Posts from — July 2008

Well. I knew the ingredients that Hans used, so I picked them up.

Boiled the panella (brown sugar) into a syrup and began to think. Perhaps I should get some better info before starting such a task. I found that E.C. Kraus gives some really good info on basics.
However, I didn’t take any of the advice and began to experiment.
Now we’re cookin.

Here is 15 min after adding yeast.

Here is a few hours after adding yeast to a diluted solution.

Like many of these cockamamie ideas, this one too came from traveling. From Ecuador. From the farm and Mr. Hans, the German squatter exile. The seed was sewn and began to germinate as we left the farm in Ecuador. In leaving we said good bye to our good friend Hans and purchased some trinkets from him and he invited us in and offered us some ‘good wine.’ It came from a small tank sitting on his floor with a single tube extruding from it. He poured it out and said, “it’s a little early, but it will have to do. It is fine wine.” We sipped it, and really, truely enjoyed it. It was great comparted to the gasoline canye and Pilsiner we had been drinking. Thus after a short tour of how it’s made I was set. It will be done.

Many years have passsed since we left there and many things have been done in the mean time, the Palapa built, school attended, live lived, sailing, motorcycles, water harvesting, the house.. now, finally now, it is time to buid some booze and here you may watch as it unfolds into horror and joy.

-John – Brewmaster – BrotherJohn’s Boojum Booze Factory.

It’s been important to me for many years to explore your world as you
live in it. However, recently I listened to a lecture where the
individual professed that the solution only comes when a society
understands the problems via a feedback loop and the great American
downfall is the absence of feedback loops within our society,
automatically removed for our comfort and efficiency… which is
nice. However, he spoke, we are now at a point where our comfort and
efficiencies in society have lead to the efficient destruction of the
true environment and still we can’t create a solution because still we
have no clue what the problem is. We need some feedback.

While it will take quite some time for society (me) to create a
society (me at home) which responds in a significantly more sensitive
manner (me less comfortable). So I have, intentionally and
inadvertently created my own exportation and temporary interaction of
the societal feedback loop. In this respect I created a short list in
my head which I, for my own records and fear of my waning memory, will
write here in no particular order and various value.

Local public school (1-12)
Local garbage dump & recycling center
Sewage treatment plant
Rehabilitation center & halfway house
Soup kitchen
Affluent and poor neighborhoods
Place of higher education
Central transportation hub (train or bus)
Police station
Farmer’s Market
Empty feral lot

perhaps someday I will add more to this. – enjoy