a week later than I had originally planned because we went to Boise for my Grandpa’s funeral. In honor of him, I’m calling the wine Spencer’s Martian Red Australian Shiraz. We’ve drunk …
Announcing the Sursiks
It’s one day old and the debut release by The Sursiks is a huge hit! The record label my brother, David Minnick, and I created to facilitate the release and distribution of our own music released David’s latest CD, The Sursiks: I Didn’t Know I Was Singing, yesterday to incredibly good reviews. CDBaby loved it …
What is Web 8.0?
As some of you might be aware, I’ve been planning a conference which will hopefully take place in Sacramento sometime within the next 12 months. The basic idea of the conference will be “Ideas (mine in particular) about the future of the Web, and also ridiculing the concept of giving version numbers to the Web”. …