...of seeing a whole lotta nothing on this blog!  So I have to write something, no matter how insignificant.  Jib finished at 1.005 from 1.049 for about 90% apparent attenuation and 5.8% abv.  It's still in the secondary fermentor waiting to be bottled.  The other half of that batch was infected with my Clausenii starter and it's worked and still is workin'.  Makin' bubbles and tropical smells out the airlock.  Sweet.

I've been liking the hops more lately.  (Odd?)  When I smelled the esters of the Wyeast Thames Valley II a great while back, one word flashed in my head, "Barleywine!"  Whaa!?  Do you even LIKE Barleywine!!?  Well, I like a few.  Big Time Old Wooly to name one.  It won me over to the American style with it's grapefruity hops.  So far, Thames II has some nice apricot, peach, or other stone fruit esters.  I thought it could meld well with some american hop charactor.  We'll see.