Public Enemies Trailer

OK - perhaps a teaser of a trailer but still a pretty good production. I like the first more then the second even though the second as some newer material.



I like the first one better but here is an updated version!





Caffeine

I tried a new candy bar called Snickers Charged. Yea - the shiny packaging got me all excited so I purchased one. It has 60mg of caffeine, 50mg of taurine, and 10% of your daily value of Vitamin B6, Vitamin B12, biotin and Pantothenic Acid. The caffeine is a little less then a typical 8oz cup of coffee. Not that exciting but if companies can find a way to put caffeine in anything they will certainly try.

Personally I have only felt a caffeine buzz once in my life. I think it is more of a placebo but Starbucks certainly does like the wonders of caffeine. In the latest tests Starbucks have the most caffeine in their coffee. It's what makes people come back for more and more and more.

Even Dunkin Donuts are looking into new caffeine donuts. One donuts will have the equivalent of a cup of coffee.

Sometimes I wonder what the world would be like if caffeine was never discovered. No caffeinated soft drinks or Hershey bars or coffee.

OH - Snickers Charged had no effect on me and tasted pretty much the same.
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Grinders Island Brewery Double Chocolate Stout Doggie Beer Bars!

There are two major bi-products from making beer. The first is an astonishing amount of packing peanuts which come in the boxes I receive Austin Home Brew. I have "talked" to the owner about this and he said they tried organic packing peanuts but rodents seemed to love them.

His suggestion was to find a local company that use's them and donate. So if you know any local companies in Columbus that use packing peanuts! Let me know.

The other is barley. two to three pounds of it.

My first few batches I tossed the sweet grain into the garden as compost. It all seemed like a good idea until I saw Blake in the garden eating the dirt and or rolling in it. I looked it up to make sure dogs and barley were compatible (I guess rodents have problems) and they are.

So last night I was brewing up a batch of Double Chocolate Stout (a 3.5 hour process) and without thinking too much about it figured I'd make Grinders Island Brewery Double Chocolate Stout Doggie Beer Bars!

Of course I've never done anything like this in my life and thought perhaps 4 minutes about it and dove it. What could go wrong!!

hmmmmm - perhaps I should have thought of this JUST A LITTLE LONGER.

First of all before I get people emailing me - there is NO actual chocolate in the bars. It's chocolate malt which is malted barley. Barley that has been made to germinate by soaking in water and then quickly halted from germinating any further by drying with hot air. THAT is malt.

Well - after I was finished sparging my mash in preparation to creating my wort (I love that kind of talk) I had 2.5 pounds of sweet/sticky hot barley. A very yummy mixture actually with five different malts.

I mixed in a bunch of peanut butter, flour and a few eggs!! Put the goop on a cookie sheet and back for 15 minutes, then another 15 and then another half hour until I got frustrated and said hell with it - they will never get crispy.

Blake LOVED the "bars". Of course he also loves poop., I'm not really sure if it's better then poop or not. Maybe that will be a tag line.

Grinders Island Brewery Double Chocolate Stout Doggie Beer Bars!

Healthier AND Better Then Poop!

Dog owners will know what I'm talking about! He got sort of crazy after he had some and DJ thought he might be drunk but I believe there has to be fermentation involved to create alcohol.

Anyway - I'm looking into REAL recipes now and perhaps I have to dry the grain before making treats. I've seen some dog treats recipes and . . come on. Do you really need 10 ingredients - I need something real simple with flour, eggs and peanut butter. Dogs eat anything. Maybe I have to make them into cookies instead of bars. That way they would dry out faster.

hmmmmmm - Hey - I actually found a recipe for spent grains - Blake will be happy!
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Young Chuck, moved to Montana and bought a horse from a farmer for $100.00. The farmer agreed to deliver the horse the next day. The next day he drove up and said, 'Sorry son, but I have some bad news, the horse died.'

Chuck replied, 'Well, then just give me my money back.'The farmer said, 'Can't do that. I went and spent it already.'

Chuck said, 'Ok, then, just bring me the dead horse.'

The farmer asked, 'What ya gonna do with him?

Chuck said, 'I'm going to raffle him off.'

The farmer said, 'You can't raffle off a dead horse!'

Chuck said, 'Sure I can Watch me. I just won't tell anybody he's dead.'

A month later, the farmer met up with Chuck and asked, 'What happened with that dead horse?'

Chuck said, 'I raffled him off. I sold 500 tickets at two dollars a piece and made a profit of $898.00.'

The farmer said, 'Didn't anyone complain?' Chuck said, 'Just the guy who won. So I gave him his two dollars back.'

Chuck grew up and now works for the government.
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SUMMIT CREDIT UNION - DAMN YOU

Yea - remember when I lost a debit card a while back? I called the Credit Union to get a new card Friday and they said they could not do that. Now that they knew it was lost one they HAD to cancel the card. I said can you wait until after the weekend? No. They said deal with it (basically - not their words).

So they canceled the card and I cut up the remaining card.

The PROBLEM was that they canceled MY debit card!!! Not the joint account. DJ say - well - at least we still have one card . . . . . . . no honey - I sniped it up! grrrrrrr

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Packers - if anyone wants a tape of Saturdays game let me know before I actually burn the tape as I never want it to be used that tape again.

Hey - it's preseason on the road with 11 starters not even making the trip.

Opening night is Monday September 2nd AT 6:00.

That's right - the Packer game September 2nd, Monday night has a 6:00 starting time - I just saw the tickets with Brett Favre on them (sort of funny).
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Have a great Monday!