Last night I went and joined Sarah and some of her workmates at a pub in central Auckland for the local pub quiz. It was a great night, apart from the fact that I totally and utterly suck at pub quizzes.
It doesn't help, of course, that I'm not a Kiwi. So I don't know any of the local Kiwi questions that they ask and I don't know any of the International questions that they ask. And hell, I probably wouldn't know any of the Australian questions if they asked.
I did get one question right though, which is quicker to make an Ale or a Lager. So at least my homebrew knowledge has finally come in useful somewhere.

So today after work I was at the bus stop. Standing there, propped up against the wall, minding my own business. When this woman comes up to me and, Australian Rules...

Had a great day yesterday. Got some really cool presents:

• Bus Roll
• Cooking Timer
• Jesus Bandaids
• How To Brew Book
• Cow Teatowel
• Box of beers and snacks

For dinner Sarah took me to a surprise restaurant that neither of us at been to before. It was quite a drive down the Western Motorway but it was certainly well worth it because we ended up at The Hallertau Brewbar and Restaurant. I had what has to have been one of the best T-Bone steaks I've ever had, it was that good it was like eating at the Jervois Steak House.

I didn't really go into detail about how awesome the Guinness cake is, well, it's super awesome. It's a lovely chocolate mud cake but it has a really nice hint of Guinness. Plus it has a nice white foamy icing on top, it's the real deal!

I had a really...

Happy Birthday to me! Sarah has cooked me a lovely Guinness Cake which I've brought half of into work for a mid-morning snack.

Check out the awesome Bus Roll that she made for me, it's so cool! Excuse the crappy image, it was taken with my crappy phone camera in low light.

Tim

I really cut my face shaving today. I look like a monster. Ugh. Stupid razor. It was always my biggest fear on my wedding day that I'd cut myself. Anyway, I shouldn't complain, no one listens.

Mum send me Nan Milburn's funeral bits and pieces during the week. The service looks like it was lovely and a fitting tribute to Nan's life. I scanned the DVD and put it on Youtube if anyone would like to see it.

I've been putting up rouge posters in the break room at work. Ever since we moved back onto Level 3 at 101 the place has been quite sterile and boring. There are the usual company "Yaaa Team!" posters up and let's face it, they're boring as f**k. So I've been putting up things like this, and this. I think most people suspect it's me. Certainly a few people have...

We went to see the Rugby on Saturday night with one of Sarah's workmates and his girlfriend. The tickets were pretty cheap because they wanted to get a large crowd in to test Eden Park out, making sure people could get in and out, that the buses and trains worked properly. All that sort of stuff. We were guinea pigs basically.

It was all very well organised though. We arrived a little bit late, it took us about 20 minutes to get to Eden Park from home but then we had to walk to the opposite end of the ground to get in our allocated gate. Bugger! We started to panic a little bit because we thought we'd miss the teams coming onto the ground. But we got to our seats just in time, we'd only been sitting for a few minutes before everyone came out onto the ground. I...

Harman's Hobo
The high temp has made it unhappy. You probably wouldn't drink it unless you homeless, thus the name.

Bavarian Wheat Beer.

Ingredients:

Can of Mangrove Jack's Bavarian Wheat Beer 1.7kg
Coppertun Bavarian Wheat 1kg Pack of Dextrose
Safbrew WB-06 Yeast (15-24c)

Mixed can into mixer, mixed in 1.7L of boiling water and Sugar pack. Added to fermentor, sloshed back and forth a number of times. Sprinkled yeast on top.

Start Gravity 1.043

10/8/2011 - overheated to ~31 degrees. Whoopsie.

Final Gravity: 1.010
27/8/2011
Quite fizzy already, but still used two sugar pills in each bottle. Sarah helped bottle, was a lot quicker. Quite a lot of oxygen got into the beer, mostly because the hose wasn't the right one! Have to get a proper bottle setup for the secondary

Here we are on the new nice server. It's not even a real server, it's a virtual server. Sad thing is, it's about 3 times faster than my old server which wasn't even virtual. Anyway it doesn't matter, upshot is that Tim's Diary has a new home once again since our nice change of policy at work. Fun fun.

At least migration was fairly painless!

Tim