#trials and tribulations of homebrewing

[snackugaki]

i swear to fuck i know how to draw shit that isn't turtles who are mutants and also ninja who live in the sewers of new york city

don't... don't fucking look at my backlog that's just more turtle fanart shitposts—  dontlookatme

[heartheaded]

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Have you ever had to go at it alone?

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✧˖° ( This is a MULTI-MUSE featuring the DUNGEONS & DRAGONS franchise containing references to mainly 5e source material, Critical Role, and a healthy dose of homebrew with canons and ocs alike. Other fandoms that will make a prominent appearance are the DANGRANRONPA SERIES, CW’s SUPERNATURAL, and the HARRY POTTER (anti-JKR) franchise among others. Detailed information can be found at the LAW tab located under MORE. ) ✧˖°

✧˖° May you always find the strength to roll initiative and keep fighting! °˖✧ - railroaded by avery -

[manonamora-if]

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I posted 1,570 times in 2022

That's 1,359 more posts than 2021!

536 posts created (34%)

1,034 posts reblogged (66%)

I tagged 1,494 of my posts in 2022

Only 5% of my posts had no tags

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#writing resources - 114 posts

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My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

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#4

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#3

Interactive Fiction - Twine Resource Megalist

This Resource Megalist is intended to centralise the resources for the IF Tumblr community to create Interactive Fiction with Twine. While most will focus on the Twine formats, other useful resources will be included.

I don't know much about other Interactive Fiction programs or format aside from Twine. Even then, I tend to only use Sugarcube. Though this list may try to cover all Twine formats in its resources, my bias for the SugarCube format will be obvious.

If you have a resource I should include, send it to me and I'll add it !

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287 notes - Posted November 10, 2022

#2

Supporting your IF Authors: A tutorial (?)

I had made a small tutorial back on @interact-if a few months ago. Here is the very extended version. Also this is a very long post.

Obviously, you are not forced to do every single one of those actions below (it would be hypocritical of me to say so), but it helps show the authors their readerbase care about their works. Most action only takes a few seconds to a couple of minutes.

Let me know if I forgot something or made a mistake!

Note: while this is specific to IF authors, it can also be applied to other creators.

TLDR: Engage with stuff you like. Lurking might be nice and easy for you but can be detrimental to your fav author. Sharing is caring, y'all! Also, please don't keep the base avatar, it makes us think you are a bot. Don't behave like a bot.

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335 notes - Posted August 10, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

The Trials and Tribulations of Edward Harcourt

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Written by MelS and coded by @manonamora-if, this Lovecraftian horror project is now released. The rating is currently 16+ but may become 18+ by the time it ends.

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[bloodlineofthistles]

🌿 bloodline of thistles

within these lands, the clans are nothing but a myth, a kit tale to be told before bedtime. while some believe they existed at one point, many more think that's just a tall tale. that was true, until recently. whispers of what seems to be dead members of the old clans tell cats a certain message: rebuild the old clans. bring glory back to our name. many obliged.

bloodline of thistles is a warriors roleplay, focused on exploring the rebirth of the old clans, otherwise known as the original clans in the books. housecats and strays traveled from far and wide upon receiving the message, simply to reform these supposed clans.

yet, not everything feels right. the newly formed clans are but imitations of the original four, lacking much of the power, grandeur, or skills of those who came before. more importantly, whatever told these felines their message is yet to speak again; yet to even tell them anything about themselves. many still wait in hope, but hope is hard to hold after 12 long moons of wait.

welcome to bloodline of thistles! we are a 13+ literate roleplay, focused on the trials and tribulations of the new clans, groups of outsider cats attempting to reform the mysterious clans due to the whisperings of some mysterious voice/s.

bloodline of thistles is intended to be a long term roleplay, featuring smaller events and daily dillydallying alongside larger, overarching arcs. as mentioned above, it seems there’s a mystery afoot at the moment. I wonder what that’s about?

what do we have at bloodline of thistles?

-  a simple, automated dice system - all the fun of dice without all those numbers! -  relaxed activity requirements -  simple, tracked systems for hunting, fighting, and gathering herbs

-  a unique, homebrew world, with many secrets to be discovered 

-  a malleable, character-centric approach to plots

-  relaxed attitude on realism, silly names don’t matter here!

-  a welcoming community, just waiting for you to join!

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[keplercryptids]

I forgot that dnd existed until I got to the word ‘dice’ on your latest homebrewing post and I was absolutely riveted. Just so fascinated by what kind of booze you could possibly be making with so many potential trials and tribulations.

omg i wish i was brewing a beverage that was tricky and unpredictable and dependent on dice rolls fjdkslajfla

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Personal tales of perseverance and beer making from the founder of Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. Beyond the Pale chronicles Ken Grossman's journey from hobbyist homebrewer to owner of Sierra Nevada Brewing Co., one of the most successful craft breweries in the United States. From youthful adventures to pioneering craft brewer, Ken Grossman shares the trials and tribulations of building a brewery that produces more than 800,000 barrels of beer a year while maintaining its commitment to using the finest ingredients available. Since Grossman founded Sierra Nevada in 1980, part of a growing beer revolution in America, critics have proclaimed his beer to be among the best brewed anywhere in the world.Beyond the Pale describes Grossman's unique approach to making and distributing one of America's best-loved brands of beer, while focusing on people, the planet and the product Explores the Sierra Nevada way, as exemplified by founder Ken Grossman, which includes an emphasis on sustainability,

[denistricardo]

On my recent attempts at writing and worldbuilding

For those of you that do not know, I am the host of two podcasts, a leftist comedy news podcast Psychic Dolphin Garage and Dolphins & Garage, a TTRPG podcast.

I have used PDG as a way to explore my own space in Leftism and grow my own personal philosophy, which is every growing and evolving as I learn more.

D&G has been a great way to play a TTRPG on a semi-regular basis. However, because our DM has been going through a difficult time navigating college and other personal issues, I have taken their the mantle of DMing a new series while we put our current D&D session on hiatus.

In order to distinguish the two series, I have decided to do away with fantasy and go the horror sci-fi route with a homebrewed Call of Cthulhu campaign.

I have attempted in the past to create a Call of Cthulhu podcast with not much success, but recording that did teach me a few methods to recording a podcast of that size with sound effects and of course worldbuilding.

I am not much of a fiction writer nor do I read or watch much fiction. I am at a disadvantage when it comes to this. However, my approach has been, so far, to take my childhood fears and some of my adult ones and make these into loosely-connected campaigns. My philosophy behind this is that slowly the story will develop around the mishaps, trial and tribulations of the PCs or that the individual stories work better as campaigns with a loose canon that connects them all and the PCs have monster of the week adventures. In any case, these should be fun stories that are horror injected with a level of humor to keep tensions high.

My hope is not to create the best Call of Cthulhu campaign ever, but instead to collaborate with my friends with telling a story our audience will enjoy.

Maybe one day I will be a great fiction writer, but until that day comes, I’m content with collaboratively telling a story with my comrades.

[miamibeerscene]

Little City Brewing Approaches 1 Year Anniversary in Raleigh

Raleigh’s Little City Brewing celebrates one year this fall. (Credit: Local Icon Hospitality)

September 5, 2017

With so many entrepreneurs aspiring to start up a brewery throughout the nation, it never hurts to talk with someone who candidly discloses their successes, trials and tribulations after the first year of operation.

Local Icon Hospitality owner Jon Seelbinder has worked in the hospitality business for almost two decades and has become an enterprising restaurateur while living in Raleigh, North Carolina. However, he admits that owning a brewery is on an entirely different level.

(READ: 5 Epic Craft Beer Road Trips)

After opening the doors of Little City Brewing + Provisions Co. last October—a stylish brewpub based in Raleigh’s burgeoning Glenwood South neighborhood complete with a cocktail program, seven-barrel system and minimalist-meets-chic décor—Seelbinder, 38, shares his experience in this CraftBeer.com Full Pour. Get your notepad out.

Jon Seelbinder says opening a brewery is a whole different level than opening a restaurant. (Credit: Local Icon Hospitality)

Q: Starting with the basics, where are you from originally, where did you go to school and what brought you to Raleigh?

Jon Seelbinder: I’m North Carolina born and raised. I moved to Colorado for school and spent four years there, where I fell in love with beer and skiing. I went to North Carolina State University, majoring in Industrial Engineering and minoring in Business Management. I moved back to North Carolina in 1999, putting roots in Raleigh.

Q: And now you are a successful entrepreneur with Little City becoming your latest project. Discuss the transition to the brewing side and the differences.

Jon: I have worked in and around the hospitality industry for almost 20 years—from restaurants, bars and nightclubs, to managing music artists and producing events. In addition to Little City Brewing, I own three restaurants, a speakeasy and a DJ bar. Opening Little City was certainly a shift. The biggest challenge was being blindsided by the timeline. Time became very stressful and very expensive. If a beer gets stuck in tanks, you are taking a hit monetarily every day that beer continues to sit. Not only are you losing out on revenue from selling that beer, but you are also losing time on the next batch, too. It’s a tricky game. Tweaking and learning our system is super important.

Another curve for us was learning to write down and record everything. Recipes, processes, hiccups, successes … record it all! There’s a saying that brewing and distilling is an ‘exact art and a vague science.’ We have worked very hard to get our recipes and processes dialed in, and we have learned that we will need to continue doing so.

(READ: 7 Breweries Worth a Detour)

Q: You also had some work experience outside of the hospitality industry. How has this helped you with operating Little City?

Jon: Outside of the hospitality industry, I also sold medical devices for a bit and worked as an engineer. The manufacturing side of my engineering degree helps me understand the process and logistics very well in a way that feels completely natural. My brief sales experience has allowed for a very comfortable placement of beer into our local marketplace. While our distribution is very limited at the moment, I hope that sales experience will help when we expand our footprint. I have a ton of fun putting on the beer salesman hat!

Q: To stand out from the other breweries throughout Raleigh, what was your strategy to create some individuality regarding the concept, décor and menu?

Jon: Our aesthetic is a bit different than some breweries. We set out to provide a polished space that evokes a certain feeling to our guests. We are setting up Little City as a brewpub right out of the gate. We will be finishing a kitchen and introducing a chef-inspired food program very soon.

At the end of the day though, our number one goal is to make great beer. We want our beer to possess a delicious drinkability while still being dynamic in our development. With so many options in Raleigh, we must be dedicated to the craft and be willing to take the necessary steps toward holding ourselves to a high standard.

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Q: You were a homebrewer prior to making the jump to Little City. What is like working with commercial equipment?

Jon: I started homebrewing in 1999. I have made a very close connection between cooking, making cocktails and brewing beer throughout the years. Delicious flavors, quality ingredients, preparation directions and recipes all play into all of those things. Good food, good beer and good cocktails all require an understanding of flavor combinations.

With that, scaling up to a big system makes some parts of the brewing process a lot easier, and it’s exciting to work on a bigger system. Scaling recipes and trying to nail them can be stressful. If something goes wrong, we are dumping a lot of money down the drain. As far as brewing on a smaller scale, I do miss the ease and comfort of simply brewing for fun, but I don’t miss catching grief from my girlfriend for taking up half the garage to conduct my magical operations. [Laughing.]

Q: Now you will be celebrating Little City’s first anniversary in October. What other challenges have you endured and what are some of the lessons you will be taking into year two? 

Jon says quality and consistency is at the top of the brewery’s priority list. (Credit: Local Icon Hospitality)

Jon: There have been so many challenges and learning curves that we are still figuring out. Having our own beer on tap is a big deal and time can be such a hard thing to overcome. Between the time it takes to actually brew the beer to then keg the beer, we find ourselves in a time crunch to do the process all over again before we sell out of product.

The biggest lesson is to be disciplined in the way of patience, consistency and the message we send to our guests. We have to baseline some standard beer selections before we start rotating new stuff in and out. We have to tweak and perfect those things and have a consistent product that people keep coming back for.

We have also decided to keep our distribution as close to home as possible for now. We don’t need to stretch across the state quite yet. We want to serve as much beer as possible in our four walls. If we get caught up in the shuffle of a turn-and-burn operation, our brand could get lost. We will hold for now and play that game once we are a bit more established.

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Q: What are some other challenges internally?

Jon: Attention to detail and consistent quality. Environments and factors can change all the time. We want to continue to improve our quality every day and make sure that the tanks work correctly, the humidity is just right, the water is the same and that yeast works like it is supposed to. All of these factors can be extremely challenging.

Q: Let’s talk about your beer. How do you come up with the names, what styles do you craft, and what are the most popular?

Jon: Naming beers can be tough! At first, we wanted to have some very approachable and recognizable styles. This includes ambers, stouts, IPAs, hefeweizens and kölschs. After establishing those styles, we started getting creative with blending flavors like lavender, grapefruit, lemon, coffee, strawberry, vanilla and basil to name a few. All of our beers are ales due to the size of our fermentation space. Ales carry the best timeline for our model. We have done some barrel-aging, which was dynamite, and will be moving into a sour program soon.

As far as the most popular, our coffee kölsch has been a huge hit. We take a generous amount of coffee that we source locally from Larry’s Coffee and brew it with our already dynamite kölsch recipe. The result is a beer that is lighter in color and not nearly as heavy as your typical dark coffee beers. Folks are super surprised once they taste it, and it seems to please a very broad demographic of beer drinkers. We can’t keep it on tap – it moves!

Q: Discuss Raleigh’s craft beer scene.

Jon: Growing, hip, delicious, supportive, quality focused and relevant. There are approximately 40 breweries in Wake County alone with so many great players in the game. We admire our brewing community. Everyone has been super helpful. We have brewed together. They have helped us with lending keg washer time and provided advice when we needed it the most.

While the community is supportive, the approach is still very competitive. The top breweries are striving every day to make really good beer while creating dynamite brands. The game is strong and I think the majority of us believe that you can never have too much good beer! I believe Raleigh breweries will continue to be major players in the beer game.

(READ: Great American Beer Bars 2017)

“We know we are creating something special and that’s what we want to focus on — keeping it special and hoping that people fall in love with us.” Jon Seelbinder

Q: What are your future plans for the brewery?

Jon: Taking our time and really getting our beer right—I mean very right—focusing on quality and consistency. We want to focus on drinkability and not be afraid to blaze into the unknown to create really epic stuff. From there, we will start to implement an awesome food program and figure out how we want to expand our beer brand. We know we are creating something special and that’s what we want to focus on — keeping it special and hoping that people fall in love with us.

Q: Last, what American craft and independent breweries do you have a lot of respect for and why?

Jon: There are so many great breweries locally and around the country that I could mention. 3 Floyds Brewing Co. is undoubtedly an amazing brewery that does some really special beers year after year. Sierra Nevada has paved such a major path for all craft breweries. Some others include Trophy Brewing, Deep River Brewing, Bond Brothers Beer Company, Brewery Bhavana, Lonerider Brewing Company, and on and on and on. There is a serious amount of great beer currently being brewed in North Carolina.

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Dennis Malcolm Byron, a.k.a. Ale Sharpton, is a world-renowned beer authority, award-winning journalist, blogger (AleSharpton.com), photographer, event host and gourmand. He has contributed to more than 20 magazines and numerous websites, and passionately travels the globe to cover what he terms the world’s best beverage. Although a native New Yorker and alumnus of Cornell University, he proudly calls Atlanta his home. Globetrot with him on Twitter and Instagram. Read more by this author

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Stoudts Brewing: 30 Years Driven by the American Spirit

Carol Stoudt and Stoudts Brewing celebrate 30 years in beer. (Credit: Stoudts Brewing)

July 11, 2017

Affixed in the quiet woodlands of eastern central Pennsylvania, Stoudts Brewing has been flexing their craft muscles in the industry since before some of your favorite breweries were just a twinkle in their owner’s eye.

This year they are celebrating their 30th Anniversary as an independent craft brewery.

Stoudts Brewing in the Early Days

Many feel that the true craft movement in America can be traced back to the mid to late 1970s. Somewhere in between the birth of Anchor Steam Brewery in 1965 and the first Great American Beer festival in 1982 exists the arbitrary kicking-off point for the alcoholic revolution that is American craft beer. It was around 10 years after that humble beginning (still eight whole years before the founding of Dogfish Head and other craft juggernauts), that Carol Stoudt set up shop in Adamstown, Pennsylvania.

Things were very different back then.

“When I first started, I was alone … very few breweries,” Carol recalls.

(READ: What Is the Independent Craft Brewer Seal?)

Carol and Stoudts Brewing started humbly in 1987, wanting only to sell draft beer to restaurants in Burks and Lancaster counties. But in the early years, with “macro brews” ruling the scene, it was hard getting off the ground. Eventually, Judy Wicks at the White Dog Café in Philadelphia contacted Carol, and Carol agreed to expand her vision.

According to Carol, Judy and White Dog opened the door, a door to many other independent bar and restaurant owners. True to the American spirit, in the beginning, she sold the beer out of the back of her station wagon. She eventually found a small, independent wholesaler.

“I stayed away from chains,” Carol said. “Most of the product was sold with independent restaurants.”

Stoudts Adapts to the Changing Beer Industry

An early photo of Carol Stoudt in the brewery. (Credit: Stoudts Brewing)

Now, things are quite a bit different for Carol. But she and Stoudts have adapted every step of the way.

When Stoudts opened, there were only 150 breweries in the whole United States. Now, the Brewers Association lists over 5,300 (that’s a 33 fold increase) as of 2016.

When Carol began, she was the first female brewmaster in the United States since Prohibition. Today, thousands of women are leaving a mark on the industry.

(DISCOVER: Find a Pennsylvania Brewery)

When Stoudts started selling to restaurants and bars, it was out of the back of Carol’s station wagon. Now, Stoudts has a distribution range that stretches to six states.

When Stoudts started, it was selling kegs for draft only. It moved to bottling and selling cases, and then bottling for six packs, evolving its branding along the way.

This level of adaptation is required for success. Carol not only adapted to an evolving industry, but anticipated its development.

“I believe we can have a lot of local, regional breweries.” Carol says. “I think a lot of people are sharing my philosophy as far as where they want to concentrate their market area…there are more and more restaurants and bartenders that want to focus on the local product first.”

Accomplishing this not only requires hard work, but also requires keeping a beat on the ever-changing pulse of the industry.

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Carol Stoudt’s Advice to New Brewery Owners

If you’re looking to dive headlong into this brave new world, Carol cautions not to overly romanticize what you think running a craft brewery is like.

“There’s a lot that happens between A to Z,” she says.

Ultimately, her advice is to work hard, be educated on every step of the process, lean on traditional style beers and understand your customers. She also emphasizes the importance of attending events and getting samples of your beer in people’s hands.

Perhaps the most insightful thing Carol tells us is she hopes “people are aware of the trials and tribulations” that craft beer pioneers poured into building their breweries and the industry. She describes years of “feet on the street, doing sampling and talking about craft beer – not just ours but our colleagues’. And the new guys respect us [for that]and help preserve the industry.”

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Stoudts Brewing Celebrates 30 Years in Pennsylvania 

The plans for Stoudts’ 30th Anniversary encompasses these two major themes: hard work and feet on the street. Carol is taking the 30th anniversary on the road.

They’re doing tap take-overs and samplings in bars and tap rooms all over eastern PA. One of the beers, they are keen to feature for the events is The Pennsylvania Pearle. A new Helles Bock made entirely with local Pennsylvania hops and malt, the PA Pearle is a nod to the direction the industry is headed.

Carol Stoudt and Stoudts Brewing stand as a living embodiment of the American dream and spirit. Innovation, hard work and adaptation represent the formula anyone needs to find success. Carol and Stoudts were without a doubt among the select group that laid the ground work for good beer here in America, and it falls to us to join the cause and grow this industry beyond yours, mine and Carol’s wildest dreams. All it takes is a lot of work.

Andrew Jockers

Andrew Jockers is a dental student in the real world, but he works for Voodoo Brewing Company as a bartender in their Homestead taproom to help maintain his sanity. He also works as an events representative for Voodoo in the Pittsburgh area, raises his newborn son with his beautiful wife and enjoys writing freelance when there’s a moment to breathe. In whatever spare time he doesn’t have, Andrew also loves music, homebrewing, rugby, hiking and rafting. Read more by this author

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