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Beer Bust in Philly, Unregistered Gourmet Brews Confiscated -- "In fact, while there were some real violations, much of the beer was even properly registered, just under a variation on the same name. "Monk's Cafe Sour Flemish Red Ale" was confiscated, for instance, even though "Monk's Café Ale" was on the list."

First they came for Philadelphia's beer, but I did nothing, since I was in Kansas City . . .

So much going on, why limit ourselves to one Whip a day?

Here we go . . .

Libertarianism From A to Z With Jeffrey Miron

A tentative return of the Whip after an extended and much-needed vacation. I'm still playing with the format (as I'll probably be doing until the end of time, mainly because I can't stand being bored). This one is more of a stream-of-consciousness format . . . it's just things that catch my eye as they come into the Google Reader.

Here we go:

I dragged Snookums to the Preserving American Liberty event in Independence, MO this past Saturday. The headliner was, of course, Sarah Palin:

Sarah Palin showing off a Missouri Maverick jersey for Trig

More pictures follow:

Actually, it's 59.2 pounds, but I'm under 220, weighing in this morning at 219.8, down from 279 when I began this in August, 2009.

I got the 60-pound ribbon anyway. Snookums likes my ribbons.

It's green. I like it better than pink, anyway.

On about the last part of March, I noticed my much-neglected homebrew equipment, sitting in the basement. I decided to stop neglecting it.

So I whipped up three batches of beer. Two of them are the same thing:

Filbert's Light (10 gallons)
3.3 lbs Munton's American Style Lager Beer malt/hops extract
Yeast (came with the Munton's)
2 lbs sugar
2 gallons tap water, 3 gallons distilled water (in batch #1)
5 gallons distilled water (in batch #2)
Initial specific gravity: 1.032

I went a little wild with the next one:

Filbert's Cascade Amber Dark
3.3 lbs Briess CBW Traditional Dark malt extract
3.3 lbs Briess CBW Sparkling amber malt
1 lb sugar
3/4 oz. Cascade hop pellets
1 tsp. Irish Moss (clarifier)
1/2 oz. Cascade hop pellets (finishing)
Vierka Dark Munich yeast
5 gallons distilled water
Initial specific gravity: 1.020 (which I really have a hard time believing . . . the wort was sweet, much sweeter IMHO than the Filbert's Light above. It was a bit on the warm side when I took the hydrometer reading, which can cause it to be low.)

This guy, I'm just going to leave alone until June 1 or June 2--that's nine weeks--before bottling. We'll see. If I test it and it's still sweet, I'll have to figure something out.

Anyway, I bottled up batch #1 of Filbert's Light tonight.

Here's my home brewery, hard at work. The two batches of Filbert's Light in front of course, the batch of the Cascade Amber Dark behind the bottles.

Here's what a glass of fresh Filbert's Light looks like.

More pictures from the April 15, 2010 Tax Day Tea Party event at the Community America Ball Park in Kansas City, Kansas.

I do have to comment that in my experience, Tea Parties are just slightly more controversial than, say, state or county fairs. People who fear or loathe Tea Parties simply don't know what they're talking about--or they have a political agenda of their own they're pushing.

Two well-tanned white supremacists spotted in the crowd

Much to the chagrin (so I hear) of my dear mother-in-law, I attended the April 15th, 2010 Tax Day Tea Party held at the Community America Ball Park in Kansas City, Kansas.

Here's the first of two posts of pictures from the event:

The ball park's concourse, about 4 pm.

Better late than never, yes? Here's some pictures from the Women's Final Four in San Antonio:

The Alamodome, taken from the Chart House Restaurant Which is on top of the . . .

1: Why is every single character on this show so intensely, deeply, fundamentally stupid?

2: Why do I keep watching the show anyway?

(Answer for #2: because it's on DVR and basically the only 'space opera' show left on TV . . . at least until Dr. Who starts back up again.)