World Champion II

It’s half-past midnight on the East Coast, and the Red Sox just swept the Colorado Rockies to win their second World Series in three years. In 2004, to celebrate, I put together a recipe I called “World Champion Strong Red Ale” — clearly, it’s time for a reprise.

The original WCSRA was an extract brew with specialty grains, but I think it’s time to make the leap to all-grain brewing, now. From what I’ve been reading, it sounds like a large cooler fitted with a manifold of slotted pipe for drawing off the wort is a popular DIY mash/lauter tun, so I’m going to try that out. Planned recipe after the jump.

Well, Here I Am

Following the well-worn path from silent obscurity to the much louder obscurity of the roiling, cacophonous din that is the storied Blog-O-Sphere, I set out with the traditional First Post.

“Hey out there!” I shout, “Listen to me!  I have things to say!”

“You and a million other schmucks,” replies the Web. “Get in line.”

Well, we’ll see how this goes. Real posts to follow, but at least the page isn’t empty now.