• Yeast starter has been made, grain has been milled. Will be brewing my first all grain batch tomorrow. American Brown ale! #
• All ready to brew in the morning. Had to make one final stop at the home depot from hell. #
• Heating water to calculate the thermal mass of mash tun, then I brew. http://twitpic.com/11330l #
• Half way through the mash. Sparge water heating, getting ready to recirc and sanitize the fermenter. #
• http://twitpic.com/114a10 safety hazard yet? #
• http://twitpic.com/114rtf almost at the boil! #
• All done and the yeast is pitched, SG of 1.053. Hit a snag with the pumps and therminator had to use old immersion chiller. #
• Gotta fix my sleep schedule again, school on Saturday in PDX. Full brew day at Rock Bottom #
• Laundry folding, it's my version of meditation, requires no brain function at all. #
• At Rock Bottom PDX, waiting on lunch and drinking beer at our class on mashing #

• All the gear for my all grain system is finally here. Gonna put it together when I wake up and heat up some water to test the pumps. #
• Who wants to bet that apple will overshadow the state of the union in this news cycle #
• DreamHost giving away $10k worth of whatever the hell apple announces today. http://dhurl.org/68 #
• iPad is a disappointment for me. $839 for one that still doesn't have enough storage, gps, or camera. Plus it can't share my iPhone internet #
• Lynnwood PD looking for someone, 20 cars in a 1/2 mile radius near 196th and 64th #

• The all grain setup hit a snag, forgot to check if keg would sit on smaller burner I got for free, it doesn't. Ordered 3rd from blichmann #
• http://twitpic.com/ys8u5 – in progress #
• To PDX in the morning. Also doing energy consumption tests on my keg fridges to see who eats more energy and how much. #
• In Portland ready for class #

• Wednesday my grain mill and kegs arrive as well as the ingredients for my first two all grain batches. #
• Google may be pulling out of china. Will cease censoring results. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-approach-to-china.html #
• http://twitpic.com/xz6f4 hey look, kegs! #

This is a portrait of me by Jeff McComsey, a talented artist and a fellow redditor. Check out his website for more “pulped” pics and even hire him to draw one of you.

I got my inked sketch, and colored print in the mail today and it looks awesome. Now I have to get them framed.

• Thanks for missing two delivery deadlines FedEx #
• Well we may see the end if my old coldspot keg fridge, replacing with more efficient and spacious keezer. 2x the beer capacity #
• Lunch time at Bridgeport brewing. Then we're off to Widmer. The Scottish seasonal Bridgeport has is amazing. #

• Carbonating stone lid is assembled, now to carbonate with science!! #homebrew #
• The Silverback "Pathogen" album is now FREE – http://www.natemc.com/news/?p=475 #
• CHI co forgot my o-ring for the carbonating lid, good thing I have a spare. The Honey Wheat is now carbonating with the new stone. #
• Two burners one tank http://twitpic.com/vn288 #
• Going to brouwer's in a few. Heard they have some dogfish head brews on tap. #
• New Belgium Brouwer's Imagination #1 was excellent as well as The Trip IV #
• 2009 don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out. Good riddance. #
• Why do Seattle homebrew stores seem to have poor cust service. They wonder why I mail order 90% of the time. #
• However Larry's in Kent and Homebrew Heaven in Everett are great just more than 5 miles from home. #

Released in late 2006, this second collaboration between Tony Sonic & myself, and teamed with singer Angela Faro marked the last full musical project I had taken on. We have decided to release this album as a digital download for free like the rest of my back catalog.

Download The Silverback “Pathogen”

More The Silverback downloads can be had as well…

The Silverback – Initiation (Nate MC Remix)
The Silverback – Genrenation (Full Album)
The RemixFight where talented remixers all took a shot at Remixing “Virus”
See the Music section for more downloads.

• No word from Midwest today on the bad gear I was sent. Which pushes my all grain brewing back prolly 2 weeks #
• New sights are in transit but doesn't look like they will make it here this weekend. #