I cracked one open after a week and it tastes very delicious.

I won’t be brewing anymore until after I get back from Atlanta/Las Vegas trip in March. Gives me a little bit of time to see what I want to brew next.

And it is. So now we bottle the 5 gallons tomorrow!

February 6: It took me quite a while to bottle all my 5 gallons of beer, and it gave me a tired back from sitting on the floor doing it. But here’s my results:

52 bottles of homebrew beer!

They have to sit in the dark and carbonate for 2-4 weeks. I’ll be trying one at two weeks and see how they are.

I started this beer with a starting gravity of 1.080 which has a potential alcohol yield of 10.8%.

Here is my hydrometer reading now: (clicking the pic enlarges it)

This reads 1.006. It’s only been fermenting for 10 days, so I think I’ll give it a few more days to see if it’ll get below 1.006 to be on the safe side. Then bottling time!

Edit: I forgot to mention, with the current reading, the estimated alcohol content is about 10.4%

I just don’t have the time to continue development.

Members system is implemented as well. I’m sure there are a lot of things someone with some time could do with this.

Domain:
Created: 2009-02-16
Expires: 2011-02-16

The domain is hosted at godaddy.

Any affiliate links (the free ebook and currency converter) on there are through this place, https://www.forex-affiliate.com

It has not made any money, I haven’t pimped it out at all. I did have one person email me about it though heh.

Heres a couple PDFs with stats from September 2009, October 2009, November 2009, December 2009, and January 2010 http://freeforexsms.com/stats.zip

I’ll send all files (the php isn’t encrypted) with the mysql database (with a few users in there), and push the domain to your godaddy account no problem.

I am including hosting with Made2Own for 6 months. I am not affiliate with them in anyway. This is from their site (you can also find them on twitter here: http://twitter.com/made2own )

Some of the features include:

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The hosting is paid up until August 2, 2010

Steeping the grains

Pouring the hops in

Primary fermenting

It has to sit in the primary fermenter for about 2-3 weeks, at which point I then bottle the beer and allow it to carbonate/ferment for another 2-3 weeks. Then we drink it!

The beer I am making is a Trappist type beer, if you’re unsure what that here, here is a wikipedia link: Trappist beer

Edit: Here’s a pic of all the equipment I received to begin with and ingredients, before brewing.

Here is a pic of all the bottles I bought. It takes about 55 12oz bottles for 5 gallons of beer. I ordered theee cases of 24 bottles (which is a total of 72 bottles).

I really wish I had this book in uni. It would have helped tons.

The main sections are:

• Memory
• Information Processing
• Creativity
• Math
• Decision Making
• Communication
• Clarity
• Mental Fitness

I’ve only read some of the memory section and I’m working on the information processing section right now. Not a small book (308 pages, with small typeset), it’s packed with awesome things you can do to speed up your time.

I would definitely suggest checking this book out if you’re in school (be it high school, uni, whatever), you want to speed up your thinking process, or just want to improve your memory.

Gary Vaynerchuk’s Crush It is a very motivating and inspirational book for people that want to make money pursuing their passion. He gets down to the nitty gritty and explains how to do this, with mostly dedication and just plain old work.

This book will help you make cash. Period. It compliments the previous book I mentioned on my blog, The Art of the Start, very well.

If you’re wanting to make money online while doing something you love to do, then give it a read. It is kind of a short book at 160 pages, so you’ll have it done in no time and the motivation as well.

Also what a great way to start off the new year.

I am starting a new site called WTFlicks.com. It’s a movie review site of movies that make you think WTF?!?

If you have any recommendations of movies for me to review, please let me know.

http://wtflicks.com

• Contact Form 7 – This gives you a great looking contact form. Highly customizable with an option for adding a captcha.
• Akismet – Stop spam. This comes with every Wordpress install. You need a key for it, register at wordpress.com. It’s free!
• Google XML Sitemap – Add a good XML sitemap for your site.
• Wordpress Auto Upgrade – This makes upgrading the most easy thing. No excuse to not keep your site safe and up to date.
• WP Super Cache – I use this on the sites that get a lot of traffic. There is very much a noticeable difference when you use this. It really speeds your site up.
• Twitter Tools – Best Twitter plugin for Wordpress. Use this to tweet your blog posts.
• Lightbox 2 – Makes your images show up in a lightbox. Extremely handy.
• Chili Code Highlighter – Best plugin to syntax highlight code. You can see examples of it on my site here, Write on images with PHP
• WPrecaptcha – Akismet and this plugin will stop all spam. Must have.
• WPaudio – This is great if you want to share some mp3s on your site. I use this here on my site, My New Ringtone

What plugins do you use? Leave me a comment!

Or if you want something a little more normal