speak, it ain’t illegal yet

I have been having a minor headache lately ever since I switched to using IMAP with Thunderbird(2.0.0.6) to get my GMail. Almost all of the attachments seem to be corrupted, but if I goto gmail.com and download the file there, it works fine. I further investigated by sending myself a text file, and found out the file appears to actually be getting truncated short and not just randomly corrupted.

I looked online and it appears other people are having issues as well. Does anyone know anything a little more official from Google on what they are doing about this?

I bottled the Belgian IPA on 11-2-07. I only let it sit in the secondary for a week, since the kit was based off didn’t even recommend a secondary fermentation. This will be the shortest time I have had a beer in the secondary fermenter, so it will be interesting to see if I can notice a difference in taste or sediment.

The final OG was 1018. With an original OG of 1070, the beer turned out to have a 6.9% ABV. For those who are curious, I use this online ABV calculator at RooftopBrew.net to do my calculations, since it takes into account the temperature differences. It is a simple and easy site that really comes in handy, especially when you don’t have a calculator around.

I also racked the Christmas ESB to secondary on 11-4-07. It isn’t as dark as I was hoping to be, but hopefully some of the darker flavors will come out.

I also am going to try my first bottle of the Saison tonight. It still has about 6 weeks left to fully develop its flavors, but I feel a sneak peak is in order!