Sunday

Today was a great day with the local brew club.  We learned a bit about flavors and smells in beer.  Sometimes beer can have "off flavors" and it is good to recognize these when brewing your own.  A funny thing about it was that Rolling Rock beer was used as an example of dimethyl Sulfide.  The beer has a different flavor, that most beers do not.  Apparently drinkers of Rolling Rock like this because when Anheuser-Busch bought the company and fixed the brewery so no "off" flavors were produced, customers complained.  The dimethyl sulfide was then returned somehow to the process.  This month was Irish style beer month at the club meeting, so I got to try all sorts of smoky flavored beers.

As you may have read, I have been reading the Jenna Jameson autobiography.  It is a decent read, but I found it to be far too predictable and even a bit of a let down.  If I would have guessed the background of a porn star, it would be just like hers.  She came from a difficult childhood with no "real" parental support.  She chose a bad man, got heavily into drugs, became a stripper, and viola...a porn star is born.  Of course along the way she thinks she is choosing it all to make a better life for herself, but really just did most things because she had low self esteem.  Oh well, she's fine now, I think.  I guess I just wanted to hear her side of the story.  

So, back to the beer subject.  I will soon be submitting some of my homebrews in a local contest...Next the WORLD!!! (cue evil laugh)