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Brewing a Bell’s Oberon-Style American Wheat Beer with Cultured Yeast from Bottles
To finish off the summer, I decided to brew an American wheat beer in the style of Bell’s Oberon. Oberon is one of my all-time favorite beers. It is cloudy, with a slight tartness, finished off by a respectable hop bitterness. Oberon, and American wheat beers in general, are beers associated with summer. They are…
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How Best to Raise a Human
Raising kids is hard work. For all the smiles, laughs, and happy times, there are quite a few tantrums, tears, and confrontations. As a parent, I want my kids to succeed and be happy and healthy independent adults someday. It is often hard to picture the happy and independent adult scenario when a little one…
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Thoughts on the Arrest of My Parish Pastor for Sex Trafficking
Last Tuesday, the pastor of my parish, Fr. Michael Zacharias, was arrested for sex trafficking. He seemed like a nice and normal person. He did not come off as creepy. I knew him casually in the way most active parishioners knew him. Talks in confession, his homilies, questions after Mass. I liked him. In Findlay,…