Notes - Wed, May 14, 2014

h2. Birds around Home

Bird observations around our home, mainly in the morning:

* NOPA - a 
* BTNW - black-throated green warbler
* TEWA - a
* CSWA - a
* BLBW - a
* REVI - a
* SWTH signing
* INBU - female and male signing in backyard
* BLPW - a
* WPWA - a
* GRCA - on backyard next to the oval bed closest to the house @ 11:53 a.m.

At Noon, the weather was still a low light, low overcast sky, cool temps in the mid to upper 50s.

I think the last WTSP sighting for our backyard occurred on May 12 or May 13.


h2. Shopping for Beer Supplies

Shortly after Noon, we left for "Titgemeier's":http://store.titgemeiersstore.com/ to buy more beer supplies to make a couple more beers, listed in the "Brooklyn Brew Shop's":http://brooklynbrewshop.com/  book titled "Beer Making Book.":http://brooklynbrewshop.com/accessories/brooklyn-brew-shop-beer-making-book

We bought grains, yeasts, hops, sanitizer, some kind of long skinny tube used to hold beer so that the gravity can be measured, and a bottle washing gadget, like the one JP brought over a couple Saturdays ago when we bottled our first five-gallon batch. 

For one-gallon batches, the beer amount is too low to p