Gravel to Ragbrai

Looks to be a short ragbrai year this year but,  I have a metric gravel route to Boone ready to go so stay tuned.  It will be light pace and It will be my oldest's first gravel metric on the tandem.  Should have times and stuff down by the end of the week.  I'm come back from Altoona not sure wed/thursday?  However there is a nice bike trail home from altoona to the east side then maybe a little ERT or not....

July 4th (day 2)

July 4 (day 1)

No bike ride today :(

but I'm test driving this picnic table

Our First All Grain Homebrew

14 lbs of grain for a Pilsner

Homemade Mash tun

It worked GREAT!

Monitoring the Temp for 30 minute periods in 5 degrees temp ranges
isn't as hard as you would think.

The all grain added about 3 hours of time to the overall work and used about 5 extra gallons of water, 10 gallons yield about 6 gallons of beer.  gravity came out to 1.064 about normal for pilsner so we must have done something right.  I guess we'll know for sure in 6 weeks..

Good Times