(7580,1,'2011-04-11 15:22:40','2011-04-11 21:22:40','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1952\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=1952\"><strong>They provide basic amenities.</strong>\r\n<img title=\"Pedestrian Bridge at River Parks Tulsa Oklahoma\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/DSC06456-500x666.jpg\" alt=\"Pedestrian Bridge at River Parks Tulsa Oklahoma\" width=\"400\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWho is Tulsa? If Tulsa was a person, how would you describe him or her? Musical? Artsy? Sporty? Foodie? Something else?\r\n\r\nThat\'s the question Blake Ewing, the owner of several downtown businesses, has been exploring over the course of a few posts at his blog, <a href=\"http://www.blakeewing.com/\">BlakeEwing.com</a>.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\nBlake\'s posts - or essays, rather - have gone viral, at least on the local Web, landing on at least <a href=\"http://www.batesline.com/archives/2011/04/added-to-the-blogroll.html\">two popular Tulsa blogs</a> (and <a href=\"http://jboudiette.wordpress.com/\">here</a>) and on the feeds of several influential local Twitter users.\r\n\r\n<h3>What\'s In The Blake Ewing Posts</h3>\r\n\r\nProbably the most circulated post thus far would be <a href=\"http://blakeewing.wordpress.com/2011/02/09/who-will-lead-us/\">Who Will Lead Us?, a post from early February calling for stronger, more cooperative leadership in our city government</a>:\r\n<blockquote>I can’t help but be frustrated. I feel like most of the work I do is somehow related to the betterment of our fine city, so it’s tough to want so badly for our elected officials to provide a strong foundation for us and to feel like there’s no new hope for that. I feel like our people want to be inspired. They want a vision for a better Tulsa. They want to believe that we can do what so many cities have done in recent years. We can reinvent ourselves. We can enhance our existing attributes, mitigate our weakness, and create new attractions and amenities for Tulsa and its visitors to enjoy. The public is looking for leadership and they are not finding it.\r\n\r\nInstead, it seems, we are forced to deal with nagging political roadblock and short-sighted politicians who can’t seem to figure out that what they’re doing now is not what’s best for Tulsa....\r\n\r\n...I will continue to believe in a better city and I will continue to hope that our city leaders will rise to lead us. I keep feeling that there’s this whole other side to the job that has to do with people. It’s emotional. It’s relational. The job is so much more than just making policy and taking care of business. They clearly know this. It must be the reason for the long winded speeches directed at the TGOV cameras. They’re trying to communicate with us. They’re just doing it all wrong. Those speeches in council meetings are worthless. They don’t count. They don’t inspire. They frustrate.</blockquote>\r\nHe continues with the same theme in his next post, dated about a month later:\r\n<blockquote>I’m absolutely in love with [Tulsa\'s] potential. It’s painful to feel like I can close my eyes and see the Tulsa we should be, but we lack the infrastructure, vision, or synergy to get us there.\r\n\r\nI’m not blaming our city’s leaders for the way things are. If we’re not happy, it’s because we’ve let it be this way. If you are happy with things, I’d ask you to look at the city as a whole. Are we achieving our potential? Is the lifestyle you’re enjoying going to be sustained or will the shortcomings in other parts of the city eventually infringe on the things you currently appreciate and enjoy. While our neighboring cities were growing, developing, and improving, we were slow to the party...Tulsans have struggled to see the big picture and therefore have done the very human thing of asking, “what’s in it for me?”\r\n\r\n...if you’re completely happy with the way things are, that doesn’t exempt you. In order to get to keep what you have, you’re going to have to act. The city is changing and your lifestyle, be it a suburban or an urban one, is going to be threatened. It’s time to think past the end of the driveway for a minute. The city in which we’ve chosen to live, and in which we want our children to want to live, needs our help.</blockquote>\r\nThe latest installation is a post called <a href=\"http://blakeewing.wordpress.com/2011/04/03/grow-up-tulsa-grow-up-tulsa/\">Grow Up, Tulsa. Grow Up Tulsa</a>, focused on the first steps of a process Blake calls, \"making Tulsa a grown-up city.\" He begins by suggesting that Tulsa should compare itself to other cities and use their examples to reverse engineer where Tulsa would like to be. He writes that grown-up cities:\r\n\r\nTake advantage of their resources and promote their assets;\r\nThey attract and retain creative people;\r\nThey provide basic amenities; \r\nTheir local government provides sound infrastructure and supports development;\r\nThey have a vibrant urban core;\r\nThey celebrate small local business.\r\n\r\nHere\'s where he\'s left things for now: \r\n\r\n<blockquote>A defined set of goals and values for our city would help those types of things to be more frequent. If we could get all of the major parties with a stake or a say-so (city council, mayor, TMAPC, INCOG, chambers of commerce, school boards, neighborhood associations, state reps and senators, US reps and senators, and entrepreneurs and developers) to push everything through the same set of filters, I think we’d see marked improvement as a city in a hurry. If at every level we had to ask the question “Is this what a grown-up city would do?” we might start seeing a different type of behavior across the board. I know it’s a little cheesy, but it’s the principle that’s important. I’m trying to communicate that we really can stop wasting time with silly bickering and minute policy making and start getting to work growing up.</blockquote>\r\n\r\nBlake\'s blogging has generated a variety of responses, some in the form of new groups looking to better champion Tulsa as well as requests that he run in the next mayoral election.\r\n\r\nEven if you differ with Blake on the particulars, what he has to say is worth our time, thoughts and conversation. \r\n\r\n<h3>So, Let The Conversation Begin</h3>\r\n\r\nI agree that there\'s value in well-defined common goals, comparing Tulsa to other cities and envisioning from such a comparison what our city could be. \r\n\r\nWhat I think is more important, though, is first living fully into our city as it presently exists and what it has to offer today, right now.\r\n\r\nThat means checking out local parks, attractions and events rather than parking ourselves and our families on the couch in front of the TV night after night, or refusing to enjoy what Tulsa has to offer until we get an IKEA, a major theme park or other such development. It\'s choosing local businesses over chains and big-box outlets whenever possible. It\'s hosting block parties in our neighborhoods when it would be easier to keep to ourselves.\r\n\r\nI think that\'s where our identity comes from, and I think it\'s why so many of us sense such malaise in the momentum of the progression of our city. Urban sprawl and all that goes along with it has been the slippery slope on which Tulsa and many other mid-sized cities across the country have found themselves since the American dream of homeownership and the white picket fence life went on deep discount here in the states after World War II. \r\n\r\nCities are like people in that each has its own personality, but also like people, we can\'t assign traits and attributes to them like we can storage boxes with a label maker. Great cities grow into their identities as a function of culture, history and place, and when it\'s a great thing, it\'s an organic process. It doesn\'t come from a marketing campaign or an elite, exclusive group of citizens with big plans and deep pockets. It truly is a community endeavor, and while it\'s bound to be fragmented and messy and disobedient to timelines and mission statements, it begins with our kids, our neighborhoods and how we vote by how we spend our dollars.\r\n\r\nPeople aren\'t kidding when they say Tulsa is a great place to raise a family and that it\'s a top choice for retiring, relocating baby boomers. But how many of those cities can also claim to also be the birthplace of Route 66? Or home to dozens upon dozens of Native American cultures, one of the most diverse sets of tribes in the country? Or the home of one of the largest collections of art deco architecture in the world? Or a place where world-class museums, ballet, opera and theatre companies can pack entertainment venues just up the street from bursting-at-the-seams guns and arms shows, rodeos and state fairs?\r\n\r\nLet\'s choose to own these things. Let\'s learn about and experience it all. Then, let\'s teach our children about it, work to instill in them a sense of pride in their histories and in their community. Let\'s start telling our stories. If we\'re convinced we don\'t have any, then let\'s get to work on writing some.\r\n\r\nTo refuse the richness that a sense of place can imbue in our lives and in the lives of our families is a two-fold death. It creates in the citizenry a numbness which can tolerate only convenience, routine and sameness, each of which has effects of its own on the world around us and on the human spirit. It also silences the identity of a place. If we refuse to learn about the history of where we plant our feet, our kids and our homes and build on that in our own ways and with our own stories, any piece of rock on which we settle is just like any other piece of rock. It becomes nowhere. A no-place.\r\n\r\nThat\'s where I think Tulsa\'s chance to sparkle lies, in investing in the city as it exists now with our time, experiences and, yeah, our resources - essentially, by creating and sharing our stories with one another and with everyone we meet when we\'re not at home. That\'s where the cool factor is gonna start. That\'s where things like river development by Tulsa\'s own businesses, drop-ins by the major, sought-after entertainment, tourist-worthy arts and music scenes, huge companies that employ lots of people, a vibrant young creatives class and a bustling downtown start. Who we are has to actually match what we want others to know about us.\r\n\r\n<h3>What Say You?</h3>\r\n\r\nBlake - a man who truly loves this city and walks the walk in just about every way imaginable - set forth his vision for the city. I used this blog post to do the same. \r\n\r\nBut I want I know - what do you think? Who/what do you think Tulsa is? How does that compare with what you\'d like to see Tulsa become over the course of the next generation or two? How do we get there? What are you willing to do as a Tulsan to both write and tell the city\'s story? Let\'s chat in the comments. ','Who Is Tulsa?','What are you willing to do as a Tulsan to both write and tell the city\'s story? ','inherit','open','open','','7570-revision-10','','','2011-04-11 15:22:40','2011-04-11 21:22:40','',7570,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/04/7570-revision-10/',0,'revision','',0),(6525,1,'2011-03-03 22:30:18','2011-03-04 04:30:18','<object width=\"499\" height=\"311\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/uizVpwvlNRI?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\"></param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"></param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"></param><embed src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/uizVpwvlNRI?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"499\" height=\"311\"></embed></object>\n\nTulsa parents, if you don\'t want to wake up strapped to your bed in your daughters\' bright pink duct tape Monday morning, here\'s what I\'d recommend: Take her to see Disney\'s Beauty and the Beast. It\'s in Tulsa this weekend. \n\nGet the details on my blog at TulsaKids.com.\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"8\"]</p>','Tulsa Kids Day Out: Disney\'s Beauty and the Beast','','inherit','open','open','','6522-revision','','','2011-03-03 22:30:18','2011-03-04 04:30:18','',6522,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/6522-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(6526,1,'2011-03-03 23:10:23','2011-03-04 05:10:23','You guys are the first to know... Mike scored #5 in the nation and #2 in the Midwest at the Pizza Expo & Competition in Las Vegas for the Semper Fi pizza!\n\nAndolini\'s posts contests just about every day on Facebook that allow you to win stuff ranging from an order of garlic knots to $50 Andolini\'s gift certificates. Then, on Tuesday, the second pizza you order is $2. \n\nThe Cherry STreet location of Andolini\'s will open at some point this month. \n\nhttp://www.tulsabusiness.com/main.asp?Search=1&ArticleID=51060&SectionID=21&SubSectionID=77&S=1\nOrder online at andopizza.com. \n\n\nAndolini\'s is open daily from 11am to 9pm.\n\nWhen it comes to Owasso pizza, Andolini\'s Pizzeria and Italian restaurant is the ideal destination for Owasso and Tulsa residents alike. The brainchild of brothers Jim and Mike Bausch. Two brothers committed to making food the RIGHT way, not the cheap way.\n\nAverage chain restaurants use as many pre-made and packaged products as possible. They\'re full of additives and chemicals. You won\'t find any of that in Jim and Mike\'s kitchen.\n\nAt Andolini\'s everything is made from scratch, using FRESH ingredients without additives. Jim and Mike\'s relentless insistence of using the best products is a result of their experiences in the US Marine Corps and growing up with a father who is a USMC Lt. Colonel (Ret.).\n\nEverything that\'s served at Andolini\'s is prepared following Jim and Mike\'s home recipes. That means the smoked mozz is made with fresh hickory chips, the pistachio pesto is blended from fresh basil leaves, extra virgin olive oil and real pistachios. The meatballs are a special mixture of ground beef, Italian sausage and fresh basil. The DELICIOUS whole milk mozzarella is made by hand using fresh curd! The pizza dough is made from specially milled high gluten flour and hand tossed for each order.\n\nThey know doing things the RIGHT way ultimately results in a BETTER meal for you! So enjoy a REAL meal made with REAL ingredients.\n\nYou mgiht want to join their mailing list, too, since they send notice of their weekly spencials and other deals regualrly in that way. \n\nJim Bausch, Mike Bausch, Tyler Crabtree\n\n<object width=\"500\" height=\"405\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/YfDUjhwyjPs?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\"></param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"></param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"></param><embed src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/YfDUjhwyjPs?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"500\" height=\"405\"></embed></object>\n\n<object width=\"500\" height=\"405\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/hwRWFMNsCYY?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\"></param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"></param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"></param><embed src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/hwRWFMNsCYY?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"500\" height=\"405\"></embed></object>\n\nSince 2005. \n\n','Andolini\'s','','inherit','open','open','','6507-revision-2','','','2011-03-03 23:10:23','2011-03-04 05:10:23','',6507,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/6507-revision-2/',0,'revision','',0),(9373,1,'2011-10-18 11:53:42','2011-10-18 17:53:42','','fall leaves photo','','inherit','open','open','','cimg2388-jpg','','','2011-10-18 11:53:42','2011-10-18 17:53:42','',9367,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/3896303315_245547207a_b.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(9374,1,'2011-10-18 11:31:46','2011-10-18 17:31:46','<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/fall-break-tulsa-things-to-do/4109887840_e7dce75922/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3137\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/4109887840_e7dce75922.jpg\" alt=\"Philbrook Museum\" title=\"Philbrook Museum\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3137\" /></a>\r\n\r\nFall Break 2011 has descended upon the households of the Tulsa area, and that means one very scary thing: The kids are home. \r\n\r\nUh-oh. Now what? \r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n[adrotate group=\"2\" banner=\"8\"]\r\n\r\nNot to worry. Whether you\'ve gotta work and need to find somewhere to put the kids, if you\'re home with them today or if you need an activity list for Grandma, Grandpa or your favorite baby sitter, there\'s plenty to do in Tulsa this fall break. As heard on the <a href=\"http://www.krmg.com/krmgmorningnews\">KRMG Morning News with Joe Kelley</a>, here\'s the list. \r\n\r\n<strong>Camps</strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Gilcrease Museum: Art over Fall Break</strong>. Get an intro to the Gilcrease collections and special exhibitions and make a variety of crafts in papier-mache, multimedia weaving, painting, clay, printmaking and drawing. This camp is for kids age 5-11. Thursday-Friday, 9am-4pm. Class fee is $75, or $50 for members. Register by calling (918) 596-2737 - there weren\'t many spots in the camp to begin with, so if you want your kid to be part of this, call first thing this morning. \r\n\r\n<strong>Fall-Flavored Stuff</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4053724478/\" title=\"Oktoberfest 2009 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2666/4053724478_b83d8bbd4e.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Oktoberfest 2009\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<strong>OktoberFest Tulsa</strong>. I hear from a lot of folks who don\'t think OktoberFest Tulsa is a kids\' event, which is sad, because it totally is. Check out the rides at the carnival as well as what\'s going on the kids\' then. By the way, kids 12 and under pay nothing at the admission gate, and it\'s open all day Thursday and Friday. \r\n\r\n<strong>Oxley Nature Center</strong>. If you\'re looking for some outdoor fall fun this fall break, check out the foliage with a hike at Oxley Nature Center. You\'re bound to see some wildlife in addition to all those beautiful, colorful, leaves, too. Know what\'d be fun? See how many different colors of leaves you and your kids can gather in an after noon at Oxley. 8am-5pm. \r\n\r\n<strong>Ghost Walks in Bartlesville</strong>. This might be just for the older kids on break, but it\'d still be fun to head up Highway 75 to see what lurks in the dark shadows of downtown Bartlesville after midnight. You and the fam can take a walking tour of some of downtown Bartlesville\'s most historic buildings and hear some ghost stories. Tours start every 20 minutes between 6-9pm, and the cost is $5 per. If you get to Bartlesville early and have some smaller kiddos in tow, be sure to check out the Kiddie Park in Johnstone Park. \r\n\r\n<strong>Tulsa-Area Pumpkin Patches</strong>. Halloween is scarily close, and you know what that means - the pumpkin patches here in the Tulsa area are open. Keep in mind that pumpkin patches today aren\'t just for pumpkin shopping - they\'re full-blown destinations offering everything from pony- and hayrides to a little something called a pumpkin cannon. You can check TashaDoesTulsa.com for a complete list of local pumpkin patches.\r\n\r\n<strong>Tulsa Libraries</strong>. Not only are there loads of storytimes for a variety of ages and at a variety of times, there\'s also Board Game Day at Schusterman-Benson Library today (Thursday) at 3:30pm, a puppet and marionette show at Central Library at 3:30pm and 7pm and a Daring Young Scientist program at the Broken Arrow Library today at 6:30pm. On Monday, check out Books Sandwiched in at noon at Central Library. It\'s all free and open to the public, and who knows, you kid might even read a book on his day off. ','It\'s Fall Break in Tulsa and the kids are home. Now what?','','inherit','open','open','','9367-revision-5','','','2011-10-18 11:31:46','2011-10-18 17:31:46','',9367,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/10/9367-revision-5/',0,'revision','',0),(7579,1,'2011-04-11 15:21:54','2011-04-11 21:21:54','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1952\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=1952\"><strong>They provide basic amenities.</strong>\n<img title=\"Pedestrian Bridge at River Parks Tulsa Oklahoma\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/DSC06456-500x666.jpg\" alt=\"Pedestrian Bridge at River Parks Tulsa Oklahoma\" width=\"400\" /></a>\n\nWho is Tulsa? If Tulsa was a person, how would you describe him or her? Musical? Artsy? Sporty? Foodie? Something else?\n\nThat\'s the question Blake Ewing, the owner of several downtown businesses, has been exploring over the course of a few posts at his blog, <a href=\"http://www.blakeewing.com/\">BlakeEwing.com</a>.\n\n<!--more-->\n\nBlake\'s posts - or essays, rather - have gone viral, at least on the local Web, landing on at least <a href=\"http://www.batesline.com/archives/2011/04/added-to-the-blogroll.html\">two popular Tulsa blogs</a> (and <a href=\"http://jboudiette.wordpress.com/\">here</a>) and on the feeds of several influential local Twitter users.\n\n<h3>What\'s In The Blake Ewing Posts</h3>\n\nProbably the most circulated post thus far would be <a href=\"http://blakeewing.wordpress.com/2011/02/09/who-will-lead-us/\">Who Will Lead Us?, a post from early February calling for stronger, more cooperative leadership in our city government</a>:\n<blockquote>I can’t help but be frustrated. I feel like most of the work I do is somehow related to the betterment of our fine city, so it’s tough to want so badly for our elected officials to provide a strong foundation for us and to feel like there’s no new hope for that. I feel like our people want to be inspired. They want a vision for a better Tulsa. They want to believe that we can do what so many cities have done in recent years. We can reinvent ourselves. We can enhance our existing attributes, mitigate our weakness, and create new attractions and amenities for Tulsa and its visitors to enjoy. The public is looking for leadership and they are not finding it.\n\nInstead, it seems, we are forced to deal with nagging political roadblock and short-sighted politicians who can’t seem to figure out that what they’re doing now is not what’s best for Tulsa....\n\n...I will continue to believe in a better city and I will continue to hope that our city leaders will rise to lead us. I keep feeling that there’s this whole other side to the job that has to do with people. It’s emotional. It’s relational. The job is so much more than just making policy and taking care of business. They clearly know this. It must be the reason for the long winded speeches directed at the TGOV cameras. They’re trying to communicate with us. They’re just doing it all wrong. Those speeches in council meetings are worthless. They don’t count. They don’t inspire. They frustrate.</blockquote>\nHe continues with the same theme in his next post, dated about a month later:\n<blockquote>I’m absolutely in love with [Tulsa\'s] potential. It’s painful to feel like I can close my eyes and see the Tulsa we should be, but we lack the infrastructure, vision, or synergy to get us there.\n\nI’m not blaming our city’s leaders for the way things are. If we’re not happy, it’s because we’ve let it be this way. If you are happy with things, I’d ask you to look at the city as a whole. Are we achieving our potential? Is the lifestyle you’re enjoying going to be sustained or will the shortcomings in other parts of the city eventually infringe on the things you currently appreciate and enjoy. While our neighboring cities were growing, developing, and improving, we were slow to the party...Tulsans have struggled to see the big picture and therefore have done the very human thing of asking, “what’s in it for me?”\n\n...if you’re completely happy with the way things are, that doesn’t exempt you. In order to get to keep what you have, you’re going to have to act. The city is changing and your lifestyle, be it a suburban or an urban one, is going to be threatened. It’s time to think past the end of the driveway for a minute. The city in which we’ve chosen to live, and in which we want our children to want to live, needs our help.</blockquote>\nThe latest installation is a post called <a href=\"http://blakeewing.wordpress.com/2011/04/03/grow-up-tulsa-grow-up-tulsa/\">Grow Up, Tulsa. Grow Up Tulsa</a>, focused on the first steps of a process Blake calls, \"making Tulsa a grown-up city.\" He begins by suggesting that Tulsa should compare itself to other cities and use their examples to reverse engineer where Tulsa would like to be. He writes that grown-up cities:\n\nTake advantage of their resources and promote their assets;\nThey attract and retain creative people;\nThey provide basic amenities; \nTheir local government provides sound infrastructure and supports development;\nThey have a vibrant urban core;\nThey celebrate small local business.\n\nHere\'s where he\'s left things for now: \n\n<blockquote>A defined set of goals and values for our city would help those types of things to be more frequent. If we could get all of the major parties with a stake or a say-so (city council, mayor, TMAPC, INCOG, chambers of commerce, school boards, neighborhood associations, state reps and senators, US reps and senators, and entrepreneurs and developers) to push everything through the same set of filters, I think we’d see marked improvement as a city in a hurry. If at every level we had to ask the question “Is this what a grown-up city would do?” we might start seeing a different type of behavior across the board. I know it’s a little cheesy, but it’s the principle that’s important. I’m trying to communicate that we really can stop wasting time with silly bickering and minute policy making and start getting to work growing up.</blockquote>\n\nBlake\'s blogging has generated a variety of responses, some in the form of new groups looking to better champion Tulsa as well as requests that he run in the next mayoral election.\n\nEven if you differ with Blake on the particulars, what he has to say is worth our time, thoughts and conversation. \n\n<h3>So, Let The Conversation Begin</h3>\n\nI agree that there\'s value in well-defined common goals, comparing Tulsa to other cities and envisioning from such a comparison what our city could be. \n\nWhat I think is more important, though, is first living fully into our city as it presently exists and what it has to offer today, right now.\n\nThat means checking out local parks, attractions and events rather than parking ourselves and our families on the couch in front of the TV night after night, or refusing to enjoy what Tulsa has to offer until we get an IKEA, a major theme park or other such development. It\'s choosing local businesses over chains and big-box outlets whenever possible. It\'s hosting block parties in our neighborhoods when it would be easier to keep to ourselves.\n\nI think that\'s where our identity comes from, and I think it\'s why so many of us sense such malaise in the momentum of the progression of our city. Urban sprawl and all that goes along with it has been the slippery slope on which Tulsa and many other mid-sized cities across the country have found themselves since the American dream of homeownership and the white picket fence life went on deep discount here in the states after World War II. \n\nCities are like people in that each has its own personality, but also like people, we can\'t assign traits and attributes to them like we can storage boxes with a label maker. Great cities grow into their identities as a function of culture, history and place, and when it\'s a great thing, it\'s an organic process. It doesn\'t come from a marketing campaign or an elite, exclusive group of citizens with big plans and deep pockets. It truly is a community endeavor, and while it\'s bound to be fragmented and messy and disobedient to timelines and mission statements, it begins with our kids, our neighborhoods and how we vote by how we spend our dollars.\n\nPeople aren\'t kidding when they say Tulsa is a great place to raise a family and that it\'s a top choice for retiring, relocating baby boomers. But how many of those cities can also claim to also be the birthplace of Route 66? Or home to dozens upon dozens of Native American cultures, one of the most diverse sets of tribes in the country? Or the home of one of the largest collections of art deco architecture in the world? Or a place where world-class museums, ballet, opera and theatre companies can pack entertainment venues just up the street from bursting-at-the-seams guns and arms shows, rodeos and state fairs?\n\nLet\'s choose to own these things. Let\'s learn about and experience it all. Then, let\'s teach our children about it, work to instill in them a sense of pride in their histories and in their community. Let\'s start telling our stories. If we\'re convinced we don\'t have any, then let\'s get to work on writing some.\n\nTo refuse the richness that a sense of place can imbue in our lives and in the lives of our families is a two-fold death. It creates in the citizenry a numbness which can tolerate only convenience, routine and sameness, each of which has effects of its own on the world around us and on the human spirit. It also silences the identity of a place. If we refuse to learn about the history of where we plant our feet, our kids and our homes and build on that in our own ways and with our own stories, any piece of rock on which we settle is just like any other piece of rock. It becomes nowhere. A no-place.\n\nThat\'s where I think Tulsa\'s chance to sparkle lies, in investing in the city as it exists now with our time, experiences and, yeah, our resources - essentially, by creating and sharing our stories with one another and with everyone we meet when we\'re not at home. That\'s where the cool factor is gonna start. That\'s where things like river development by Tulsa\'s own businesses, drop-ins by the major, sought-after entertainment, tourist-worthy arts and music scenes, huge companies that employ lots of people, a vibrant young creatives class and a bustling downtown start. Who we are has to actually match what we want others to know about us.\n\n<h3>What Say You?</h3>\n\nBlake - a man who truly loves this city and walks the walk in just about every way imaginable - set forth his vision for the city. I used this blog post to do the same. But I want I know - what do you think? Who/what do you think Tulsa is? How does that compare with what you\'d like to see Tulsa become over the course of the next generation or two? How do we get there? What are you willing to do as a Tulsan to both write and tell the city\'s story? ','Who Is Tulsa?','What are you willing to do as a Tulsan to both write and tell the city\'s story? ','inherit','open','open','','7570-revision-9','','','2011-04-11 15:21:54','2011-04-11 21:21:54','',7570,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/04/7570-revision-9/',0,'revision','',0),(7577,1,'2011-04-11 14:51:48','2011-04-11 20:51:48','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1952\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=1952\"><strong>They provide basic amenities.</strong>\r\n<img title=\"Pedestrian Bridge at River Parks Tulsa Oklahoma\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/DSC06456-500x666.jpg\" alt=\"Pedestrian Bridge at River Parks Tulsa Oklahoma\" width=\"400\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWho is Tulsa? If Tulsa was a person, how would you describe him or her? Musical? Artsy? Sporty? Foodie? Something else?\r\n\r\nThat\'s the question Blake Ewing, the owner of several downtown businesses, has been exploring over the course of a few posts at his blog, <a href=\"http://www.blakeewing.com/\">BlakeEwing.com</a>.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\nBlake\'s posts - or essays, rather - have gone viral, at least on the local Web, landing on at least <a href=\"http://www.batesline.com/archives/2011/04/added-to-the-blogroll.html\">two popular Tulsa blogs</a> (and <a href=\"http://jboudiette.wordpress.com/\">here</a>) and on the feeds of several influential local Twitter users.\r\n\r\n<h3>What\'s In The Blake Ewing Posts</h3>\r\n\r\nProbably the most circulated post thus far would be <a href=\"http://blakeewing.wordpress.com/2011/02/09/who-will-lead-us/\">Who Will Lead Us?, a post from early February calling for stronger, more cooperative leadership in our city government</a>:\r\n<blockquote>I can’t help but be frustrated. I feel like most of the work I do is somehow related to the betterment of our fine city, so it’s tough to want so badly for our elected officials to provide a strong foundation for us and to feel like there’s no new hope for that. I feel like our people want to be inspired. They want a vision for a better Tulsa. They want to believe that we can do what so many cities have done in recent years. We can reinvent ourselves. We can enhance our existing attributes, mitigate our weakness, and create new attractions and amenities for Tulsa and its visitors to enjoy. The public is looking for leadership and they are not finding it.\r\n\r\nInstead, it seems, we are forced to deal with nagging political roadblock and short-sighted politicians who can’t seem to figure out that what they’re doing now is not what’s best for Tulsa....\r\n\r\n...I will continue to believe in a better city and I will continue to hope that our city leaders will rise to lead us. I keep feeling that there’s this whole other side to the job that has to do with people. It’s emotional. It’s relational. The job is so much more than just making policy and taking care of business. They clearly know this. It must be the reason for the long winded speeches directed at the TGOV cameras. They’re trying to communicate with us. They’re just doing it all wrong. Those speeches in council meetings are worthless. They don’t count. They don’t inspire. They frustrate.</blockquote>\r\nHe continues with the same theme in his next post, dated about a month later:\r\n<blockquote>I’m absolutely in love with [Tulsa\'s] potential. It’s painful to feel like I can close my eyes and see the Tulsa we should be, but we lack the infrastructure, vision, or synergy to get us there.\r\n\r\nI’m not blaming our city’s leaders for the way things are. If we’re not happy, it’s because we’ve let it be this way. If you are happy with things, I’d ask you to look at the city as a whole. Are we achieving our potential? Is the lifestyle you’re enjoying going to be sustained or will the shortcomings in other parts of the city eventually infringe on the things you currently appreciate and enjoy. While our neighboring cities were growing, developing, and improving, we were slow to the party...Tulsans have struggled to see the big picture and therefore have done the very human thing of asking, “what’s in it for me?”\r\n\r\n...if you’re completely happy with the way things are, that doesn’t exempt you. In order to get to keep what you have, you’re going to have to act. The city is changing and your lifestyle, be it a suburban or an urban one, is going to be threatened. It’s time to think past the end of the driveway for a minute. The city in which we’ve chosen to live, and in which we want our children to want to live, needs our help.</blockquote>\r\nThe latest installation is a post called <a href=\"http://blakeewing.wordpress.com/2011/04/03/grow-up-tulsa-grow-up-tulsa/\">Grow Up, Tulsa. Grow Up Tulsa</a>, focused on the first steps of a process Blake calls, \"making Tulsa a grown-up city.\" He begins by suggesting that Tulsa should compare itself to other cities and use their examples to reverse engineer where Tulsa would like to be. He writes that grown-up cities:\r\n\r\nTake advantage of their resources and promote their assets;\r\nThey attract and retain creative people;\r\nThey provide basic amenities; \r\nTheir local government provides sound infrastructure and supports development;\r\nThey have a vibrant urban core;\r\nThey celebrate small local business.\r\n\r\nHere\'s where he\'s left things for now: \r\n\r\n<blockquote>A defined set of goals and values for our city would help those types of things to be more frequent. If we could get all of the major parties with a stake or a say-so (city council, mayor, TMAPC, INCOG, chambers of commerce, school boards, neighborhood associations, state reps and senators, US reps and senators, and entrepreneurs and developers) to push everything through the same set of filters, I think we’d see marked improvement as a city in a hurry. If at every level we had to ask the question “Is this what a grown-up city would do?” we might start seeing a different type of behavior across the board. I know it’s a little cheesy, but it’s the principle that’s important. I’m trying to communicate that we really can stop wasting time with silly bickering and minute policy making and start getting to work growing up.</blockquote>\r\n\r\nBlake\'s blogging has generated a variety of responses, some in the form of new groups looking to better champion Tulsa as well as requests that he run in the next mayoral election.\r\n\r\nEven if you differ with Blake on the particulars, what he has to say is worth our time, thoughts and conversation. \r\n\r\n<h3>So, Let The Conversation Begin</h3>\r\n\r\nI agree that there\'s value in well-defined common goals, comparing Tulsa to other cities and envisioning from such a comparison what our city could be. \r\n\r\nWhat I think is more important, though, is first living fully into our city as it presently exists and what it has to offer today, right now.\r\n\r\nThat means checking out local parks, attractions and events rather than parking ourselves and our families on the couch in front of the TV night after night, or refusing to enjoy what Tulsa has to offer until we get an IKEA, a major theme park or other such development. It\'s choosing local businesses over chains and big-box outlets whenever possible. It\'s hosting block parties in our neighborhoods when it would be easier to keep to ourselves.\r\n\r\nI think that\'s where our identity comes from, and I think it\'s why so many of us sense such malaise in the momentum of the progression of our city. Urban sprawl and all that goes along with it has been the slippery slope on which Tulsa and many other mid-sized cities across the country have found themselves since the American dream of homeownership and the white picket fence life went on deep discount here in the states after World War II. \r\n\r\nCities are like people in that each has its own personality, but also like people, we can\'t assign traits and attributes to them like we can storage boxes with a label maker. Great cities grow into their identities as a function of culture, history and place, and when it\'s a great thing, it\'s an organic process. It doesn\'t come from a marketing campaign or an elite, exclusive group of citizens with big plans and deep pockets. It truly is a community endeavor, and while it\'s bound to be fragmented and messy and disobedient to timelines and mission statements, it begins with our kids, our neighborhoods and how we vote by how we spend our dollars.\r\n\r\nPeople aren\'t kidding when they say Tulsa is a great place to raise a family and that it\'s a top choice for retiring, relocating baby boomers. But how many of those cities can also claim to also be the birthplace of Route 66? Or home to dozens upon dozens of Native American cultures, one of the most diverse sets of tribes in the country? Or the home of one of the largest collections of art deco architecture in the world? Or a place where world-class museums, ballet, opera and theatre companies can pack entertainment venues just up the street from bursting-at-the-seams guns and arms shows, rodeos and state fairs?\r\n\r\nLet\'s choose to own these things. Let\'s learn about and experience it all. Then, let\'s teach our children about it, work to instill in them a sense of pride in their histories and in their community. Let\'s start telling our stories. If we\'re convinced we don\'t have any, then let\'s get to work on writing some.\r\n\r\nTo refuse the richness that a sense of place can imbue in our lives and in the lives of our families is a two-fold death. It creates in the citizenry a numbness which can tolerate only convenience, routine and sameness, each of which has effects of its own on the world around us and on the human spirit. It also silences the identity of a place. If we refuse to learn about the history of where we plant our feet, our kids and our homes and build on that in our own ways and with our own stories, any piece of rock on which we settle is just like any other piece of rock. It becomes nowhere. A no-place.\r\n\r\nThat\'s where I think Tulsa\'s chance to sparkle lies, in investing in the city as it exists now with our time, experiences and, yeah, our resources - essentially, by creating and sharing our stories with one another and with everyone we meet when we\'re not at home. That\'s where the cool factor is gonna start. That\'s where things like river development by Tulsa\'s own businesses, drop-ins by the major, sought-after entertainment, a tourist-worthy arts and music scene and a bustling downtown start. Who we are has to actually match what we want others to know about us, and any common goals or directives have to be set forth from there. \r\n\r\n<h3>What Say You?</h3>\r\n\r\nBlake set forth his vision for the city. I used this blog post to do the same. But what do you think? Who/what do you think Tulsa is? How does that compare with what you\'d like to see Tulsa become over the course of the next generation or two? How do we get there? What are you willing to do as a Tulsan to both write and tell the city\'s story? ','Who Is Tulsa?','What are you willing to do as a Tulsan to both write and tell the city\'s story? ','inherit','open','open','','7570-revision-7','','','2011-04-11 14:51:48','2011-04-11 20:51:48','',7570,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/04/7570-revision-7/',0,'revision','',0),(7578,1,'2011-04-11 14:54:30','2011-04-11 20:54:30','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1952\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=1952\"><strong>They provide basic amenities.</strong>\r\n<img title=\"Pedestrian Bridge at River Parks Tulsa Oklahoma\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/DSC06456-500x666.jpg\" alt=\"Pedestrian Bridge at River Parks Tulsa Oklahoma\" width=\"400\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWho is Tulsa? If Tulsa was a person, how would you describe him or her? Musical? Artsy? Sporty? Foodie? Something else?\r\n\r\nThat\'s the question Blake Ewing, the owner of several downtown businesses, has been exploring over the course of a few posts at his blog, <a href=\"http://www.blakeewing.com/\">BlakeEwing.com</a>.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\nBlake\'s posts - or essays, rather - have gone viral, at least on the local Web, landing on at least <a href=\"http://www.batesline.com/archives/2011/04/added-to-the-blogroll.html\">two popular Tulsa blogs</a> (and <a href=\"http://jboudiette.wordpress.com/\">here</a>) and on the feeds of several influential local Twitter users.\r\n\r\n<h3>What\'s In The Blake Ewing Posts</h3>\r\n\r\nProbably the most circulated post thus far would be <a href=\"http://blakeewing.wordpress.com/2011/02/09/who-will-lead-us/\">Who Will Lead Us?, a post from early February calling for stronger, more cooperative leadership in our city government</a>:\r\n<blockquote>I can’t help but be frustrated. I feel like most of the work I do is somehow related to the betterment of our fine city, so it’s tough to want so badly for our elected officials to provide a strong foundation for us and to feel like there’s no new hope for that. I feel like our people want to be inspired. They want a vision for a better Tulsa. They want to believe that we can do what so many cities have done in recent years. We can reinvent ourselves. We can enhance our existing attributes, mitigate our weakness, and create new attractions and amenities for Tulsa and its visitors to enjoy. The public is looking for leadership and they are not finding it.\r\n\r\nInstead, it seems, we are forced to deal with nagging political roadblock and short-sighted politicians who can’t seem to figure out that what they’re doing now is not what’s best for Tulsa....\r\n\r\n...I will continue to believe in a better city and I will continue to hope that our city leaders will rise to lead us. I keep feeling that there’s this whole other side to the job that has to do with people. It’s emotional. It’s relational. The job is so much more than just making policy and taking care of business. They clearly know this. It must be the reason for the long winded speeches directed at the TGOV cameras. They’re trying to communicate with us. They’re just doing it all wrong. Those speeches in council meetings are worthless. They don’t count. They don’t inspire. They frustrate.</blockquote>\r\nHe continues with the same theme in his next post, dated about a month later:\r\n<blockquote>I’m absolutely in love with [Tulsa\'s] potential. It’s painful to feel like I can close my eyes and see the Tulsa we should be, but we lack the infrastructure, vision, or synergy to get us there.\r\n\r\nI’m not blaming our city’s leaders for the way things are. If we’re not happy, it’s because we’ve let it be this way. If you are happy with things, I’d ask you to look at the city as a whole. Are we achieving our potential? Is the lifestyle you’re enjoying going to be sustained or will the shortcomings in other parts of the city eventually infringe on the things you currently appreciate and enjoy. While our neighboring cities were growing, developing, and improving, we were slow to the party...Tulsans have struggled to see the big picture and therefore have done the very human thing of asking, “what’s in it for me?”\r\n\r\n...if you’re completely happy with the way things are, that doesn’t exempt you. In order to get to keep what you have, you’re going to have to act. The city is changing and your lifestyle, be it a suburban or an urban one, is going to be threatened. It’s time to think past the end of the driveway for a minute. The city in which we’ve chosen to live, and in which we want our children to want to live, needs our help.</blockquote>\r\nThe latest installation is a post called <a href=\"http://blakeewing.wordpress.com/2011/04/03/grow-up-tulsa-grow-up-tulsa/\">Grow Up, Tulsa. Grow Up Tulsa</a>, focused on the first steps of a process Blake calls, \"making Tulsa a grown-up city.\" He begins by suggesting that Tulsa should compare itself to other cities and use their examples to reverse engineer where Tulsa would like to be. He writes that grown-up cities:\r\n\r\nTake advantage of their resources and promote their assets;\r\nThey attract and retain creative people;\r\nThey provide basic amenities; \r\nTheir local government provides sound infrastructure and supports development;\r\nThey have a vibrant urban core;\r\nThey celebrate small local business.\r\n\r\nHere\'s where he\'s left things for now: \r\n\r\n<blockquote>A defined set of goals and values for our city would help those types of things to be more frequent. If we could get all of the major parties with a stake or a say-so (city council, mayor, TMAPC, INCOG, chambers of commerce, school boards, neighborhood associations, state reps and senators, US reps and senators, and entrepreneurs and developers) to push everything through the same set of filters, I think we’d see marked improvement as a city in a hurry. If at every level we had to ask the question “Is this what a grown-up city would do?” we might start seeing a different type of behavior across the board. I know it’s a little cheesy, but it’s the principle that’s important. I’m trying to communicate that we really can stop wasting time with silly bickering and minute policy making and start getting to work growing up.</blockquote>\r\n\r\nBlake\'s blogging has generated a variety of responses, some in the form of new groups looking to better champion Tulsa as well as requests that he run in the next mayoral election.\r\n\r\nEven if you differ with Blake on the particulars, what he has to say is worth our time, thoughts and conversation. \r\n\r\n<h3>So, Let The Conversation Begin</h3>\r\n\r\nI agree that there\'s value in well-defined common goals, comparing Tulsa to other cities and envisioning from such a comparison what our city could be. \r\n\r\nWhat I think is more important, though, is first living fully into our city as it presently exists and what it has to offer today, right now.\r\n\r\nThat means checking out local parks, attractions and events rather than parking ourselves and our families on the couch in front of the TV night after night, or refusing to enjoy what Tulsa has to offer until we get an IKEA, a major theme park or other such development. It\'s choosing local businesses over chains and big-box outlets whenever possible. It\'s hosting block parties in our neighborhoods when it would be easier to keep to ourselves.\r\n\r\nI think that\'s where our identity comes from, and I think it\'s why so many of us sense such malaise in the momentum of the progression of our city. Urban sprawl and all that goes along with it has been the slippery slope on which Tulsa and many other mid-sized cities across the country have found themselves since the American dream of homeownership and the white picket fence life went on deep discount here in the states after World War II. \r\n\r\nCities are like people in that each has its own personality, but also like people, we can\'t assign traits and attributes to them like we can storage boxes with a label maker. Great cities grow into their identities as a function of culture, history and place, and when it\'s a great thing, it\'s an organic process. It doesn\'t come from a marketing campaign or an elite, exclusive group of citizens with big plans and deep pockets. It truly is a community endeavor, and while it\'s bound to be fragmented and messy and disobedient to timelines and mission statements, it begins with our kids, our neighborhoods and how we vote by how we spend our dollars.\r\n\r\nPeople aren\'t kidding when they say Tulsa is a great place to raise a family and that it\'s a top choice for retiring, relocating baby boomers. But how many of those cities can also claim to also be the birthplace of Route 66? Or home to dozens upon dozens of Native American cultures, one of the most diverse sets of tribes in the country? Or the home of one of the largest collections of art deco architecture in the world? Or a place where world-class museums, ballet, opera and theatre companies can pack entertainment venues just up the street from bursting-at-the-seams guns and arms shows, rodeos and state fairs?\r\n\r\nLet\'s choose to own these things. Let\'s learn about and experience it all. Then, let\'s teach our children about it, work to instill in them a sense of pride in their histories and in their community. Let\'s start telling our stories. If we\'re convinced we don\'t have any, then let\'s get to work on writing some.\r\n\r\nTo refuse the richness that a sense of place can imbue in our lives and in the lives of our families is a two-fold death. It creates in the citizenry a numbness which can tolerate only convenience, routine and sameness, each of which has effects of its own on the world around us and on the human spirit. It also silences the identity of a place. If we refuse to learn about the history of where we plant our feet, our kids and our homes and build on that in our own ways and with our own stories, any piece of rock on which we settle is just like any other piece of rock. It becomes nowhere. A no-place.\r\n\r\nThat\'s where I think Tulsa\'s chance to sparkle lies, in investing in the city as it exists now with our time, experiences and, yeah, our resources - essentially, by creating and sharing our stories with one another and with everyone we meet when we\'re not at home. That\'s where the cool factor is gonna start. That\'s where things like river development by Tulsa\'s own businesses, drop-ins by the major, sought-after entertainment, a tourist-worthy arts and music scene and a bustling downtown start. Who we are has to actually match what we want others to know about us, and any common goals or directives have to be set forth from there. \r\n\r\n<h3>What Say You?</h3>\r\n\r\nBlake set forth his vision for the city. I used this blog post to do the same. But what do you think? Who/what do you think Tulsa is? How does that compare with what you\'d like to see Tulsa become over the course of the next generation or two? How do we get there? What are you willing to do as a Tulsan to both write and tell the city\'s story? ','Who Is Tulsa?','What are you willing to do as a Tulsan to both write and tell the city\'s story? ','inherit','open','open','','7570-revision-8','','','2011-04-11 14:54:30','2011-04-11 20:54:30','',7570,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/04/7570-revision-8/',0,'revision','',0),(8482,1,'2011-06-14 08:14:44','2011-06-14 14:14:44','<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=8470\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8470\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/4679189460_e21563c511.jpg\" alt=\"Tulsa Shock WNBA Basketball Tulsa Oklahoma\" title=\"Tulsa Shock WNBA Basketball Tulsa Oklahoma\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8470\" /></a>\r\n\r\nLooking for ways to stay busy in Tulsa today? Check out the list of local events and activities and parties below.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n[gigpress_shows scope=today group_artists=no]\r\n\r\nDon\'t see your favorite event on today\'s listing? We can fix that. <a href=\"mailto:tasha@tashadoestulsa.com\">Shoot me an e-mail</a>.\r\n\r\n<strong>Don\'t miss a single update on Tulsa\'s top events.</strong> Sign up for <a href=\"http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=TashaDoesTulsa&amp;loc=en_US\">the TDT daily e-mail</a> or <a href=\"feed://feeds.feedburner.com/TashaDoesTulsa\">subscribe</a>.','Things To Do In Tulsa Today','','inherit','open','open','','7294-revision-101','','','2011-06-14 08:14:44','2011-06-14 14:14:44','',7294,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/06/7294-revision-101/',0,'revision','',0),(7539,1,'2011-04-13 10:00:00','2011-04-13 16:00:00','<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/04/shop-o-phobic-confessions-of-a-work-at-home-mom-tulsa-kids/cheapthrillstulsaoklahoma/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7611\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/CheapThrillsTulsaOklahoma.jpg\" alt=\"Cheap Thrills Tulsa Oklahoma\" title=\"Cheap Thrills Tulsa Oklahoma\" width=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7611\" /></a></p>\r\n\r\nI come from a long line of very good, very eager shoppers. I have vivid childhood memories of falling asleep in the middle of the circular racks at Tulsa\'s department stores as my mother and her mother plowed into what was on the hangers there, snapping up every value they could put their hands on. We\'d shop for hours. And hours. And hours.\r\n\r\nAnd I hated it.\r\n\r\nRead the rest of this post <a href=\"http://www.tulsakids.com/?q=shop-o-phobic-confessions-work-home-mom\">on my blog at TulsaKids.com</a>.\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n','Shop-o-Phobic: Confessions of a Work-at-Home Mom','I have vivid childhood memories of falling asleep in the middle of the circular racks at Tulsa\'s department stores as my mother and her mother plowed into what was on the hangers there, snapping up every value they could put their hands on.','private','open','open','','shop-o-phobic-confessions-of-a-work-at-home-mom-tulsa-kids','','','2011-07-10 11:09:23','2011-07-10 17:09:23','',0,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?p=7539',0,'post','',0),(7540,1,'2011-04-15 06:30:00','2011-04-15 12:30:00','<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/04/polishing-the-pearl-babysitter-worthy-tulsa-kids/polishingthepearl/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7676\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/PolishingThePearl-500x666.jpg\" alt=\"Polishing The Pearl Tulsa Oklahoma\" title=\"Polishing The Pearl Tulsa Oklahoma\" width=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7676\" /></a></p>\r\n\r\nWe Tulsans hear a lot of talk about the revitalization of downtown, the development of our riverfront, the general evolution of our city that\'s needed in order to compete with today\'s top American cities for jobs, for smart, capable residents and, yeah, even tourists. The downside? Sometimes it takes awhile to actually see some action.\r\n\r\nBut this weekend, starting tonight, it\'s action-city in The Pearl District, just east of the IDL in downtown Tulsa.\r\n\r\nGet the details <a href=\"http://www.tulsakids.com/?q=babysitter-worthy-polishing-pearl\">on my blog at TulsaKids.com</a>.\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"8\"]</p>','Polishing the Pearl: Babysitter Worthy','Tonight, vendors, musicians, artists, shoppers and lovers of all that is Tulsa take to the streets of the historic Pearl District in an effort to visualize the neighborhood\'s potential via revitalization.','private','open','open','','polishing-the-pearl-babysitter-worthy-tulsa-kids','','','2011-07-10 10:48:54','2011-07-10 16:48:54','',0,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?p=7540',0,'post','',1),(7541,1,'2011-04-13 11:00:00','2011-04-13 17:00:00','<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/04/touch-a-truck-tulsa-kids-day-out/touchatrucktulsaoklahoma/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7619\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/TouchATruckTulsaOklahoma-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Touch-A-Truck Tulsa Oklahoma\" title=\"Touch-A-Truck Tulsa Oklahoma\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7619\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSometimes, when a wailing fire engine speeds by, or as the mail truck saunters down the street, or as the electricity company truck raises a worker in its long-armed bucket to work on a line, I think to myself, man, I sure would like to get tactile with those playground-like vehicles.\r\n\r\nDon\'t say that you\'ve never thought the same thing. Because you\'d be lying, and lying is wrong. You kids have thought about it, too.\r\n\r\nThis Saturday, all of your truck-touching dreams could come true, and right here in Tulsa.\r\n\r\nGet the details of <a href=\"http://www.tulsakids.com/?q=touch-truck-tulsa-kids-day-out\">this week\'s pick for Tulsa Kids Day out on my blog at TulsaKids.com</a>.\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n\r\n<em>Photo courtesy of <a href=\"http://www.tulsalibrary.org/\">Tulsa City-Country Library</a>.</em>','Touch-A-Truck: Tulsa Kids Day Out','This Saturday, all of your truck-touching dreams could come true, and right here in Tulsa.','private','open','open','','touch-a-truck-tulsa-kids-day-out','','','2011-07-10 11:08:53','2011-07-10 17:08:53','',0,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?p=7541',0,'post','',1),(9178,1,'2011-09-07 11:56:33','2011-09-07 17:56:33','','Habitat for Humanity','','inherit','open','open','','tasha-does-tulsa-habitat-7','','','2011-09-07 11:56:33','2011-09-07 17:56:33','',9177,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Tasha-Does-Tulsa-Habitat-7.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(7543,1,'2011-04-19 14:00:00','2011-04-19 20:00:00','<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/04/tulsa-date-night-ideas/picture-2-16/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7730\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Picture-2-500x354.png\" alt=\"Couple Skating Two\" title=\"Couple Skating Two\" width=\"500\" height=\"354\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7730\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<em>This post was put together by <a href=\"http://nicci6.com/\">Nicci, one of my favorite Tulsa love and dating bloggers</a> - take it away, Nicci!</em>\r\n\r\nI was writing recently at my favorite local coffee shop when a buddy of mine approached. \r\n\r\n“You know, I love to take women out. It’s just that dating can get so expensive. Do you have any advice for fun dates on the cheap in Tulsa?” he asked. \r\n\r\nBoy, do I. In fact, I’ve got a date idea for you for any given day of the week.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<h3>Date Night in Tulsa: Monday</h3>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/04/tulsa-date-night-ideas/yokozunabuns/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7726\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/yokozunabuns.jpg\" alt=\"Yokozuna Monday Bun Day Tulsa Oklahoma\" title=\"Yokozuna Monday Bun Day Tulsa Oklahoma\" width=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7726\" /></a></p>\r\n\r\nPick up a few $5 pizzas from <a href=\"http://www.whiteowloncherry.com\">White Owl on Cherry Street</a>, rent a movie from <a href=\"http://www.tulsalibrary.org/\">the library</a> or <a href=\"http://www.reasors.com/\">Reasor\'s</a> and make out on your sofa = the perfect, Tulsa-centric Monday night date. \r\n\r\nAnother great takeout option is <a href=\"http://www.yokozunatulsa.com/\">Monday Bunday at Yokozuna</a> in the Blue Dome District. You can get $1 steamed chicken or pork filled buns from 5pm-close.\r\n\r\n<strong>Cost: \r\nPizzas and a movie = $15; \r\nmakeout session = should be free (unless this is that kind of “date”)\r\nTOTAL = $15</strong>\r\n\r\n(If you decide to go the Asian food route, the cost depends on how many buns you can handle...if you know what I mean.)\r\n\r\n<h3>Date Night in Tulsa: Tuesday</h3>\r\n\r\nIt’s Trivia night at <a href=\"http://thesoundpony.com/\">The SoundPony</a> in downtown Tulsa. Spring for a beer and a bag a Cheetos and then relish the chance to flex your intellectual prowess for your heart\'s desire. (Disclaimer: She may or may not be impressed.)\r\n\r\n<strong>Cost: \r\nBeer and Cheetos, $12</strong>\r\n\r\n<h3>Date Night in Tulsa: Wednesday</h3>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/dog-friendly-patios-in-tulsa/joemommas/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6408\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/joemommas.jpg\" alt=\"Joe Momma&#039;s Pizza Downtown Tulsa\" title=\"Joe Momma&#039;s Pizza Downtown Tulsa\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6408\" /></a></p>\r\n\r\nIt\'s a good point in the week to get active. Why not take a short, mile-and-a-half stroll through downtown? You could start at <a href=\"http://www.mcnellies.com/\">McNellies</a> with a $3 burger (available Wednesdays only), pop over to the acoustic phenomenon of an attraction known as the Center of the Universe, grab $2 gelato at <a href=\"http://modscrepes.com/\">Mod’s Coffee & Crepes</a> and, if you\'re lucky, you can venture to <a href=\"http://www.joemommas.com/\">Joe Momma\'s</a> for CharityOkie, a monthy gong karaoke event that benefits the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Oklahoma.\r\n\r\n<strong>Cost: \r\nDinner, dessert and a $10 donation to CharityOkie = $20</strong>\r\n\r\n<h3>Date Night in Tulsa: Thursday</h3>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/01/restaurants-entertainment-tulsa-business-journal/luchadore-5-20/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2721\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Luchadore-5.20-500x333.jpg\" alt=\"Elote Luchador Wrestling Federation Tulsa Oklahoma\" title=\"Elote Luchador Wrestling Federation Tulsa Oklahoma\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2721\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIf can, schedule your date night on a first or third Thursday of the month. Why? So you can catch <a href=\"http://www.elotetulsa.com/\">Luchador wrestling night at Elote Cafe</a> at 5th and Boston. Plus, Elote is home of the Luchador Tequila Club. It\'s free to sign up and each week you get a tequila to sample at a discount. Once you’ve sampled all 30 tequilas in the club, you get your name on the Luchador Tequila Club wall. How’s that for impressing the ladies? A night of watching strangers roll around in spandex and a shot of tequila or two are sure to work in your favor. (Probably.)\r\n\r\nIf you’d like to continue this spicy party and find an excuse to get her thisclose, continue on to salsa dancing at <a href=\"http://www.hibiscusbrookside.com/\">Hibiscus on Brookside</a>.\r\n\r\nAnother fantastic Thursday-night date option throughout the summer here in Tulsa is <a href=\"http://uticasquare.com/now_showing/now_showing_summer.asp\">Utica Square\'s Fifth Night</a>, which packs live music and ample opportunity to picnic in Tulsa\'s park-like upscale shopping center.\r\n\r\n<strong>Cost: Depends on how much tequila you (and your date) can hold. For Summer\'s Fifth Night, though? Free, plus whatever it costs you to pick up a picnic dinner.</strong>\r\n\r\n<h3>Date Night in Tulsa: Friday</h3>\r\n\r\nDinner at <a href=\"http://www.desiwok.net/\">Desi Wok</a> is always a tasty and economical choice. Dishes run around $8. Just be sure to go easy on the spice if your stomach is in the least bit sensitive. You will be on a date, don\'t forget. \r\n\r\nAfter dinner, you might catch a movie opening at <a href=\"http://www.circlecinema.com/\">Circle Cinema</a>. Tickets are $8.50 per. There\'s usually a concert at <a href=\"http://www.cainsballroom.com/\">Cain’s Ballroom</a> on Friday night, and tickets to shows there tend to run about $10-$40, depending on the gig. \r\n\r\nIf you’d like to see local acts on a more intimate scale, time it right and you’re sure to catch a gem over on Brookside at the Cain’s-owned store, <a href=\"http://www.idaredboutique.com/\">Ida Red Boutique</a>. Ida Red is also a good place to pick up a couple of bottled root beers and a few packages of candy cigarettes. Or, plant the seed now and buy her a Sugar Daddy - Ida Red keeps a variety of vintage-style candies in stock. \r\n\r\nIf it\'s available, another exciting date-night option for Friday night can be found further south on Peoria at <a href=\"http://www.tulsaballet.org/\">Tulsa Ballet\'s exclusive Studio K performance space</a>. \r\n\r\n<strong>Cost: Movie or concert tickets, $20-$80, depending.</strong>\r\n\r\n<h3>Date Day in Tulsa: Saturday Morning/Afternoon</h3>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4514472895/\" title=\"Opening Day 2010 of Cherry Street Farmers Market by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2018/4514472895_9754dbb2ba.jpg\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Opening Day 2010 of Cherry Street Farmers Market\"></a></p>\r\n\r\nVenture over to the <a href=\"cherrystreetfarmersmarket.com/\">Cherry Street Farmers\' Market</a> for a breakfast pastry from a local vendor or one of the famous CSFM breakfast burritos. \r\n\r\nThen, just a mile south on Peoria, <a href=\"http://www.philbrook.org/\">Philbrook Museum</a> is hosting their Don’t Pay in May event starting May 1, which, depending on how much cash is donated between now and then, could mean an entire month of free admission for you and your date. Philbrook is hosting matinee movies, too, through May 14. So, here\'s the idea: Catch a matinee, have a coffee in La Villa, the restaurant at Philbrook, and finish with a stroll through the gardens. There are lots of spots that are perrrrrfect for a first kiss (hint: peep out the gazebo). And, as I have discovered, you won\'t get in trouble if the two of you decide to roll down one of their grassy hills.  \r\n\r\n<strong>Cost: About $10 for breakfast, free museum admission, free matinee, free kiss in the garden, plus about $5 for two cups of coffee</strong>\r\n\r\n<h3>Date Day in Tulsa: Sunday Afternoon</h3>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=1952\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1952\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/DSC06456-500x666.jpg\" alt=\"Pedestrian Bridge at River Parks Tulsa Oklahoma\" title=\"Pedestrian Bridge at River Parks Tulsa Oklahoma\" width=\"500\" height=\"666\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1952\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.bluerosecafetulsa.com/elwoods.html\">Elwood’s on Riverside</a> usually has live music on Sundays. Why not pack a picnic, bring a blanket and lounge on the lawn together? If you\'re confident in your masculinity, you can hop on a couple of powder-puff-pink Tulsa Townies for free and ride down the bike paths at <a href=\"http://www.riverparks.org/\">River Parks</a>. Scan your debit or credit card into the bike racks and you\'ll be good to go.\r\n\r\n<strong>Cost: Essentially, free; that is, unless you decide to partake in food in drink at Elwoods.</strong>\r\n\r\nBefore I wrap up, I want to remind you lovebirds out there about the fantastic (not to mention FREE) festivals going on in Tulsa throughout the summer, each of which would make for exciting date destinations. Be sure to check back with <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/\">TashaDoesTulsa.com</a> each week to stay up to date on the latest happenings. \r\n\r\nWith a little creativity and minimal research, you can find fun and romantic things to do that are sure to impress the date of your dreams.\r\n\r\nHappy dating (and mating)!\r\n\r\nBe sure to check out <a href=\"http://www.nicci6.com/\">Nicci\'s blog at Nicci6.com</a>; <a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/nicci6\">follow her on Twitter</a>, too.','Dating Ideas on a Dime in Tulsa: Different Day, Different Date','“You know, I love to take women out. It’s just that dating can get so expensive. Do you have any advice for fun dates on the cheap in Tulsa?” my friend asked. Boy, do I. In fact, I’ve got a date idea for you for any given day of the week.','publish','open','open','','tulsa-date-night-ideas','','','2011-04-19 14:03:33','2011-04-19 20:03:33','',0,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?p=7543',0,'post','',8),(7544,1,'2011-04-07 11:40:23','2011-04-07 17:40:23','April 16: Egg-citing Art\r\nGuest Artist – Michelle Keenan\r\n\r\nVisit the beautiful gardens for inspiration\r\nto create a batik-styled egg with scratch\r\nart paper.\r\n\r\n\r\nBreakfast with Bunny \r\nApr.15 Apr.15 \r\n10:00 AM 10:45 AM Ages 5 & younger \r\nF \r\nMorecraft, Adrienne \r\nWhiteside $7 \r\nHave a fun-filled breakfast and play games and visit with the Easter \r\nBunny.  Bring your camera for those memorable bunny photos. \r\nInstructor: \r\n- \r\nto \r\n02203.306 \r\nApr.19 Apr.19 \r\n6:30 PM 7:00 PM \r\n\r\n\r\nBreakfast with Bunny \r\nApr.15 Apr.15 \r\n10:00 AM 10:45 AM Ages 5 & younger \r\nF \r\nMorecraft, Adrienne \r\nWhiteside $7 \r\nHave a fun-filled breakfast and play games and visit with the Easter \r\nBunny.  Bring your camera for those memorable bunny photos. \r\nInstructor: \r\n- \r\nto \r\n02203.306 \r\nApr.19 Apr.19 \r\n6:30 PM 7:00 PM \r\n- \r\nto \r\n91310.317 \r\nApr.29 Apr.29 \r\n7:00 PM 9:00 PM \r\nF \r\nWhiteside $0 \r\n- \r\nto \r\nSocial - Birthday Parties \r\nDoggone Egg Hunt \r\nApr.16 Apr.16 \r\n10:30 AM 11:30 AM All Ages \r\nSa \r\nPark Staff \r\nHicks $0 \r\nThis event is open to families with dogs that want to have a doggone \r\ngreat time. Dogs and handlers will search for eggs filled with treats \r\nand prizes. Hunt starts at 11:00 AM sharp. All dogs must remain on a \r\nleash. Event is free to the public. \r\nInstructor: \r\n- \r\nto \r\n\r\n91310.317 \r\nApr.29 Apr.29 \r\n7:00 PM 9:00 PM \r\nF \r\nWhiteside $0 \r\n- \r\nto \r\nSocial - Birthday Parties \r\nDoggone Egg Hunt \r\nApr.16 Apr.16 \r\n10:30 AM 11:30 AM All Ages \r\nSa \r\nPark Staff \r\nHicks $0 \r\nThis event is open to families with dogs that want to have a doggone \r\ngreat time. Dogs and handlers will search for eggs filled with treats \r\nand prizes. Hunt starts at 11:00 AM sharp. All dogs must remain on a \r\nleash. Event is free to the public. \r\nInstructor: \r\n- \r\nto \r\nPreschool \r\nBreakfast with Bunny \r\nHave a fun-filled breakfast and play games and visit with the Easter \r\nEaster Egg Hunt - Reed \r\nApr.19 Apr.19 \r\n6:30 PM 7:00 PM Ages 2 to 10 \r\nTu \r\nPark Staff \r\nReed $0 \r\nHunt for candy in the park. Canned food donations accepted to \r\nbenefit an area food bank. Pictures with the Easter Bunny will be \r\nsold. The hunt is free. \r\nInstructor: \r\n- \r\nto \r\n\r\nEaster Egg Hunt \r\nApr.21 Apr.21 \r\n6:00 PM 6:30 PMAges 1 to 12 \r\nTh \r\nPark Staff \r\nLacy $0 \r\nChildren are invited to hunt for colorful eggs filled with candy and \r\ntoys. Please bring a canned food item to be donated to a local Food \r\nBank. Also bring a container for your eggs. Free. \r\nInstructor: \r\n- \r\nto \r\n02001.315 \r\n5:00 PM 6:00 PM \r\n- \r\nEaster Bunny Craft\r\n\r\nMixed Ages \r\nEaster Egg Hunt \r\nApr.21 Apr.21 \r\n5:00 PM 6:00 PM Ages 7 to 12 \r\nTh \r\nPark Staff \r\nHicks $10 \r\nA fun holiday activity. You can keep the craft for yourself or give it as \r\na gift to someone special. \r\nInstructor: \r\n- \r\nto \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nEaster - Easter Bunny Craft \r\nEgg Dying Contest \r\nApr.22 Apr.22 \r\n5:00 PM 6:00 PM Ages 6 to 11 \r\nF \r\nPark Staff \r\nHicks $5 \r\nMust bring one dozen hard boil eggs and the center will provide the \r\nsupplies to decorate. Must pre-register for the class. \r\nInstructor: \r\n- \r\nto \r\n\r\nDoggie Easter Egg Hunt\r\n\r\nSaturday, April 23, 2011\r\n\r\nThe Canebrake will host the Second Annual Doggie Easter Egg Hunt on the Saturday before Easter Sunday. Festivities begin with registration at 2 p.m. and will include obedience, trick and agility demonstrations at 2:30 p.m., the egg hunt at 3:30 p.m. and prizes and awards at 4:00 p.m. Prizes will be awarded for best dressed, cutest, biggest, smallest, friendliest, etc. One lucky dog will win its human a night in a King Suite with Sunday Brunch for Two.\r\n\r\nCost is $10 donation per dog and the proceeds will benefit WAGS (Wagoner Animal Guardian Society) and Going Home Animal Rescue Transport. Goody bags and treats donated by Petco and PetSmart.\r\n\r\nFor information or reservations call 918.485.1810 or email info@thecanebrake.com\r\n\r\n\r\n','Easter Stuff to Do in Tulsa','','inherit','open','open','','7482-revision-6','','','2011-04-07 11:40:23','2011-04-07 17:40:23','',7482,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/04/7482-revision-6/',0,'revision','',0),(7545,1,'2011-04-10 20:19:50','2011-04-11 02:19:50','April 16: Egg-citing Art\r\nGuest Artist – Michelle Keenan\r\n\r\nVisit the beautiful gardens for inspiration\r\nto create a batik-styled egg with scratch\r\nart paper.\r\n\r\n\r\nBreakfast with Bunny \r\nApr.15 Apr.15 \r\n10:00 AM 10:45 AM Ages 5 & younger \r\nF \r\nMorecraft, Adrienne \r\nWhiteside $7 \r\nHave a fun-filled breakfast and play games and visit with the Easter \r\nBunny.  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Event is free to the public. \r\nInstructor: \r\n- \r\nto \r\n\r\n91310.317 \r\nApr.29 Apr.29 \r\n7:00 PM 9:00 PM \r\nF \r\nWhiteside $0 \r\n- \r\nto \r\nSocial - Birthday Parties \r\nDoggone Egg Hunt \r\nApr.16 Apr.16 \r\n10:30 AM 11:30 AM All Ages \r\nSa \r\nPark Staff \r\nHicks $0 \r\nThis event is open to families with dogs that want to have a doggone \r\ngreat time. Dogs and handlers will search for eggs filled with treats \r\nand prizes. Hunt starts at 11:00 AM sharp. All dogs must remain on a \r\nleash. Event is free to the public. \r\nInstructor: \r\n- \r\nto \r\nPreschool \r\nBreakfast with Bunny \r\nHave a fun-filled breakfast and play games and visit with the Easter \r\nEaster Egg Hunt - Reed \r\nApr.19 Apr.19 \r\n6:30 PM 7:00 PM Ages 2 to 10 \r\nTu \r\nPark Staff \r\nReed $0 \r\nHunt for candy in the park. Canned food donations accepted to \r\nbenefit an area food bank. Pictures with the Easter Bunny will be \r\nsold. The hunt is free. \r\nInstructor: \r\n- \r\nto \r\n\r\nEaster Egg Hunt \r\nApr.21 Apr.21 \r\n6:00 PM 6:30 PMAges 1 to 12 \r\nTh \r\nPark Staff \r\nLacy $0 \r\nChildren are invited to hunt for colorful eggs filled with candy and \r\ntoys. Please bring a canned food item to be donated to a local Food \r\nBank. Also bring a container for your eggs. Free. \r\nInstructor: \r\n- \r\nto \r\n02001.315 \r\n5:00 PM 6:00 PM \r\n- \r\nEaster Bunny Craft\r\n\r\nMixed Ages \r\nEaster Egg Hunt \r\nApr.21 Apr.21 \r\n5:00 PM 6:00 PM Ages 7 to 12 \r\nTh \r\nPark Staff \r\nHicks $10 \r\nA fun holiday activity. You can keep the craft for yourself or give it as \r\na gift to someone special. \r\nInstructor: \r\n- \r\nto \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nEaster - Easter Bunny Craft \r\nEgg Dying Contest \r\nApr.22 Apr.22 \r\n5:00 PM 6:00 PM Ages 6 to 11 \r\nF \r\nPark Staff \r\nHicks $5 \r\nMust bring one dozen hard boil eggs and the center will provide the \r\nsupplies to decorate. Must pre-register for the class. \r\nInstructor: \r\n- \r\nto \r\n\r\nDoggie Easter Egg Hunt\r\n\r\nSaturday, April 23, 2011\r\n\r\nThe Canebrake will host the Second Annual Doggie Easter Egg Hunt on the Saturday before Easter Sunday. Festivities begin with registration at 2 p.m. and will include obedience, trick and agility demonstrations at 2:30 p.m., the egg hunt at 3:30 p.m. and prizes and awards at 4:00 p.m. Prizes will be awarded for best dressed, cutest, biggest, smallest, friendliest, etc. One lucky dog will win its human a night in a King Suite with Sunday Brunch for Two.\r\n\r\nCost is $10 donation per dog and the proceeds will benefit WAGS (Wagoner Animal Guardian Society) and Going Home Animal Rescue Transport. Goody bags and treats donated by Petco and PetSmart.\r\n\r\nFor information or reservations call 918.485.1810 or email info@thecanebrake.com\r\n\r\n\r\n','Easter Stuff to Do in Tulsa','','inherit','open','open','','7482-revision-7','','','2011-04-10 20:19:50','2011-04-11 02:19:50','',7482,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/04/7482-revision-7/',0,'revision','',0),(7548,1,'2011-04-10 21:17:40','2011-04-11 03:17:40','<strong>Breakfast with Bunny</strong>\r\nWhen: Friday, April 15, 10-10:45am\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.tulsaparks.org/\">Whiteside Park & Community Center</a>, 4009 South Pittsburg Avenue\r\nGrab the kids and have a fun-filled breakfast, play games and visit with the Easter Bunny, all in one action-packed morning. Don\'t forget to bring your camera for those memorable bunny photos. Cost is $7. \r\n\r\n<strong>Doggone Egg Hunt </strong>\r\nWhen: Saturday, April 16, 10:30-11:30am\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.tulsaparks.org/\">Hicks Park & Community Center</a>, 3443 South Mingo Road\r\nThe only thing that could come close to being as cute as a bunch of kids, toddlers and babies vying for Easter eggs in an open field? A bunch of dogs and puppies vying for Easter eggs in an open field, that\'s what. Dogs and their people will search for eggs filled with pup-friendly treats and prizes at this east Tulsa egg hunt, which starts at 11am sharp. All dogs must remain on a leash. This event is free and open to the public. \r\n\r\n<strong>Egg-citing Art</strong>\r\nWhen: Saturday, April 16, 1-3pm\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.philbrook.org/\">Philbrook Museum of Art</a>, 2727 S. Rockford Avenue\r\nJoin guest artist Michelle Keenan in visiting the beautiful gardens at Philbrook for inspiration to create a batik-styled egg with scratch art paper. Cost is $5/member, $7/not yet member per student or $10/member, $12/not yet member per student with an adult. Ages 6–12 are welcome (children may attend without accompanying adults).\r\n\r\n\r\nEaster Egg Hunt - Reed \r\nApr.19 Apr.19 \r\n6:30 PM 7:00 PM Ages 2 to 10 \r\nTu \r\nPark Staff \r\nReed $0 \r\nHunt for candy in the park. Canned food donations accepted to \r\nbenefit an area food bank. Pictures with the Easter Bunny will be \r\nsold. The hunt is free. \r\nInstructor: \r\n- \r\nto \r\n\r\nEaster Egg Hunt \r\nApr.21 Apr.21 \r\n6:00 PM 6:30 PMAges 1 to 12 \r\nTh \r\nPark Staff \r\nLacy $0 \r\nChildren are invited to hunt for colorful eggs filled with candy and \r\ntoys. Please bring a canned food item to be donated to a local Food \r\nBank. Also bring a container for your eggs. Free. \r\nInstructor: \r\n- \r\nto \r\n02001.315 \r\n5:00 PM 6:00 PM \r\n- \r\nEaster Bunny Craft\r\n\r\nMixed Ages \r\nEaster Egg Hunt \r\nApr.21 Apr.21 \r\n5:00 PM 6:00 PM Ages 7 to 12 \r\nTh \r\nPark Staff \r\nHicks $10 \r\nA fun holiday activity. You can keep the craft for yourself or give it as \r\na gift to someone special. \r\nInstructor: \r\n- \r\nto \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nEaster - Easter Bunny Craft \r\nEgg Dying Contest \r\nApr.22 Apr.22 \r\n5:00 PM 6:00 PM Ages 6 to 11 \r\nF \r\nPark Staff \r\nHicks $5 \r\nMust bring one dozen hard boil eggs and the center will provide the \r\nsupplies to decorate. Must pre-register for the class. \r\nInstructor: \r\n- \r\nto \r\n\r\nDoggie Easter Egg Hunt\r\n\r\nSaturday, April 23, 2011\r\n\r\nThe Canebrake will host the Second Annual Doggie Easter Egg Hunt on the Saturday before Easter Sunday. Festivities begin with registration at 2 p.m. and will include obedience, trick and agility demonstrations at 2:30 p.m., the egg hunt at 3:30 p.m. and prizes and awards at 4:00 p.m. Prizes will be awarded for best dressed, cutest, biggest, smallest, friendliest, etc. One lucky dog will win its human a night in a King Suite with Sunday Brunch for Two.\r\n\r\nCost is $10 donation per dog and the proceeds will benefit WAGS (Wagoner Animal Guardian Society) and Going Home Animal Rescue Transport. Goody bags and treats donated by Petco and PetSmart.\r\n\r\nFor information or reservations call 918.485.1810 or email info@thecanebrake.com\r\n\r\n\r\n','Easter Stuff to Do in Tulsa','','inherit','open','open','','7482-revision-10','','','2011-04-10 21:17:40','2011-04-11 03:17:40','',7482,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/04/7482-revision-10/',0,'revision','',0),(7547,1,'2011-04-10 21:14:06','2011-04-11 03:14:06','<strong>Breakfast with Bunny</strong>\r\nWhen: Friday, April 15, 10-10:45am\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.tulsaparks.org/\">Whiteside Park & Community Center</a>, 4009 South Pittsburg Avenue\r\nGrab the kids and have a fun-filled breakfast, play games and visit with the Easter Bunny, all in one action-packed morning. Don\'t forget to bring your camera for those memorable bunny photos. Cost is $7. \r\n\r\n<strong>Egg-citing Art</strong>\r\nWhen: Saturday, April 16, 1-3pm\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.philbrook.org/\">Philbrook Museum of Art</a>, 2727 S. Rockford Avenue\r\nJoin guest artist Michelle Keenan in visiting the beautiful gardens at Philbrook for inspiration to create a batik-styled egg with scratch art paper. Cost is $5/member, $7/not yet member per student or $10/member, $12/not yet member per student with an adult. Ages 6–12 are welcome (children may attend without accompanying adults).\r\n\r\n\r\n<strong>Doggone Egg Hunt </strong>\r\nApr.16 Apr.16 \r\n10:30 AM 11:30 AM All Ages \r\nSa \r\nPark Staff \r\nHicks $0 \r\nThis event is open to families with dogs that want to have a doggone \r\ngreat time. Dogs and handlers will search for eggs filled with treats \r\nand prizes. Hunt starts at 11:00 AM sharp. All dogs must remain on a \r\nleash. Event is free to the public. \r\nInstructor: \r\n- \r\nto \r\n\r\n91310.317 \r\nApr.29 Apr.29 \r\n7:00 PM 9:00 PM \r\nF \r\nWhiteside $0 \r\n- \r\nto \r\nSocial - Birthday Parties \r\nDoggone Egg Hunt \r\nApr.16 Apr.16 \r\n10:30 AM 11:30 AM All Ages \r\nSa \r\nPark Staff \r\nHicks $0 \r\nThis event is open to families with dogs that want to have a doggone \r\ngreat time. Dogs and handlers will search for eggs filled with treats \r\nand prizes. Hunt starts at 11:00 AM sharp. All dogs must remain on a \r\nleash. Event is free to the public. \r\nInstructor: \r\n- \r\nto \r\nPreschool \r\nBreakfast with Bunny \r\nHave a fun-filled breakfast and play games and visit with the Easter \r\nEaster Egg Hunt - Reed \r\nApr.19 Apr.19 \r\n6:30 PM 7:00 PM Ages 2 to 10 \r\nTu \r\nPark Staff \r\nReed $0 \r\nHunt for candy in the park. Canned food donations accepted to \r\nbenefit an area food bank. Pictures with the Easter Bunny will be \r\nsold. The hunt is free. \r\nInstructor: \r\n- \r\nto \r\n\r\nEaster Egg Hunt \r\nApr.21 Apr.21 \r\n6:00 PM 6:30 PMAges 1 to 12 \r\nTh \r\nPark Staff \r\nLacy $0 \r\nChildren are invited to hunt for colorful eggs filled with candy and \r\ntoys. Please bring a canned food item to be donated to a local Food \r\nBank. Also bring a container for your eggs. Free. \r\nInstructor: \r\n- \r\nto \r\n02001.315 \r\n5:00 PM 6:00 PM \r\n- \r\nEaster Bunny Craft\r\n\r\nMixed Ages \r\nEaster Egg Hunt \r\nApr.21 Apr.21 \r\n5:00 PM 6:00 PM Ages 7 to 12 \r\nTh \r\nPark Staff \r\nHicks $10 \r\nA fun holiday activity. You can keep the craft for yourself or give it as \r\na gift to someone special. \r\nInstructor: \r\n- \r\nto \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nEaster - Easter Bunny Craft \r\nEgg Dying Contest \r\nApr.22 Apr.22 \r\n5:00 PM 6:00 PM Ages 6 to 11 \r\nF \r\nPark Staff \r\nHicks $5 \r\nMust bring one dozen hard boil eggs and the center will provide the \r\nsupplies to decorate. Must pre-register for the class. \r\nInstructor: \r\n- \r\nto \r\n\r\nDoggie Easter Egg Hunt\r\n\r\nSaturday, April 23, 2011\r\n\r\nThe Canebrake will host the Second Annual Doggie Easter Egg Hunt on the Saturday before Easter Sunday. Festivities begin with registration at 2 p.m. and will include obedience, trick and agility demonstrations at 2:30 p.m., the egg hunt at 3:30 p.m. and prizes and awards at 4:00 p.m. Prizes will be awarded for best dressed, cutest, biggest, smallest, friendliest, etc. One lucky dog will win its human a night in a King Suite with Sunday Brunch for Two.\r\n\r\nCost is $10 donation per dog and the proceeds will benefit WAGS (Wagoner Animal Guardian Society) and Going Home Animal Rescue Transport. Goody bags and treats donated by Petco and PetSmart.\r\n\r\nFor information or reservations call 918.485.1810 or email info@thecanebrake.com\r\n\r\n\r\n','Easter Stuff to Do in Tulsa','','inherit','open','open','','7482-revision-9','','','2011-04-10 21:14:06','2011-04-11 03:14:06','',7482,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/04/7482-revision-9/',0,'revision','',0),(7549,1,'2011-04-10 21:32:12','2011-04-11 03:32:12','<strong>Breakfast with Bunny</strong>\r\nWhen: Friday, April 15, 10-10:45am\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.tulsaparks.org/\">Whiteside Park & Community Center</a>, 4009 South Pittsburg Avenue\r\nGrab the kids and have a fun-filled breakfast, play games and visit with the Easter Bunny, all in one action-packed morning. Don\'t forget to bring your camera for those memorable bunny photos. Cost is $7. \r\n\r\n<strong>Doggone Egg Hunt </strong>\r\nWhen: Saturday, April 16, 10:30-11:30am\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.tulsaparks.org/\">Hicks Park & Community Center</a>, 3443 South Mingo Road\r\nThe only thing that could come close to being as cute as a bunch of kids, toddlers and babies vying for Easter eggs in an open field? A bunch of dogs and puppies vying for Easter eggs in an open field, that\'s what. Dogs and their people will search for eggs filled with pup-friendly treats and prizes at this east Tulsa egg hunt, which starts at 11am sharp. All dogs must remain on a leash. This event is free and open to the public. \r\n\r\n<strong>Egg-citing Art</strong>\r\nWhen: Saturday, April 16, 1-3pm\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.philbrook.org/\">Philbrook Museum of Art</a>, 2727 S. Rockford Avenue\r\nJoin guest artist Michelle Keenan in visiting the beautiful gardens at Philbrook for inspiration to create a batik-styled egg with scratch art paper. Cost is $5/member, $7/not yet member per student or $10/member, $12/not yet member per student with an adult. Ages 6–12 are welcome (children may attend without accompanying adults).\r\n\r\n<strong>Easter Egg Hunt</strong>\r\nWhen: Tuesday, April 19, 6:30-7pm\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://ww.tulsaparks.org/\">Reed Park & Community Center</a>, 4233 South Yukon Avenue\r\nPractice your egg-hunting skills and hone them for the weekend ahead at this midweek, westside hunt. Canned food donations will be accepted to benefit a local food bank. Photos with the Easter bunny will be available for purchase. The hunt is free and open to the public. For ages 2-10. \r\n\r\n<strong>Easter Bunny Craft</strong>\r\nWhen: Thursday, April 21, 5-6pm\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.tulsaparks.org/\">Hicks Park & Community Center</a>, 3443 South Mingo Road\r\nSpring is in the air - who doesn\'t feel crafty at this time of year? Kids age 7-12 can go to work on an Easter-inspired craft, which they can keep for themselves or give as a gift to someone special. Cost for materials is $10. \r\n\r\n<strong>Easter Egg Hunt</strong>\r\nWhen: Thursday, April 21, 6-6:30pm\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.tulsaparks.org/\">Lacy Park & Community Center</a>, 2134 North Madison Place\r\nThe kids of Tulsa are invited to hunt for colorful eggs filled with candy and toys. Bring a canned food item for donation to a local food bank, and don\'t forget a basket or other container for all the eggs you and the kids find. The hunt is free and open to the public. For ages 1-12. \r\n\r\n<strong>Egg Dying Contest</strong>\r\nWhen: Friday, April 22, 5-6pm\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.tulsaparks.org/\">Hicks Park & Community Center</a>, 3443 South Mingo Road\r\nThink you\'ve got what it takes to win an Easter egg-dyeing contest at Hicks Park & Community Center this year? If you think so, bring one dozen hard-boiled eggs and the park will provide the supplies for you to give it your best shot. Be sure to pre-register for the contest so the folks at Hicks will know how many eggs to have on hand - call (918) 669-6355 to let them know you\'re coming. Cost is $5. For ages 6-11. \r\n\r\n<strong>Doggie Easter Egg Hunt</strong>\r\nWhen: Saturday, April 23, 2pm\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.thecanebrake.com/\">The Canebrake</a>, 33241 E. 732nd Road in Wagoner\r\nThe Canebrake is hosting the Second Annual Doggie Easter Egg Hunt at the resort in Wagoner this year. The festivities begin with registration will include obedience, trick and agility demonstrations at 2:30 p.m. The egg hunt will take off at 3:30 p.m., and prizes will be awarded at 4:00 p.m. Dogs can compete for prizes in best dressed, cutest, biggest, smallest, friendliest other pup-tastic categories galore. One lucky dog will win its human a night in a King Suite with Sunday Brunch for two (a seriously sweet package, y\'all, and worth a pretty nice wad of dough). Cost is a $10 donation per dog for WAGS (Wagoner Animal Guardian Society) and Going Home Animal Rescue Transport. Goody bags and treats donated by Petco and PetSmart. For information or reservations call (918) 485-1810 or email <a href=\"mailto:info@thecanebrake.com\">info@thecanebrake.com</a>. ','Easter Stuff to Do in Tulsa','','inherit','open','open','','7482-revision-11','','','2011-04-10 21:32:12','2011-04-11 03:32:12','',7482,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/04/7482-revision-11/',0,'revision','',0),(7550,1,'2011-04-10 21:34:16','2011-04-11 03:34:16','<strong>Breakfast with Bunny</strong>\r\nWhen: Friday, April 15, 10-10:45am\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.tulsaparks.org/\">Whiteside Park & Community Center</a>, 4009 South Pittsburg Avenue\r\nGrab the kids and have a fun-filled breakfast, play games and visit with the Easter Bunny, all in one action-packed morning. Don\'t forget to bring your camera for those memorable bunny photos. Cost is $7. \r\n\r\n<strong>Doggone Egg Hunt </strong>\r\nWhen: Saturday, April 16, 10:30-11:30am\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.tulsaparks.org/\">Hicks Park & Community Center</a>, 3443 South Mingo Road\r\nThe only thing that could come close to being as cute as a bunch of kids, toddlers and babies vying for Easter eggs in an open field? A bunch of dogs and puppies vying for Easter eggs in an open field, that\'s what. Dogs and their people will search for eggs filled with pup-friendly treats and prizes at this east Tulsa egg hunt, which starts at 11am sharp. All dogs must remain on a leash. This event is free and open to the public. \r\n\r\n<strong>Egg-citing Art</strong>\r\nWhen: Saturday, April 16, 1-3pm\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.philbrook.org/\">Philbrook Museum of Art</a>, 2727 S. Rockford Avenue\r\nJoin guest artist Michelle Keenan in visiting the beautiful gardens at Philbrook for inspiration to create a batik-styled egg with scratch art paper. Cost is $5/member, $7/not yet member per student or $10/member, $12/not yet member per student with an adult. Ages 6–12 are welcome (children may attend without accompanying adults).\r\n\r\n<strong>Easter Egg Hunt</strong>\r\nWhen: Tuesday, April 19, 6:30-7pm\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://ww.tulsaparks.org/\">Reed Park & Community Center</a>, 4233 South Yukon Avenue\r\nPractice your egg-hunting skills and hone them for the weekend ahead at this midweek, westside hunt. Canned food donations will be accepted to benefit a local food bank. Photos with the Easter bunny will be available for purchase. The hunt is free and open to the public. For ages 2-10. \r\n\r\n<strong>Easter Bunny Craft</strong>\r\nWhen: Thursday, April 21, 5-6pm\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.tulsaparks.org/\">Hicks Park & Community Center</a>, 3443 South Mingo Road\r\nSpring is in the air - who doesn\'t feel crafty at this time of year? Kids age 7-12 can go to work on an Easter-inspired craft, which they can keep for themselves or give as a gift to someone special. Cost for materials is $10. \r\n\r\n<strong>Easter Egg Hunt</strong>\r\nWhen: Thursday, April 21, 6-6:30pm\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.tulsaparks.org/\">Lacy Park & Community Center</a>, 2134 North Madison Place\r\nThe kids of Tulsa are invited to hunt for colorful eggs filled with candy and toys. Bring a canned food item for donation to a local food bank, and don\'t forget a basket or other container for all the eggs you and the kids find. The hunt is free and open to the public. For ages 1-12. \r\n\r\n<strong>Egg Dying Contest</strong>\r\nWhen: Friday, April 22, 5-6pm\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.tulsaparks.org/\">Hicks Park & Community Center</a>, 3443 South Mingo Road\r\nThink you\'ve got what it takes to win an Easter egg-dyeing contest at Hicks Park & Community Center this year? If you think so, bring one dozen hard-boiled eggs and the park will provide the supplies for you to give it your best shot. Be sure to pre-register for the contest so the folks at Hicks will know how many eggs to have on hand - call (918) 669-6355 to let them know you\'re coming. Cost is $5. For ages 6-11. \r\n\r\n<strong>Doggie Easter Egg Hunt</strong>\r\nWhen: Saturday, April 23, 2pm\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.thecanebrake.com/\">The Canebrake</a>, 33241 E. 732nd Road in Wagoner\r\nThe Canebrake is hosting the Second Annual Doggie Easter Egg Hunt at the resort in Wagoner this year. The festivities begin with registration will include obedience, trick and agility demonstrations at 2:30 p.m. The egg hunt will take off at 3:30 p.m., and prizes will be awarded at 4:00 p.m. Dogs can compete for prizes in best dressed, cutest, biggest, smallest, friendliest other pup-tastic categories galore. One lucky dog will win its human a night in a King Suite with Sunday Brunch for two (a seriously sweet package, y\'all, and worth a pretty nice wad of dough). Cost is a $10 donation per dog for WAGS (Wagoner Animal Guardian Society) and Going Home Animal Rescue Transport. Goody bags and treats donated by Petco and PetSmart. For information or reservations call (918) 485-1810 or email <a href=\"mailto:info@thecanebrake.com\">info@thecanebrake.com</a>. \r\n\r\n<h3>More Goodies for Your Tulsa Events Easter Basket</h3>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/04/20-seconds-lifespan-of-preschool-easter/\">20 Seconds: The Lifespan of a Preschool Easter Egg Hunt</a> (all about our experience with Zoobilee 2010)','Easter Stuff to Do in Tulsa','','inherit','open','open','','7482-revision-12','','','2011-04-10 21:34:16','2011-04-11 03:34:16','',7482,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/04/7482-revision-12/',0,'revision','',0),(7551,1,'2011-04-10 21:38:15','2011-04-11 03:38:15','<h3>Easter Egg Hunts in the Tulsa Area</h3>\r\n\r\n<strong>Doggone Egg Hunt at Hicks Park</strong>\r\nWhen: Saturday, April 16, 10:30-11:30am\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.tulsaparks.org/\">Hicks Park & Community Center</a>, 3443 South Mingo Road\r\nThe only thing that could come close to being as cute as a bunch of kids, toddlers and babies vying for Easter eggs in an open field? A bunch of dogs and puppies vying for Easter eggs in an open field, that\'s what. Dogs and their people will search for eggs filled with pup-friendly treats and prizes at this east Tulsa egg hunt, which starts at 11am sharp. All dogs must remain on a leash. This event is free and open to the public. \r\n\r\n<strong>Easter Egg Hunt at Reed Park</strong>\r\nWhen: Tuesday, April 19, 6:30-7pm\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://ww.tulsaparks.org/\">Reed Park & Community Center</a>, 4233 South Yukon Avenue\r\nPractice your egg-hunting skills and hone them for the weekend ahead at this midweek, westside hunt. Canned food donations will be accepted to benefit a local food bank. Photos with the Easter bunny will be available for purchase. The hunt is free and open to the public. For ages 2-10. \r\n\r\n<strong>Easter Egg Hunt at Lacy Park</strong>\r\nWhen: Thursday, April 21, 6-6:30pm\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.tulsaparks.org/\">Lacy Park & Community Center</a>, 2134 North Madison Place\r\nThe kids of Tulsa are invited to hunt for colorful eggs filled with candy and toys. Bring a canned food item for donation to a local food bank, and don\'t forget a basket or other container for all the eggs you and the kids find. The hunt is free and open to the public. For ages 1-12. \r\n\r\n<strong>Doggie Easter Egg Hunt at The Canebrake</strong>\r\nWhen: Saturday, April 23, 2pm\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.thecanebrake.com/\">The Canebrake</a>, 33241 E. 732nd Road in Wagoner\r\nThe Canebrake is hosting the Second Annual Doggie Easter Egg Hunt at the resort in Wagoner this year. The festivities begin with registration will include obedience, trick and agility demonstrations at 2:30 p.m. The egg hunt will take off at 3:30 p.m., and prizes will be awarded at 4:00 p.m. Dogs can compete for prizes in best dressed, cutest, biggest, smallest, friendliest other pup-tastic categories galore. One lucky dog will win its human a night in a King Suite with Sunday Brunch for two (a seriously sweet package, y\'all, and worth a pretty nice wad of dough). Cost is a $10 donation per dog for WAGS (Wagoner Animal Guardian Society) and Going Home Animal Rescue Transport. Goody bags and treats donated by Petco and PetSmart. For information or reservations call (918) 485-1810 or email <a href=\"mailto:info@thecanebrake.com\">info@thecanebrake.com</a>. \r\n\r\n\r\n<h3>Visit the Easter Bunny in Tulsa</h3>\r\n\r\n<strong>Breakfast with Bunny</strong>\r\nWhen: Friday, April 15, 10-10:45am\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.tulsaparks.org/\">Whiteside Park & Community Center</a>, 4009 South Pittsburg Avenue\r\nGrab the kids and have a fun-filled breakfast, play games and visit with the Easter Bunny, all in one action-packed morning. Don\'t forget to bring your camera for those memorable bunny photos. Cost is $7. \r\n\r\n<h3>More Easter Fun in Tulsa</h3>\r\n\r\n<strong>Egg-citing Art</strong>\r\nWhen: Saturday, April 16, 1-3pm\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.philbrook.org/\">Philbrook Museum of Art</a>, 2727 S. Rockford Avenue\r\nJoin guest artist Michelle Keenan in visiting the beautiful gardens at Philbrook for inspiration to create a batik-styled egg with scratch art paper. Cost is $5/member, $7/not yet member per student or $10/member, $12/not yet member per student with an adult. Ages 6–12 are welcome (children may attend without accompanying adults).\r\n\r\n<strong>Easter Bunny Craft</strong>\r\nWhen: Thursday, April 21, 5-6pm\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.tulsaparks.org/\">Hicks Park & Community Center</a>, 3443 South Mingo Road\r\nSpring is in the air - who doesn\'t feel crafty at this time of year? Kids age 7-12 can go to work on an Easter-inspired craft, which they can keep for themselves or give as a gift to someone special. Cost for materials is $10. \r\n\r\n<strong>Egg Dying Contest</strong>\r\nWhen: Friday, April 22, 5-6pm\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.tulsaparks.org/\">Hicks Park & Community Center</a>, 3443 South Mingo Road\r\nThink you\'ve got what it takes to win an Easter egg-dyeing contest at Hicks Park & Community Center this year? If you think so, bring one dozen hard-boiled eggs and the park will provide the supplies for you to give it your best shot. Be sure to pre-register for the contest so the folks at Hicks will know how many eggs to have on hand - call (918) 669-6355 to let them know you\'re coming. Cost is $5. For ages 6-11. \r\n\r\n\r\n<h3>More Goodies for Your Tulsa Events Easter Basket</h3>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/04/20-seconds-lifespan-of-preschool-easter/\">20 Seconds: The Lifespan of a Preschool Easter Egg Hunt</a> (all about our experience with Zoobilee 2010)','Easter Stuff to Do in Tulsa','','inherit','open','open','','7482-revision-13','','','2011-04-10 21:38:15','2011-04-11 03:38:15','',7482,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/04/7482-revision-13/',0,'revision','',0),(7552,1,'2011-04-10 22:30:28','2011-04-11 04:30:28','','Easter Egg Hunt Tulsa Oklahoma','','inherit','open','open','','easteregghunttulsa','','','2011-04-10 22:30:28','2011-04-11 04:30:28','',7482,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/EasterEggHuntTulsa.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(7553,1,'2011-04-10 22:31:22','2011-04-11 04:31:22','','Zoobilee Easter Egg Hunt Tulsa Zoo Tulsa Oklahoma','','inherit','open','open','','zoobileetulsa2010','','','2011-04-10 22:31:22','2011-04-11 04:31:22','',7482,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/ZoobileeTulsa2010.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(7554,1,'2011-04-10 22:32:13','2011-04-11 04:32:13','','Easter Egg Hunt Tulsa Oklahoma','','inherit','open','open','','easteregghunttulsaoklahoma','','','2011-04-10 22:32:13','2011-04-11 04:32:13','',7482,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/EasterEggHuntTulsaOklahoma.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(7555,1,'2011-04-10 22:32:59','2011-04-11 04:32:59','','Zoobilee Easter Egg Hunt Tulsa Zoo Tulsa Oklahoma','','inherit','open','open','','zoobileetulsa','','','2011-04-10 22:32:59','2011-04-11 04:32:59','',7482,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/ZoobileeTulsa.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',1),(7556,1,'2011-04-10 21:55:14','2011-04-11 03:55:14','<h3>Easter Egg Hunts in the Tulsa Area</h3>\r\n\r\n<strong>Doggone Egg Hunt at Hicks Park</strong>\r\nWhen: Saturday, April 16, 10:30-11:30am\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.tulsaparks.org/\">Hicks Park & Community Center</a>, 3443 South Mingo Road\r\nThe only thing that could come close to being as cute as a bunch of kids, toddlers and babies vying for Easter eggs in an open field? A bunch of dogs and puppies vying for Easter eggs in an open field, that\'s what. Dogs and their people will search for eggs filled with pup-friendly treats and prizes at this east Tulsa egg hunt, which starts at 11am sharp. All dogs must remain on a leash. This event is free and open to the public. \r\n\r\n<strong>Easter Egg Hunt at Reed Park</strong>\r\nWhen: Tuesday, April 19, 6:30-7pm\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://ww.tulsaparks.org/\">Reed Park & Community Center</a>, 4233 South Yukon Avenue\r\nPractice your egg-hunting skills and hone them for the weekend ahead at this midweek, westside hunt. Canned food donations will be accepted to benefit a local food bank. Photos with the Easter bunny will be available for purchase. The hunt is free and open to the public. For ages 2-10. \r\n\r\n<strong>Easter Egg Hunt at Lacy Park</strong>\r\nWhen: Thursday, April 21, 6-6:30pm\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.tulsaparks.org/\">Lacy Park & Community Center</a>, 2134 North Madison Place\r\nThe kids of Tulsa are invited to hunt for colorful eggs filled with candy and toys. Bring a canned food item for donation to a local food bank, and don\'t forget a basket or other container for all the eggs you and the kids find. The hunt is free and open to the public. For ages 1-12. \r\n\r\n<strong>Owasso Egg Drop</strong>\r\nWhen: Saturday, April 23, 11am and 2pm\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.lifepointowasso.com/egg-drop\">Centennial Park in Owasso</a>, 15301 E. 86 Street North\r\nPicture this: You\'re three feet tall and you\'re running through a field chock full of colorful plastic eggs, each bursting with untold goodies. Then, from overhead, you hear the whir of helicopter rotors. Thousands of eggs begin to rain down on you, your friends, the field around you and, yeah, all up in your Easter basket. We\'re talking 50,000 eggs here, people. The kids, no matter how young, are bound to walk away with at least a few, thanks to how <a href=\"http://www.lifepointowasso.com/schedule\">the hunts are divided by age group</a>. Look also for inflatables for jumping and a magic show to take the fun factor for the kids all the way to a 10. All attendees are encouraged to bring a non-perishable food item for donation to Standing In The Gap Food Bank. Presented by Lifepoint Baptist Church. \r\n\r\n<strong>Doggie Easter Egg Hunt at The Canebrake</strong>\r\nWhen: Saturday, April 23, 2pm\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.thecanebrake.com/\">The Canebrake</a>, 33241 E. 732nd Road in Wagoner\r\nThe Canebrake is hosting the Second Annual Doggie Easter Egg Hunt at the resort in Wagoner this year. The festivities begin with registration will include obedience, trick and agility demonstrations at 2:30 p.m. The egg hunt will take off at 3:30 p.m., and prizes will be awarded at 4:00 p.m. Dogs can compete for prizes in best dressed, cutest, biggest, smallest, friendliest other pup-tastic categories galore. One lucky dog will win its human a night in a King Suite with Sunday Brunch for two (a seriously sweet package, y\'all, and worth a pretty nice wad of dough). Cost is a $10 donation per dog for WAGS (Wagoner Animal Guardian Society) and Going Home Animal Rescue Transport. Goody bags and treats donated by Petco and PetSmart. For information or reservations call (918) 485-1810 or email <a href=\"mailto:info@thecanebrake.com\">info@thecanebrake.com</a>. \r\n\r\n<h3>Visit the Easter Bunny in Tulsa</h3>\r\n\r\n<strong>Breakfast with Bunny</strong>\r\nWhen: Friday, April 15, 10-10:45am\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.tulsaparks.org/\">Whiteside Park & Community Center</a>, 4009 South Pittsburg Avenue\r\nGrab the kids and have a fun-filled breakfast, play games and visit with the Easter Bunny, all in one action-packed morning. Don\'t forget to bring your camera for those memorable bunny photos. Cost is $7. \r\n\r\n<strong>Easter Bunny at Promenade Mall</strong>\r\nWhen: Monday-Saturday, 11am-8pm (carrot breaks 1-2pm and 5-6pm); Sunday, 12-6pm (carrot break 2-3pm); Mall is closed Easter Sunday\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.tulsapromenade.com/go/Poolb.cfm?MallID=787&FPURLID=2129974243\">Promenade Mall</a>, 4107 S. Yale Avenue\r\nEvery year the Easter bunny hops into Promenade Mall to hang out with kids and pose for photos. Feel free to bring your pet you see Mr. E. Bunny on Tuesday, April 12 and Tuesday, April 19 between 4-8pm. \r\n\r\n<h3>More Easter Fun in Tulsa</h3>\r\n\r\n<strong>Egg-citing Art</strong>\r\nWhen: Saturday, April 16, 1-3pm\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.philbrook.org/\">Philbrook Museum of Art</a>, 2727 S. Rockford Avenue\r\nJoin guest artist Michelle Keenan in visiting the beautiful gardens at Philbrook for inspiration to create a batik-styled egg with scratch art paper. Cost is $5/member, $7/not yet member per student or $10/member, $12/not yet member per student with an adult. Ages 6–12 are welcome (children may attend without accompanying adults).\r\n\r\n<strong>Easter Bunny Craft</strong>\r\nWhen: Thursday, April 21, 5-6pm\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.tulsaparks.org/\">Hicks Park & Community Center</a>, 3443 South Mingo Road\r\nSpring is in the air - who doesn\'t feel crafty at this time of year? Kids age 7-12 can go to work on an Easter-inspired craft, which they can keep for themselves or give as a gift to someone special. Cost for materials is $10. \r\n\r\n<strong>Egg Dying Contest</strong>\r\nWhen: Friday, April 22, 5-6pm\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.tulsaparks.org/\">Hicks Park & Community Center</a>, 3443 South Mingo Road\r\nThink you\'ve got what it takes to win an Easter egg-dyeing contest at Hicks Park & Community Center this year? If you think so, bring one dozen hard-boiled eggs and the park will provide the supplies for you to give it your best shot. Be sure to pre-register for the contest so the folks at Hicks will know how many eggs to have on hand - call (918) 669-6355 to let them know you\'re coming. Cost is $5. For ages 6-11. \r\n\r\n\r\n<h3>More Goodies for Your Tulsa Events Easter Basket</h3>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/04/20-seconds-lifespan-of-preschool-easter/\">20 Seconds: The Lifespan of a Preschool Easter Egg Hunt</a> (all about our experience with Zoobilee 2010)','Easter Stuff to Do in Tulsa','','inherit','open','open','','7482-revision-14','','','2011-04-10 21:55:14','2011-04-11 03:55:14','',7482,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/04/7482-revision-14/',0,'revision','',0),(7557,1,'2011-04-10 22:33:40','2011-04-11 04:33:40','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-7552\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=7552\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7552\" title=\"Easter Egg Hunt Tulsa Oklahoma\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/EasterEggHuntTulsa.jpg\" alt=\"Easter Egg Hunt Tulsa Oklahoma\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-7553\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=7553\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7553\" title=\"Zoobilee Easter Egg Hunt Tulsa Zoo Tulsa Oklahoma\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/ZoobileeTulsa2010.jpg\" alt=\"Zoobilee Easter Egg Hunt Tulsa Zoo Tulsa Oklahoma\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n<h3>Easter Egg Hunts in the Tulsa Area</h3>\r\n<strong>Doggone Egg Hunt at Hicks Park</strong>\r\nWhen: Saturday, April 16, 10:30-11:30am\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.tulsaparks.org/\">Hicks Park &amp; Community Center</a>, 3443 South Mingo Road\r\nThe only thing that could come close to being as cute as a bunch of kids, toddlers and babies vying for Easter eggs in an open field? A bunch of dogs and puppies vying for Easter eggs in an open field, that\'s what. Dogs and their people will search for eggs filled with pup-friendly treats and prizes at this east Tulsa egg hunt, which starts at 11am sharp. All dogs must remain on a leash. This event is free and open to the public.\r\n\r\n<strong>Easter Egg Hunt at Reed Park</strong>\r\nWhen: Tuesday, April 19, 6:30-7pm\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://ww.tulsaparks.org/\">Reed Park &amp; Community Center</a>, 4233 South Yukon Avenue\r\nPractice your egg-hunting skills and hone them for the weekend ahead at this midweek, westside hunt. Canned food donations will be accepted to benefit a local food bank. Photos with the Easter bunny will be available for purchase. The hunt is free and open to the public. For ages 2-10.\r\n\r\n<strong>Easter Egg Hunt at Lacy Park</strong>\r\nWhen: Thursday, April 21, 6-6:30pm\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.tulsaparks.org/\">Lacy Park &amp; Community Center</a>, 2134 North Madison Place\r\nThe kids of Tulsa are invited to hunt for colorful eggs filled with candy and toys. Bring a canned food item for donation to a local food bank, and don\'t forget a basket or other container for all the eggs you and the kids find. The hunt is free and open to the public. For ages 1-12.\r\n\r\n<strong>Zoobilee</strong>\r\nWhen: Saturday, April 23, 8-10am\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.tulsazoo.org/\">Tulsa Zoo &amp; Living Museum</a>, 6421 East 36th Street North\r\nIt\'s a Tulsa tradition at Easter time - it\'s Zoobilee, the annual egg hunt at our very own Tulsa Zoo &amp; Living Museum for Zoo Friends Members. Get the kids age 4-12 ready for their hunt, which starts at 9am and offers more than 15,000 eggs for the finding. The Chick Egg Hunt, which is reserved for kids age 0-4, starts 15 minutes later. Other zoo-per activities during Zoobilee include interactive docent stations, keeper chats, arts and crafts, costume characters, pictures with Peter Cottontail and a Jupiter Jump, along with other inflatables for jumping. Plus, enjoy free train ride and carousel rides until 10am. <em>Again, this event is exclusive to Zoo Friends Members</em>. Advance tickets are $5; tickets will be $6 the day of the event. Children under one are free if not participating in the egg hunt. Members may bring guests for $5 per person, $6 day of. <a href=\"https://shop.tulsazoo.org/mainstore.asp\">Buy and print your tickets online</a> or call (918) 669-6608 for more info.\r\n\r\n<strong>Owasso Egg Drop</strong>\r\nWhen: Saturday, April 23, 11am and 2pm\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.lifepointowasso.com/egg-drop\">Centennial Park in Owasso</a>, 15301 E. 86 Street North\r\nPicture this: You\'re three feet tall and you\'re running through a field chock full of colorful plastic eggs, each bursting with untold goodies. Then, from overhead, you hear the whir of helicopter rotors. Thousands of eggs begin to rain down on you, your friends, the field around you and, yeah, all up in your Easter basket. We\'re talking 50,000 eggs here, people. The kids, no matter how young, are bound to walk away with at least a few, thanks to how <a href=\"http://www.lifepointowasso.com/schedule\">the hunts are divided by age group</a>. Look also for inflatables for jumping and a magic show to take the fun factor for the kids all the way to a 10. All attendees are encouraged to bring a non-perishable food item for donation to Standing In The Gap Food Bank. Presented by Lifepoint Baptist Church.\r\n\r\n<strong>Doggie Easter Egg Hunt at The Canebrake</strong>\r\nWhen: Saturday, April 23, 2pm\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.thecanebrake.com/\">The Canebrake</a>, 33241 E. 732nd Road in Wagoner\r\nThe Canebrake is hosting the Second Annual Doggie Easter Egg Hunt at the resort in Wagoner this year. The festivities begin with registration will include obedience, trick and agility demonstrations at 2:30 p.m. The egg hunt will take off at 3:30 p.m., and prizes will be awarded at 4:00 p.m. Dogs can compete for prizes in best dressed, cutest, biggest, smallest, friendliest other pup-tastic categories galore. One lucky dog will win its human a night in a King Suite with Sunday Brunch for two (a seriously sweet package, y\'all, and worth a pretty nice wad of dough). Cost is a $10 donation per dog for WAGS (Wagoner Animal Guardian Society) and Going Home Animal Rescue Transport. Goody bags and treats donated by Petco and PetSmart. For information or reservations call (918) 485-1810 or email <a href=\"mailto:info@thecanebrake.com\">info@thecanebrake.com</a>.\r\n\r\n<strong>Oklahoma\'s Wildest Easter Egg Hunt with Safari\'s Sanctuary</strong>\r\nWhen: Sunday, April 24, noon-5pm\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.safarissanctuary.org/\">Safari\'s Animal Sanctuary</a>, 26881 E. 58th Street in Broken Arrow\r\nGet a free Easter egg hunt on Easter for kids 10 and under. All egg hunters and their families get a discount on admission to Safari\'s. Call (918) 357-LOVE for more info.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-7554\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=7554\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7554\" title=\"Easter Egg Hunt Tulsa Oklahoma\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/EasterEggHuntTulsaOklahoma.jpg\" alt=\"Easter Egg Hunt Tulsa Oklahoma\" width=\"357\" height=\"500\" /></a>\r\n<h3>Visit the Easter Bunny in Tulsa</h3>\r\n<strong>Breakfast with Bunny</strong>\r\nWhen: Friday, April 15, 10-10:45am\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.tulsaparks.org/\">Whiteside Park &amp; Community Center</a>, 4009 South Pittsburg Avenue\r\nGrab the kids and have a fun-filled breakfast, play games and visit with the Easter Bunny, all in one action-packed morning. Don\'t forget to bring your camera for those memorable bunny photos. Cost is $7.\r\n\r\n<strong>Easter Bunny at Promenade Mall</strong>\r\nWhen: Monday-Saturday, 11am-8pm (carrot breaks 1-2pm and 5-6pm); Sunday, 12-6pm (carrot break 2-3pm); Mall is closed Easter Sunday\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.tulsapromenade.com/go/Poolb.cfm?MallID=787&amp;FPURLID=2129974243\">Promenade Mall</a>, 4107 S. Yale Avenue\r\nEvery year the Easter bunny hops into Promenade Mall to hang out with kids and pose for photos. Feel free to bring your pet you see Mr. E. Bunny on Tuesday, April 12 and Tuesday, April 19 between 4-8pm.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-7555\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=7555\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7555\" title=\"Zoobilee Easter Egg Hunt Tulsa Zoo Tulsa Oklahoma\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/ZoobileeTulsa.jpg\" alt=\"Zoobilee Easter Egg Hunt Tulsa Zoo Tulsa Oklahoma\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" /></a>\r\n<h3>More Easter Fun in Tulsa</h3>\r\n<strong>Egg-citing Art</strong>\r\nWhen: Saturday, April 16, 1-3pm\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.philbrook.org/\">Philbrook Museum of Art</a>, 2727 S. Rockford Avenue\r\nJoin guest artist Michelle Keenan in visiting the beautiful gardens at Philbrook for inspiration to create a batik-styled egg with scratch art paper. Cost is $5/member, $7/not yet member per student or $10/member, $12/not yet member per student with an adult. Ages 6–12 are welcome (children may attend without accompanying adults).\r\n\r\n<strong>Easter Bunny Craft</strong>\r\nWhen: Thursday, April 21, 5-6pm\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.tulsaparks.org/\">Hicks Park &amp; Community Center</a>, 3443 South Mingo Road\r\nSpring is in the air - who doesn\'t feel crafty at this time of year? Kids age 7-12 can go to work on an Easter-inspired craft, which they can keep for themselves or give as a gift to someone special. Cost for materials is $10.\r\n\r\n<strong>Egg Dying Contest</strong>\r\nWhen: Friday, April 22, 5-6pm\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.tulsaparks.org/\">Hicks Park &amp; Community Center</a>, 3443 South Mingo Road\r\nThink you\'ve got what it takes to win an Easter egg-dyeing contest at Hicks Park &amp; Community Center this year? If you think so, bring one dozen hard-boiled eggs and the park will provide the supplies for you to give it your best shot. Be sure to pre-register for the contest so the folks at Hicks will know how many eggs to have on hand - call (918) 669-6355 to let them know you\'re coming. Cost is $5. For ages 6-11.\r\n\r\n<strong>Night Trips Easter Egg Hunt</strong>\r\nWhen: Monday, April 25\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.nighttrips.com/tinfo.html\">Night Trips of Tulsa</a>, 3902 S. Sheridan Road\r\nDefinitely file this one under Not Kid Friendly, but yeah, Night Trips is hosting an Easter Egg hunt the Monday after Easter Sunday. And no, I don\'t know where they\'ll be hiding the eggs. If anyone finds out, you know where to report back...\r\n<h3>More Goodies for Your Tulsa Events Easter Basket</h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/04/20-seconds-lifespan-of-preschool-easter/\">20 Seconds: The Lifespan of a Preschool Easter Egg Hunt</a> (all about our experience with Zoobilee 2010)</li>\r\n	<li><a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2009/04/finally-easter/\">Finally - Easter!</a> (and the angst of a mother of a one-year-old boy about to embark on his first-ever Easter egg hunt)</li>\r\n</ul>','Where to Find Easter Egg Hunts and the Easter Bunny in Tulsa, 2011 Edition','','inherit','open','open','','7482-revision-15','','','2011-04-10 22:33:40','2011-04-11 04:33:40','',7482,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/04/7482-revision-15/',0,'revision','',0),(7523,1,'2011-03-25 10:00:00','2011-03-25 16:00:00','','A Tour of Marshall Brewing Co.','','inherit','open','open','','7164-revision','','','2011-03-25 10:00:00','2011-03-25 16:00:00','',7164,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/7164-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(8475,1,'2011-06-13 05:07:58','2011-06-13 11:07:58','<a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4748928325/\" title=\"Cheap Thrills by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4075/4748928325_bc2064b0b9.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" alt=\"Cheap Thrills\"></a>\r\n\r\nLooking for ways to stay busy in Tulsa today? Check out the list of local events and activities and parties below.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n[gigpress_shows scope=today group_artists=no]\r\n\r\nDon\'t see your favorite event on today\'s listing? We can fix that. <a href=\"mailto:tasha@tashadoestulsa.com\">Shoot me an e-mail</a>.\r\n\r\n<strong>Don\'t miss a single update on Tulsa\'s top events.</strong> Sign up for <a href=\"http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=TashaDoesTulsa&amp;loc=en_US\">the TDT daily e-mail</a> or <a href=\"feed://feeds.feedburner.com/TashaDoesTulsa\">subscribe</a>.','Things To Do In Tulsa Today','','inherit','open','open','','7294-revision-99','','','2011-06-13 05:07:58','2011-06-13 11:07:58','',7294,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/06/7294-revision-99/',0,'revision','',0),(8476,1,'2011-06-14 08:14:44','2011-06-14 14:14:44','<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=8470\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8470\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/4679189460_e21563c511.jpg\" alt=\"Tulsa Shock WNBA Basketball Tulsa Oklahoma\" title=\"Tulsa Shock WNBA Basketball Tulsa Oklahoma\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8470\" /></a>\r\n\r\nLooking for ways to stay busy in Tulsa today? Check out the list of local events and activities and parties below.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n[gigpress_shows scope=today group_artists=no]\r\n\r\nDon\'t see your favorite event on today\'s listing? We can fix that. <a href=\"mailto:tasha@tashadoestulsa.com\">Shoot me an e-mail</a>.\r\n\r\n<strong>Don\'t miss a single update on Tulsa\'s top events.</strong> Sign up for <a href=\"http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=TashaDoesTulsa&amp;loc=en_US\">the TDT daily e-mail</a> or <a href=\"feed://feeds.feedburner.com/TashaDoesTulsa\">subscribe</a>.','Things To Do In Tulsa Today','','inherit','open','open','','7294-revision-100','','','2011-06-14 08:14:44','2011-06-14 14:14:44','',7294,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/06/7294-revision-100/',0,'revision','',0),(9159,1,'2011-09-06 15:13:08','0000-00-00 00:00:00','<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=9161\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9161\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/hungeractionmonth-500x624.jpg\" alt=\"Hunger Action Month Tulsa Oklahoma\" title=\"Hunger Action Month Tulsa Oklahoma\" width=\"500\" height=\"624\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9161\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<em>Today\'s post is from Angeline LeLeux. <a href=\"http://inherfield.com/\">Angeline blogs at InHerField.com</a>.</em> \r\n\r\nSeptember is Hunger Action Month, and the <a href=\"http://www.cfbeo.org/\">Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma</a> has chosen orange as the color to promote awareness of hunger in our city and neighborhoods. \r\n\r\nDriving around in Tulsa, we see orange nearly everywhere - miles and miles of road-construction signs, barrels, cones and poles. What we don\'t always see is how hunger affects our friends and neighbors. More than a quarter of the residents who live in the eastern part of our state struggle with hunger at various times throughout the year. Plus, Oklahoma ranks in the top five states that offer very low food security. \r\n\r\nNearly 50 percent of Food Bank clients have had to make the choice between paying for food or paying for utilities. These are people of all ages, from all economic and educational backgrounds. In an uncertain economy, it\'s impossible to apply stereotypical ideas to the 60,000 people per week that rely on the Food Bank.\r\n\r\nWhat can you do to help? Because the Food Bank relies on donated products, a few dollars can go a long way. Did you know that $1 can provide as many as seven meals? A backpack of food that will go home with a child every weekend is $160, a small price to pay to ensure a child has something to eat when he or she is not in school. \r\n\r\nGot a spare hour or three? Contact the folks at the Food Bank and ask for a tour, or volunteer to sort and package donated food. \r\n\r\nAnd, don\'t forget the orange. Bring hunger awareness into your life and wear an orange ribbon, hand out oranges at work or help to make what your fellow Oklahomans think of when they see these road signs to a whole new level.\r\n\r\n<em><a href=\"http://inherfield.com/2011/09/02/hunger-action-month-part-1/\">To learn more about Hunger Awareness Month, visit InHerField.com</a>.</em>','Hunger Action Month','','draft','open','open','','','','','2011-09-06 15:13:08','2011-09-06 21:13:08','',0,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?p=9159',0,'post','',0),(9255,1,'2011-10-07 07:11:53','2011-10-07 13:11:53','<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=9254\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9254\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Picture-4-500x294.png\" alt=\"Things To Do In Tulsa Do What This Land Press Oklahoma\" title=\"Do What\" width=\"500\" height=\"294\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9254\" /></a>\n\nIT\'S HERE! <a href=\"http://dowhat.thislandpress.com/\">The new one-stop shop for the best things to do in Tulsa is now live</a>. \n\nAs a project of <a href=\"http://www.thislandpress.com/\">This Land Press</a> and me, DO WHAT? is a brand-new, robust resource tailored to Tulsa\'s movers and shakers looking for the most exciting ways to spend their nights and weekends. I\'m so excited to show you around.\n\n<a href=\"http://dowhat.thislandpress.com/community/\">Look in the COMMUNITY section</a> if you want to learn where to go to stuff yourself with fair and festival food, where to find the swankiest charity events, to get the scoop on the latest museum and Book Smart Tulsa events and when to catch the next match-up starring one of Tulsa\'s sports teams.\n\n<a href=\"http://dowhat.thislandpress.com/art-theatre/\">See the ART & THEATRE category</a> for what to expect when the curtains go up on Tulsa\'s stages, as well as what\'s hanging in Tulsa\'s hottest galleries.\n\n<a href=\"http://dowhat.thislandpress.com/music/\">The MUSIC category</a> is guaranteed to be the newest haunt of Tulsans looking forbuzzworthy concerts, plus anyone who\'d like a little live music to go with tonight\'s dinner. There\'s a spot for opera lovers, too, and anyone who swoons at the first note of a piece by Bach or Mozart.\n\n<a href=\"http://dowhat.thislandpress.com/cinema/\">Filed in CINEMA are events centered on film</a>. Whether you\'re in the mood for a sobering documentary or a late-night cult classic, you\'ll find it featured on Do What.\n\nWhen it comes to optimizing the fun-to-cost ratio for minimal impact on Tulsans\' pocketbooks, we\'re all about easy access to the need-to-know info. That\'s why <a href=\"http://dowhat.thislandpress.com/event_category/free-stuff-to-do/\">Tulsa\'s FREE EVENTS get their very own spot on this site</a>.\n\nTo Tulsa\'s singles and the coupled alike, we say: Rejoice! DO WHAT? features a category that serves up the who, what and where of <a href=\"http://dowhat.thislandpress.com/event_category/date-night/\">all things worthy of that next big DATE NIGHT</a>. Find ideas for everything from a romantic evening on the town to a one-of-a-kind outing which that special someone won\'t soon forget.\n\n<a href=\"http://dowhat.thislandpress.com/event_category/food-drink/\">FOOD & DRINK is where the juicy details</a> on Tulsa\'s cooking competitions, wine and beer festivals and farmers\' markets can be mined by Okie epicureans. It\'s sure to be a popular section here on Do What.\n\n<a href=\"http://dowhat.thislandpress.com/chance/\">Need some inspiration? Check out CHANCE</a>. Hit the big, pretty Randomize button to wander randomly through the vast Do What database of things to do around town, stopping only when the perfect entertainment option finds you.\n\n<a href=\"http://dowhat.thislandpress.com/do-what-search/\">DO WHAT? SEARCH</a> can also help to match the best entertainment option with your desired variety of fun.\n\nI\'ve made a habit of keeping my finger on the pulse of Tulsa\'s entertainment scene since 2007, and it\'s that expertise that decides which <a href=\"http://dowhat.thislandpress.com/editors-picks/\">events get the spotlight in EDITOR\'S PICKS</a>. Head to one of these events and you\'re guaranteed to have the best stories back at the water cooler tomorrow morning.\n\nHosting an event? <a href=\"http://dowhat.thislandpress.com/do-what-submit/\">Check out the handy-dandy SUBMIT YOUR EVENT option</a>, available right from the front page of Do What. Simply fill out the form and attach any photos or press releases you\'ve prepared to publicize your event. \n\nIf you like the idea of putting your event, venue or group in front of the pretty peepers of Tulsa\'s most influential readers, <a href=\"http://thislandpress.com/new-media-advertising/\">check out your ADVERTISING options on DO WHAT</a>.\n\nThanks for stopping by to check out DO WHAT. If you like it, feel free to spread the word. As always, if you have any questions or comments, <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/contact\">feel free to contact me</a>. She\'d love to hear from you.\n\nThanks for bearing with me this summer as I set to work on this project. I have the best, the sexiest, the best-smelling readers on the planet, and I\'m so glad you\'re here. Now: <a href=\"http://dowhat.thislandpress.com/\">Plan that weekend</a>!','Go See DO WHAT','','inherit','open','open','','9252-revision-2','','','2011-10-07 07:11:53','2011-10-07 13:11:53','',9252,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/10/9252-revision-2/',0,'revision','',0),(9149,1,'2011-07-05 06:34:46','2011-07-05 12:34:46','<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-8667\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/06/4th-of-july-2011-events-in-tulsa/dsc_1644-4/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8667\" title=\"Memorial Park Cemetery Tulsa Oklahoma\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/DSC_1644.jpg\" alt=\"Memorial Park Cemetery Tulsa Oklahoma\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\n\r\nYou\'ve got a three-day weekend to fill up with Fourth of July fun. Get a complete list of the Fourthy happenings and fireworks shows in the Tulsa area, including the shindigs in Jenks, Broken Arrow, Owasso, Bartlesville, Sapulpa and Sand Springs, right here.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n\r\n<h3>Fireworks Shows and Fourth of July Festivals</h3>\r\n<strong>Red, White and Boom </strong>\r\nWhen: Friday, 7pm\r\nWhere: Owasso Towne Center, 86th Street North and N. 129th E. Avenue\r\nLook for music from local groups as well as DJs for this fireworks show in Owasso tonight. The sky lights up at dusk.\r\n\r\n<strong>Claremore’s Fireworks Spectacular</strong>\r\nWhen: Saturday, 6pm\r\nWhere: Claremore Lake Park\r\nGet entertainment for both young and old at this Independence Day festival and fireworks show. The fireworks start at 9:30pm. Free admission. Parking at the rodeo grounds only (handicap parking is available at the park).\r\n\r\n<strong>Grand Lake Fireworks</strong>\r\nWhen: Saturday, 9:30pm\r\nWhere: Grand Lake\r\nCatch this huge fireworks show between the spillways just East of Disney on Saturday Night at dark. Watch by boat or by land at Cherokee State Park or anywhere along the shore along in the South Grand Lake area.\r\n\r\n<strong>Sooner Boomerfest 2011 </strong>\r\nWhen: Sunday, starting at 10am\r\nWhere: Jenks Pedestrian Bridge\r\nThe Fourth-of-July fun gets started bright and early – a day early, in fact – with Sooner Boomerfest 2011. It starts in the morning with a Mustang car show, followed by fun for the kids outside Los Cabos at Riverwalk Crossing and Waterfront Grill starting at 5pm – be sure to watch for flyovers by the Tulsa Warbirds. The big fireworks show will launch over the river at 9:30pm. <a href=\"http://riverfrontsouthok.com/sooner-boomfest-2011\">Click here for a traffic and parking advisory map</a>.\r\n\r\n<strong>Duck Creek Fireworks</strong>\r\nWhen: Sunday, 4pm\r\nWhere: Grand Lake\r\nGet a fireworks spectacular along with music, dancing and boats parading up and down Duck Creek on Grand Lake. Look also for performances by vintage airplanes and the Oklahoma Air National Guard’s F-16 fighters. Admission is free and open to the public.\r\n\r\n<strong>Rockets Over Rhema </strong>\r\nWhen: Sunday, 5pm\r\nWhere: Rhema Bible Church, 1025 W Kenosha Street in Broken Arrow\r\nCan’t decide which fireworks show to see this year? It’s hard to argue with 50,000 fans – that’s how many showed up to this event last year. It starts at 5pm with a patriotic tribute in the auditorium. At 6pm there will be plenty for the kids (and the young at heart) to do outside, from face painting to a mechanical bull and rock-climbing wall. Keep an eye out for a classic car show, food and drink concessions, local shopping and an outdoor concert featuring Hawk Nelson, Fireflight, Stars Go Dim (Tulsa’s own!) and AXIS Worship Band. The fireworks show starts at 10pm – be sure to bring your blankets and lawn chairs so you can sit back and celebrate our country’s independence with some spectacularly choreographed explosions. <a href=\"http://www.rocketsoverrhema.com/\">Click here for even more info</a>.\r\n\r\n<strong>Freedom Festival at Grace Church</strong>\r\nWhen: Sunday, 6pm\r\nWhere: Grace Church, Between 91st and 101st Streets\r\nGet a car and motorcycle show, plus fireworks at dusk at Grace Church’s celebration of that time we called it quits with Great Britain.\r\n\r\n<strong>Fish and Fireworks </strong>\r\nWhen: Sunday, 6:30pm\r\nWhere: Oklahoma Aquarium, 300 Aquarium Drive.\r\nThe fireworks show in Jenks hosted by Los Cabos and Waterfront Grill is this evening (yes, this evening, not tomorrow), and the Aquarium will re-open at 6:30 with special half-price admission to the exhibits and access to their back grounds for prime viewing of the fireworks. Lawn chairs and blankets are encouraged. No coolers allowed, but the Aquarium restaurant will remain open.\r\n\r\n<strong>Sertoma Club’s 14th Annual Community Fireworks Show </strong>\r\nWhen: Sunday, 8pm\r\nWhere: River City Park in Sand Springs\r\nGet live music, food and, of course, fireworks at River City Park in Sand Springs tonight. The shuttles start running at 7pm, music starts at 8pm, the show starts at dusk.\r\n\r\n<strong>ONEOK FreedomFest</strong>\r\nWhen: Monday, starting at noon\r\nWhere: Three venues! River West Festival Park; Veterans Park; and Blue Rose Cafe/Elwood\'s\r\nONEOK FreedomFest is one of Oklahoma’s largest Fourth-of-July fireworks displays: It lights up the sky above the downtown Tulsa stretch of the Arkansas River every year and brings lots of family-friendly activities along with it. Look for everything from a kids’ bicycle parade to rock climbing at this triple-venue festival: Split between River West Festival Park on the west side of the river, Veterans Park on the east and Blue Rose Cafe/Elwoods on Riverside Drive. The fun starts at River West Festival Park at 5pm with a load of kid-friendly activities; live music from Janet Rutland and Trailer Town starts at 6:45pm. At Veterans Park will be an old-fashioned family picnic starting at noon; the decorate-your-own kids’ bike parade starts at 7pm, so be sure to start decorating at 6pm. The fireworks blast off at 9:35pm. <a href=\"http://www.riverparks.org/freedomfest.html\">Click here for a complete list of activities and tips on where to park</a>.\r\n\r\n<strong>Freedom Fest </strong>\r\nWhen: Monday, 6pm\r\nWhere: Downtown Bartlesville, Second Street, between Keeler and Dewey\r\nFood, drinks, activities for the kids, games, a kids’ parade, music and fireworks – sounds like a solid Fourth-of-July celebration to me. <a href=\"Freedom Fest\">Get details on the event schedule and where to park at Bartlesville\'s Freedom Fest here</a>.\r\n\r\n<strong>American Celebrates America </strong>\r\nWhen: Monday, 7pm\r\nWhere: Sapulpa Municipal Golf Course\r\nFind a parking spot in the parking lot of the Sapulpa Wal-Mart and enjoy entertainment for the kids and a choreographed fireworks show over the Sapulpa Municipal Golf Course, as well as from the fields east of and behind the store. The fireworks will begin at about 9:45pm. <a href=\"http://www.ahb-ok.com/news.cfm?pageId=65CC2C8205A05D7379FA3A6386F710E1\">Learn even more about the American Celebrates America event here</a>.\r\n\r\n<strong>Independence Day Fireworks at ONEOK Field</strong>\r\nWhen: Monday, 7:05pm\r\nCatch a Fourth-of-July fireworks show after the Drillers game tonight at ONEOK Field. Don’t forget to bring a cash donation for the Food for Kids program.\r\n<h3>More Fourth of July Stuff</h3>\r\n<strong>Red, White, Black &amp; Blue: Rumble on the River IV</strong>\r\nWhen: Friday, 7pm\r\nWhere: River Spirit Casino Event Center, 81st Street and Riverside Drive\r\nThe latest iteration of this series of riverside smackdowns features several popular local fighters, two defending Rumble On the River champions, a women’s title match and the return of undefeated heavyweight champion Myron “The Future” Dennis. Headlining the card is a heavyweight title fight between reigning XFL champion Myron “The Future” Dennis, and UFC veteran Ryan “The Animal” Lopez. <a href=\"herhttp://www.creeknationcasino.com/entertainment/eventcenter/Pages/Jul1.aspx\">Get even more details here</a>.\r\n\r\n<strong>Fourth on the Third </strong>\r\nWhen: Sunday, 7:30pm\r\nWhere: TCC Van Trease PACE, 81st Street and US 169\r\nIn 1981 Tulsa Parks asked the Signature Symphony to create a special patriotic presentation at Mohawk Park for Tulsans. Two years later the celebration was moved to Boulder Park, where it has been for more than 20 years. When the Signature Symphony moved to the VanTrease PACE, the night-before rehearsal was open to the public. This began the tradition of having the concert on July 3. This year’s concert will feature stories and music from the Civil War, as well as a special tribute by violinist Jeff Smith to this highly decorated WWII hero: His dad. For tickets, call (918) 595-7777.\r\n\r\n<strong>Fourth of July Parade </strong>\r\nWhen: Monday, 10am\r\nWhere: Kendall-Whittier Neighborhood, starting at E. Fifth Place\r\nWatch this Fourth of July parade as it travels from its starting line at E. 5th Place, turns north on Atlanta Avenue and East on E. Fourth Street. Bring the kids!\r\n\r\n<strong>Celebration of Liberty with Modern Tulsa</strong>\r\nWhen: Monday, 7pm\r\nWhere: Liberty Tower Condominiums, 15th and Boulder\r\nTake advantage of the incredible views from the penthouse of the Liberty Tower Condominiums during the Tulsa FreedomFest fireworks and show your support for Modern Tulsa at the same time. This urban treehouse is currently undergoing renovations, so attendees will be treated to a first-hand preview of this exclusive space in the Tulsa skyline. Look also for BBQ, beer, doorprizes and an overview of some of the modern buildings visible from the balcony of the penthouse. Food and beverages will be provided, but all will need to bring chairs. Parking is available in lots adjacent to the building. <a href=\"http://tulsaarchitecture.com/2011/06/29/modern-tulsa-fourth-at-liberty\">Tickets to Celebration of Liberty with Modern Tulsa</a> are $25 for Modern Tulsa and Tulsa Foundation for Architecture members, $60 + the cost of a membership for not-yet-members.\r\n\r\n<img src=\"http://www.tulsalibrary.org/JPG/A1359.jpg\" width=\"500\" />\r\n<em>I just had to show you guys this: \"4th of July parade in Tulsa, Indian Territory, in 1886. The ox cart is driven by the Wimberly family.\" Neat, huh?</em>\r\n\r\nSo...what are YOU doing this Fourth of July?\r\n\r\n<em>Bottom photo credit: Beryl Ford Collection/Rotary Club of Tulsa, Tulsa City-County Library and Tulsa Historical Society.</em>','4th of July 2011 Events in Tulsa','Get a complete list of the Fourth of July happenings and fireworks shows in the Tulsa area: Jenks, Broken Arrow, Owasso, Bartlesville, Sapulpa, Sand Springs and more.','inherit','open','open','','8659-revision-12','','','2011-07-05 06:34:46','2011-07-05 12:34:46','',8659,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/07/8659-revision-12/',0,'revision','',0),(8965,1,'2011-07-19 07:18:13','2011-07-19 13:18:13','<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/07/things-to-do-in-tulsa-today-19/splash-pad-river-parks/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8345\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Splash-Pad-River-Parks.jpg\" alt=\"Splash Pad River Parks Tulsa Oklahoma\" title=\"Splash Pad River Parks Tulsa Oklahoma\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8345\" /></a>\r\n\r\nLooking for ways to stay busy in Tulsa today? Check out the list of local events and activities and parties below.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n[gigpress_shows scope=today group_artists=no]\r\n\r\nDon\'t see your favorite event on today\'s listing? We can fix that. <a href=\"mailto:tasha@tashadoestulsa.com\">Shoot me an e-mail</a>.\r\n\r\n<strong>Don\'t miss a single update on Tulsa\'s top events.</strong> Sign up for <a href=\"http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=TashaDoesTulsa&amp;loc=en_US\">the TDT daily e-mail</a> or <a href=\"feed://feeds.feedburner.com/TashaDoesTulsa\">subscribe</a>.','Things To Do In Tulsa Today','','inherit','open','open','','7294-revision-134','','','2011-07-19 07:18:13','2011-07-19 13:18:13','',7294,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/07/7294-revision-134/',0,'revision','',0),(6534,1,'2011-03-04 12:52:48','2011-03-04 18:52:48','','Disney\'s Beauty and the Beast at Tulsa Performing Arts Center','','inherit','open','open','','picture-1-16','','','2011-03-04 12:52:48','2011-03-04 18:52:48','',6522,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Picture-110.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(6535,1,'2011-03-03 22:43:35','2011-03-04 04:43:35','<object width=\"499\" height=\"311\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/uizVpwvlNRI?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\"></param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"></param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"></param><embed src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/uizVpwvlNRI?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"499\" height=\"311\"></embed></object>\r\n\r\nTulsa parents, if you don\'t want to wake up strapped to your bed in your daughters\' bright pink duct tape Monday morning, here\'s what I\'d recommend: Take her to see Disney\'s Beauty and the Beast. It\'s in Tulsa this weekend. \r\n\r\nGet the details on <a href=\"http://www.tulsakids.com/?q=tulsa-kids-day-out-disneys-beauty-and-beast\">my blog at TulsaKids.com</a>.\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"8\"]</p>','Tulsa Kids Day Out: Disney\'s Beauty and the Beast','Tulsa parents, if you don\'t want to wake up strapped to your bed in your daughters\' bright pink duct tape Monday morning, here\'s what I\'d recommend.','inherit','open','open','','6522-revision-2','','','2011-03-03 22:43:35','2011-03-04 04:43:35','',6522,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/6522-revision-2/',0,'revision','',0),(6536,1,'2011-03-04 13:41:18','2011-03-04 19:41:18','<span id=\"wylio-flickr-image-106114431\" style=\"display:block;line-height:15px;width:500px;padding:0;margin:10px auto;position:relative;float:none;\"><img style=\"padding:0;margin:0;border:none;\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"http://img.wylio.com/flickr/500/106114431\" title=\"Mardi Gras Beads - photo by: Mark Gstohl, Source: Flickr, found with Wylio.com\" alt=\"Mardi Gras Beads\" /><span class=\"wylio-credits\" id=\"wylio-flickr-credits-106114431\" style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif;padding:0;margin:0;width:100%;color:#aaa;background:#fff;float:left;clear:both;font-size:11px;font-style:italic;\"><span class=\"photoby\" style=\"padding:2px; margin:0;\"><span style=\"display:block;float:left;margin:0;padding0;\" >photo © 2006 <a style=\"padding:0;margin:0;color:#aaa; text-decoration:underline;\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"click to visit the Flickr profile page for Mark Gstohl\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/people/48352971@N00\">Mark Gstohl</a> | <a style=\"padding:0;margin:0;color:#aaa; text-decoration:underline;\" title=\"get more information about the photo \'Mardi Gras Beads\'\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/48352971@N00/106114431\">more info </a></span><span style=\"display:block;float:right;margin-left:5px;\"><strong style=\"margin:0;padding0;\">(via: <a style=\"padding:0;margin:0;color:#aaa; text-decoration:underline;\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://wylio.com\" title=\"free pictures\">Wylio</a>)</strong></span></span></span></span><br />\n\nMardi Gras is upon us, Tulsa. Here\'s where to party (and collect copious amounts of beads).\n\n<!--more-->\n\nMardi Gras Masquerade\nWhen: Saturday, March 5, 9 p.m.\nWhere: SAX, 606 S. Elgin Ave. \nGet complimentary beads, hats, masks, glasses, gold coins and general rowdiness at SAX Martini Lounge in downtown Tulsa tonight. Look also for a complimentary Cajun buffet including red beans and rice, cornbread, Cajun gumbo, King Cake and $5 Hurricanes. \n\nMary Cogan\'s Mardi Gras Bash\nWhen: Saturday, March 5, 8 p.m. \nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.okjazz.org/\">Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame</a>, 111 E. First Street\nMary Cogan, a well-known name in the Tulsa music scene, is putting on a Mardi Gras-themed show in downtown tonight. See it at the Jazz Hall of Fame. <a href=\"http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/TicketPurchase?organ_val=2762&pid=6962783\">Tickets $20 in advance, $25 at the door</a>.\n\nMardi Gras Shopping Cart Parade and Sampling\nWhen: Saturday, March 5th, 12-3 p.m. \nWhere: Whole Foods Market, 1401 E. 41st Street\nSample some Mardi Gras-themed foods from each department at Whole Foods today. At 1 p.m., there will be a shopping cart parade through the store, and shoppers can vote for their favorite “floats.”\n\nMardi Gras Taste the Savings for Free\nWhen: Monday, March 7th, 4-7 p.m. \n\nCome and sample some delicius Mardi Gras themed foods in all of our departments. Ouueee!\n','Mardi Gras Things To Do In Tulsa','','inherit','open','open','','6434-revision-6','','','2011-03-04 13:41:18','2011-03-04 19:41:18','',6434,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/6434-revision-6/',0,'revision','',0),(6540,1,'2011-03-04 14:23:31','2011-03-04 20:23:31','<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6539\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6539\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/BlueDomeMardiGrasParade-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Blue Dome Mardi Gras Parade\" title=\"Blue Dome Mardi Gras Parade\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6539\" /></a>\n\nMardi Gras - did you know that\'s French for Fat Tuesday? - is here, Tulsa. Here\'s where to party (and collect copious amounts of beads, of course).\n\n<!--more-->\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"8\"]</p>\n\n<strong>Mardi Gras at Stone Bluff Vineyard and Winery</strong>\nWhen: Saturday, 11 a.m.-3 p.m.; Sunday, noon-3 p.m.\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.stonebluffcellars.com/\">Stone Bluff Vineyard and Winery</a>, 24145 E. 191st Street South in Haskell\nIf you can\'t be in New Orleans, you ought to be at Stone Bluff Cellars this weekend for their two-day-long Mardi Gras celebration. Wear your beads and Mardi Gras colors and scoot up to the table for some red beans and rice, Cajun po\' boys, King Cake and more. Call (918) 482-5655 to save your spot.\n\n<strong>Mardi Gras Shopping Cart Parade and Sampling</strong>\nWhen: Saturday, March 5th, 12-3 p.m.\nWhere: <a href=\"Where: Whole Foods Market, 1401 E. 41st Street\">Whole Foods Market</a>, 1401 E. 41st Street\nSample some Mardi Gras-themed foods from each department at Whole Foods today. At 1 p.m., there will be a shopping cart parade through the store, and shoppers can vote for their favorite “floats.”\n\n<strong>Mardi Gras at Tidal School Winery</strong>\nWhen: Saturday, March 5, 2-4 p.m.\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.tidalschool.com/\">Tidal School Winery</a>, 54560 W. HWY 16 in Drumright\nGet free wine tastings, wine and cheese pairings, tours and free music in celebration of Mardi Gras today at Tidal School Winery in Drumright. Call 866-258-1903 to save your spot.\n\n<strong>Mary Cogan\'s Mardi Gras Bash</strong>\nWhen: Saturday, March 5, 8 p.m.\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.okjazz.org/\">Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame</a>, 111 E. First Street\nMary Cogan, a well-known name in the Tulsa music scene, is putting on a Mardi Gras-themed show in downtown tonight. See it at the Jazz Hall of Fame. <a href=\"http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/TicketPurchase?organ_val=2762&amp;pid=6962783\">Tickets $20 in advance, $25 at the door</a>.\n\n<strong>Mardi Gras Masquerade at SAX</strong>\nWhen: Saturday, March 5, 9 p.m.\nWhere: SAX, 606 S. Elgin Ave.\nGet complimentary beads, hats, masks, glasses, gold coins and general rowdiness at SAX Martini Lounge in downtown Tulsa tonight. Look also for a complimentary Cajun buffet including red beans and rice, cornbread, Cajun gumbo, King Cake and $5 Hurricanes.\n\n<strong>Mardi Gras Taste the Savings for Free</strong>\nWhen: Monday, March 7th, 4-7 p.m.\nWhere: <a href=\"Where: Whole Foods Market, 1401 E. 41st Street\">Whole Foods Market</a>, 1401 E. 41st Street\nSample Mardi Gras-themed foods in all of the departments at Whole Foods Market in midtown today.\n\n<strong>Blue Dome District Mardi Gras Parade</strong>\nWhen: Tuesday, March 8, 7 p.m.\nWhere: Starting at 1st and Elgin, ending at 2nd and Greenwood, a total of five blocks\n<a href=\"http://www.tulsamardigras.com/\">It was the parade to beat on Mardi Gras 2010</a>, and this year the members of the Blue Dome District Merchants\' Association are coming together to throw another huge party in downtown Tulsa to celebrate Fat Tuesday.\n\n<strong>Mardi Gras Fat Tuesday Party</strong>\nWhen: Tuesday, March 8, 9 p.m.\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.tulsamardigras.com/\">Enso Bar and Electric Circus</a>, 1st and Detroit\nGoing to be downtown for the Blue Dome District Mardi Gras Parade? Keep your fancy pants on and head to this party after to revel in the costumes and masks and to dance into the wee hours of the night. DJ Moody will perform at Enso; find the Phoenix Brothers at Electric Circus. Look also for a commemorative photo booth, free beads and other Mardi Gras goodies. No cover. 21 plus. VIP suites and sections available - call (918) 902-6339 for details and to reserve your spot.\n\n<strong>Mardi Gras Party at Elephant Run</strong>\nWhen: Tuesday, March 8\nWhere: <a href=\"http://elephantrun.com/\">Elephant Run</a>, 3141 East Skelly Drive\nFind beads, mask giveaways, $4 Hurricanes and $2 Rattlesnakes at Elephant Run this Fat Tuesday. \n\nIs your favorite Mardi Gras event not on this list? No biggie - we can fix that. Send me an e-mail or leave details in the comments. \n\nLaissez les bon temps rouler!\n\nPhoto courtesy of the Blue Dome District ','Mardi Gras Things To Do In Tulsa 2011','Mardi Gras - did you know that\'s French for Fat Tuesday? - is here, Tulsa. From the Blue Dome District to the wineries beyond our city limits, here\'s where to party (and collect copious amounts of beads, of course). ','inherit','open','open','','6434-revision-8','','','2011-03-04 14:23:31','2011-03-04 20:23:31','',6434,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/6434-revision-8/',0,'revision','',0),(6537,1,'2011-03-04 14:08:51','2011-03-04 20:08:51','','Mardi Gras Wylio','','inherit','open','open','','picture-2-13','','','2011-03-04 14:08:51','2011-03-04 20:08:51','',6434,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Picture-24.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(6538,1,'2011-03-04 14:17:23','2011-03-04 20:17:23','<span id=\"wylio-flickr-image-106114431\" style=\"display: block; line-height: 15px; width: 500px; padding: 0; margin: 10px auto; position: relative; float: none;\"><img style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; border: none;\" title=\"Mardi Gras Beads - photo by: Mark Gstohl, Source: Flickr, found with Wylio.com\" src=\"http://img.wylio.com/flickr/500/106114431\" alt=\"Mardi Gras Beads\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /><span id=\"wylio-flickr-credits-106114431\" class=\"wylio-credits\" style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif; padding: 0; margin: 0; width: 100%; color: #aaa; background: #fff; float: left; clear: both; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic;\"><span class=\"photoby\" style=\"padding: 2px; margin: 0;\"><span style=\"display: block; float: left; margin: 0;\">photo © 2006 <a style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; color: #aaa; text-decoration: underline;\" title=\"click to visit the Flickr profile page for Mark Gstohl\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/people/48352971@N00\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Gstohl</a> | <a style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; color: #aaa; text-decoration: underline;\" title=\"get more information about the photo \'Mardi Gras Beads\'\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/48352971@N00/106114431\" target=\"_blank\">more info </a></span><span style=\"display: block; float: right; margin-left: 5px;\"><strong>(via: <a style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; color: #aaa; text-decoration: underline;\" title=\"free pictures\" href=\"http://wylio.com\" target=\"_blank\">Wylio</a>)</strong></span></span></span></span>\n\nMardi Gras - did you know that\'s French for Fat Tuesday? - is here, Tulsa. Here\'s where to party (and collect copious amounts of beads, of course).\n\n<!--more-->\n\n<strong>Mardi Gras at Stone Bluff Vineyard and Winery</strong>\nWhen: Saturday, 11 a.m.-3 p.m.; Sunday, noon-3 p.m.\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.stonebluffcellars.com/\">Stone Bluff Vineyard and Winery</a>, 24145 E. 191st Street South in Haskell\nIf you can\'t be in New Orleans, you ought to be at Stone Bluff Cellars this weekend for their two-day-long Mardi Gras celebration. Wear your beads and Mardi Gras colors and scoot up to the table for some red beans and rice, Cajun po\' boys, King Cake and more. Call (918) 482-5655 to save your spot.\n\n<strong>Mardi Gras Shopping Cart Parade and Sampling</strong>\nWhen: Saturday, March 5th, 12-3 p.m.\nWhere: <a href=\"Where: Whole Foods Market, 1401 E. 41st Street\">Whole Foods Market</a>, 1401 E. 41st Street\nSample some Mardi Gras-themed foods from each department at Whole Foods today. At 1 p.m., there will be a shopping cart parade through the store, and shoppers can vote for their favorite “floats.”\n\n<strong>Mardi Gras at Tidal School Winery</strong>\nWhen: Saturday, March 5, 2-4 p.m.\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.tidalschool.com/\">Tidal School Winery</a>, 54560 W. HWY 16 in Drumright\nGet free wine tastings, wine and cheese pairings, tours and free music in celebration of Mardi Gras today at Tidal School Winery in Drumright. Call 866-258-1903 to save your spot.\n\n<strong>Mary Cogan\'s Mardi Gras Bash</strong>\nWhen: Saturday, March 5, 8 p.m.\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.okjazz.org/\">Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame</a>, 111 E. First Street\nMary Cogan, a well-known name in the Tulsa music scene, is putting on a Mardi Gras-themed show in downtown tonight. See it at the Jazz Hall of Fame. <a href=\"http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/TicketPurchase?organ_val=2762&amp;pid=6962783\">Tickets $20 in advance, $25 at the door</a>.\n\n<strong>Mardi Gras Masquerade at SAX</strong>\nWhen: Saturday, March 5, 9 p.m.\nWhere: SAX, 606 S. Elgin Ave.\nGet complimentary beads, hats, masks, glasses, gold coins and general rowdiness at SAX Martini Lounge in downtown Tulsa tonight. Look also for a complimentary Cajun buffet including red beans and rice, cornbread, Cajun gumbo, King Cake and $5 Hurricanes.\n\n<strong>Mardi Gras Taste the Savings for Free</strong>\nWhen: Monday, March 7th, 4-7 p.m.\nWhere: <a href=\"Where: Whole Foods Market, 1401 E. 41st Street\">Whole Foods Market</a>, 1401 E. 41st Street\nSample Mardi Gras-themed foods in all of the departments at Whole Foods Market in midtown today.\n\n<strong>Blue Dome District Mardi Gras Parade</strong>\nWhen: Tuesday, March 8, 7 p.m.\nWhere: Starting at 1st and Elgin, ending at 2nd and Greenwood, a total of five blocks\n<a href=\"http://www.tulsamardigras.com/\">It was the parade to beat on Mardi Gras 2010</a>, and this year the members of the Blue Dome District Merchants\' Association are coming together to throw another huge party in downtown Tulsa to celebrate Fat Tuesday.\n\n<strong>Mardi Gras Fat Tuesday Party</strong>\nWhen: Tuesday, March 8, 9 p.m.\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.tulsamardigras.com/\">Enso Bar and Electric Circus</a>, 1st and Detroit\nGoing to be downtown for the Blue Dome District Mardi Gras Parade? Keep your fancy pants on and head to this party after to revel in the costumes and masks and to dance into the wee hours of the night. DJ Moody will perform at Enso; find the Phoenix Brothers at Electric Circus. Look also for a commemorative photo booth, free beads and other Mardi Gras goodies. No cover. 21 plus. VIP suites and sections available - call (918) 902-6339 for details and to reserve your spot.\n\n<strong>Mardi Gras Party at Elephant Run</strong>\nWhen: Tuesday, March 8\nWhere: <a href=\"http://elephantrun.com/\">Elephant Run</a>, 3141 East Skelly Drive\nFind beads, mask giveaways, $4 Hurricanes and $2 Rattlesnakes at Elephant Run this Fat Tuesday. \n\nIs your favorite Mardi Gras event not on this list? No biggie - we can fix that. Send me an e-mail or leave details in the comments. \n\nLaissez les bon temps rouler!','Mardi Gras Things To Do In Tulsa 2011','Mardi Gras - did you know that\'s French for Fat Tuesday? - is here, Tulsa. From the Blue Dome District to the wineries beyond our city limits, here\'s where to party (and collect copious amounts of beads, of course). ','inherit','open','open','','6434-revision-7','','','2011-03-04 14:17:23','2011-03-04 20:17:23','',6434,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/6434-revision-7/',0,'revision','',0),(6539,1,'2011-03-04 14:22:43','2011-03-04 20:22:43','','Blue Dome Mardi Gras Parade','','inherit','open','open','','bluedomemardigrasparade','','','2011-03-04 14:22:43','2011-03-04 20:22:43','',6434,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/BlueDomeMardiGrasParade.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',1),(6541,1,'2011-03-04 14:23:58','2011-03-04 20:23:58','<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6539\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6539\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/BlueDomeMardiGrasParade-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Blue Dome Mardi Gras Parade\" title=\"Blue Dome Mardi Gras Parade\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6539\" /></a>\r\n\r\nMardi Gras - did you know that\'s French for Fat Tuesday? - is here, Tulsa. Here\'s where to party (and collect copious amounts of beads, of course).\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n\r\n<strong>Mardi Gras at Stone Bluff Vineyard and Winery</strong>\r\nWhen: Saturday, 11 a.m.-3 p.m.; Sunday, noon-3 p.m.\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.stonebluffcellars.com/\">Stone Bluff Vineyard and Winery</a>, 24145 E. 191st Street South in Haskell\r\nIf you can\'t be in New Orleans, you ought to be at Stone Bluff Cellars this weekend for their two-day-long Mardi Gras celebration. Wear your beads and Mardi Gras colors and scoot up to the table for some red beans and rice, Cajun po\' boys, King Cake and more. Call (918) 482-5655 to save your spot.\r\n\r\n<strong>Mardi Gras Shopping Cart Parade and Sampling</strong>\r\nWhen: Saturday, March 5th, 12-3 p.m.\r\nWhere: <a href=\"Where: Whole Foods Market, 1401 E. 41st Street\">Whole Foods Market</a>, 1401 E. 41st Street\r\nSample some Mardi Gras-themed foods from each department at Whole Foods today. At 1 p.m., there will be a shopping cart parade through the store, and shoppers can vote for their favorite “floats.”\r\n\r\n<strong>Mardi Gras at Tidal School Winery</strong>\r\nWhen: Saturday, March 5, 2-4 p.m.\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.tidalschool.com/\">Tidal School Winery</a>, 54560 W. HWY 16 in Drumright\r\nGet free wine tastings, wine and cheese pairings, tours and free music in celebration of Mardi Gras today at Tidal School Winery in Drumright. Call 866-258-1903 to save your spot.\r\n\r\n<strong>Mary Cogan\'s Mardi Gras Bash</strong>\r\nWhen: Saturday, March 5, 8 p.m.\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.okjazz.org/\">Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame</a>, 111 E. First Street\r\nMary Cogan, a well-known name in the Tulsa music scene, is putting on a Mardi Gras-themed show in downtown tonight. See it at the Jazz Hall of Fame. <a href=\"http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/TicketPurchase?organ_val=2762&amp;pid=6962783\">Tickets $20 in advance, $25 at the door</a>.\r\n\r\n<strong>Mardi Gras Masquerade at SAX</strong>\r\nWhen: Saturday, March 5, 9 p.m.\r\nWhere: SAX, 606 S. Elgin Ave.\r\nGet complimentary beads, hats, masks, glasses, gold coins and general rowdiness at SAX Martini Lounge in downtown Tulsa tonight. Look also for a complimentary Cajun buffet including red beans and rice, cornbread, Cajun gumbo, King Cake and $5 Hurricanes.\r\n\r\n<strong>Mardi Gras Taste the Savings for Free</strong>\r\nWhen: Monday, March 7th, 4-7 p.m.\r\nWhere: <a href=\"Where: Whole Foods Market, 1401 E. 41st Street\">Whole Foods Market</a>, 1401 E. 41st Street\r\nSample Mardi Gras-themed foods in all of the departments at Whole Foods Market in midtown today.\r\n\r\n<strong>Blue Dome District Mardi Gras Parade</strong>\r\nWhen: Tuesday, March 8, 7 p.m.\r\nWhere: Starting at 1st and Elgin, ending at 2nd and Greenwood, a total of five blocks\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tulsamardigras.com/\">It was the parade to beat on Mardi Gras 2010</a>, and this year the members of the Blue Dome District Merchants\' Association are coming together to throw another huge party in downtown Tulsa to celebrate Fat Tuesday.\r\n\r\n<strong>Mardi Gras Fat Tuesday Party</strong>\r\nWhen: Tuesday, March 8, 9 p.m.\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.tulsamardigras.com/\">Enso Bar and Electric Circus</a>, 1st and Detroit\r\nGoing to be downtown for the Blue Dome District Mardi Gras Parade? Keep your fancy pants on and head to this party after to revel in the costumes and masks and to dance into the wee hours of the night. DJ Moody will perform at Enso; find the Phoenix Brothers at Electric Circus. Look also for a commemorative photo booth, free beads and other Mardi Gras goodies. No cover. 21 plus. VIP suites and sections available - call (918) 902-6339 for details and to reserve your spot.\r\n\r\n<strong>Mardi Gras Party at Elephant Run</strong>\r\nWhen: Tuesday, March 8\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://elephantrun.com/\">Elephant Run</a>, 3141 East Skelly Drive\r\nFind beads, mask giveaways, $4 Hurricanes and $2 Rattlesnakes at Elephant Run this Fat Tuesday. \r\n\r\nIs your favorite Mardi Gras event not on this list? No biggie - we can fix that. Send me an e-mail or leave details in the comments. \r\n\r\nLaissez les bon temps rouler!\r\n\r\n<em>Photo courtesy of the Blue Dome District Merchants\' Association</em>','Mardi Gras Things To Do In Tulsa 2011','Mardi Gras - did you know that\'s French for Fat Tuesday? - is here, Tulsa. From the Blue Dome District to the wineries beyond our city limits, here\'s where to party (and collect copious amounts of beads, of course). ','inherit','open','open','','6434-revision-9','','','2011-03-04 14:23:58','2011-03-04 20:23:58','',6434,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/6434-revision-9/',0,'revision','',0),(6542,1,'2011-03-04 14:23:58','2011-03-04 20:23:58','<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6539\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6539\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/BlueDomeMardiGrasParade-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Blue Dome Mardi Gras Parade\" title=\"Blue Dome Mardi Gras Parade\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6539\" /></a>\r\n\r\nMardi Gras - did you know that\'s French for Fat Tuesday? - is here, Tulsa. Here\'s where to party (and collect copious amounts of beads, of course).\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n\r\n<strong>Mardi Gras at Stone Bluff Vineyard and Winery</strong>\r\nWhen: Saturday, 11 a.m.-3 p.m.; Sunday, noon-3 p.m.\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.stonebluffcellars.com/\">Stone Bluff Vineyard and Winery</a>, 24145 E. 191st Street South in Haskell\r\nIf you can\'t be in New Orleans, you ought to be at Stone Bluff Cellars this weekend for their two-day-long Mardi Gras celebration. Wear your beads and Mardi Gras colors and scoot up to the table for some red beans and rice, Cajun po\' boys, King Cake and more. Call (918) 482-5655 to save your spot.\r\n\r\n<strong>Mardi Gras Shopping Cart Parade and Sampling</strong>\r\nWhen: Saturday, March 5th, 12-3 p.m.\r\nWhere: <a href=\"Where: Whole Foods Market, 1401 E. 41st Street\">Whole Foods Market</a>, 1401 E. 41st Street\r\nSample some Mardi Gras-themed foods from each department at Whole Foods today. At 1 p.m., there will be a shopping cart parade through the store, and shoppers can vote for their favorite “floats.”\r\n\r\n<strong>Mardi Gras at Tidal School Winery</strong>\r\nWhen: Saturday, March 5, 2-4 p.m.\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.tidalschool.com/\">Tidal School Winery</a>, 54560 W. HWY 16 in Drumright\r\nGet free wine tastings, wine and cheese pairings, tours and free music in celebration of Mardi Gras today at Tidal School Winery in Drumright. Call 866-258-1903 to save your spot.\r\n\r\n<strong>Mary Cogan\'s Mardi Gras Bash</strong>\r\nWhen: Saturday, March 5, 8 p.m.\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.okjazz.org/\">Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame</a>, 111 E. First Street\r\nMary Cogan, a well-known name in the Tulsa music scene, is putting on a Mardi Gras-themed show in downtown tonight. See it at the Jazz Hall of Fame. <a href=\"http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/TicketPurchase?organ_val=2762&amp;pid=6962783\">Tickets $20 in advance, $25 at the door</a>.\r\n\r\n<strong>Mardi Gras Masquerade at SAX</strong>\r\nWhen: Saturday, March 5, 9 p.m.\r\nWhere: SAX, 606 S. Elgin Ave.\r\nGet complimentary beads, hats, masks, glasses, gold coins and general rowdiness at SAX Martini Lounge in downtown Tulsa tonight. Look also for a complimentary Cajun buffet including red beans and rice, cornbread, Cajun gumbo, King Cake and $5 Hurricanes.\r\n\r\n<strong>Mardi Gras Taste the Savings for Free</strong>\r\nWhen: Monday, March 7th, 4-7 p.m.\r\nWhere: <a href=\"Where: Whole Foods Market, 1401 E. 41st Street\">Whole Foods Market</a>, 1401 E. 41st Street\r\nSample Mardi Gras-themed foods in all of the departments at Whole Foods Market in midtown today.\r\n\r\n<strong>Blue Dome District Mardi Gras Parade</strong>\r\nWhen: Tuesday, March 8, 7 p.m.\r\nWhere: Starting at 1st and Elgin, ending at 2nd and Greenwood, a total of five blocks\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tulsamardigras.com/\">It was the parade to beat on Mardi Gras 2010</a>, and this year the members of the Blue Dome District Merchants\' Association are coming together to throw another huge party in downtown Tulsa to celebrate Fat Tuesday.\r\n\r\n<strong>Mardi Gras Fat Tuesday Party</strong>\r\nWhen: Tuesday, March 8, 9 p.m.\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.tulsamardigras.com/\">Enso Bar and Electric Circus</a>, 1st and Detroit\r\nGoing to be downtown for the Blue Dome District Mardi Gras Parade? Keep your fancy pants on and head to this party after to revel in the costumes and masks and to dance into the wee hours of the night. DJ Moody will perform at Enso; find the Phoenix Brothers at Electric Circus. Look also for a commemorative photo booth, free beads and other Mardi Gras goodies. No cover. 21 plus. VIP suites and sections available - call (918) 902-6339 for details and to reserve your spot.\r\n\r\n<strong>Mardi Gras Party at Elephant Run</strong>\r\nWhen: Tuesday, March 8\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://elephantrun.com/\">Elephant Run</a>, 3141 East Skelly Drive\r\nFind beads, mask giveaways, $4 Hurricanes and $2 Rattlesnakes at Elephant Run this Fat Tuesday. \r\n\r\nIs your favorite Mardi Gras event not on this list? No biggie - we can fix that. Send me an e-mail or leave details in the comments. \r\n\r\nLaissez les bon temps rouler!\r\n\r\n<em>Photo courtesy of the Blue Dome District Merchants\' Association</em>','Mardi Gras Things To Do In Tulsa 2011','Mardi Gras - did you know that\'s French for Fat Tuesday? - is here, Tulsa. From the Blue Dome District to the wineries beyond our city limits, here\'s where to party (and collect copious amounts of beads, of course). ','inherit','open','open','','6434-revision-10','','','2011-03-04 14:23:58','2011-03-04 20:23:58','',6434,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/6434-revision-10/',0,'revision','',0),(6543,1,'2011-03-04 14:24:52','2011-03-04 20:24:52','<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6539\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6539\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/BlueDomeMardiGrasParade-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Blue Dome Mardi Gras Parade\" title=\"Blue Dome Mardi Gras Parade\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6539\" /></a>\r\n\r\nMardi Gras - did you know that\'s French for Fat Tuesday? - is here, Tulsa. Here\'s where to party (and collect copious amounts of beads, of course).\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n\r\n<strong>Mardi Gras at Stone Bluff Vineyard and Winery</strong>\r\nWhen: Saturday, 11 a.m.-3 p.m.; Sunday, noon-3 p.m.\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.stonebluffcellars.com/\">Stone Bluff Vineyard and Winery</a>, 24145 E. 191st Street South in Haskell\r\nIf you can\'t be in New Orleans, you ought to be at Stone Bluff Cellars this weekend for their two-day-long Mardi Gras celebration. Wear your beads and Mardi Gras colors and scoot up to the table for some red beans and rice, Cajun po\' boys, King Cake and more. Call (918) 482-5655 to save your spot.\r\n\r\n<strong>Mardi Gras Shopping Cart Parade and Sampling</strong>\r\nWhen: Saturday, March 5th, 12-3 p.m.\r\nWhere: <a href=\"Where: Whole Foods Market, 1401 E. 41st Street\">Whole Foods Market</a>, 1401 E. 41st Street\r\nSample some Mardi Gras-themed foods from each department at Whole Foods today. At 1 p.m., there will be a shopping cart parade through the store, and shoppers can vote for their favorite “floats.”\r\n\r\n<strong>Mardi Gras at Tidal School Winery</strong>\r\nWhen: Saturday, March 5, 2-4 p.m.\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.tidalschool.com/\">Tidal School Winery</a>, 54560 W. HWY 16 in Drumright\r\nGet free wine tastings, wine and cheese pairings, tours and free music in celebration of Mardi Gras today at Tidal School Winery in Drumright. Call 866-258-1903 to save your spot.\r\n\r\n<strong>Mary Cogan\'s Mardi Gras Bash</strong>\r\nWhen: Saturday, March 5, 8 p.m.\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.okjazz.org/\">Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame</a>, 111 E. First Street\r\nMary Cogan, a well-known name in the Tulsa music scene, is putting on a Mardi Gras-themed show in downtown tonight. See it at the Jazz Hall of Fame. <a href=\"http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/TicketPurchase?organ_val=2762&amp;pid=6962783\">Tickets $20 in advance, $25 at the door</a>.\r\n\r\n<strong>Mardi Gras Masquerade at SAX</strong>\r\nWhen: Saturday, March 5, 9 p.m.\r\nWhere: SAX, 606 S. Elgin Ave.\r\nGet complimentary beads, hats, masks, glasses, gold coins and general rowdiness at SAX Martini Lounge in downtown Tulsa tonight. Look also for a complimentary Cajun buffet including red beans and rice, cornbread, Cajun gumbo, King Cake and $5 Hurricanes.\r\n\r\n<strong>Mardi Gras Taste the Savings for Free</strong>\r\nWhen: Monday, March 7th, 4-7 p.m.\r\nWhere: <a href=\"Where: Whole Foods Market, 1401 E. 41st Street\">Whole Foods Market</a>, 1401 E. 41st Street\r\nSample Mardi Gras-themed foods in all of the departments at Whole Foods Market in midtown today.\r\n\r\n<strong>Blue Dome District Mardi Gras Parade</strong>\r\nWhen: Tuesday, March 8, 7 p.m.\r\nWhere: Starting at 1st and Elgin, ending at 2nd and Greenwood, a total of five blocks\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tulsamardigras.com/\">It was the parade to beat on Mardi Gras 2010</a>, and this year the members of the Blue Dome District Merchants\' Association are coming together to throw another huge party in downtown Tulsa to celebrate Fat Tuesday.\r\n\r\n<strong>Mardi Gras Fat Tuesday Party</strong>\r\nWhen: Tuesday, March 8, 9 p.m.\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.tulsamardigras.com/\">Enso Bar and Electric Circus</a>, 1st and Detroit\r\nGoing to be downtown for the Blue Dome District Mardi Gras Parade? Keep your fancy pants on and head to this party after to revel in the costumes and masks and to dance into the wee hours of the night. DJ Moody will perform at Enso; find the Phoenix Brothers at Electric Circus. Look also for a commemorative photo booth, free beads and other Mardi Gras goodies. No cover. 21 plus. VIP suites and sections available - call (918) 902-6339 for details and to reserve your spot.\r\n\r\n<strong>Mardi Gras Party at Elephant Run</strong>\r\nWhen: Tuesday, March 8\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://elephantrun.com/\">Elephant Run</a>, 3141 East Skelly Drive\r\nFind beads, mask giveaways, $4 Hurricanes and $2 Rattlesnakes at Elephant Run this Fat Tuesday. \r\n\r\nIs your favorite Mardi Gras event not on this list? No biggie - we can fix that. Send me an e-mail or leave details in the comments. \r\n\r\nLaissez les bon temps rouler!\r\n\r\n<em>Photo courtesy of the Blue Dome District Merchants\' Association</em>','Mardi Gras Things To Do In Tulsa 2011','Mardi Gras - did you know that\'s French for Fat Tuesday? - is here, Tulsa. From the Blue Dome District to the wineries beyond our city limits, here\'s where to party (and collect copious amounts of beads, of course). ','inherit','open','open','','6434-revision-11','','','2011-03-04 14:24:52','2011-03-04 20:24:52','',6434,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/6434-revision-11/',0,'revision','',0),(6723,1,'2011-03-07 16:12:52','2011-03-07 22:12:52','<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/mardi-gras-parade-blue-dome-district-food-wine-specials-2011/bluedomemardigrasparade/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6539\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/BlueDomeMardiGrasParade-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Blue Dome Mardi Gras Parade\" title=\"Blue Dome Mardi Gras Parade\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6539\" /></a>\r\n\r\nMardi Gras - did you know that\'s French for Fat Tuesday? - is here, Tulsa. Here\'s where to party (and collect copious amounts of beads, of course).\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n\r\n<strong>Mardi Gras Taste the Savings for Free</strong>\r\nWhen: Monday, March 7th, 4-7 p.m.\r\nWhere: <a href=\"Where: Whole Foods Market, 1401 E. 41st Street\">Whole Foods Market</a>, 1401 E. 41st Street\r\nSample Mardi Gras-themed foods in all of the departments at Whole Foods Market in midtown today.\r\n\r\n<strong>Marshall Beer Dinner at SMOKE</strong>\r\nWhen: Tuesday, March 8, 6:30 p.m.\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.smoketulsa.com/\">SMOKE</a>, 1542 E. 15th Street\r\nNo need for beads? Celebrate Fat Tuesday by stuffing yourself silly with fare pared with local craft beer at the new SMOKE on Cherry Street. Plus, diners will be eligible to win a private tour and tasting of Marshall Brewing Company, as well as Marshall merch. Make reservations by calling (918) 949-4440. \r\n\r\n<strong>Blue Dome District Mardi Gras Parade</strong>\r\nWhen: Tuesday, March 8, 7 p.m.\r\nWhere: Starting at 1st and Elgin, ending at 2nd and Greenwood, a total of five blocks\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tulsamardigras.com/\">It was the parade to beat on Mardi Gras 2010</a>, and this year the members of the Blue Dome District Merchants\' Association are coming together to throw another huge party in downtown Tulsa to celebrate Fat Tuesday.\r\n\r\n<strong>Mardi Gras Fat Tuesday Party</strong>\r\nWhen: Tuesday, March 8, 9 p.m.\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.tulsamardigras.com/\">Enso Bar and Electric Circus</a>, 1st and Detroit\r\nGoing to be downtown for the Blue Dome District Mardi Gras Parade? Keep your fancy pants on and head to this party after to revel in the costumes and masks and to dance into the wee hours of the night. DJ Moody will perform at Enso; find the Phoenix Brothers at Electric Circus. Look also for a commemorative photo booth, free beads and other Mardi Gras goodies. No cover. 21 plus. VIP suites and sections available - call (918) 902-6339 for details and to reserve your spot.\r\n\r\n<strong>Mardi Gras Party at Elephant Run</strong>\r\nWhen: Tuesday, March 8\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://elephantrun.com/\">Elephant Run</a>, 3141 East Skelly Drive\r\nFind beads, mask giveaways, $4 Hurricanes and $2 Rattlesnakes at Elephant Run this Fat Tuesday. \r\n\r\nIs your favorite Mardi Gras event not on this list? No biggie - we can fix that. Send me an e-mail or leave details in the comments. \r\n\r\nLaissez les bon temps rouler!\r\n\r\n<em>Photo courtesy of the Blue Dome District Merchants\' Association</em>','Mardi Gras Things To Do In Tulsa 2011','Mardi Gras - did you know that\'s French for Fat Tuesday? - is here, Tulsa. From the Blue Dome District to the wineries beyond our city limits, here\'s where to party (and collect copious amounts of beads, of course). 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Lots and lots of beer. \n\n<!--more-->\nAD\n\nWith the passing of each St. Pat\'s, more and more beer drinkers are opting for craft-style beers over the ol\'-reliable varieties. Hand in hand with that has come beer lovers who are enthusiastic about learning how the stuff is made, and they\'re making beer of their own by the gallon at home.\n\nWhen it comes to figuring out how to put a beer together, we Tulsans are lucky. On the southwest corner of the 71st Street and Memorial Drive intersection is High Gravity, a homebrewing and winemaking supply shop, and the folks who own it, Dave and Desiree Knott, host a free beermaking workshop each month at the store. \n\nA group of friends and I went to it a couple of weeks ago, and here\'s what I learned: Whipping up a batch of homebrewed beer is a pretty easy process. The key ingredient? It\'s time. \n\nI think most of us can more or less deal with that. If you can boil water, and if you can sit around and wait for long periods of time, you can make beer. \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6547\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6547\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1862.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6547\" /></a>\n\nFirst in beer making, of course, is that whole boiling-of-the-water thing I mentioned.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6548\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6548\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1855.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6548\" /></a>\n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6549\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6549\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1857.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6549\" /></a>\n\nNext, add some malt extract, whether it\'s the liquid or powdered form, and bittering hops. \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6550\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6550\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1865-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6550\" /></a>\n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6551\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6551\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1868.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6551\" /></a>\n\nKnow what a hop looks like? \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6552\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6552\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1864-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6552\" /></a>\n\nKinda like that. They\'re these beautiful little cone flowers from the hop plant that add that lovely bitter taste for which beer is so widely known. Hops can also add citric and floral flavors to a beer, as well as a variety of aromas, depending on the hops you decide to use. \n\nMmm...bitterness. Me likey. \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6546\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6546\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1915.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6546\" /></a>\n\nSomething cool about hops is that their use in beer is, as Dave at High Gravity puts it, likened to a good spaghetti sauce. Because while boiling hops adds bitterness, it destroys delicate flavors. Think about how different garlic or basil can taste, depending on when you add it to a recipe. With hops in beer, it\'s the same sort of thing. So, hops are added to beer in stages to sort of build the flavor profile of the finished product. \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6553\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6553\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1840-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6553\" /></a>\n\nYou can add other ingredients, too, depending on the type of beer you\'re looking for. \n\nAfter you bring that mixture to a rolling boil, cool it rapidly to about room temperature. Then, transfer the whole mess to a fermenting vessel. \n\nWhich is, in the case of many homebrewers, a good, old-fashioned five-gallon bucket. Then, add yeast. That\'s when the magic happens. \n\nAt this point, you\'ve got a big, plastic bucket full of something called wort. While that sounds pretty gross, it\'s just a word that means unfermented beer. \n\nThen comes the hard part: Waiting. It\'s time to let this sucker ferment for 7-10 days or so. \n\nAt that point you might opt to rack the beer to a secondary vessel. This can help to clear the beer of yeast sediment and avoid any off-flavors that could happen should you decide to stick to the bucket. \n\nLet the beer spend another week at least in this secondary vessel. After that you can move the beer to a bottle bucket. Add priming sugar (this is a way of naturally carbonating the beer - cool that it does that, huh?), a bottle and leave at room temperature again for 7-10 days. \n\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6554\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6554\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1905.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6554\" /></a>\n\nDSC_1910\n\nDSC_1912\n\nIf you want to learn even more about the art of homebrewing, it\'d be a good idea to check out a meeting of FOAM, or the Fellowship of Oklahoma Ale Makers. They\'ve have a thing about teaching others and promoting the art of homebrewing since 1984, so if you\'re looking for some community instruction, there would be a good place to find it. \n\nDSC_1840\n\nTheir next meeting is March 10. That\'s a Thursday, and the meetings start at 7:30pm and wrap up by 9:30pm. Find it at the Unitarian Church Log Cabin, at 8432 S. Sheridan Road here in Tulsa. The doors open at 7pm. The next meeting after that is April 1. \n\nIf you don\'t have time for a meeting, check out the FOAM website. It\'s chock full of beer and beer making information in the form of forums, recipes, news, quotes, homebrewing links and more. http://www.alemakers.com/\n\n\n\n[adrotate banner=\"24\"]','How to Make Beer: St. Pat\'s in Tulsa','','inherit','open','open','','6545-revision','','','2011-03-04 15:24:17','2011-03-04 21:24:17','',6545,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/6545-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(6558,1,'2011-03-04 15:25:48','2011-03-04 21:25:48','<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6546\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6546\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1915.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6546\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIn case you can\'t tell by the endcaps at your local big box store, which are no doubt filled with all things leprechaun and shamrocks by now, St. Patrick\'s Day is coming. \r\n\r\nAnd you know what that means: Beer is about to happen. Lots and lots of beer. \r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\nAD\r\n\r\nWith the passing of each St. Pat\'s, more and more beer drinkers are opting for craft-style beers over the ol\'-reliable varieties. Hand in hand with that has come beer lovers who are enthusiastic about learning how the stuff is made, and they\'re making beer of their own by the gallon at home.\r\n\r\nWhen it comes to figuring out how to put a beer together, we Tulsans are lucky. On the southwest corner of the 71st Street and Memorial Drive intersection is High Gravity, a homebrewing and winemaking supply shop, and the folks who own it, Dave and Desiree Knott, host a free beermaking workshop each month at the store. \r\n\r\nA group of friends and I went to it a couple of weeks ago, and here\'s what I learned: Whipping up a batch of homebrewed beer is a pretty easy process. The key ingredient? It\'s time. \r\n\r\nI think most of us can more or less deal with that. If you can boil water, and if you can sit around and wait for long periods of time, you can make beer. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6547\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6547\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1862.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6547\" /></a>\r\n\r\nFirst in beer making, of course, is that whole boiling-of-the-water thing I mentioned.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6548\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6548\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1855.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6548\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6549\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6549\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1857.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6549\" /></a>\r\n\r\nNext, add some malt extract, whether it\'s the liquid or powdered form, and bittering hops. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6550\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6550\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1865-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6550\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6551\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6551\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1868.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6551\" /></a>\r\n\r\nKnow what a hop looks like? \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6552\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6552\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1864-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6552\" /></a>\r\n\r\nKinda like that. They\'re these beautiful little cone flowers from the hop plant that add that lovely bitter taste for which beer is so widely known. Hops can also add citric and floral flavors to a beer, as well as a variety of aromas, depending on the hops you decide to use. \r\n\r\nMmm...bitterness. Me likey. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6546\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6546\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1915.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6546\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSomething cool about hops is that their use in beer is, as Dave at High Gravity puts it, likened to a good spaghetti sauce. Because while boiling hops adds bitterness, it destroys delicate flavors. Think about how different garlic or basil can taste, depending on when you add it to a recipe. With hops in beer, it\'s the same sort of thing. So, hops are added to beer in stages to sort of build the flavor profile of the finished product. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6553\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6553\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1840-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6553\" /></a>\r\n\r\nYou can add other ingredients, too, depending on the type of beer you\'re looking for. \r\n\r\nAfter you bring that mixture to a rolling boil, cool it rapidly to about room temperature. Then, transfer the whole mess to a fermenting vessel. \r\n\r\nWhich is, in the case of many homebrewers, a good, old-fashioned five-gallon bucket. Then, add yeast. That\'s when the magic happens. \r\n\r\nAt this point, you\'ve got a big, plastic bucket full of something called wort. While that sounds pretty gross, it\'s just a word that means unfermented beer. \r\n\r\nThen comes the hard part: Waiting. It\'s time to let this sucker ferment for 7-10 days or so. \r\n\r\nAt that point you might opt to rack the beer to a secondary vessel. This can help to clear the beer of yeast sediment and avoid any off-flavors that could happen should you decide to stick to the bucket. \r\n\r\nLet the beer spend another week at least in this secondary vessel. After that you can move the beer to a bottle bucket. Add priming sugar (this is a way of naturally carbonating the beer - cool that it does that, huh?), a bottle and leave at room temperature again for 7-10 days. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6554\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6554\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1905.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6554\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6555\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6555\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1910.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6555\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6556\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6556\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1912.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6556\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIf you want to learn even more about the art of homebrewing, it\'d be a good idea to check out a meeting of FOAM, or the Fellowship of Oklahoma Ale Makers. They\'ve have a thing about teaching others and promoting the art of homebrewing since 1984, so if you\'re looking for some community instruction, there would be a good place to find it. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6553\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6553\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1840-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6553\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTheir next meeting is March 10. That\'s a Thursday, and the meetings start at 7:30pm and wrap up by 9:30pm. Find it at the Unitarian Church Log Cabin, at 8432 S. Sheridan Road here in Tulsa. The doors open at 7pm. The next meeting after that is April 1. \r\n\r\nIf you don\'t have time for a meeting, check out the FOAM website. It\'s chock full of beer and beer making information in the form of forums, recipes, news, quotes, homebrewing links and more. http://www.alemakers.com/\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n[adrotate banner=\"24\"]','How to Make Beer: St. Pat\'s in Tulsa','','inherit','open','open','','6545-revision-2','','','2011-03-04 15:25:48','2011-03-04 21:25:48','',6545,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/6545-revision-2/',0,'revision','',0),(6559,1,'2011-03-04 15:25:48','2011-03-04 21:25:48','<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6546\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6546\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1915.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6546\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIn case you can\'t tell by the endcaps at your local big box store, which are no doubt filled with all things leprechaun and shamrocks by now, St. Patrick\'s Day is coming. \r\n\r\nAnd you know what that means: Beer is about to happen. Lots and lots of beer. \r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\nAD\r\n\r\nWith the passing of each St. Pat\'s, more and more beer drinkers are opting for craft-style beers over the ol\'-reliable varieties. Hand in hand with that has come beer lovers who are enthusiastic about learning how the stuff is made, and they\'re making beer of their own by the gallon at home.\r\n\r\nWhen it comes to figuring out how to put a beer together, we Tulsans are lucky. On the southwest corner of the 71st Street and Memorial Drive intersection is High Gravity, a homebrewing and winemaking supply shop, and the folks who own it, Dave and Desiree Knott, host a free beermaking workshop each month at the store. \r\n\r\nA group of friends and I went to it a couple of weeks ago, and here\'s what I learned: Whipping up a batch of homebrewed beer is a pretty easy process. The key ingredient? It\'s time. \r\n\r\nI think most of us can more or less deal with that. If you can boil water, and if you can sit around and wait for long periods of time, you can make beer. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6547\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6547\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1862.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6547\" /></a>\r\n\r\nFirst in beer making, of course, is that whole boiling-of-the-water thing I mentioned.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6548\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6548\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1855.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6548\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6549\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6549\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1857.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6549\" /></a>\r\n\r\nNext, add some malt extract, whether it\'s the liquid or powdered form, and bittering hops. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6550\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6550\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1865-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6550\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6551\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6551\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1868.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6551\" /></a>\r\n\r\nKnow what a hop looks like? \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6552\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6552\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1864-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6552\" /></a>\r\n\r\nKinda like that. They\'re these beautiful little cone flowers from the hop plant that add that lovely bitter taste for which beer is so widely known. Hops can also add citric and floral flavors to a beer, as well as a variety of aromas, depending on the hops you decide to use. \r\n\r\nMmm...bitterness. Me likey. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6546\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6546\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1915.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6546\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSomething cool about hops is that their use in beer is, as Dave at High Gravity puts it, likened to a good spaghetti sauce. Because while boiling hops adds bitterness, it destroys delicate flavors. Think about how different garlic or basil can taste, depending on when you add it to a recipe. With hops in beer, it\'s the same sort of thing. So, hops are added to beer in stages to sort of build the flavor profile of the finished product. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6553\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6553\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1840-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6553\" /></a>\r\n\r\nYou can add other ingredients, too, depending on the type of beer you\'re looking for. \r\n\r\nAfter you bring that mixture to a rolling boil, cool it rapidly to about room temperature. Then, transfer the whole mess to a fermenting vessel. \r\n\r\nWhich is, in the case of many homebrewers, a good, old-fashioned five-gallon bucket. Then, add yeast. That\'s when the magic happens. \r\n\r\nAt this point, you\'ve got a big, plastic bucket full of something called wort. While that sounds pretty gross, it\'s just a word that means unfermented beer. \r\n\r\nThen comes the hard part: Waiting. It\'s time to let this sucker ferment for 7-10 days or so. \r\n\r\nAt that point you might opt to rack the beer to a secondary vessel. This can help to clear the beer of yeast sediment and avoid any off-flavors that could happen should you decide to stick to the bucket. \r\n\r\nLet the beer spend another week at least in this secondary vessel. After that you can move the beer to a bottle bucket. Add priming sugar (this is a way of naturally carbonating the beer - cool that it does that, huh?), a bottle and leave at room temperature again for 7-10 days. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6554\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6554\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1905.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6554\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6555\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6555\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1910.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6555\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6556\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6556\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1912.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6556\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIf you want to learn even more about the art of homebrewing, it\'d be a good idea to check out a meeting of FOAM, or the Fellowship of Oklahoma Ale Makers. They\'ve have a thing about teaching others and promoting the art of homebrewing since 1984, so if you\'re looking for some community instruction, there would be a good place to find it. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6553\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6553\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1840-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6553\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTheir next meeting is March 10. That\'s a Thursday, and the meetings start at 7:30pm and wrap up by 9:30pm. Find it at the Unitarian Church Log Cabin, at 8432 S. Sheridan Road here in Tulsa. The doors open at 7pm. The next meeting after that is April 1. \r\n\r\nIf you don\'t have time for a meeting, check out the FOAM website. It\'s chock full of beer and beer making information in the form of forums, recipes, news, quotes, homebrewing links and more. http://www.alemakers.com/\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n[adrotate banner=\"24\"]','How to Make Beer: St. Pat\'s in Tulsa','','inherit','open','open','','6545-revision-3','','','2011-03-04 15:25:48','2011-03-04 21:25:48','',6545,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/6545-revision-3/',0,'revision','',0),(6560,1,'2011-03-04 15:28:27','2011-03-04 21:28:27','<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6546\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6546\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1915.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6546\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIn case you can\'t tell by the endcaps at your local big box store, which are no doubt filled with all things leprechaun and shamrocks by now, St. Patrick\'s Day is coming. \r\n\r\nAnd you know what that means: Beer is about to happen. Lots and lots of beer. \r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\nAD\r\n\r\nWith the passing of each St. Pat\'s, more and more beer drinkers are opting for craft-style beers over the ol\'-reliable varieties. Hand in hand with that has come beer lovers who are enthusiastic about learning how the stuff is made, and they\'re making beer of their own by the gallon at home.\r\n\r\nWhen it comes to figuring out how to put a beer together, we Tulsans are lucky. On the southwest corner of the 71st Street and Memorial Drive intersection is High Gravity, a homebrewing and winemaking supply shop, and the folks who own it, Dave and Desiree Knott, host a free beermaking workshop each month at the store. \r\n\r\nA group of friends and I went to it a couple of weeks ago, and here\'s what I learned: Whipping up a batch of homebrewed beer is a pretty easy process. The key ingredient? It\'s time. \r\n\r\nI think most of us can more or less deal with that. If you can boil water, and if you can sit around and wait for long periods of time, you can make beer. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6547\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6547\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1862.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6547\" /></a>\r\n\r\nFirst in beer making, of course, is that whole boiling-of-the-water thing I mentioned.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6548\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6548\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1855.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6548\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6549\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6549\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1857.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6549\" /></a>\r\n\r\nNext, add some malt extract, whether it\'s the liquid or powdered form, and bittering hops. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6550\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6550\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1865-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6550\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6551\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6551\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1868.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6551\" /></a>\r\n\r\nKnow what a hop looks like? \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6552\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6552\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1864-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6552\" /></a>\r\n\r\nKinda like that. They\'re these beautiful little cone flowers from the hop plant that add that lovely bitter taste for which beer is so widely known. Hops can also add citric and floral flavors to a beer, as well as a variety of aromas, depending on the hops you decide to use. \r\n\r\nMmm...bitterness. Me likey. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6546\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6546\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1915.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6546\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSomething cool about hops is that their use in beer is, as Dave at High Gravity puts it, likened to a good spaghetti sauce. Because while boiling hops adds bitterness, it destroys delicate flavors. Think about how different garlic or basil can taste, depending on when you add it to a recipe. With hops in beer, it\'s the same sort of thing. So, hops are added to beer in stages to sort of build the flavor profile of the finished product. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6553\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6553\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1840-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6553\" /></a>\r\n\r\nYou can add other ingredients, too, depending on the type of beer you\'re looking for. \r\n\r\nAfter you bring that mixture to a rolling boil, cool it rapidly to about room temperature. Then, transfer the whole mess to a fermenting vessel. \r\n\r\nWhich is, in the case of many homebrewers, a good, old-fashioned five-gallon bucket. Then, add yeast. That\'s when the magic happens. \r\n\r\nAt this point, you\'ve got a big, plastic bucket full of something called wort. While that sounds pretty gross, it\'s just a word that means unfermented beer. \r\n\r\nThen comes the hard part: Waiting. It\'s time to let this sucker ferment for 7-10 days or so. \r\n\r\nAt that point you might opt to rack the beer to a secondary vessel. This can help to clear the beer of yeast sediment and avoid any off-flavors that could happen should you decide to stick to the bucket. \r\n\r\nLet the beer spend another week at least in this secondary vessel. After that you can move the beer to a bottle bucket. Add priming sugar (this is a way of naturally carbonating the beer - cool that it does that, huh?), a bottle and leave at room temperature again for 7-10 days. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6554\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6554\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1905.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6554\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6555\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6555\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1910.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6555\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6556\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6556\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1912.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6556\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIf you want to learn even more about the art of homebrewing, it\'d be a good idea to check out a meeting of FOAM, or the Fellowship of Oklahoma Ale Makers. They\'ve have a thing about teaching others and promoting the art of homebrewing since 1984, so if you\'re looking for some community instruction, there would be a good place to find it. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6553\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6553\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1840-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6553\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTheir next meeting is March 10. That\'s a Thursday, and the meetings start at 7:30pm and wrap up by 9:30pm. Find it at the Unitarian Church Log Cabin, at 8432 S. Sheridan Road here in Tulsa. The doors open at 7pm. The next meeting after that is April 1. \r\n\r\nIf you don\'t have time for a meeting, check out the FOAM website. It\'s chock full of beer and beer making information in the form of forums, recipes, news, quotes, homebrewing links and more. http://www.alemakers.com/\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n[adrotate banner=\"24\"]','How to Make Beer: St. Pat\'s in Tulsa','','inherit','open','open','','6545-revision-4','','','2011-03-04 15:28:27','2011-03-04 21:28:27','',6545,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/6545-revision-4/',0,'revision','',0),(6561,1,'2011-03-04 16:49:18','2011-03-04 22:49:18','','High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa','','inherit','open','open','','dsc_1917','','','2011-03-04 16:49:18','2011-03-04 22:49:18','',6545,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1917.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(6562,1,'2011-03-04 16:50:28','2011-03-04 22:50:28','','High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa','','inherit','open','open','','dsc_1918','','','2011-03-04 16:50:28','2011-03-04 22:50:28','',6545,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1918.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(6563,1,'2011-03-04 16:54:58','2011-03-04 22:54:58','','High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa','','inherit','open','open','','dsc_1916','','','2011-03-04 16:54:58','2011-03-04 22:54:58','',6545,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1916.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(6564,1,'2011-03-04 17:47:34','2011-03-04 23:47:34','','High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa','','inherit','open','open','','dsc_1912-2','','','2011-03-04 17:47:34','2011-03-04 23:47:34','',6545,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_19121.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(6565,1,'2011-03-04 17:51:03','2011-03-04 23:51:03','<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6546\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6546\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6546  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1915.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\n<em>This post is the first in a series here at TDT celebrating St. Patrick\'s Day 2011, one of Tulsa\'s very favorite holidays. Erin go Bragh!</em>\n\nIn case you can\'t tell by the endcaps at your local big box store, which are no doubt filled with all things leprechaun and shamrocks and lucky this-and-thats by now, St. Patrick\'s Day is coming.\n\nAnd you know what that means: Beer is about to happen. Lots and lots of beer.\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><!--more-->\n[adrotate banner=\"24\"]</p>\nWith the passing of each St. Pat\'s, more and more beer drinkers are opting for craft-style beers over the ol\'-reliable, mass-produced varieties. Hand in hand with that has come beer lovers who are enthusiastic about learning how what is probably the world\'s oldest alcoholic beverage is made, and they\'re making beer of their own by the gallon at home.\n\nWhen it comes to figuring out how to put a beer together, we Tulsans are lucky. On the southwest corner of the 71st Street and Memorial Drive intersection is <a href=\"http://www.highgravitybrew.com/\">High Gravity</a>, a homebrewing and winemaking supply shop. The folks who own it, Dave and Desiree Knott, host a free homebrewing workshop at the store each month.\n\nA group of friends and I went to it a couple of weeks ago, and here\'s what I learned: Whipping up a batch of homebrewed beer is a pretty easy process. The only tricky part? Waiting until the beer reaches drinkable perfection.\n\nSo if you can boil water, and if you can sit around and delay gratification for long periods of time, you can make beer.\n\nEmpowering, isn\'t it?\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6547\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6547\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6547\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1862.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\n\nThe first step in making a batch of beer, then, is that whole boiling-of-the-water thing I just mentioned.\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6548\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6548\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6548\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1855.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6549\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6549\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6549\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1857.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\n\nNext comes the malt, or grain (usually barley) which has been sprouted and then halted by heating in a kiln. This is the stuff that provides the fermentable sugars and body of beer, both of which are pretty awesome things.\n\nSteeping the malt in the boiling water for an hour or so is what converts the starch into fermentable sugars. This step is called mashing.\n\nBy the way, malt can be purchased as a liquid extract, or in powder form, too. What you see used below is the liquid malt extract; above, actual grain, because Dave is a certifiable bad ass.\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6550\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1865-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" />\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6551\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1868.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" />\n\nAnd then there are hops. Let\'s not forget about those.\n\nKnow what a hop looks like?\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6552\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6552\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6552\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1864-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\n\nKinda like that. They\'re these beautiful little cone flowers from the hop plant that add that lovely bitter taste for which beer is so widely known. Hops can also add citric and floral flavors to a beer, as well as a variety of aromas, just depending on the hops you decide to use.\n\nFor the record, I like hops. I like hops a lot.\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6546\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6546\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6546\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1915.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\n\nSomething else cool about hops is that how they\'re used in beer is, as Dave at High Gravity put it, like building a good spaghetti sauce. Know how garlic or basil can taste vastly different in a spaghetti sauce depending on when you add it to the pot? With hops and beer, it\'s the same sort of thing. So, hops are added to beer in stages to sort of build the flavor profile of the finished product.\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6553\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6553\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6553\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1840-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\n\nAfter you bring that mixture to a rolling boil, cool it rapidly to about room temperature. Then, transfer the whole mess to a fermenting vessel. Which is, in the case of many homebrewers, a good, old-fashioned five-gallon bucket.\n\nAt this point, you\'ve got a big, plastic bucket full of something called wort. While that sounds pretty gross, it\'s just a word that means unfermented beer.\n\nThen, add yeast. This is when the magic happens.\n\nI\'ll be frank: Yeast is the freak in the family of beer ingredients. I mean, it\'s a living, unicellular mico-organism that eats the sugar produced during the brewing process of your beer. It metabolizes those sugars into alcohol, carbon dioxide and a huge range of flavors, depending on which type you use. Another fun yeast fact: It multiplies by a type of asexual production called budding.\n\nYeah. You just got scienced. Yeast will do that to you.\n\nYou can add other ingredients to your beer, too - not fried chicken or Mike &amp; Ikes anything like that, but within reason, there are still lots of options. It all depends on the type of brew you\'d like to end up with.\n\nThen comes the hard part: Waiting. It\'s time to let this bucket-o-ale ferment at room temperature for 7-10 days or so.\n\nThe process would be a bit different at this point if we were making a lager (another type of beer that\'s fermented differently than is ale), but rather than go into how so here at TDT, you can read more <a href=\"http://www.dougfishback.com/\">here</a>.\n\nAfter that first week you might opt to transfer the beer to a secondary vessel. This can help to clear the beer of yeast sediment and avoid any off-flavors that could happen should you decide to stick with using just one bucket.\n\nLet the beer spend another week at least in this secondary vessel. After that you can move the beer to a bottling bucket. Add priming sugar (after yeast, this is a way of naturally carbonating the beer), bottle and leave at room temperature again for 7-10 days.\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6554\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6554\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6554\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1905.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6555\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6555\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6555\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1910.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6556\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6556\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6556\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1912.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6564\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6564\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6564\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_19121.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\n\nOr? Drink.\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6561\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6561\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6561\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1917.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\n\nHi, <a href=\"http://havesporkwilltravel.blogspot.com/\">@travelingspork</a>!\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6562\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6562\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6562\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1918.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\n\nActually, Dave at High Gravity said that it\'s best to wait for another few of weeks before throwing a few of these babies back. The flavors and complexity of the beer can only improve for a good while at this point.\n\nBut, yeah right. We\'re amateurs. We can\'t wait. We just made our own beer, for Pete\'s sake.\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6563\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6563\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6563\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1916.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\n\nSee that face? That\'s the smile of someone who doesn\'t usually like beer finally tasting one that she likes.\n\nPrecious, isn\'t it?\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6548\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6548\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6548\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1855.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\n\nWant to learn more about the art of homebrewing? It\'d be a good idea to check out a meeting of FOAM, or the <a href=\"http://www.alemakers.com/\">Fellowship of Oklahoma Ale Makers</a>. They\'ve had a thing about teaching others about how beer is made and promoting the art of homebrewing since 1984. If you\'re looking for some community instruction, with these folks would be a good place to find it.\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6553\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6553\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6553\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1840-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\n\nTheir next meeting is Thursday, March 10, at 7:30 p.m. Find it at the Unitarian Church Log Cabin, at 8432 S. Sheridan Road here in Tulsa. The doors open at 7pm. The next meeting after that is April 1.\n\nIf you don\'t have time for a meeting, check out <a href=\"http://www.alemakers.com/\">the FOAM website</a>. It\'s chock full of beer and beer making information in the form of forums, recipes, news, quotes, homebrewing links and more.\n\nIf you don\'t want to dip your toe that far into the vast pond that is homebrewing, you can always attend the free workshop at High Gravity. The next one\'s on Saturday, March 19, at 11 a.m.\n\nEither way, when St. Patrick\'s Day rolls around, you\'ll have lots to talk about after those first few green beers. Like how certain specialty malts affect head structure. Or how many HBUs (Home Bittering Units) you like in a beer. Or, you know, the asexual nature of yeast. It\'s all fair game.\n\nBecause you now know how to make beer. And knowledge, my friends, is power.\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6563\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6563\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6563\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1916.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\n\nAnd refreshing.','How to Make Beer: High Gravity Homebrewing (St. Patrick\'s Day Series)','When it comes to figuring out how to put a beer together, we Tulsans are lucky.','inherit','open','open','','6545-revision-5','','','2011-03-04 17:51:03','2011-03-04 23:51:03','',6545,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/6545-revision-5/',0,'revision','',0),(6567,1,'2011-03-04 17:54:42','2011-03-04 23:54:42','<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6546\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6546\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6546  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1915.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\n<em>This post is the first in a series here at TDT celebrating St. Patrick\'s Day 2011, one of Tulsa\'s very favorite holidays. Erin go Bragh!</em>\n\nIn case you can\'t tell by the endcaps at your local big box store, which are no doubt filled with all things leprechaun and shamrocks and lucky this-and-thats by now, St. Patrick\'s Day is coming.\n\nAnd you know what that means: Beer is about to happen. Lots and lots of beer.\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><!--more-->\n[adrotate banner=\"24\"]</p>\nWith the passing of each St. Pat\'s, more and more beer drinkers are opting for craft-style beers over the ol\'-reliable, mass-produced varieties. Hand in hand with that has come beer lovers who are enthusiastic about learning how what is probably the world\'s oldest alcoholic beverage is made, and they\'re making beer of their own by the gallon at home.\n\nWhen it comes to figuring out how to put a beer together, we Tulsans are lucky. On the southwest corner of the 71st Street and Memorial Drive intersection is <a href=\"http://www.highgravitybrew.com/\">High Gravity</a>, a homebrewing and winemaking supply shop. The folks who own it, Dave and Desiree Knott, host a free homebrewing workshop at the store each month.\n\nA group of friends and I went to it a couple of weeks ago, and here\'s what I learned: Whipping up a batch of homebrewed beer is a pretty easy process. The only tricky part? Waiting until the beer reaches drinkable perfection.\n\nSo if you can boil water, and if you can sit around and delay gratification for long periods of time, you can make beer.\n\nEmpowering, isn\'t it?\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6547\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6547\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6547\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1862.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\n\nThe first step in making a batch of beer, then, is that whole boiling-of-the-water thing I just mentioned.\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6548\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6548\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6548\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1855.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6549\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6549\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6549\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1857.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\n\nNext comes the malt, or grain (usually barley) which has been sprouted and then halted by heating in a kiln. This is the stuff that provides the fermentable sugars and body of beer, both of which are pretty awesome things.\n\nSteeping the malt in the boiling water for an hour or so is what converts the starch into fermentable sugars. This step is called mashing.\n\nBy the way, malt can be purchased as a liquid extract, or in powder form, too. What you see used below is the liquid malt extract; above, actual grain, because Dave is a certifiable bad ass.\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6550\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1865-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" />\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6551\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1868.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" />\n\nAnd then there are hops. Let\'s not forget about those.\n\nKnow what a hop looks like?\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6552\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6552\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6552\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1864-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\n\nKinda like that. They\'re these beautiful little cone flowers from the hop plant that add that lovely bitter taste for which beer is so widely known. Hops can also add citric and floral flavors to a beer, as well as a variety of aromas, just depending on the hops you decide to use.\n\nFor the record, I like hops. I like hops a lot.\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6546\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6546\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6546\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1915.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\n\nSomething else cool about hops is that how they\'re used in beer is, as Dave at High Gravity put it, like building a good spaghetti sauce. Know how garlic or basil can taste vastly different in a spaghetti sauce depending on when you add it to the pot? With hops and beer, it\'s the same sort of thing. So, hops are added to beer in stages to sort of build the flavor profile of the finished product.\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6553\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6553\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6553\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1840-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\n\nAfter you bring that mixture to a rolling boil, cool it rapidly to about room temperature. Then, transfer the whole mess to a fermenting vessel. Which is, in the case of many homebrewers, a good, old-fashioned five-gallon bucket.\n\nAt this point, you\'ve got a big, plastic bucket full of something called wort. While that sounds pretty gross, it\'s just a word that means unfermented beer.\n\nThen, add yeast. This is when the magic happens.\n\nI\'ll be frank: Yeast is the freak in the family of beer ingredients. I mean, it\'s a living, unicellular mico-organism that eats the sugar produced during the brewing process of your beer. It metabolizes those sugars into alcohol, carbon dioxide and a huge range of flavors, depending on which type you use. Another fun yeast fact: It multiplies by a type of asexual production called budding.\n\nYeah. You just got scienced. Yeast will do that to you.\n\nYou can add other ingredients to your beer, too - not fried chicken or Mike &amp; Ikes anything like that, but within reason, there are still lots of options. It all depends on the type of brew you\'d like to end up with.\n\nThen comes the hard part: Waiting. It\'s time to let this bucket-o-ale ferment at room temperature for 7-10 days or so.\n\nThe process would be a bit different at this point if we were making a lager (another type of beer that\'s fermented differently than is ale), but rather than go into how so here at TDT, you can read more <a href=\"http://www.dougfishback.com/\">here</a>.\n\nAfter that first week you might opt to transfer the beer to a secondary vessel. This can help to clear the beer of yeast sediment and avoid any off-flavors that could happen should you decide to stick with using just one bucket.\n\nLet the beer spend another week at least in this secondary vessel. After that you can move the beer to a bottling bucket. Add priming sugar (after yeast, this is a way of naturally carbonating the beer), bottle and leave at room temperature again for 7-10 days.\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6554\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6554\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6554\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1905.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6555\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6555\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6555\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1910.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6556\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6556\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6556\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1912.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6564\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6564\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6564\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_19121.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\n\nOr? Drink.\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6561\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6561\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6561\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1917.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\n\nHi, <a href=\"http://havesporkwilltravel.blogspot.com/\">@travelingspork</a>!\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6562\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6562\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6562\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1918.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\n\nActually, Dave at High Gravity said that it\'s best to wait for another few of weeks before throwing a few of these babies back. The flavors and complexity of the beer can only improve for a good while at this point.\n\nBut, yeah right. We\'re amateurs. We can\'t wait. We just made our own beer, for Pete\'s sake.\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6563\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6563\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6563\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1916.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\n\nSee that face? That\'s the smile of someone who doesn\'t usually like beer finally tasting one that she likes.\n\nPrecious, isn\'t it?\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6548\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6548\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6548\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1855.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\n\nWant to learn more about the art of homebrewing? It\'d be a good idea to check out a meeting of FOAM, or the <a href=\"http://www.alemakers.com/\">Fellowship of Oklahoma Ale Makers</a>. They\'ve had a thing about teaching others about how beer is made and promoting the art of homebrewing since 1984. If you\'re looking for some community instruction, with these folks would be a good place to find it.\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6553\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6553\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6553\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1840-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\n\nTheir next meeting is Thursday, March 10, at 7:30 p.m. Find it at the Unitarian Church Log Cabin, at 8432 S. Sheridan Road here in Tulsa. The doors open at 7pm. The next meeting after that is April 1.\n\nIf you don\'t have time for a meeting, check out <a href=\"http://www.alemakers.com/\">the FOAM website</a>. It\'s chock full of beer and beer making information in the form of forums, recipes, news, quotes, homebrewing links and more.\n\nIf you don\'t want to dip your toe that far into the vast pond that is homebrewing, you can always attend the free workshop at High Gravity. The next one\'s on Saturday, March 19, at 11 a.m.\n\nEither way, when St. Patrick\'s Day rolls around, you\'ll have lots to talk about after those first few green beers. Like how certain specialty malts affect head structure. Or how many HBUs (Home Bittering Units) you like in a beer. Or, you know, the asexual nature of yeast. It\'s all fair game.\n\nBecause you now know how to make beer. And knowledge, my friends, is power.\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6563\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6563\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6563\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1916.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\n\nAnd refreshing.','How to Make Beer: High Gravity Shows How (St. Patrick\'s Day 2011)','When it comes to figuring out how to put a beer together, we Tulsans are lucky.','inherit','open','open','','6545-revision-7','','','2011-03-04 17:54:42','2011-03-04 23:54:42','',6545,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/6545-revision-7/',0,'revision','',0),(6566,1,'2011-03-04 17:53:34','2011-03-04 23:53:34','<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6546\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6546\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6546  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1915.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\n<em>This post is the first in a series here at TDT celebrating St. Patrick\'s Day 2011, one of Tulsa\'s very favorite holidays. Erin go Bragh!</em>\r\n\r\nIn case you can\'t tell by the endcaps at your local big box store, which are no doubt filled with all things leprechaun and shamrocks and lucky this-and-thats by now, St. Patrick\'s Day is coming.\r\n\r\nAnd you know what that means: Beer is about to happen. Lots and lots of beer.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><!--more-->\r\n[adrotate banner=\"24\"]</p>\r\nWith the passing of each St. Pat\'s, more and more beer drinkers are opting for craft-style beers over the ol\'-reliable, mass-produced varieties. Hand in hand with that has come beer lovers who are enthusiastic about learning how what is probably the world\'s oldest alcoholic beverage is made, and they\'re making beer of their own by the gallon at home.\r\n\r\nWhen it comes to figuring out how to put a beer together, we Tulsans are lucky. On the southwest corner of the 71st Street and Memorial Drive intersection is <a href=\"http://www.highgravitybrew.com/\">High Gravity</a>, a homebrewing and winemaking supply shop. The folks who own it, Dave and Desiree Knott, host a free homebrewing workshop at the store each month.\r\n\r\nA group of friends and I went to it a couple of weeks ago, and here\'s what I learned: Whipping up a batch of homebrewed beer is a pretty easy process. The only tricky part? Waiting until the beer reaches drinkable perfection.\r\n\r\nSo if you can boil water, and if you can sit around and delay gratification for long periods of time, you can make beer.\r\n\r\nEmpowering, isn\'t it?\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6547\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6547\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6547\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1862.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe first step in making a batch of beer, then, is that whole boiling-of-the-water thing I just mentioned.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6548\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6548\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6548\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1855.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6549\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6549\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6549\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1857.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nNext comes the malt, or grain (usually barley) which has been sprouted and then halted by heating in a kiln. This is the stuff that provides the fermentable sugars and body of beer, both of which are pretty awesome things.\r\n\r\nSteeping the malt in the boiling water for an hour or so is what converts the starch into fermentable sugars. This step is called mashing.\r\n\r\nBy the way, malt can be purchased as a liquid extract, or in powder form, too. What you see used below is the liquid malt extract; above, actual grain, because Dave is a certifiable bad ass.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6550\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1865-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" />\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6551\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1868.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" />\r\n\r\nAnd then there are hops. Let\'s not forget about those.\r\n\r\nKnow what a hop looks like?\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6552\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6552\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6552\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1864-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nKinda like that. They\'re these beautiful little cone flowers from the hop plant that add that lovely bitter taste for which beer is so widely known. Hops can also add citric and floral flavors to a beer, as well as a variety of aromas, just depending on the hops you decide to use.\r\n\r\nFor the record, I like hops. I like hops a lot.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6546\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6546\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6546\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1915.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSomething else cool about hops is that how they\'re used in beer is, as Dave at High Gravity put it, like building a good spaghetti sauce. Know how garlic or basil can taste vastly different in a spaghetti sauce depending on when you add it to the pot? With hops and beer, it\'s the same sort of thing. So, hops are added to beer in stages to sort of build the flavor profile of the finished product.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6553\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6553\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6553\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1840-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAfter you bring that mixture to a rolling boil, cool it rapidly to about room temperature. Then, transfer the whole mess to a fermenting vessel. Which is, in the case of many homebrewers, a good, old-fashioned five-gallon bucket.\r\n\r\nAt this point, you\'ve got a big, plastic bucket full of something called wort. While that sounds pretty gross, it\'s just a word that means unfermented beer.\r\n\r\nThen, add yeast. This is when the magic happens.\r\n\r\nI\'ll be frank: Yeast is the freak in the family of beer ingredients. I mean, it\'s a living, unicellular mico-organism that eats the sugar produced during the brewing process of your beer. It metabolizes those sugars into alcohol, carbon dioxide and a huge range of flavors, depending on which type you use. Another fun yeast fact: It multiplies by a type of asexual production called budding.\r\n\r\nYeah. You just got scienced. Yeast will do that to you.\r\n\r\nYou can add other ingredients to your beer, too - not fried chicken or Mike &amp; Ikes anything like that, but within reason, there are still lots of options. It all depends on the type of brew you\'d like to end up with.\r\n\r\nThen comes the hard part: Waiting. It\'s time to let this bucket-o-ale ferment at room temperature for 7-10 days or so.\r\n\r\nThe process would be a bit different at this point if we were making a lager (another type of beer that\'s fermented differently than is ale), but rather than go into how so here at TDT, you can read more <a href=\"http://www.dougfishback.com/\">here</a>.\r\n\r\nAfter that first week you might opt to transfer the beer to a secondary vessel. This can help to clear the beer of yeast sediment and avoid any off-flavors that could happen should you decide to stick with using just one bucket.\r\n\r\nLet the beer spend another week at least in this secondary vessel. After that you can move the beer to a bottling bucket. Add priming sugar (after yeast, this is a way of naturally carbonating the beer), bottle and leave at room temperature again for 7-10 days.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6554\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6554\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6554\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1905.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6555\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6555\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6555\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1910.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6556\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6556\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6556\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1912.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6564\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6564\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6564\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_19121.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOr? Drink.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6561\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6561\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6561\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1917.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHi, <a href=\"http://havesporkwilltravel.blogspot.com/\">@travelingspork</a>!\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6562\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6562\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6562\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1918.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nActually, Dave at High Gravity said that it\'s best to wait for another few of weeks before throwing a few of these babies back. The flavors and complexity of the beer can only improve for a good while at this point.\r\n\r\nBut, yeah right. We\'re amateurs. We can\'t wait. We just made our own beer, for Pete\'s sake.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6563\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6563\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6563\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1916.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSee that face? That\'s the smile of someone who doesn\'t usually like beer finally tasting one that she likes.\r\n\r\nPrecious, isn\'t it?\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6548\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6548\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6548\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1855.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWant to learn more about the art of homebrewing? It\'d be a good idea to check out a meeting of FOAM, or the <a href=\"http://www.alemakers.com/\">Fellowship of Oklahoma Ale Makers</a>. They\'ve had a thing about teaching others about how beer is made and promoting the art of homebrewing since 1984. If you\'re looking for some community instruction, with these folks would be a good place to find it.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6553\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6553\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6553\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1840-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTheir next meeting is Thursday, March 10, at 7:30 p.m. Find it at the Unitarian Church Log Cabin, at 8432 S. Sheridan Road here in Tulsa. The doors open at 7pm. The next meeting after that is April 1.\r\n\r\nIf you don\'t have time for a meeting, check out <a href=\"http://www.alemakers.com/\">the FOAM website</a>. It\'s chock full of beer and beer making information in the form of forums, recipes, news, quotes, homebrewing links and more.\r\n\r\nIf you don\'t want to dip your toe that far into the vast pond that is homebrewing, you can always attend the free workshop at High Gravity. The next one\'s on Saturday, March 19, at 11 a.m.\r\n\r\nEither way, when St. Patrick\'s Day rolls around, you\'ll have lots to talk about after those first few green beers. Like how certain specialty malts affect head structure. Or how many HBUs (Home Bittering Units) you like in a beer. Or, you know, the asexual nature of yeast. It\'s all fair game.\r\n\r\nBecause you now know how to make beer. And knowledge, my friends, is power.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6563\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6563\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6563\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1916.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAnd refreshing.','How to Make Beer: High Gravity Shows How (St. Patrick\'s Day 2011)','When it comes to figuring out how to put a beer together, we Tulsans are lucky.','inherit','open','open','','6545-revision-6','','','2011-03-04 17:53:34','2011-03-04 23:53:34','',6545,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/6545-revision-6/',0,'revision','',0),(6568,1,'2011-03-04 17:55:31','2011-03-04 23:55:31','<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6546\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6546\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6546  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1915.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\n<em>This post is the first in a series here at TDT celebrating St. Patrick\'s Day 2011, one of Tulsa\'s very favorite holidays. Erin go Bragh!</em>\r\n\r\nIn case you can\'t tell by the endcaps at your local big box store, which are no doubt filled with all things leprechaun and shamrocks and lucky this-and-thats by now, St. Patrick\'s Day is coming.\r\n\r\nAnd you know what that means: Beer is about to happen. Lots and lots of beer.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"24\"]</p>\r\n\r\nWith the passing of each St. Pat\'s, more and more beer drinkers are opting for craft-style beers over the ol\'-reliable, mass-produced varieties. Hand in hand with that has come beer lovers who are enthusiastic about learning how what is probably the world\'s oldest alcoholic beverage is made, and they\'re making beer of their own by the gallon at home.\r\n\r\nWhen it comes to figuring out how to put a beer together, we Tulsans are lucky. On the southwest corner of the 71st Street and Memorial Drive intersection is <a href=\"http://www.highgravitybrew.com/\">High Gravity</a>, a homebrewing and winemaking supply shop. The folks who own it, Dave and Desiree Knott, host a free homebrewing workshop at the store each month.\r\n\r\nA group of friends and I went to one a couple of weeks ago, and here\'s what I learned: Whipping up a batch of homebrewed beer is a pretty easy process. The only tricky part? Waiting until the beer reaches drinkable perfection.\r\n\r\nSo if you can boil water, and if you can sit around and delay gratification for long periods of time, you can make beer.\r\n\r\nEmpowering, isn\'t it?\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6547\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6547\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6547\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1862.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe first step in making a batch of beer, then, is that whole boiling-of-the-water thing I just mentioned.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6548\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6548\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6548\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1855.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6549\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6549\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6549\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1857.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nNext comes the malt, or grain (usually barley) which has been sprouted and then halted by heating in a kiln. This is the stuff that provides the fermentable sugars and body of beer, both of which are pretty awesome things.\r\n\r\nSteeping the malt in the boiling water for an hour or so is what converts the starch into fermentable sugars. This step is called mashing.\r\n\r\nBy the way, malt can be purchased as a liquid extract, or in powder form, too. What you see used below is the liquid malt extract; above, actual grain, because Dave is a certifiable bad ass.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6550\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1865-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" />\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6551\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1868.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" />\r\n\r\nAnd then there are hops. Let\'s not forget about those.\r\n\r\nKnow what a hop looks like?\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6552\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6552\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6552\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1864-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nKinda like that. They\'re these beautiful little cone flowers from the hop plant that add that lovely bitter taste for which beer is so widely known. Hops can also add citric and floral flavors to a beer, as well as a variety of aromas, just depending on the hops you decide to use.\r\n\r\nFor the record, I like hops. I like hops a lot.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6546\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6546\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6546\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1915.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSomething else cool about hops is that how they\'re used in beer is, as Dave at High Gravity put it, like building a good spaghetti sauce. Know how garlic or basil can taste vastly different in a spaghetti sauce depending on when you add it to the pot? With hops and beer, it\'s the same sort of thing. So, hops are added to beer in stages to sort of build the flavor profile of the finished product.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6553\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6553\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6553\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1840-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAfter you bring that mixture to a rolling boil, cool it rapidly to about room temperature. Then, transfer the whole mess to a fermenting vessel. Which is, in the case of many homebrewers, a good, old-fashioned five-gallon bucket.\r\n\r\nAt this point, you\'ve got a big, plastic bucket full of something called wort. While that sounds pretty gross, it\'s just a word that means unfermented beer.\r\n\r\nThen, add yeast. This is when the magic happens.\r\n\r\nI\'ll be frank: Yeast is the freak in the family of beer ingredients. I mean, it\'s a living, unicellular mico-organism that eats the sugar produced during the brewing process of your beer. It metabolizes those sugars into alcohol, carbon dioxide and a huge range of flavors, depending on which type you use. Another fun yeast fact: It multiplies by a type of asexual production called budding.\r\n\r\nYeah. You just got scienced. Yeast will do that to you.\r\n\r\nYou can add other ingredients to your beer, too - not fried chicken or Mike &amp; Ikes anything like that, but within reason, there are still lots of options. It all depends on the type of brew you\'d like to end up with.\r\n\r\nThen comes the hard part: Waiting. It\'s time to let this bucket-o-ale ferment at room temperature for 7-10 days or so.\r\n\r\nThe process would be a bit different at this point if we were making a lager (another type of beer that\'s fermented differently than is ale), but rather than go into how so here at TDT, you can read more <a href=\"http://www.dougfishback.com/\">here</a>.\r\n\r\nAfter that first week you might opt to transfer the beer to a secondary vessel. This can help to clear the beer of yeast sediment and avoid any off-flavors that could happen should you decide to stick with using just one bucket.\r\n\r\nLet the beer spend another week at least in this secondary vessel. After that you can move the beer to a bottling bucket. Add priming sugar (after yeast, this is a way of naturally carbonating the beer), bottle and leave at room temperature again for 7-10 days.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6554\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6554\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6554\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1905.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6555\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6555\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6555\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1910.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6556\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6556\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6556\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1912.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6564\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6564\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6564\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_19121.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOr? Drink.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6561\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6561\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6561\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1917.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHi, <a href=\"http://havesporkwilltravel.blogspot.com/\">@travelingspork</a>!\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6562\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6562\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6562\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1918.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nActually, Dave at High Gravity said that it\'s best to wait for another few of weeks before throwing a few of these babies back. The flavors and complexity of the beer can only improve for a good while at this point.\r\n\r\nBut, yeah right. We\'re amateurs. We can\'t wait. We just made our own beer, for Pete\'s sake.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6563\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6563\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6563\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1916.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSee that face? That\'s the smile of someone who doesn\'t usually like beer finally tasting one that she likes.\r\n\r\nPrecious, isn\'t it?\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6548\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6548\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6548\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1855.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWant to learn more about the art of homebrewing? It\'d be a good idea to check out a meeting of FOAM, or the <a href=\"http://www.alemakers.com/\">Fellowship of Oklahoma Ale Makers</a>. They\'ve had a thing about teaching others about how beer is made and promoting the art of homebrewing since 1984. If you\'re looking for some community instruction, with these folks would be a good place to find it.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6553\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6553\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6553\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1840-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTheir next meeting is Thursday, March 10, at 7:30 p.m. Find it at the Unitarian Church Log Cabin, at 8432 S. Sheridan Road here in Tulsa. The doors open at 7pm. The next meeting after that is April 1.\r\n\r\nIf you don\'t have time for a meeting, check out <a href=\"http://www.alemakers.com/\">the FOAM website</a>. It\'s chock full of beer and beer making information in the form of forums, recipes, news, quotes, homebrewing links and more.\r\n\r\nIf you don\'t want to dip your toe that far into the vast pond that is homebrewing, you can always attend the free workshop at High Gravity. The next one\'s on Saturday, March 19, at 11 a.m.\r\n\r\nEither way, when St. Patrick\'s Day rolls around, you\'ll have lots to talk about after those first few green beers. Like how certain specialty malts affect head structure. Or how many HBUs (Home Bittering Units) you like in a beer. Or, you know, the asexual nature of yeast. It\'s all fair game.\r\n\r\nBecause you now know how to make beer. And knowledge, my friends, is power.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6563\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6563\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6563\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1916.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAnd refreshing.','How to Make Beer: High Gravity Shows How (St. Patrick\'s Day 2011)','When it comes to figuring out how to put a beer together, we Tulsans are lucky.','inherit','open','open','','6545-revision-8','','','2011-03-04 17:55:31','2011-03-04 23:55:31','',6545,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/6545-revision-8/',0,'revision','',0),(6569,1,'2011-03-04 17:55:31','2011-03-04 23:55:31','<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6546\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6546\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6546  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1915.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\n<em>This post is the first in a series here at TDT celebrating St. Patrick\'s Day 2011, one of Tulsa\'s very favorite holidays. Erin go Bragh!</em>\r\n\r\nIn case you can\'t tell by the endcaps at your local big box store, which are no doubt filled with all things leprechaun and shamrocks and lucky this-and-thats by now, St. Patrick\'s Day is coming.\r\n\r\nAnd you know what that means: Beer is about to happen. Lots and lots of beer.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"24\"]</p>\r\n\r\nWith the passing of each St. Pat\'s, more and more beer drinkers are opting for craft-style beers over the ol\'-reliable, mass-produced varieties. Hand in hand with that has come beer lovers who are enthusiastic about learning how what is probably the world\'s oldest alcoholic beverage is made, and they\'re making beer of their own by the gallon at home.\r\n\r\nWhen it comes to figuring out how to put a beer together, we Tulsans are lucky. On the southwest corner of the 71st Street and Memorial Drive intersection is <a href=\"http://www.highgravitybrew.com/\">High Gravity</a>, a homebrewing and winemaking supply shop. The folks who own it, Dave and Desiree Knott, host a free homebrewing workshop at the store each month.\r\n\r\nA group of friends and I went to one a couple of weeks ago, and here\'s what I learned: Whipping up a batch of homebrewed beer is a pretty easy process. The only tricky part? Waiting until the beer reaches drinkable perfection.\r\n\r\nSo if you can boil water, and if you can sit around and delay gratification for long periods of time, you can make beer.\r\n\r\nEmpowering, isn\'t it?\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6547\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6547\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6547\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1862.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe first step in making a batch of beer, then, is that whole boiling-of-the-water thing I just mentioned.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6548\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6548\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6548\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1855.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6549\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6549\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6549\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1857.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nNext comes the malt, or grain (usually barley) which has been sprouted and then halted by heating in a kiln. This is the stuff that provides the fermentable sugars and body of beer, both of which are pretty awesome things.\r\n\r\nSteeping the malt in the boiling water for an hour or so is what converts the starch into fermentable sugars. This step is called mashing.\r\n\r\nBy the way, malt can be purchased as a liquid extract, or in powder form, too. What you see used below is the liquid malt extract; above, actual grain, because Dave is a certifiable bad ass.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6550\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1865-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" />\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6551\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1868.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" />\r\n\r\nAnd then there are hops. Let\'s not forget about those.\r\n\r\nKnow what a hop looks like?\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6552\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6552\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6552\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1864-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nKinda like that. They\'re these beautiful little cone flowers from the hop plant that add that lovely bitter taste for which beer is so widely known. Hops can also add citric and floral flavors to a beer, as well as a variety of aromas, just depending on the hops you decide to use.\r\n\r\nFor the record, I like hops. I like hops a lot.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6546\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6546\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6546\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1915.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSomething else cool about hops is that how they\'re used in beer is, as Dave at High Gravity put it, like building a good spaghetti sauce. Know how garlic or basil can taste vastly different in a spaghetti sauce depending on when you add it to the pot? With hops and beer, it\'s the same sort of thing. So, hops are added to beer in stages to sort of build the flavor profile of the finished product.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6553\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6553\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6553\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1840-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAfter you bring that mixture to a rolling boil, cool it rapidly to about room temperature. Then, transfer the whole mess to a fermenting vessel. Which is, in the case of many homebrewers, a good, old-fashioned five-gallon bucket.\r\n\r\nAt this point, you\'ve got a big, plastic bucket full of something called wort. While that sounds pretty gross, it\'s just a word that means unfermented beer.\r\n\r\nThen, add yeast. This is when the magic happens.\r\n\r\nI\'ll be frank: Yeast is the freak in the family of beer ingredients. I mean, it\'s a living, unicellular mico-organism that eats the sugar produced during the brewing process of your beer. It metabolizes those sugars into alcohol, carbon dioxide and a huge range of flavors, depending on which type you use. Another fun yeast fact: It multiplies by a type of asexual production called budding.\r\n\r\nYeah. You just got scienced. Yeast will do that to you.\r\n\r\nYou can add other ingredients to your beer, too - not fried chicken or Mike &amp; Ikes anything like that, but within reason, there are still lots of options. It all depends on the type of brew you\'d like to end up with.\r\n\r\nThen comes the hard part: Waiting. It\'s time to let this bucket-o-ale ferment at room temperature for 7-10 days or so.\r\n\r\nThe process would be a bit different at this point if we were making a lager (another type of beer that\'s fermented differently than is ale), but rather than go into how so here at TDT, you can read more <a href=\"http://www.dougfishback.com/\">here</a>.\r\n\r\nAfter that first week you might opt to transfer the beer to a secondary vessel. This can help to clear the beer of yeast sediment and avoid any off-flavors that could happen should you decide to stick with using just one bucket.\r\n\r\nLet the beer spend another week at least in this secondary vessel. After that you can move the beer to a bottling bucket. Add priming sugar (after yeast, this is a way of naturally carbonating the beer), bottle and leave at room temperature again for 7-10 days.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6554\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6554\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6554\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1905.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6555\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6555\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6555\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1910.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6556\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6556\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6556\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1912.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6564\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6564\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6564\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_19121.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOr? Drink.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6561\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6561\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6561\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1917.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHi, <a href=\"http://havesporkwilltravel.blogspot.com/\">@travelingspork</a>!\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6562\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6562\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6562\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1918.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nActually, Dave at High Gravity said that it\'s best to wait for another few of weeks before throwing a few of these babies back. The flavors and complexity of the beer can only improve for a good while at this point.\r\n\r\nBut, yeah right. We\'re amateurs. We can\'t wait. We just made our own beer, for Pete\'s sake.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6563\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6563\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6563\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1916.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSee that face? That\'s the smile of someone who doesn\'t usually like beer finally tasting one that she likes.\r\n\r\nPrecious, isn\'t it?\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6548\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6548\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6548\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1855.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWant to learn more about the art of homebrewing? It\'d be a good idea to check out a meeting of FOAM, or the <a href=\"http://www.alemakers.com/\">Fellowship of Oklahoma Ale Makers</a>. They\'ve had a thing about teaching others about how beer is made and promoting the art of homebrewing since 1984. If you\'re looking for some community instruction, with these folks would be a good place to find it.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6553\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6553\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6553\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1840-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTheir next meeting is Thursday, March 10, at 7:30 p.m. Find it at the Unitarian Church Log Cabin, at 8432 S. Sheridan Road here in Tulsa. The doors open at 7pm. The next meeting after that is April 1.\r\n\r\nIf you don\'t have time for a meeting, check out <a href=\"http://www.alemakers.com/\">the FOAM website</a>. It\'s chock full of beer and beer making information in the form of forums, recipes, news, quotes, homebrewing links and more.\r\n\r\nIf you don\'t want to dip your toe that far into the vast pond that is homebrewing, you can always attend the free workshop at High Gravity. The next one\'s on Saturday, March 19, at 11 a.m.\r\n\r\nEither way, when St. Patrick\'s Day rolls around, you\'ll have lots to talk about after those first few green beers. Like how certain specialty malts affect head structure. Or how many HBUs (Home Bittering Units) you like in a beer. Or, you know, the asexual nature of yeast. It\'s all fair game.\r\n\r\nBecause you now know how to make beer. And knowledge, my friends, is power.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6563\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6563\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6563\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1916.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAnd refreshing.','How to Make Beer: High Gravity Shows How (St. Patrick\'s Day 2011)','When it comes to figuring out how to put a beer together, we Tulsans are lucky.','inherit','open','open','','6545-revision-9','','','2011-03-04 17:55:31','2011-03-04 23:55:31','',6545,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/6545-revision-9/',0,'revision','',0),(6570,1,'2011-03-04 17:55:42','2011-03-04 23:55:42','<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6546\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6546\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6546  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1915.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\n<em>This post is the first in a series here at TDT celebrating St. Patrick\'s Day 2011, one of Tulsa\'s very favorite holidays. Erin go Bragh!</em>\r\n\r\nIn case you can\'t tell by the endcaps at your local big box store, which are no doubt filled with all things leprechaun and shamrocks and lucky this-and-thats by now, St. Patrick\'s Day is coming.\r\n\r\nAnd you know what that means: Beer is about to happen. Lots and lots of beer.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"24\"]</p>\r\n\r\nWith the passing of each St. Pat\'s, more and more beer drinkers are opting for craft-style beers over the ol\'-reliable, mass-produced varieties. Hand in hand with that has come beer lovers who are enthusiastic about learning how what is probably the world\'s oldest alcoholic beverage is made, and they\'re making beer of their own by the gallon at home.\r\n\r\nWhen it comes to figuring out how to put a beer together, we Tulsans are lucky. On the southwest corner of the 71st Street and Memorial Drive intersection is <a href=\"http://www.highgravitybrew.com/\">High Gravity</a>, a homebrewing and winemaking supply shop. The folks who own it, Dave and Desiree Knott, host a free homebrewing workshop at the store each month.\r\n\r\nA group of friends and I went to one a couple of weeks ago, and here\'s what we learned: Whipping up a batch of homebrewed beer is a pretty easy process. The only tricky part? Waiting until the beer reaches drinkable perfection.\r\n\r\nSo if you can boil water, and if you can sit around and delay gratification for long periods of time, you can make beer.\r\n\r\nEmpowering, isn\'t it?\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6547\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6547\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6547\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1862.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe first step in making a batch of beer, then, is that whole boiling-of-the-water thing I just mentioned.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6548\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6548\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6548\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1855.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6549\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6549\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6549\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1857.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nNext comes the malt, or grain (usually barley) which has been sprouted and then halted by heating in a kiln. This is the stuff that provides the fermentable sugars and body of beer, both of which are pretty awesome things.\r\n\r\nSteeping the malt in the boiling water for an hour or so is what converts the starch into fermentable sugars. This step is called mashing.\r\n\r\nBy the way, malt can be purchased as a liquid extract, or in powder form, too. What you see used below is the liquid malt extract; above, actual grain, because Dave is a certifiable bad ass.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6550\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1865-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" />\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6551\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1868.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" />\r\n\r\nAnd then there are hops. Let\'s not forget about those.\r\n\r\nKnow what a hop looks like?\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6552\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6552\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6552\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1864-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nKinda like that. They\'re these beautiful little cone flowers from the hop plant that add that lovely bitter taste for which beer is so widely known. Hops can also add citric and floral flavors to a beer, as well as a variety of aromas, just depending on the hops you decide to use.\r\n\r\nFor the record, I like hops. I like hops a lot.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6546\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6546\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6546\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1915.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSomething else cool about hops is that how they\'re used in beer is, as Dave at High Gravity put it, like building a good spaghetti sauce. Know how garlic or basil can taste vastly different in a spaghetti sauce depending on when you add it to the pot? With hops and beer, it\'s the same sort of thing. So, hops are added to beer in stages to sort of build the flavor profile of the finished product.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6553\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6553\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6553\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1840-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAfter you bring that mixture to a rolling boil, cool it rapidly to about room temperature. Then, transfer the whole mess to a fermenting vessel. Which is, in the case of many homebrewers, a good, old-fashioned five-gallon bucket.\r\n\r\nAt this point, you\'ve got a big, plastic bucket full of something called wort. While that sounds pretty gross, it\'s just a word that means unfermented beer.\r\n\r\nThen, add yeast. This is when the magic happens.\r\n\r\nI\'ll be frank: Yeast is the freak in the family of beer ingredients. I mean, it\'s a living, unicellular mico-organism that eats the sugar produced during the brewing process of your beer. It metabolizes those sugars into alcohol, carbon dioxide and a huge range of flavors, depending on which type you use. Another fun yeast fact: It multiplies by a type of asexual production called budding.\r\n\r\nYeah. You just got scienced. Yeast will do that to you.\r\n\r\nYou can add other ingredients to your beer, too - not fried chicken or Mike &amp; Ikes anything like that, but within reason, there are still lots of options. It all depends on the type of brew you\'d like to end up with.\r\n\r\nThen comes the hard part: Waiting. It\'s time to let this bucket-o-ale ferment at room temperature for 7-10 days or so.\r\n\r\nThe process would be a bit different at this point if we were making a lager (another type of beer that\'s fermented differently than is ale), but rather than go into how so here at TDT, you can read more <a href=\"http://www.dougfishback.com/\">here</a>.\r\n\r\nAfter that first week you might opt to transfer the beer to a secondary vessel. This can help to clear the beer of yeast sediment and avoid any off-flavors that could happen should you decide to stick with using just one bucket.\r\n\r\nLet the beer spend another week at least in this secondary vessel. After that you can move the beer to a bottling bucket. Add priming sugar (after yeast, this is a way of naturally carbonating the beer), bottle and leave at room temperature again for 7-10 days.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6554\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6554\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6554\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1905.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6555\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6555\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6555\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1910.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6556\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6556\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6556\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1912.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6564\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6564\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6564\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_19121.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOr? Drink.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6561\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6561\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6561\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1917.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHi, <a href=\"http://havesporkwilltravel.blogspot.com/\">@travelingspork</a>!\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6562\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6562\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6562\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1918.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nActually, Dave at High Gravity said that it\'s best to wait for another few of weeks before throwing a few of these babies back. The flavors and complexity of the beer can only improve for a good while at this point.\r\n\r\nBut, yeah right. We\'re amateurs. We can\'t wait. We just made our own beer, for Pete\'s sake.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6563\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6563\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6563\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1916.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSee that face? That\'s the smile of someone who doesn\'t usually like beer finally tasting one that she likes.\r\n\r\nPrecious, isn\'t it?\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6548\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6548\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6548\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1855.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWant to learn more about the art of homebrewing? It\'d be a good idea to check out a meeting of FOAM, or the <a href=\"http://www.alemakers.com/\">Fellowship of Oklahoma Ale Makers</a>. They\'ve had a thing about teaching others about how beer is made and promoting the art of homebrewing since 1984. If you\'re looking for some community instruction, with these folks would be a good place to find it.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6553\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6553\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6553\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1840-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTheir next meeting is Thursday, March 10, at 7:30 p.m. Find it at the Unitarian Church Log Cabin, at 8432 S. Sheridan Road here in Tulsa. The doors open at 7pm. The next meeting after that is April 1.\r\n\r\nIf you don\'t have time for a meeting, check out <a href=\"http://www.alemakers.com/\">the FOAM website</a>. It\'s chock full of beer and beer making information in the form of forums, recipes, news, quotes, homebrewing links and more.\r\n\r\nIf you don\'t want to dip your toe that far into the vast pond that is homebrewing, you can always attend the free workshop at High Gravity. The next one\'s on Saturday, March 19, at 11 a.m.\r\n\r\nEither way, when St. Patrick\'s Day rolls around, you\'ll have lots to talk about after those first few green beers. Like how certain specialty malts affect head structure. Or how many HBUs (Home Bittering Units) you like in a beer. Or, you know, the asexual nature of yeast. It\'s all fair game.\r\n\r\nBecause you now know how to make beer. And knowledge, my friends, is power.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6563\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6563\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6563\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1916.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAnd refreshing.','How to Make Beer: High Gravity Shows How (St. Patrick\'s Day 2011)','When it comes to figuring out how to put a beer together, we Tulsans are lucky.','inherit','open','open','','6545-revision-10','','','2011-03-04 17:55:42','2011-03-04 23:55:42','',6545,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/6545-revision-10/',0,'revision','',0),(6571,1,'2011-03-04 17:55:42','2011-03-04 23:55:42','<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6546\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6546\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6546  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1915.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\n<em>This post is the first in a series here at TDT celebrating St. Patrick\'s Day 2011, one of Tulsa\'s very favorite holidays. Erin go Bragh!</em>\r\n\r\nIn case you can\'t tell by the endcaps at your local big box store, which are no doubt filled with all things leprechaun and shamrocks and lucky this-and-thats by now, St. Patrick\'s Day is coming.\r\n\r\nAnd you know what that means: Beer is about to happen. Lots and lots of beer.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"24\"]</p>\r\n\r\nWith the passing of each St. Pat\'s, more and more beer drinkers are opting for craft-style beers over the ol\'-reliable, mass-produced varieties. Hand in hand with that has come beer lovers who are enthusiastic about learning how what is probably the world\'s oldest alcoholic beverage is made, and they\'re making beer of their own by the gallon at home.\r\n\r\nWhen it comes to figuring out how to put a beer together, we Tulsans are lucky. On the southwest corner of the 71st Street and Memorial Drive intersection is <a href=\"http://www.highgravitybrew.com/\">High Gravity</a>, a homebrewing and winemaking supply shop. The folks who own it, Dave and Desiree Knott, host a free homebrewing workshop at the store each month.\r\n\r\nA group of friends and I went to one a couple of weeks ago, and here\'s what we learned: Whipping up a batch of homebrewed beer is a pretty easy process. The only tricky part? Waiting until the beer reaches drinkable perfection.\r\n\r\nSo if you can boil water, and if you can sit around and delay gratification for long periods of time, you can make beer.\r\n\r\nEmpowering, isn\'t it?\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6547\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6547\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6547\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1862.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe first step in making a batch of beer, then, is that whole boiling-of-the-water thing I just mentioned.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6548\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6548\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6548\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1855.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6549\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6549\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6549\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1857.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nNext comes the malt, or grain (usually barley) which has been sprouted and then halted by heating in a kiln. This is the stuff that provides the fermentable sugars and body of beer, both of which are pretty awesome things.\r\n\r\nSteeping the malt in the boiling water for an hour or so is what converts the starch into fermentable sugars. This step is called mashing.\r\n\r\nBy the way, malt can be purchased as a liquid extract, or in powder form, too. What you see used below is the liquid malt extract; above, actual grain, because Dave is a certifiable bad ass.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6550\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1865-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" />\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6551\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1868.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" />\r\n\r\nAnd then there are hops. Let\'s not forget about those.\r\n\r\nKnow what a hop looks like?\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6552\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6552\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6552\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1864-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nKinda like that. They\'re these beautiful little cone flowers from the hop plant that add that lovely bitter taste for which beer is so widely known. Hops can also add citric and floral flavors to a beer, as well as a variety of aromas, just depending on the hops you decide to use.\r\n\r\nFor the record, I like hops. I like hops a lot.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6546\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6546\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6546\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1915.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSomething else cool about hops is that how they\'re used in beer is, as Dave at High Gravity put it, like building a good spaghetti sauce. Know how garlic or basil can taste vastly different in a spaghetti sauce depending on when you add it to the pot? With hops and beer, it\'s the same sort of thing. So, hops are added to beer in stages to sort of build the flavor profile of the finished product.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6553\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6553\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6553\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1840-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAfter you bring that mixture to a rolling boil, cool it rapidly to about room temperature. Then, transfer the whole mess to a fermenting vessel. Which is, in the case of many homebrewers, a good, old-fashioned five-gallon bucket.\r\n\r\nAt this point, you\'ve got a big, plastic bucket full of something called wort. While that sounds pretty gross, it\'s just a word that means unfermented beer.\r\n\r\nThen, add yeast. This is when the magic happens.\r\n\r\nI\'ll be frank: Yeast is the freak in the family of beer ingredients. I mean, it\'s a living, unicellular mico-organism that eats the sugar produced during the brewing process of your beer. It metabolizes those sugars into alcohol, carbon dioxide and a huge range of flavors, depending on which type you use. Another fun yeast fact: It multiplies by a type of asexual production called budding.\r\n\r\nYeah. You just got scienced. Yeast will do that to you.\r\n\r\nYou can add other ingredients to your beer, too - not fried chicken or Mike &amp; Ikes anything like that, but within reason, there are still lots of options. It all depends on the type of brew you\'d like to end up with.\r\n\r\nThen comes the hard part: Waiting. It\'s time to let this bucket-o-ale ferment at room temperature for 7-10 days or so.\r\n\r\nThe process would be a bit different at this point if we were making a lager (another type of beer that\'s fermented differently than is ale), but rather than go into how so here at TDT, you can read more <a href=\"http://www.dougfishback.com/\">here</a>.\r\n\r\nAfter that first week you might opt to transfer the beer to a secondary vessel. This can help to clear the beer of yeast sediment and avoid any off-flavors that could happen should you decide to stick with using just one bucket.\r\n\r\nLet the beer spend another week at least in this secondary vessel. After that you can move the beer to a bottling bucket. Add priming sugar (after yeast, this is a way of naturally carbonating the beer), bottle and leave at room temperature again for 7-10 days.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6554\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6554\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6554\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1905.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6555\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6555\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6555\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1910.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6556\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6556\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6556\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1912.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6564\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6564\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6564\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_19121.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOr? Drink.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6561\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6561\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6561\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1917.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHi, <a href=\"http://havesporkwilltravel.blogspot.com/\">@travelingspork</a>!\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6562\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6562\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6562\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1918.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nActually, Dave at High Gravity said that it\'s best to wait for another few of weeks before throwing a few of these babies back. The flavors and complexity of the beer can only improve for a good while at this point.\r\n\r\nBut, yeah right. We\'re amateurs. We can\'t wait. We just made our own beer, for Pete\'s sake.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6563\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6563\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6563\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1916.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSee that face? That\'s the smile of someone who doesn\'t usually like beer finally tasting one that she likes.\r\n\r\nPrecious, isn\'t it?\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6548\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6548\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6548\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1855.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWant to learn more about the art of homebrewing? It\'d be a good idea to check out a meeting of FOAM, or the <a href=\"http://www.alemakers.com/\">Fellowship of Oklahoma Ale Makers</a>. They\'ve had a thing about teaching others about how beer is made and promoting the art of homebrewing since 1984. If you\'re looking for some community instruction, with these folks would be a good place to find it.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6553\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6553\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6553\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1840-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTheir next meeting is Thursday, March 10, at 7:30 p.m. Find it at the Unitarian Church Log Cabin, at 8432 S. Sheridan Road here in Tulsa. The doors open at 7pm. The next meeting after that is April 1.\r\n\r\nIf you don\'t have time for a meeting, check out <a href=\"http://www.alemakers.com/\">the FOAM website</a>. It\'s chock full of beer and beer making information in the form of forums, recipes, news, quotes, homebrewing links and more.\r\n\r\nIf you don\'t want to dip your toe that far into the vast pond that is homebrewing, you can always attend the free workshop at High Gravity. The next one\'s on Saturday, March 19, at 11 a.m.\r\n\r\nEither way, when St. Patrick\'s Day rolls around, you\'ll have lots to talk about after those first few green beers. Like how certain specialty malts affect head structure. Or how many HBUs (Home Bittering Units) you like in a beer. Or, you know, the asexual nature of yeast. It\'s all fair game.\r\n\r\nBecause you now know how to make beer. And knowledge, my friends, is power.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6563\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6563\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6563\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1916.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAnd refreshing.','How to Make Beer: High Gravity Shows How (St. Patrick\'s Day 2011)','When it comes to figuring out how to put a beer together, we Tulsans are lucky.','inherit','open','open','','6545-revision-11','','','2011-03-04 17:55:42','2011-03-04 23:55:42','',6545,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/6545-revision-11/',0,'revision','',0);
INSERT INTO `wptdt_posts` VALUES (6573,1,'2011-03-04 18:02:06','2011-03-05 00:02:06','<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6546\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6546\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6546  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1915.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\n<em>This post is the first in a series here at TDT celebrating St. Patrick\'s Day 2011, one of Tulsa\'s very favorite holidays. Erin go Bragh!</em>\n\nIn case you can\'t tell by the endcaps at your local big box store, which are no doubt filled with all things leprechaun and shamrocks and lucky this-and-thats by now, St. Patrick\'s Day is coming.\n\nAnd you know what that means: Beer is about to happen. Lots and lots of beer.\n\n<!--more-->\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"24\"]</p>\n\nWith the passing of each St. Pat\'s, more and more beer drinkers are opting for craft-style beers over the ol\'-reliable, mass-produced varieties. Hand in hand with that has come beer lovers who are enthusiastic about learning how what is probably the world\'s oldest alcoholic beverage is made, and they\'re making beer of their own by the gallon at home.\n\nWhen it comes to figuring out how to put a beer together, we Tulsans are lucky. On the southwest corner of the 71st Street and Memorial Drive intersection is <a href=\"http://www.highgravitybrew.com/\">High Gravity</a>, a homebrewing and winemaking supply shop. The folks who own it, Dave and Desiree Knott, host a free homebrewing workshop at the store each month.\n\nA group of friends and I went to one a couple of weeks ago, and here\'s what we learned: Whipping up a batch of homebrewed beer is a pretty easy process. The only tricky part? Waiting until the beer reaches drinkable perfection.\n\nSo if you can boil water, and if you can sit around and delay gratification for long periods of time, you can make beer.\n\nEmpowering, isn\'t it?\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6547\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6547\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6547\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1862.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\n\nThe first step in making a batch of beer, then, is that whole boiling-of-the-water thing I just mentioned.\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6548\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6548\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6548\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1855.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6549\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6549\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6549\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1857.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\n\nNext comes the malt, or grain (usually barley) which has been sprouted and then halted by heating in a kiln. This is the stuff that provides the fermentable sugars and body of beer, both of which are pretty awesome things.\n\nSteeping the malt in the boiling water for an hour or so is what converts the starch into fermentable sugars. This step is called mashing.\n\nBy the way, malt can be purchased as a liquid extract, and in powder form, too. What you see used below is the liquid malt extract; above, actual grain, because Dave is a certifiable bad ass.\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6550\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1865-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" />\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6551\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1868.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" />\n\nAnd then there are hops. Let\'s not forget about those.\n\nKnow what a hop looks like?\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6552\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6552\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6552\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1864-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\n\nKinda like that. They\'re these beautiful little cone flowers from the hop plant that add that lovely bitter taste for which beer is so widely known. Hops can also add citric and floral flavors to a beer, as well as a variety of aromas, just depending on the hops you decide to use.\n\nFor the record, I like hops. I like hops a lot.\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6546\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6546\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6546\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1915.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\n\nSomething else cool about hops is that how they\'re used in beer is, as Dave at High Gravity put it, like building a good spaghetti sauce. Know how garlic or basil can taste vastly different in a spaghetti sauce depending on when you add it to the pot? With hops and beer, it\'s the same sort of thing. So, hops are added to beer in stages to sort of build the flavor profile of the finished product.\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6553\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6553\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6553\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1840-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\n\nAfter you bring that mixture to a rolling boil, cool it rapidly to about room temperature. Then, transfer the whole mess to a fermenting vessel. Which is, in the case of many homebrewers, a good, old-fashioned five-gallon bucket.\n\nAt this point, you\'ve got a big, plastic bucket full of something called wort. While that sounds pretty gross, it\'s just a word that means unfermented beer.\n\nThen, add yeast. This is when the magic happens.\n\nI\'ll be frank: Yeast is the freak in the family of beer ingredients. I mean, it\'s a living, unicellular mico-organism that eats the sugar produced during the brewing process of your beer. It metabolizes those sugars into alcohol, carbon dioxide and a huge range of flavors, depending on which type you use. Another fun yeast fact: It multiplies by a type of asexual production called budding.\n\nYeah. You just got scienced. Yeast will do that to you.\n\nYou can add other ingredients to your beer, too - not fried chicken or Mike &amp; Ikes anything like that, but within reason, there are still lots of options. It all depends on the type of brew you\'d like to end up with.\n\nThen comes the hard part: Waiting. It\'s time to let this bucket-o-ale ferment at room temperature for 7-10 days or so.\n\nThe process would be a bit different at this point if we were making a lager (another type of beer that\'s fermented differently than is ale), but rather than go into how so here at TDT, you can read more <a href=\"http://www.dougfishback.com/\">here</a>.\n\nAfter that first week you might opt to transfer the beer to a secondary vessel. This can help to clear the beer of yeast sediment and avoid any off-flavors that could happen should you decide to stick with using just one bucket.\n\nLet the beer spend another week at least in this secondary vessel. After that you can move the beer to a bottling bucket. Add priming sugar (after yeast, this is a way of naturally carbonating the beer), bottle and leave at room temperature again for 7-10 days.\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6554\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6554\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6554\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1905.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6555\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6555\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6555\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1910.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6556\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6556\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6556\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1912.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\n\nOr? Drink.\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6561\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6561\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6561\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1917.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\n\nHi, <a href=\"http://havesporkwilltravel.blogspot.com/\">@travelingspork</a>!\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6562\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6562\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6562\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1918.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\n\nActually, Dave at High Gravity said that it\'s best to wait for another few weeks before throwing a few of these babies back. The flavors and complexity of the beer can only improve for a good while at this point.\n\nBut, yeah right. We\'re amateurs. We can\'t wait. We just leamade our own beer, for Pete\'s sake.\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6563\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6563\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6563\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1916.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\n\nSee that face? That\'s the smile of someone who doesn\'t usually like beer finally tasting one that she likes.\n\nPrecious, isn\'t it?\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6548\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6548\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6548\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1855.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\n\nWant to learn more about the art of homebrewing? It\'d be a good idea to check out a meeting of FOAM, or the <a href=\"http://www.alemakers.com/\">Fellowship of Oklahoma Ale Makers</a>. They\'ve had a thing about teaching others about how beer is made and promoting the art of homebrewing since 1984. If you\'re looking for some community instruction, with these folks would be a good place to find it.\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6553\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6553\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6553\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1840-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\n\nTheir next meeting is Thursday, March 10, at 7:30 p.m. Find it at the Unitarian Church Log Cabin, at 8432 S. Sheridan Road here in Tulsa. The doors open at 7pm. The next meeting after that is April 1.\n\nIf you don\'t have time for a meeting, check out <a href=\"http://www.alemakers.com/\">the FOAM website</a>. It\'s chock full of beer and beer making information in the form of forums, recipes, news, quotes, homebrewing links and more.\n\nIf you don\'t want to dip your toe that far into the vast pond that is homebrewing, you can always attend the free workshop at High Gravity. The next one\'s on Saturday, March 19, at 11 a.m.\n\nEither way, when St. Patrick\'s Day rolls around, you\'ll have lots to talk about after those first few green beers. Like how certain specialty malts affect head structure. Or how many HBUs (Home Bittering Units) you like in a beer. Or, you know, the asexual nature of yeast. It\'s all fair game.\n\nBecause you now know how to make beer. And knowledge, my friends, is power.\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6563\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6563\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6563\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1916.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\n\nAnd refreshing.','How to Make Beer: High Gravity Shows How (St. Patrick\'s Day 2011)','When it comes to figuring out how to put a beer together, we Tulsans are lucky.','inherit','open','open','','6545-revision-13','','','2011-03-04 18:02:06','2011-03-05 00:02:06','',6545,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/6545-revision-13/',0,'revision','',0),(6572,1,'2011-03-04 17:57:02','2011-03-04 23:57:02','<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6546\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6546\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6546  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1915.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\n<em>This post is the first in a series here at TDT celebrating St. Patrick\'s Day 2011, one of Tulsa\'s very favorite holidays. Erin go Bragh!</em>\r\n\r\nIn case you can\'t tell by the endcaps at your local big box store, which are no doubt filled with all things leprechaun and shamrocks and lucky this-and-thats by now, St. Patrick\'s Day is coming.\r\n\r\nAnd you know what that means: Beer is about to happen. Lots and lots of beer.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"24\"]</p>\r\n\r\nWith the passing of each St. Pat\'s, more and more beer drinkers are opting for craft-style beers over the ol\'-reliable, mass-produced varieties. Hand in hand with that has come beer lovers who are enthusiastic about learning how what is probably the world\'s oldest alcoholic beverage is made, and they\'re making beer of their own by the gallon at home.\r\n\r\nWhen it comes to figuring out how to put a beer together, we Tulsans are lucky. On the southwest corner of the 71st Street and Memorial Drive intersection is <a href=\"http://www.highgravitybrew.com/\">High Gravity</a>, a homebrewing and winemaking supply shop. The folks who own it, Dave and Desiree Knott, host a free homebrewing workshop at the store each month.\r\n\r\nA group of friends and I went to one a couple of weeks ago, and here\'s what we learned: Whipping up a batch of homebrewed beer is a pretty easy process. The only tricky part? Waiting until the beer reaches drinkable perfection.\r\n\r\nSo if you can boil water, and if you can sit around and delay gratification for long periods of time, you can make beer.\r\n\r\nEmpowering, isn\'t it?\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6547\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6547\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6547\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1862.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe first step in making a batch of beer, then, is that whole boiling-of-the-water thing I just mentioned.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6548\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6548\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6548\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1855.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6549\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6549\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6549\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1857.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nNext comes the malt, or grain (usually barley) which has been sprouted and then halted by heating in a kiln. This is the stuff that provides the fermentable sugars and body of beer, both of which are pretty awesome things.\r\n\r\nSteeping the malt in the boiling water for an hour or so is what converts the starch into fermentable sugars. This step is called mashing.\r\n\r\nBy the way, malt can be purchased as a liquid extract, and in powder form, too. What you see used below is the liquid malt extract; above, actual grain, because Dave is a certifiable bad ass.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6550\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1865-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" />\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6551\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1868.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" />\r\n\r\nAnd then there are hops. Let\'s not forget about those.\r\n\r\nKnow what a hop looks like?\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6552\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6552\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6552\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1864-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nKinda like that. They\'re these beautiful little cone flowers from the hop plant that add that lovely bitter taste for which beer is so widely known. Hops can also add citric and floral flavors to a beer, as well as a variety of aromas, just depending on the hops you decide to use.\r\n\r\nFor the record, I like hops. I like hops a lot.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6546\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6546\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6546\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1915.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSomething else cool about hops is that how they\'re used in beer is, as Dave at High Gravity put it, like building a good spaghetti sauce. Know how garlic or basil can taste vastly different in a spaghetti sauce depending on when you add it to the pot? With hops and beer, it\'s the same sort of thing. So, hops are added to beer in stages to sort of build the flavor profile of the finished product.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6553\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6553\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6553\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1840-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAfter you bring that mixture to a rolling boil, cool it rapidly to about room temperature. Then, transfer the whole mess to a fermenting vessel. Which is, in the case of many homebrewers, a good, old-fashioned five-gallon bucket.\r\n\r\nAt this point, you\'ve got a big, plastic bucket full of something called wort. While that sounds pretty gross, it\'s just a word that means unfermented beer.\r\n\r\nThen, add yeast. This is when the magic happens.\r\n\r\nI\'ll be frank: Yeast is the freak in the family of beer ingredients. I mean, it\'s a living, unicellular mico-organism that eats the sugar produced during the brewing process of your beer. It metabolizes those sugars into alcohol, carbon dioxide and a huge range of flavors, depending on which type you use. Another fun yeast fact: It multiplies by a type of asexual production called budding.\r\n\r\nYeah. You just got scienced. Yeast will do that to you.\r\n\r\nYou can add other ingredients to your beer, too - not fried chicken or Mike &amp; Ikes anything like that, but within reason, there are still lots of options. It all depends on the type of brew you\'d like to end up with.\r\n\r\nThen comes the hard part: Waiting. It\'s time to let this bucket-o-ale ferment at room temperature for 7-10 days or so.\r\n\r\nThe process would be a bit different at this point if we were making a lager (another type of beer that\'s fermented differently than is ale), but rather than go into how so here at TDT, you can read more <a href=\"http://www.dougfishback.com/\">here</a>.\r\n\r\nAfter that first week you might opt to transfer the beer to a secondary vessel. This can help to clear the beer of yeast sediment and avoid any off-flavors that could happen should you decide to stick with using just one bucket.\r\n\r\nLet the beer spend another week at least in this secondary vessel. After that you can move the beer to a bottling bucket. Add priming sugar (after yeast, this is a way of naturally carbonating the beer), bottle and leave at room temperature again for 7-10 days.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6554\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6554\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6554\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1905.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6555\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6555\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6555\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1910.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6556\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6556\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6556\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1912.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6564\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6564\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6564\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_19121.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOr? Drink.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6561\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6561\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6561\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1917.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHi, <a href=\"http://havesporkwilltravel.blogspot.com/\">@travelingspork</a>!\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6562\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6562\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6562\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1918.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nActually, Dave at High Gravity said that it\'s best to wait for another few of weeks before throwing a few of these babies back. The flavors and complexity of the beer can only improve for a good while at this point.\r\n\r\nBut, yeah right. We\'re amateurs. We can\'t wait. We just made our own beer, for Pete\'s sake.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6563\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6563\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6563\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1916.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSee that face? That\'s the smile of someone who doesn\'t usually like beer finally tasting one that she likes.\r\n\r\nPrecious, isn\'t it?\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6548\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6548\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6548\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1855.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWant to learn more about the art of homebrewing? It\'d be a good idea to check out a meeting of FOAM, or the <a href=\"http://www.alemakers.com/\">Fellowship of Oklahoma Ale Makers</a>. They\'ve had a thing about teaching others about how beer is made and promoting the art of homebrewing since 1984. If you\'re looking for some community instruction, with these folks would be a good place to find it.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6553\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6553\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6553\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1840-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTheir next meeting is Thursday, March 10, at 7:30 p.m. Find it at the Unitarian Church Log Cabin, at 8432 S. Sheridan Road here in Tulsa. The doors open at 7pm. The next meeting after that is April 1.\r\n\r\nIf you don\'t have time for a meeting, check out <a href=\"http://www.alemakers.com/\">the FOAM website</a>. It\'s chock full of beer and beer making information in the form of forums, recipes, news, quotes, homebrewing links and more.\r\n\r\nIf you don\'t want to dip your toe that far into the vast pond that is homebrewing, you can always attend the free workshop at High Gravity. The next one\'s on Saturday, March 19, at 11 a.m.\r\n\r\nEither way, when St. Patrick\'s Day rolls around, you\'ll have lots to talk about after those first few green beers. Like how certain specialty malts affect head structure. Or how many HBUs (Home Bittering Units) you like in a beer. Or, you know, the asexual nature of yeast. It\'s all fair game.\r\n\r\nBecause you now know how to make beer. And knowledge, my friends, is power.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6563\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6563\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6563\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1916.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAnd refreshing.','How to Make Beer: High Gravity Shows How (St. Patrick\'s Day 2011)','When it comes to figuring out how to put a beer together, we Tulsans are lucky.','inherit','open','open','','6545-revision-12','','','2011-03-04 17:57:02','2011-03-04 23:57:02','',6545,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/6545-revision-12/',0,'revision','',0),(6574,1,'2011-03-04 18:02:14','2011-03-05 00:02:14','<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6546\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6546\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6546  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1915.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\n<em>This post is the first in a series here at TDT celebrating St. Patrick\'s Day 2011, one of Tulsa\'s very favorite holidays. Erin go Bragh!</em>\r\n\r\nIn case you can\'t tell by the endcaps at your local big box store, which are no doubt filled with all things leprechaun and shamrocks and lucky this-and-thats by now, St. Patrick\'s Day is coming.\r\n\r\nAnd you know what that means: Beer is about to happen. Lots and lots of beer.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"24\"]</p>\r\n\r\nWith the passing of each St. Pat\'s, more and more beer drinkers are opting for craft-style beers over the ol\'-reliable, mass-produced varieties. Hand in hand with that has come beer lovers who are enthusiastic about learning how what is probably the world\'s oldest alcoholic beverage is made, and they\'re making beer of their own by the gallon at home.\r\n\r\nWhen it comes to figuring out how to put a beer together, we Tulsans are lucky. On the southwest corner of the 71st Street and Memorial Drive intersection is <a href=\"http://www.highgravitybrew.com/\">High Gravity</a>, a homebrewing and winemaking supply shop. The folks who own it, Dave and Desiree Knott, host a free homebrewing workshop at the store each month.\r\n\r\nA group of friends and I went to one a couple of weeks ago, and here\'s what we learned: Whipping up a batch of homebrewed beer is a pretty easy process. The only tricky part? Waiting until the beer reaches drinkable perfection.\r\n\r\nSo if you can boil water, and if you can sit around and delay gratification for long periods of time, you can make beer.\r\n\r\nEmpowering, isn\'t it?\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6547\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6547\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6547\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1862.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe first step in making a batch of beer, then, is that whole boiling-of-the-water thing I just mentioned.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6548\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6548\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6548\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1855.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6549\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6549\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6549\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1857.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nNext comes the malt, or grain (usually barley) which has been sprouted and then halted by heating in a kiln. This is the stuff that provides the fermentable sugars and body of beer, both of which are pretty awesome things.\r\n\r\nSteeping the malt in the boiling water for an hour or so is what converts the starch into fermentable sugars. This step is called mashing.\r\n\r\nBy the way, malt can be purchased as a liquid extract, and in powder form, too. What you see used below is the liquid malt extract; above, actual grain, because Dave is a certifiable bad ass.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6550\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1865-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" />\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6551\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1868.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" />\r\n\r\nAnd then there are hops. Let\'s not forget about those.\r\n\r\nKnow what a hop looks like?\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6552\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6552\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6552\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1864-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nKinda like that. They\'re these beautiful little cone flowers from the hop plant that add that lovely bitter taste for which beer is so widely known. Hops can also add citric and floral flavors to a beer, as well as a variety of aromas, just depending on the hops you decide to use.\r\n\r\nFor the record, I like hops. I like hops a lot.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6546\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6546\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6546\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1915.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSomething else cool about hops is that how they\'re used in beer is, as Dave at High Gravity put it, like building a good spaghetti sauce. Know how garlic or basil can taste vastly different in a spaghetti sauce depending on when you add it to the pot? With hops and beer, it\'s the same sort of thing. So, hops are added to beer in stages to sort of build the flavor profile of the finished product.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6553\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6553\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6553\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1840-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAfter you bring that mixture to a rolling boil, cool it rapidly to about room temperature. Then, transfer the whole mess to a fermenting vessel. Which is, in the case of many homebrewers, a good, old-fashioned five-gallon bucket.\r\n\r\nAt this point, you\'ve got a big, plastic bucket full of something called wort. While that sounds pretty gross, it\'s just a word that means unfermented beer.\r\n\r\nThen, add yeast. This is when the magic happens.\r\n\r\nI\'ll be frank: Yeast is the freak in the family of beer ingredients. I mean, it\'s a living, unicellular mico-organism that eats the sugar produced during the brewing process of your beer. It metabolizes those sugars into alcohol, carbon dioxide and a huge range of flavors, depending on which type you use. Another fun yeast fact: It multiplies by a type of asexual production called budding.\r\n\r\nYeah. You just got scienced. Yeast will do that to you.\r\n\r\nYou can add other ingredients to your beer, too - not fried chicken or Mike &amp; Ikes anything like that, but within reason, there are still lots of options. It all depends on the type of brew you\'d like to end up with.\r\n\r\nThen comes the hard part: Waiting. It\'s time to let this bucket-o-ale ferment at room temperature for 7-10 days or so.\r\n\r\nThe process would be a bit different at this point if we were making a lager (another type of beer that\'s fermented differently than is ale), but rather than go into how so here at TDT, you can read more <a href=\"http://www.dougfishback.com/\">here</a>.\r\n\r\nAfter that first week you might opt to transfer the beer to a secondary vessel. This can help to clear the beer of yeast sediment and avoid any off-flavors that could happen should you decide to stick with using just one bucket.\r\n\r\nLet the beer spend another week at least in this secondary vessel. After that you can move the beer to a bottling bucket. Add priming sugar (after yeast, this is a way of naturally carbonating the beer), bottle and leave at room temperature again for 7-10 days.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6554\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6554\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6554\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1905.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6555\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6555\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6555\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1910.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6556\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6556\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6556\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1912.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOr? Drink.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6561\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6561\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6561\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1917.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHi, <a href=\"http://havesporkwilltravel.blogspot.com/\">@travelingspork</a>!\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6562\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6562\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6562\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1918.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nActually, Dave at High Gravity said that it\'s best to wait for another few weeks before throwing a few of these babies back. The flavors and complexity of the beer can only improve for a good while at this point.\r\n\r\nBut, yeah right. We\'re amateurs. We can\'t wait. We just learned to make our own beer, for Pete\'s sake.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6563\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6563\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6563\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1916.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSee that face? That\'s the smile of someone who doesn\'t usually like beer finally tasting one that she likes.\r\n\r\nPrecious, isn\'t it?\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6548\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6548\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6548\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1855.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWant to learn more about the art of homebrewing? It\'d be a good idea to check out a meeting of FOAM, or the <a href=\"http://www.alemakers.com/\">Fellowship of Oklahoma Ale Makers</a>. They\'ve had a thing about teaching others about how beer is made and promoting the art of homebrewing since 1984. If you\'re looking for some community instruction, with these folks would be a good place to find it.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6553\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6553\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6553\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1840-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTheir next meeting is Thursday, March 10, at 7:30 p.m. Find it at the Unitarian Church Log Cabin, at 8432 S. Sheridan Road here in Tulsa. The doors open at 7pm. The next meeting after that is April 1.\r\n\r\nIf you don\'t have time for a meeting, check out <a href=\"http://www.alemakers.com/\">the FOAM website</a>. It\'s chock full of beer and beer making information in the form of forums, recipes, news, quotes, homebrewing links and more.\r\n\r\nIf you don\'t want to dip your toe that far into the vast pond that is homebrewing, you can always attend the free workshop at High Gravity. The next one\'s on Saturday, March 19, at 11 a.m.\r\n\r\nEither way, when St. Patrick\'s Day rolls around, you\'ll have lots to talk about after those first few green beers. Like how certain specialty malts affect head structure. Or how many HBUs (Home Bittering Units) you like in a beer. Or, you know, the asexual nature of yeast. It\'s all fair game.\r\n\r\nBecause you now know how to make beer. And knowledge, my friends, is power.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6563\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6563\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6563\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1916.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAnd refreshing.','How to Make Beer: High Gravity Shows How (St. Patrick\'s Day 2011)','When it comes to figuring out how to put a beer together, we Tulsans are lucky.','inherit','open','open','','6545-revision-14','','','2011-03-04 18:02:14','2011-03-05 00:02:14','',6545,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/6545-revision-14/',0,'revision','',0),(6575,1,'2011-03-04 18:02:16','2011-03-05 00:02:16','<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6546\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6546\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6546  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1915.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\n<em>This post is the first in a series here at TDT celebrating St. Patrick\'s Day 2011, one of Tulsa\'s very favorite holidays. Erin go Bragh!</em>\r\n\r\nIn case you can\'t tell by the endcaps at your local big box store, which are no doubt filled with all things leprechaun and shamrocks and lucky this-and-thats by now, St. Patrick\'s Day is coming.\r\n\r\nAnd you know what that means: Beer is about to happen. Lots and lots of beer.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"24\"]</p>\r\n\r\nWith the passing of each St. Pat\'s, more and more beer drinkers are opting for craft-style beers over the ol\'-reliable, mass-produced varieties. Hand in hand with that has come beer lovers who are enthusiastic about learning how what is probably the world\'s oldest alcoholic beverage is made, and they\'re making beer of their own by the gallon at home.\r\n\r\nWhen it comes to figuring out how to put a beer together, we Tulsans are lucky. On the southwest corner of the 71st Street and Memorial Drive intersection is <a href=\"http://www.highgravitybrew.com/\">High Gravity</a>, a homebrewing and winemaking supply shop. The folks who own it, Dave and Desiree Knott, host a free homebrewing workshop at the store each month.\r\n\r\nA group of friends and I went to one a couple of weeks ago, and here\'s what we learned: Whipping up a batch of homebrewed beer is a pretty easy process. The only tricky part? Waiting until the beer reaches drinkable perfection.\r\n\r\nSo if you can boil water, and if you can sit around and delay gratification for long periods of time, you can make beer.\r\n\r\nEmpowering, isn\'t it?\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6547\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6547\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6547\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1862.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe first step in making a batch of beer, then, is that whole boiling-of-the-water thing I just mentioned.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6548\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6548\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6548\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1855.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6549\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6549\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6549\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1857.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nNext comes the malt, or grain (usually barley) which has been sprouted and then halted by heating in a kiln. This is the stuff that provides the fermentable sugars and body of beer, both of which are pretty awesome things.\r\n\r\nSteeping the malt in the boiling water for an hour or so is what converts the starch into fermentable sugars. This step is called mashing.\r\n\r\nBy the way, malt can be purchased as a liquid extract, and in powder form, too. What you see used below is the liquid malt extract; above, actual grain, because Dave is a certifiable bad ass.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6550\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1865-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" />\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6551\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1868.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" />\r\n\r\nAnd then there are hops. Let\'s not forget about those.\r\n\r\nKnow what a hop looks like?\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6552\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6552\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6552\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1864-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nKinda like that. They\'re these beautiful little cone flowers from the hop plant that add that lovely bitter taste for which beer is so widely known. Hops can also add citric and floral flavors to a beer, as well as a variety of aromas, just depending on the hops you decide to use.\r\n\r\nFor the record, I like hops. I like hops a lot.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6546\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6546\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6546\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1915.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSomething else cool about hops is that how they\'re used in beer is, as Dave at High Gravity put it, like building a good spaghetti sauce. Know how garlic or basil can taste vastly different in a spaghetti sauce depending on when you add it to the pot? With hops and beer, it\'s the same sort of thing. So, hops are added to beer in stages to sort of build the flavor profile of the finished product.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6553\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6553\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6553\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1840-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAfter you bring that mixture to a rolling boil, cool it rapidly to about room temperature. Then, transfer the whole mess to a fermenting vessel. Which is, in the case of many homebrewers, a good, old-fashioned five-gallon bucket.\r\n\r\nAt this point, you\'ve got a big, plastic bucket full of something called wort. While that sounds pretty gross, it\'s just a word that means unfermented beer.\r\n\r\nThen, add yeast. This is when the magic happens.\r\n\r\nI\'ll be frank: Yeast is the freak in the family of beer ingredients. I mean, it\'s a living, unicellular mico-organism that eats the sugar produced during the brewing process of your beer. It metabolizes those sugars into alcohol, carbon dioxide and a huge range of flavors, depending on which type you use. Another fun yeast fact: It multiplies by a type of asexual production called budding.\r\n\r\nYeah. You just got scienced. Yeast will do that to you.\r\n\r\nYou can add other ingredients to your beer, too - not fried chicken or Mike &amp; Ikes anything like that, but within reason, there are still lots of options. It all depends on the type of brew you\'d like to end up with.\r\n\r\nThen comes the hard part: Waiting. It\'s time to let this bucket-o-ale ferment at room temperature for 7-10 days or so.\r\n\r\nThe process would be a bit different at this point if we were making a lager (another type of beer that\'s fermented differently than is ale), but rather than go into how so here at TDT, you can read more <a href=\"http://www.dougfishback.com/\">here</a>.\r\n\r\nAfter that first week you might opt to transfer the beer to a secondary vessel. This can help to clear the beer of yeast sediment and avoid any off-flavors that could happen should you decide to stick with using just one bucket.\r\n\r\nLet the beer spend another week at least in this secondary vessel. After that you can move the beer to a bottling bucket. Add priming sugar (after yeast, this is a way of naturally carbonating the beer), bottle and leave at room temperature again for 7-10 days.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6554\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6554\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6554\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1905.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6555\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6555\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6555\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1910.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6556\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6556\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6556\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1912.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOr? Drink.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6561\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6561\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6561\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1917.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHi, <a href=\"http://havesporkwilltravel.blogspot.com/\">@travelingspork</a>!\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6562\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6562\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6562\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1918.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nActually, Dave at High Gravity said that it\'s best to wait for another few weeks before throwing a few of these babies back. The flavors and complexity of the beer can only improve for a good while at this point.\r\n\r\nBut, yeah right. We\'re amateurs. We can\'t wait. We just learned to make our own beer, for Pete\'s sake.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6563\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6563\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6563\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1916.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSee that face? That\'s the smile of someone who doesn\'t usually like beer finally tasting one that she likes.\r\n\r\nPrecious, isn\'t it?\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6548\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6548\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6548\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1855.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWant to learn more about the art of homebrewing? It\'d be a good idea to check out a meeting of FOAM, or the <a href=\"http://www.alemakers.com/\">Fellowship of Oklahoma Ale Makers</a>. They\'ve had a thing about teaching others about how beer is made and promoting the art of homebrewing since 1984. If you\'re looking for some community instruction, with these folks would be a good place to find it.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6553\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6553\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6553\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1840-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTheir next meeting is Thursday, March 10, at 7:30 p.m. Find it at the Unitarian Church Log Cabin, at 8432 S. Sheridan Road here in Tulsa. The doors open at 7pm. The next meeting after that is April 1.\r\n\r\nIf you don\'t have time for a meeting, check out <a href=\"http://www.alemakers.com/\">the FOAM website</a>. It\'s chock full of beer and beer making information in the form of forums, recipes, news, quotes, homebrewing links and more.\r\n\r\nIf you don\'t want to dip your toe that far into the vast pond that is homebrewing, you can always attend the free workshop at High Gravity. The next one\'s on Saturday, March 19, at 11 a.m.\r\n\r\nEither way, when St. Patrick\'s Day rolls around, you\'ll have lots to talk about after those first few green beers. Like how certain specialty malts affect head structure. Or how many HBUs (Home Bittering Units) you like in a beer. Or, you know, the asexual nature of yeast. It\'s all fair game.\r\n\r\nBecause you now know how to make beer. And knowledge, my friends, is power.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6563\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6563\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6563\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1916.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAnd refreshing.','How to Make Beer: High Gravity Shows How (St. Patrick\'s Day 2011)','When it comes to figuring out how to put a beer together, we Tulsans are lucky.','inherit','open','open','','6545-revision-15','','','2011-03-04 18:02:16','2011-03-05 00:02:16','',6545,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/6545-revision-15/',0,'revision','',0),(6576,1,'2011-03-04 18:02:28','2011-03-05 00:02:28','<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6546\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6546\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6546  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1915.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\n<em>This post is the first in a series here at TDT celebrating St. Patrick\'s Day 2011, one of Tulsa\'s very favorite holidays. Erin go Bragh!</em>\r\n\r\nIn case you can\'t tell by the endcaps at your local big box store, which are no doubt filled with all things leprechaun and shamrocks and lucky this-and-thats by now, St. Patrick\'s Day is coming.\r\n\r\nAnd you know what that means: Beer is about to happen. Lots and lots of beer.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"24\"]</p>\r\n\r\nWith the passing of each St. Pat\'s, more and more beer drinkers are opting for craft-style beers over the ol\'-reliable, mass-produced varieties. Hand in hand with that has come beer lovers who are enthusiastic about learning how what is probably the world\'s oldest alcoholic beverage is made, and they\'re making beer of their own by the gallon at home.\r\n\r\nWhen it comes to figuring out how to put a beer together, we Tulsans are lucky. On the southwest corner of the 71st Street and Memorial Drive intersection is <a href=\"http://www.highgravitybrew.com/\">High Gravity</a>, a homebrewing and winemaking supply shop. The folks who own it, Dave and Desiree Knott, host a free homebrewing workshop at the store each month.\r\n\r\nA group of friends and I went to one a couple of weeks ago, and here\'s what we learned: Whipping up a batch of homebrewed beer is a pretty easy process. The only tricky part? Waiting until the beer reaches drinkable perfection.\r\n\r\nSo if you can boil water, and if you can sit around and delay gratification for long periods of time, you can make beer.\r\n\r\nEmpowering, isn\'t it?\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6547\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6547\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6547\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1862.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe first step in making a batch of beer, then, is that whole boiling-of-the-water thing I just mentioned.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6548\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6548\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6548\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1855.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6549\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6549\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6549\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1857.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nNext comes the malt, or grain (usually barley) which has been sprouted and then halted by heating in a kiln. This is the stuff that provides the fermentable sugars and body of beer, both of which are pretty awesome things.\r\n\r\nSteeping the malt in the boiling water for an hour or so is what converts the starch into fermentable sugars. This step is called mashing.\r\n\r\nBy the way, malt can be purchased as a liquid extract, and in powder form, too. What you see used below is the liquid malt extract; above, actual grain, because Dave is a certifiable bad ass.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6550\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1865-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" />\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6551\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1868.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" />\r\n\r\nAnd then there are hops. Let\'s not forget about those.\r\n\r\nKnow what a hop looks like?\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6552\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6552\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6552\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1864-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nKinda like that. They\'re these beautiful little cone flowers from the hop plant that add that lovely bitter taste for which beer is so widely known. Hops can also add citric and floral flavors to a beer, as well as a variety of aromas, just depending on the hops you decide to use.\r\n\r\nFor the record, I like hops. I like hops a lot.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6546\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6546\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6546\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1915.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSomething else cool about hops is that how they\'re used in beer is, as Dave at High Gravity put it, like building a good spaghetti sauce. Know how garlic or basil can taste vastly different in a spaghetti sauce depending on when you add it to the pot? With hops and beer, it\'s the same sort of thing. So, hops are added to beer in stages to sort of build the flavor profile of the finished product.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6553\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6553\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6553\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1840-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAfter you bring that mixture to a rolling boil, cool it rapidly to about room temperature. Then, transfer the whole mess to a fermenting vessel. Which is, in the case of many homebrewers, a good, old-fashioned five-gallon bucket.\r\n\r\nAt this point, you\'ve got a big, plastic bucket full of something called wort. While that sounds pretty gross, it\'s just a word that means unfermented beer.\r\n\r\nThen, add yeast. This is when the magic happens.\r\n\r\nI\'ll be frank: Yeast is the freak in the family of beer ingredients. I mean, it\'s a living, unicellular mico-organism that eats the sugar produced during the brewing process of your beer. It metabolizes those sugars into alcohol, carbon dioxide and a huge range of flavors, depending on which type you use. Another fun yeast fact: It multiplies by a type of asexual production called budding.\r\n\r\nYeah. You just got scienced. Yeast will do that to you.\r\n\r\nYou can add other ingredients to your beer, too - not fried chicken or Mike &amp; Ikes anything like that, but within reason, there are still lots of options. It all depends on the type of brew you\'d like to end up with.\r\n\r\nThen comes the hard part: Waiting. It\'s time to let this bucket-o-ale ferment at room temperature for 7-10 days or so.\r\n\r\nThe process would be a bit different at this point if we were making a lager (another type of beer that\'s fermented differently than is ale), but rather than go into how so here at TDT, you can read more <a href=\"http://www.dougfishback.com/\">here</a>.\r\n\r\nAfter that first week you might opt to transfer the beer to a secondary vessel. This can help to clear the beer of yeast sediment and avoid any off-flavors that could happen should you decide to stick with using just one bucket.\r\n\r\nLet the beer spend another week at least in this secondary vessel. After that you can move the beer to a bottling bucket. Add priming sugar (after yeast, this is a way of naturally carbonating the beer), bottle and leave at room temperature again for 7-10 days.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6554\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6554\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6554\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1905.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6555\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6555\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6555\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1910.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6556\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6556\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6556\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1912.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOr? Drink.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6561\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6561\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6561\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1917.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHi, <a href=\"http://havesporkwilltravel.blogspot.com/\">@travelingspork</a>!\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6562\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6562\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6562\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1918.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nActually, Dave at High Gravity said that it\'s best to wait for another few weeks before throwing a few of these babies back. The flavors and complexity of the beer can only improve for a good while at this point.\r\n\r\nBut, yeah right. We\'re amateurs. We can\'t wait. We just learned to make our own beer, for Pete\'s sake.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6563\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6563\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6563\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1916.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSee that face? That\'s the smile of someone who doesn\'t usually like beer finally tasting one that she likes.\r\n\r\nPrecious, isn\'t it?\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6548\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6548\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6548\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1855.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWant to learn more about the art of homebrewing? It\'d be a good idea to check out a meeting of FOAM, or the <a href=\"http://www.alemakers.com/\">Fellowship of Oklahoma Ale Makers</a>. They\'ve had a thing about teaching others about how beer is made and promoting the art of homebrewing since 1984. If you\'re looking for some community instruction, with these folks would be a good place to find it.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6553\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6553\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6553\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1840-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTheir next meeting is Thursday, March 10, at 7:30 p.m. Find it at the Unitarian Church Log Cabin, at 8432 S. Sheridan Road here in Tulsa. The doors open at 7pm. The next meeting after that is April 1.\r\n\r\nIf you don\'t have time for a meeting, check out <a href=\"http://www.alemakers.com/\">the FOAM website</a>. It\'s chock full of beer and beer making information in the form of forums, recipes, news, quotes, homebrewing links and more.\r\n\r\nIf you don\'t want to dip your toe that far into the vast pond that is homebrewing, you can always attend the free workshop at High Gravity. The next one\'s on Saturday, March 19, at 11 a.m.\r\n\r\nEither way, when St. Patrick\'s Day rolls around, you\'ll have lots to talk about after those first few green beers. Like how certain specialty malts affect head structure. Or how many HBUs (Home Bittering Units) you like in a beer. Or, you know, the asexual nature of yeast. It\'s all fair game.\r\n\r\nBecause you now know how to make beer. And knowledge, my friends, is power.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6563\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6563\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6563\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1916.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAnd refreshing.','How to Make Beer: High Gravity Shows How (St. Patrick\'s Day 2011)','When it comes to figuring out how to put a beer together, we Tulsans are lucky.','inherit','open','open','','6545-revision-16','','','2011-03-04 18:02:28','2011-03-05 00:02:28','',6545,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/6545-revision-16/',0,'revision','',0),(6577,1,'2011-03-04 18:02:28','2011-03-05 00:02:28','<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6546\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6546\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6546  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1915.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\n<em>This post is the first in a series here at TDT celebrating St. Patrick\'s Day 2011, one of Tulsa\'s very favorite holidays. Erin go Bragh!</em>\r\n\r\nIn case you can\'t tell by the endcaps at your local big box store, which are no doubt filled with all things leprechaun and shamrocks and lucky this-and-thats by now, St. Patrick\'s Day is coming.\r\n\r\nAnd you know what that means: Beer is about to happen. Lots and lots of beer.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"24\"]</p>\r\n\r\nWith the passing of each St. Pat\'s, more and more beer drinkers are opting for craft-style beers over the ol\'-reliable, mass-produced varieties. Hand in hand with that has come beer lovers who are enthusiastic about learning how what is probably the world\'s oldest alcoholic beverage is made, and they\'re making beer of their own by the gallon at home.\r\n\r\nWhen it comes to figuring out how to put a beer together, we Tulsans are lucky. On the southwest corner of the 71st Street and Memorial Drive intersection is <a href=\"http://www.highgravitybrew.com/\">High Gravity</a>, a homebrewing and winemaking supply shop. The folks who own it, Dave and Desiree Knott, host a free homebrewing workshop at the store each month.\r\n\r\nA group of friends and I went to one a couple of weeks ago, and here\'s what we learned: Whipping up a batch of homebrewed beer is a pretty easy process. The only tricky part? Waiting until the beer reaches drinkable perfection.\r\n\r\nSo if you can boil water, and if you can sit around and delay gratification for long periods of time, you can make beer.\r\n\r\nEmpowering, isn\'t it?\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6547\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6547\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6547\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1862.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe first step in making a batch of beer, then, is that whole boiling-of-the-water thing I just mentioned.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6548\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6548\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6548\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1855.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6549\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6549\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6549\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1857.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nNext comes the malt, or grain (usually barley) which has been sprouted and then halted by heating in a kiln. This is the stuff that provides the fermentable sugars and body of beer, both of which are pretty awesome things.\r\n\r\nSteeping the malt in the boiling water for an hour or so is what converts the starch into fermentable sugars. This step is called mashing.\r\n\r\nBy the way, malt can be purchased as a liquid extract, and in powder form, too. What you see used below is the liquid malt extract; above, actual grain, because Dave is a certifiable bad ass.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6550\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1865-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" />\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6551\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1868.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" />\r\n\r\nAnd then there are hops. Let\'s not forget about those.\r\n\r\nKnow what a hop looks like?\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6552\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6552\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6552\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1864-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nKinda like that. They\'re these beautiful little cone flowers from the hop plant that add that lovely bitter taste for which beer is so widely known. Hops can also add citric and floral flavors to a beer, as well as a variety of aromas, just depending on the hops you decide to use.\r\n\r\nFor the record, I like hops. I like hops a lot.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6546\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6546\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6546\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1915.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSomething else cool about hops is that how they\'re used in beer is, as Dave at High Gravity put it, like building a good spaghetti sauce. Know how garlic or basil can taste vastly different in a spaghetti sauce depending on when you add it to the pot? With hops and beer, it\'s the same sort of thing. So, hops are added to beer in stages to sort of build the flavor profile of the finished product.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6553\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6553\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6553\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1840-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAfter you bring that mixture to a rolling boil, cool it rapidly to about room temperature. Then, transfer the whole mess to a fermenting vessel. Which is, in the case of many homebrewers, a good, old-fashioned five-gallon bucket.\r\n\r\nAt this point, you\'ve got a big, plastic bucket full of something called wort. While that sounds pretty gross, it\'s just a word that means unfermented beer.\r\n\r\nThen, add yeast. This is when the magic happens.\r\n\r\nI\'ll be frank: Yeast is the freak in the family of beer ingredients. I mean, it\'s a living, unicellular mico-organism that eats the sugar produced during the brewing process of your beer. It metabolizes those sugars into alcohol, carbon dioxide and a huge range of flavors, depending on which type you use. Another fun yeast fact: It multiplies by a type of asexual production called budding.\r\n\r\nYeah. You just got scienced. Yeast will do that to you.\r\n\r\nYou can add other ingredients to your beer, too - not fried chicken or Mike &amp; Ikes anything like that, but within reason, there are still lots of options. It all depends on the type of brew you\'d like to end up with.\r\n\r\nThen comes the hard part: Waiting. It\'s time to let this bucket-o-ale ferment at room temperature for 7-10 days or so.\r\n\r\nThe process would be a bit different at this point if we were making a lager (another type of beer that\'s fermented differently than is ale), but rather than go into how so here at TDT, you can read more <a href=\"http://www.dougfishback.com/\">here</a>.\r\n\r\nAfter that first week you might opt to transfer the beer to a secondary vessel. This can help to clear the beer of yeast sediment and avoid any off-flavors that could happen should you decide to stick with using just one bucket.\r\n\r\nLet the beer spend another week at least in this secondary vessel. After that you can move the beer to a bottling bucket. Add priming sugar (after yeast, this is a way of naturally carbonating the beer), bottle and leave at room temperature again for 7-10 days.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6554\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6554\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6554\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1905.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6555\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6555\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6555\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1910.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6556\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6556\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6556\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1912.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOr? Drink.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6561\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6561\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6561\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1917.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHi, <a href=\"http://havesporkwilltravel.blogspot.com/\">@travelingspork</a>!\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6562\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6562\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6562\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1918.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nActually, Dave at High Gravity said that it\'s best to wait for another few weeks before throwing a few of these babies back. The flavors and complexity of the beer can only improve for a good while at this point.\r\n\r\nBut, yeah right. We\'re amateurs. We can\'t wait. We just learned to make our own beer, for Pete\'s sake.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6563\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6563\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6563\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1916.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSee that face? That\'s the smile of someone who doesn\'t usually like beer finally tasting one that she likes.\r\n\r\nPrecious, isn\'t it?\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6548\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6548\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6548\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1855.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWant to learn more about the art of homebrewing? It\'d be a good idea to check out a meeting of FOAM, or the <a href=\"http://www.alemakers.com/\">Fellowship of Oklahoma Ale Makers</a>. They\'ve had a thing about teaching others about how beer is made and promoting the art of homebrewing since 1984. If you\'re looking for some community instruction, with these folks would be a good place to find it.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6553\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6553\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6553\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1840-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTheir next meeting is Thursday, March 10, at 7:30 p.m. Find it at the Unitarian Church Log Cabin, at 8432 S. Sheridan Road here in Tulsa. The doors open at 7pm. The next meeting after that is April 1.\r\n\r\nIf you don\'t have time for a meeting, check out <a href=\"http://www.alemakers.com/\">the FOAM website</a>. It\'s chock full of beer and beer making information in the form of forums, recipes, news, quotes, homebrewing links and more.\r\n\r\nIf you don\'t want to dip your toe that far into the vast pond that is homebrewing, you can always attend the free workshop at High Gravity. The next one\'s on Saturday, March 19, at 11 a.m.\r\n\r\nEither way, when St. Patrick\'s Day rolls around, you\'ll have lots to talk about after those first few green beers. Like how certain specialty malts affect head structure. Or how many HBUs (Home Bittering Units) you like in a beer. Or, you know, the asexual nature of yeast. It\'s all fair game.\r\n\r\nBecause you now know how to make beer. And knowledge, my friends, is power.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6563\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6563\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6563\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1916.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAnd refreshing.','How to Make Beer: High Gravity Shows How (St. Patrick\'s Day 2011)','When it comes to figuring out how to put a beer together, we Tulsans are lucky.','inherit','open','open','','6545-revision-17','','','2011-03-04 18:02:28','2011-03-05 00:02:28','',6545,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/6545-revision-17/',0,'revision','',0),(6578,1,'2011-03-04 18:05:04','2011-03-05 00:05:04','<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6546\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6546\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6546  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1915.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\n<em>This post is the first in a series here at TDT celebrating St. Patrick\'s Day 2011, one of Tulsa\'s very favorite holidays. Erin go Bragh!</em>\r\n\r\nIn case you can\'t tell by the endcaps at your local big box store, which are no doubt filled with all things leprechaun and shamrocks and lucky this-and-thats by now, St. Patrick\'s Day is coming.\r\n\r\nAnd you know what that means: Beer is about to happen. Lots and lots of beer.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"24\"]</p>\r\nWith the passing of each St. Pat\'s, more and more beer drinkers are opting for craft-style beers over the ol\'-reliable, mass-produced varieties. Hand in hand with that has come beer lovers who are enthusiastic about learning how what is probably the world\'s oldest alcoholic beverage is made, and they\'re making beer of their own by the gallon at home.\r\n\r\nWhen it comes to figuring out how to put a beer together, we Tulsans are lucky. On the southwest corner of the 71st Street and Memorial Drive intersection is <a href=\"http://www.highgravitybrew.com/\">High Gravity</a>, a homebrewing and winemaking supply shop. The folks who own it, Dave and Desiree Knott, host a free homebrewing workshop at the store each month.\r\n\r\nA group of friends and I went to one a couple of weeks ago, and here\'s what we learned: Whipping up a batch of homebrewed beer is a pretty easy process. The only tricky part? Waiting until the beer reaches drinkable perfection.\r\n\r\nSo if you can boil water, and if you can sit around and delay gratification for long periods of time, you can make beer.\r\n\r\nEmpowering, isn\'t it?\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6547\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6547\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6547  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1862.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nThe first step in making a batch of beer, then, is that whole boiling-of-the-water thing I just mentioned.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6548\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6548\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6548  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1855.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6549\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6549\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6549  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1857.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nNext comes the malt, or grain (usually barley) which has been sprouted and then halted by heating in a kiln. This is the stuff that provides the fermentable sugars and body of beer, both of which are pretty awesome things.\r\n\r\nSteeping the malt in the boiling water for an hour or so is what converts the starch into fermentable sugars. This step is called mashing.\r\n\r\nBy the way, malt can be purchased as a liquid extract, and in powder form, too. What you see used below is the liquid malt extract; above, actual grain, because Dave is a certifiable bad ass.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6550\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1865-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" />\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6551  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1868.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></p>\r\nAnd then there are hops. Let\'s not forget about those.\r\n\r\nKnow what a hop looks like?\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6552\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6552\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6552\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1864-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nKinda like that. They\'re these beautiful little cone flowers from the hop plant that add that lovely bitter taste for which beer is so widely known. Hops can also add citric and floral flavors to a beer, as well as a variety of aromas, just depending on the hops you decide to use.\r\n\r\nFor the record, I like hops. I like hops a lot.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6546\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6546\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6546  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1915.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nSomething else cool about hops is that how they\'re used in beer is, as Dave at High Gravity put it, like building a good spaghetti sauce. Know how garlic or basil can taste vastly different in a spaghetti sauce depending on when you add it to the pot? With hops and beer, it\'s the same sort of thing. So, hops are added to beer in stages to sort of build the flavor profile of the finished product.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6553\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6553\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6553\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1840-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAfter you bring that mixture to a rolling boil, cool it rapidly to about room temperature. Then, transfer the whole mess to a fermenting vessel. Which is, in the case of many homebrewers, a good, old-fashioned five-gallon bucket.\r\n\r\nAt this point, you\'ve got a big, plastic bucket full of something called wort. While that sounds pretty gross, it\'s just a word that means unfermented beer.\r\n\r\nThen, add yeast. This is when the magic happens.\r\n\r\nI\'ll be frank: Yeast is the freak in the family of beer ingredients. I mean, it\'s a living, unicellular mico-organism that eats the sugar produced during the brewing process of your beer. It metabolizes those sugars into alcohol, carbon dioxide and a huge range of flavors, depending on which type you use. Another fun yeast fact: It multiplies by a type of asexual production called budding.\r\n\r\nYeah. You just got scienced. Yeast will do that to you.\r\n\r\nYou can add other ingredients to your beer, too - not fried chicken or Mike &amp; Ikes anything like that, but within reason, there are still lots of options. It all depends on the type of brew you\'d like to end up with.\r\n\r\nThen comes the hard part: Waiting. It\'s time to let this bucket-o-ale ferment at room temperature for 7-10 days or so.\r\n\r\nThe process would be a bit different at this point if we were making a lager (another type of beer that\'s fermented differently than is ale), but rather than go into how so here at TDT, you can read more <a href=\"http://www.dougfishback.com/\">here</a>.\r\n\r\nAfter that first week you might opt to transfer the beer to a secondary vessel. This can help to clear the beer of yeast sediment and avoid any off-flavors that could happen should you decide to stick with using just one bucket.\r\n\r\nLet the beer spend another week at least in this secondary vessel. After that you can move the beer to a bottling bucket. Add priming sugar (after yeast, this is a way of naturally carbonating the beer), bottle and leave at room temperature again for 7-10 days.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6554\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6554\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6554  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1905.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6555\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6555\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6555  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1910.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6556\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6556\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6556  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1912.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nOr? Drink.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6561\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6561\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6561  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1917.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nHi, <a href=\"http://havesporkwilltravel.blogspot.com/\">@travelingspork</a>!\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6562\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6562\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6562  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1918.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nActually, Dave at High Gravity said that it\'s best to wait for another few weeks before throwing a few of these babies back. The flavors and complexity of the beer can only improve for a good while at this point.\r\n\r\nBut, yeah right. We\'re amateurs. We can\'t wait. We just learned to make our own beer, for Pete\'s sake.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6563\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6563\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6563  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1916.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nSee that face? That\'s the smile of someone who doesn\'t usually like beer finally tasting one that she likes.\r\n\r\nPrecious, isn\'t it?\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6548\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6548\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6548  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1855.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nWant to learn more about the art of homebrewing? It\'d be a good idea to check out a meeting of FOAM, or the <a href=\"http://www.alemakers.com/\">Fellowship of Oklahoma Ale Makers</a>. They\'ve had a thing about teaching others about how beer is made and promoting the art of homebrewing since 1984. If you\'re looking for some community instruction, with these folks would be a good place to find it.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6553\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6553\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6553\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1840-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTheir next meeting is Thursday, March 10, at 7:30 p.m. Find it at the Unitarian Church Log Cabin, at 8432 S. Sheridan Road here in Tulsa. The doors open at 7pm. The next meeting after that is April 1.\r\n\r\nIf you don\'t have time for a meeting, check out <a href=\"http://www.alemakers.com/\">the FOAM website</a>. It\'s chock full of beer and beer making information in the form of forums, recipes, news, quotes, homebrewing links and more.\r\n\r\nIf you don\'t want to dip your toe that far into the vast pond that is homebrewing, you can always attend the free workshop at High Gravity. The next one\'s on Saturday, March 19, at 11 a.m.\r\n\r\nEither way, when St. Patrick\'s Day rolls around, you\'ll have lots to talk about after those first few green beers. Like how certain specialty malts affect head structure. Or how many HBUs (Home Bittering Units) you like in a beer. Or, you know, the asexual nature of yeast. It\'s all fair game.\r\n\r\nBecause you now know how to make beer. And knowledge, my friends, is power.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6563\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6563\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6563  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1916.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nAnd refreshing.\r\n\r\nHave you ever made your own beer? How would you describe the process? Most important, did you like the outcome?','How to Make Beer: High Gravity Shows How (St. Patrick\'s Day 2011)','When it comes to figuring out how to put a beer together, we Tulsans are lucky.','inherit','open','open','','6545-revision-18','','','2011-03-04 18:05:04','2011-03-05 00:05:04','',6545,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/6545-revision-18/',0,'revision','',0),(6579,1,'2011-03-04 18:05:12','2011-03-05 00:05:12','<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6546\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1915/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6546  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1915.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\n<em>This post is the first in a series here at TDT celebrating St. Patrick\'s Day 2011, one of Tulsa\'s very favorite holidays. Erin go Bragh!</em>\r\n\r\nIn case you can\'t tell by the endcaps at your local big box store, which are no doubt filled with all things leprechaun and shamrocks and lucky this-and-thats by now, St. Patrick\'s Day is coming.\r\n\r\nAnd you know what that means: Beer is about to happen. Lots and lots of beer.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"24\"]</p>\r\nWith the passing of each St. Pat\'s, more and more beer drinkers are opting for craft-style beers over the ol\'-reliable, mass-produced varieties. Hand in hand with that has come beer lovers who are enthusiastic about learning how what is probably the world\'s oldest alcoholic beverage is made, and they\'re making beer of their own by the gallon at home.\r\n\r\nWhen it comes to figuring out how to put a beer together, we Tulsans are lucky. On the southwest corner of the 71st Street and Memorial Drive intersection is <a href=\"http://www.highgravitybrew.com/\">High Gravity</a>, a homebrewing and winemaking supply shop. The folks who own it, Dave and Desiree Knott, host a free homebrewing workshop at the store each month.\r\n\r\nA group of friends and I went to one a couple of weeks ago, and here\'s what we learned: Whipping up a batch of homebrewed beer is a pretty easy process. The only tricky part? Waiting until the beer reaches drinkable perfection.\r\n\r\nSo if you can boil water, and if you can sit around and delay gratification for long periods of time, you can make beer.\r\n\r\nEmpowering, isn\'t it?\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6547\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1862-3/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6547  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1862.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nThe first step in making a batch of beer, then, is that whole boiling-of-the-water thing I just mentioned.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6548\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1855/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6548  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1855.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6549\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1857-2/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6549  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1857.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nNext comes the malt, or grain (usually barley) which has been sprouted and then halted by heating in a kiln. This is the stuff that provides the fermentable sugars and body of beer, both of which are pretty awesome things.\r\n\r\nSteeping the malt in the boiling water for an hour or so is what converts the starch into fermentable sugars. This step is called mashing.\r\n\r\nBy the way, malt can be purchased as a liquid extract, and in powder form, too. What you see used below is the liquid malt extract; above, actual grain, because Dave is a certifiable bad ass.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6550\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1865-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" />\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6551  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1868.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></p>\r\nAnd then there are hops. Let\'s not forget about those.\r\n\r\nKnow what a hop looks like?\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6552\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1864-3/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6552\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1864-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nKinda like that. They\'re these beautiful little cone flowers from the hop plant that add that lovely bitter taste for which beer is so widely known. Hops can also add citric and floral flavors to a beer, as well as a variety of aromas, just depending on the hops you decide to use.\r\n\r\nFor the record, I like hops. I like hops a lot.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6546\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1915/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6546  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1915.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nSomething else cool about hops is that how they\'re used in beer is, as Dave at High Gravity put it, like building a good spaghetti sauce. Know how garlic or basil can taste vastly different in a spaghetti sauce depending on when you add it to the pot? With hops and beer, it\'s the same sort of thing. So, hops are added to beer in stages to sort of build the flavor profile of the finished product.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6553\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1840-2/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6553\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1840-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAfter you bring that mixture to a rolling boil, cool it rapidly to about room temperature. Then, transfer the whole mess to a fermenting vessel. Which is, in the case of many homebrewers, a good, old-fashioned five-gallon bucket.\r\n\r\nAt this point, you\'ve got a big, plastic bucket full of something called wort. While that sounds pretty gross, it\'s just a word that means unfermented beer.\r\n\r\nThen, add yeast. This is when the magic happens.\r\n\r\nI\'ll be frank: Yeast is the freak in the family of beer ingredients. I mean, it\'s a living, unicellular mico-organism that eats the sugar produced during the brewing process of your beer. It metabolizes those sugars into alcohol, carbon dioxide and a huge range of flavors, depending on which type you use. Another fun yeast fact: It multiplies by a type of asexual production called budding.\r\n\r\nYeah. You just got scienced. Yeast will do that to you.\r\n\r\nYou can add other ingredients to your beer, too - not fried chicken or Mike &amp; Ikes anything like that, but within reason, there are still lots of options. It all depends on the type of brew you\'d like to end up with.\r\n\r\nThen comes the hard part: Waiting. It\'s time to let this bucket-o-ale ferment at room temperature for 7-10 days or so.\r\n\r\nThe process would be a bit different at this point if we were making a lager (another type of beer that\'s fermented differently than is ale), but rather than go into how so here at TDT, you can read more <a href=\"http://www.dougfishback.com/\">here</a>.\r\n\r\nAfter that first week you might opt to transfer the beer to a secondary vessel. This can help to clear the beer of yeast sediment and avoid any off-flavors that could happen should you decide to stick with using just one bucket.\r\n\r\nLet the beer spend another week at least in this secondary vessel. After that you can move the beer to a bottling bucket. Add priming sugar (after yeast, this is a way of naturally carbonating the beer), bottle and leave at room temperature again for 7-10 days.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6554\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1905/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6554  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1905.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6555\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1910/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6555  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1910.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6556\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1912/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6556  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1912.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nOr? Drink.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6561\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1917/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6561  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1917.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nHi, <a href=\"http://havesporkwilltravel.blogspot.com/\">@travelingspork</a>!\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6562\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1918/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6562  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1918.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nActually, Dave at High Gravity said that it\'s best to wait for another few weeks before throwing a few of these babies back. The flavors and complexity of the beer can only improve for a good while at this point.\r\n\r\nBut, yeah right. We\'re amateurs. We can\'t wait. We just learned to make our own beer, for Pete\'s sake.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6563\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1916/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6563  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1916.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nSee that face? That\'s the smile of someone who doesn\'t usually like beer finally tasting one that she likes.\r\n\r\nPrecious, isn\'t it?\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6548\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1855/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6548  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1855.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nWant to learn more about the art of homebrewing? It\'d be a good idea to check out a meeting of FOAM, or the <a href=\"http://www.alemakers.com/\">Fellowship of Oklahoma Ale Makers</a>. They\'ve had a thing about teaching others about how beer is made and promoting the art of homebrewing since 1984. If you\'re looking for some community instruction, with these folks would be a good place to find it.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6553\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1840-2/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6553\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1840-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTheir next meeting is Thursday, March 10, at 7:30 p.m. Find it at the Unitarian Church Log Cabin, at 8432 S. Sheridan Road here in Tulsa. The doors open at 7pm. The next meeting after that is April 1.\r\n\r\nIf you don\'t have time for a meeting, check out <a href=\"http://www.alemakers.com/\">the FOAM website</a>. It\'s chock full of beer and beer making information in the form of forums, recipes, news, quotes, homebrewing links and more.\r\n\r\nIf you don\'t want to dip your toe that far into the vast pond that is homebrewing, you can always attend the free workshop at High Gravity. The next one\'s on Saturday, March 19, at 11 a.m.\r\n\r\nEither way, when St. Patrick\'s Day rolls around, you\'ll have lots to talk about after those first few green beers. Like how certain specialty malts affect head structure. Or how many HBUs (Home Bittering Units) you like in a beer. Or, you know, the asexual nature of yeast. It\'s all fair game.\r\n\r\nBecause you now know how to make beer. And knowledge, my friends, is power.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6563\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1916/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6563  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1916.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nAnd refreshing.\r\n\r\nHave you ever made your own beer? How would you describe the process? Most important, did you like the outcome?','How to Make Beer: High Gravity Shows How (St. Patrick\'s Day 2011)','When it comes to figuring out how to put a beer together, we Tulsans are lucky.','inherit','open','open','','6545-revision-19','','','2011-03-04 18:05:12','2011-03-05 00:05:12','',6545,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/6545-revision-19/',0,'revision','',0),(6580,1,'2011-03-04 18:06:05','2011-03-05 00:06:05','<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6546\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1915/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6546  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1915.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\n<em>This post is the first in a series here at TDT celebrating St. Patrick\'s Day, one of Tulsa\'s very favorite holidays. Erin go Bragh!</em>\r\n\r\nIn case you can\'t tell by the endcaps at your local big box store, which are no doubt filled with all things leprechaun and shamrocks and lucky this-and-thats by now, St. Patrick\'s Day is coming.\r\n\r\nAnd you know what that means: Beer is about to happen. Lots and lots of beer.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"24\"]</p>\r\nWith the passing of each St. Pat\'s, more and more beer drinkers are opting for craft-style beers over the ol\'-reliable, mass-produced varieties. Hand in hand with that has come beer lovers who are enthusiastic about learning how what is probably the world\'s oldest alcoholic beverage is made, and they\'re making beer of their own by the gallon at home.\r\n\r\nWhen it comes to figuring out how to put a beer together, we Tulsans are lucky. On the southwest corner of the 71st Street and Memorial Drive intersection is <a href=\"http://www.highgravitybrew.com/\">High Gravity</a>, a homebrewing and winemaking supply shop. The folks who own it, Dave and Desiree Knott, host a free homebrewing workshop at the store each month.\r\n\r\nA group of friends and I went to one a couple of weeks ago, and here\'s what we learned: Whipping up a batch of homebrewed beer is a pretty easy process. The only tricky part? Waiting until the beer reaches drinkable perfection.\r\n\r\nSo if you can boil water, and if you can sit around and delay gratification for long periods of time, you can make beer.\r\n\r\nEmpowering, isn\'t it?\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6547\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1862-3/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6547  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1862.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nThe first step in making a batch of beer, then, is that whole boiling-of-the-water thing I just mentioned.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6548\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1855/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6548  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1855.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6549\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1857-2/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6549  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1857.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nNext comes the malt, or grain (usually barley) which has been sprouted and then halted by heating in a kiln. This is the stuff that provides the fermentable sugars and body of beer, both of which are pretty awesome things.\r\n\r\nSteeping the malt in the boiling water for an hour or so is what converts the starch into fermentable sugars. This step is called mashing.\r\n\r\nBy the way, malt can be purchased as a liquid extract, and in powder form, too. What you see used below is the liquid malt extract; above, actual grain, because Dave is a certifiable bad ass.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6550\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1865-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" />\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6551  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1868.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></p>\r\nAnd then there are hops. Let\'s not forget about those.\r\n\r\nKnow what a hop looks like?\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6552\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1864-3/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6552\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1864-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nKinda like that. They\'re these beautiful little cone flowers from the hop plant that add that lovely bitter taste for which beer is so widely known. Hops can also add citric and floral flavors to a beer, as well as a variety of aromas, just depending on the hops you decide to use.\r\n\r\nFor the record, I like hops. I like hops a lot.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6546\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1915/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6546  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1915.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nSomething else cool about hops is that how they\'re used in beer is, as Dave at High Gravity put it, like building a good spaghetti sauce. Know how garlic or basil can taste vastly different in a spaghetti sauce depending on when you add it to the pot? With hops and beer, it\'s the same sort of thing. So, hops are added to beer in stages to sort of build the flavor profile of the finished product.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6553\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1840-2/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6553\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1840-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAfter you bring that mixture to a rolling boil, cool it rapidly to about room temperature. Then, transfer the whole mess to a fermenting vessel. Which is, in the case of many homebrewers, a good, old-fashioned five-gallon bucket.\r\n\r\nAt this point, you\'ve got a big, plastic bucket full of something called wort. While that sounds pretty gross, it\'s just a word that means unfermented beer.\r\n\r\nThen, add yeast. This is when the magic happens.\r\n\r\nI\'ll be frank: Yeast is the freak in the family of beer ingredients. I mean, it\'s a living, unicellular mico-organism that eats the sugar produced during the brewing process of your beer. It metabolizes those sugars into alcohol, carbon dioxide and a huge range of flavors, depending on which type you use. Another fun yeast fact: It multiplies by a type of asexual production called budding.\r\n\r\nYeah. You just got scienced. Yeast will do that to you.\r\n\r\nYou can add other ingredients to your beer, too - not fried chicken or Mike &amp; Ikes anything like that, but within reason, there are still lots of options. It all depends on the type of brew you\'d like to end up with.\r\n\r\nThen comes the hard part: Waiting. It\'s time to let this bucket-o-ale ferment at room temperature for 7-10 days or so.\r\n\r\nThe process would be a bit different at this point if we were making a lager (another type of beer that\'s fermented differently than is ale), but rather than go into how so here at TDT, you can read more <a href=\"http://www.dougfishback.com/\">here</a>.\r\n\r\nAfter that first week you might opt to transfer the beer to a secondary vessel. This can help to clear the beer of yeast sediment and avoid any off-flavors that could happen should you decide to stick with using just one bucket.\r\n\r\nLet the beer spend another week at least in this secondary vessel. After that you can move the beer to a bottling bucket. Add priming sugar (after yeast, this is a way of naturally carbonating the beer), bottle and leave at room temperature again for 7-10 days.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6554\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1905/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6554  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1905.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6555\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1910/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6555  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1910.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6556\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1912/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6556  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1912.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nOr? Drink.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6561\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1917/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6561  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1917.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nHi, <a href=\"http://havesporkwilltravel.blogspot.com/\">@travelingspork</a>!\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6562\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1918/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6562  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1918.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nActually, Dave at High Gravity said that it\'s best to wait for another few weeks before throwing a few of these babies back. The flavors and complexity of the beer can only improve for a good while at this point.\r\n\r\nBut, yeah right. We\'re amateurs. We can\'t wait. We just learned to make our own beer, for Pete\'s sake.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6563\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1916/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6563  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1916.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nSee that face? That\'s the smile of someone who doesn\'t usually like beer finally tasting one that she likes.\r\n\r\nPrecious, isn\'t it?\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6548\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1855/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6548  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1855.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nWant to learn more about the art of homebrewing? It\'d be a good idea to check out a meeting of FOAM, or the <a href=\"http://www.alemakers.com/\">Fellowship of Oklahoma Ale Makers</a>. They\'ve had a thing about teaching others about how beer is made and promoting the art of homebrewing since 1984. If you\'re looking for some community instruction, with these folks would be a good place to find it.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6553\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1840-2/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6553\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1840-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTheir next meeting is Thursday, March 10, at 7:30 p.m. Find it at the Unitarian Church Log Cabin, at 8432 S. Sheridan Road here in Tulsa. The doors open at 7pm. The next meeting after that is April 1.\r\n\r\nIf you don\'t have time for a meeting, check out <a href=\"http://www.alemakers.com/\">the FOAM website</a>. It\'s chock full of beer and beer making information in the form of forums, recipes, news, quotes, homebrewing links and more.\r\n\r\nIf you don\'t want to dip your toe that far into the vast pond that is homebrewing, you can always attend the free workshop at High Gravity. The next one\'s on Saturday, March 19, at 11 a.m.\r\n\r\nEither way, when St. Patrick\'s Day rolls around, you\'ll have lots to talk about after those first few green beers. Like how certain specialty malts affect head structure. Or how many HBUs (Home Bittering Units) you like in a beer. Or, you know, the asexual nature of yeast. It\'s all fair game.\r\n\r\nBecause you now know how to make beer. And knowledge, my friends, is power.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6563\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1916/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6563  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1916.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nAnd refreshing.\r\n\r\nHave you ever made your own beer? How would you describe the process? Most important, did you like the outcome?','How to Make Beer: High Gravity Shows How (St. Patrick\'s Day 2011)','When it comes to figuring out how to put a beer together, we Tulsans are lucky.','inherit','open','open','','6545-revision-20','','','2011-03-04 18:06:05','2011-03-05 00:06:05','',6545,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/6545-revision-20/',0,'revision','',0),(6581,1,'2011-03-04 18:06:05','2011-03-05 00:06:05','<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6546\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1915/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6546  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1915.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\n<em>This post is the first in a series here at TDT celebrating St. Patrick\'s Day, one of Tulsa\'s very favorite holidays. Erin go Bragh!</em>\r\n\r\nIn case you can\'t tell by the endcaps at your local big box store, which are no doubt filled with all things leprechaun and shamrocks and lucky this-and-thats by now, St. Patrick\'s Day is coming.\r\n\r\nAnd you know what that means: Beer is about to happen. Lots and lots of beer.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"24\"]</p>\r\nWith the passing of each St. Pat\'s, more and more beer drinkers are opting for craft-style beers over the ol\'-reliable, mass-produced varieties. Hand in hand with that has come beer lovers who are enthusiastic about learning how what is probably the world\'s oldest alcoholic beverage is made, and they\'re making beer of their own by the gallon at home.\r\n\r\nWhen it comes to figuring out how to put a beer together, we Tulsans are lucky. On the southwest corner of the 71st Street and Memorial Drive intersection is <a href=\"http://www.highgravitybrew.com/\">High Gravity</a>, a homebrewing and winemaking supply shop. The folks who own it, Dave and Desiree Knott, host a free homebrewing workshop at the store each month.\r\n\r\nA group of friends and I went to one a couple of weeks ago, and here\'s what we learned: Whipping up a batch of homebrewed beer is a pretty easy process. The only tricky part? Waiting until the beer reaches drinkable perfection.\r\n\r\nSo if you can boil water, and if you can sit around and delay gratification for long periods of time, you can make beer.\r\n\r\nEmpowering, isn\'t it?\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6547\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1862-3/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6547  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1862.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nThe first step in making a batch of beer, then, is that whole boiling-of-the-water thing I just mentioned.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6548\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1855/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6548  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1855.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6549\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1857-2/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6549  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1857.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nNext comes the malt, or grain (usually barley) which has been sprouted and then halted by heating in a kiln. This is the stuff that provides the fermentable sugars and body of beer, both of which are pretty awesome things.\r\n\r\nSteeping the malt in the boiling water for an hour or so is what converts the starch into fermentable sugars. This step is called mashing.\r\n\r\nBy the way, malt can be purchased as a liquid extract, and in powder form, too. What you see used below is the liquid malt extract; above, actual grain, because Dave is a certifiable bad ass.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6550\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1865-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" />\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6551  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1868.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></p>\r\nAnd then there are hops. Let\'s not forget about those.\r\n\r\nKnow what a hop looks like?\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6552\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1864-3/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6552\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1864-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nKinda like that. They\'re these beautiful little cone flowers from the hop plant that add that lovely bitter taste for which beer is so widely known. Hops can also add citric and floral flavors to a beer, as well as a variety of aromas, just depending on the hops you decide to use.\r\n\r\nFor the record, I like hops. I like hops a lot.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6546\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1915/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6546  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1915.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nSomething else cool about hops is that how they\'re used in beer is, as Dave at High Gravity put it, like building a good spaghetti sauce. Know how garlic or basil can taste vastly different in a spaghetti sauce depending on when you add it to the pot? With hops and beer, it\'s the same sort of thing. So, hops are added to beer in stages to sort of build the flavor profile of the finished product.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6553\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1840-2/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6553\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1840-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAfter you bring that mixture to a rolling boil, cool it rapidly to about room temperature. Then, transfer the whole mess to a fermenting vessel. Which is, in the case of many homebrewers, a good, old-fashioned five-gallon bucket.\r\n\r\nAt this point, you\'ve got a big, plastic bucket full of something called wort. While that sounds pretty gross, it\'s just a word that means unfermented beer.\r\n\r\nThen, add yeast. This is when the magic happens.\r\n\r\nI\'ll be frank: Yeast is the freak in the family of beer ingredients. I mean, it\'s a living, unicellular mico-organism that eats the sugar produced during the brewing process of your beer. It metabolizes those sugars into alcohol, carbon dioxide and a huge range of flavors, depending on which type you use. Another fun yeast fact: It multiplies by a type of asexual production called budding.\r\n\r\nYeah. You just got scienced. Yeast will do that to you.\r\n\r\nYou can add other ingredients to your beer, too - not fried chicken or Mike &amp; Ikes anything like that, but within reason, there are still lots of options. It all depends on the type of brew you\'d like to end up with.\r\n\r\nThen comes the hard part: Waiting. It\'s time to let this bucket-o-ale ferment at room temperature for 7-10 days or so.\r\n\r\nThe process would be a bit different at this point if we were making a lager (another type of beer that\'s fermented differently than is ale), but rather than go into how so here at TDT, you can read more <a href=\"http://www.dougfishback.com/\">here</a>.\r\n\r\nAfter that first week you might opt to transfer the beer to a secondary vessel. This can help to clear the beer of yeast sediment and avoid any off-flavors that could happen should you decide to stick with using just one bucket.\r\n\r\nLet the beer spend another week at least in this secondary vessel. After that you can move the beer to a bottling bucket. Add priming sugar (after yeast, this is a way of naturally carbonating the beer), bottle and leave at room temperature again for 7-10 days.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6554\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1905/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6554  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1905.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6555\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1910/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6555  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1910.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6556\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1912/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6556  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1912.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nOr? Drink.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6561\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1917/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6561  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1917.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nHi, <a href=\"http://havesporkwilltravel.blogspot.com/\">@travelingspork</a>!\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6562\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1918/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6562  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1918.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nActually, Dave at High Gravity said that it\'s best to wait for another few weeks before throwing a few of these babies back. The flavors and complexity of the beer can only improve for a good while at this point.\r\n\r\nBut, yeah right. We\'re amateurs. We can\'t wait. We just learned to make our own beer, for Pete\'s sake.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6563\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1916/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6563  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1916.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nSee that face? That\'s the smile of someone who doesn\'t usually like beer finally tasting one that she likes.\r\n\r\nPrecious, isn\'t it?\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6548\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1855/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6548  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1855.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nWant to learn more about the art of homebrewing? It\'d be a good idea to check out a meeting of FOAM, or the <a href=\"http://www.alemakers.com/\">Fellowship of Oklahoma Ale Makers</a>. They\'ve had a thing about teaching others about how beer is made and promoting the art of homebrewing since 1984. If you\'re looking for some community instruction, with these folks would be a good place to find it.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6553\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1840-2/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6553\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1840-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTheir next meeting is Thursday, March 10, at 7:30 p.m. Find it at the Unitarian Church Log Cabin, at 8432 S. Sheridan Road here in Tulsa. The doors open at 7pm. The next meeting after that is April 1.\r\n\r\nIf you don\'t have time for a meeting, check out <a href=\"http://www.alemakers.com/\">the FOAM website</a>. It\'s chock full of beer and beer making information in the form of forums, recipes, news, quotes, homebrewing links and more.\r\n\r\nIf you don\'t want to dip your toe that far into the vast pond that is homebrewing, you can always attend the free workshop at High Gravity. The next one\'s on Saturday, March 19, at 11 a.m.\r\n\r\nEither way, when St. Patrick\'s Day rolls around, you\'ll have lots to talk about after those first few green beers. Like how certain specialty malts affect head structure. Or how many HBUs (Home Bittering Units) you like in a beer. Or, you know, the asexual nature of yeast. It\'s all fair game.\r\n\r\nBecause you now know how to make beer. And knowledge, my friends, is power.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6563\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1916/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6563  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1916.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nAnd refreshing.\r\n\r\nHave you ever made your own beer? How would you describe the process? Most important, did you like the outcome?','How to Make Beer: High Gravity Shows How (St. Patrick\'s Day 2011)','When it comes to figuring out how to put a beer together, we Tulsans are lucky.','inherit','open','open','','6545-revision-21','','','2011-03-04 18:06:05','2011-03-05 00:06:05','',6545,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/6545-revision-21/',0,'revision','',0),(6582,1,'2011-03-04 18:14:36','2011-03-05 00:14:36','<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6546\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1915/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6546  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1915.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\n<em>This post is the first in a series here at TDT celebrating St. Patrick\'s Day, one of Tulsa\'s very favorite holidays. Erin go Bragh!</em>\r\n\r\nIn case you can\'t tell by the endcaps at your local big box store, which are no doubt filled with all things leprechaun and shamrocks and lucky this-and-thats by now, St. Patrick\'s Day is coming.\r\n\r\nAnd you know what that means: Beer is about to happen. Lots and lots of beer.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"24\"]</p>\r\nWith the passing of each St. Pat\'s, more and more beer drinkers are opting for craft-style beers over the ol\'-reliable, mass-produced varieties. Hand in hand with that has come beer lovers who are enthusiastic about learning how what is probably the world\'s oldest alcoholic beverage is made, and they\'re making beer of their own by the gallon at home.\r\n\r\nWhen it comes to figuring out how to put a beer together, we Tulsans are lucky. On the southwest corner of the 71st Street and Memorial Drive intersection is <a href=\"http://www.highgravitybrew.com/\">High Gravity</a>, a homebrewing and winemaking supply shop. The folks who own it, Dave and Desiree Knott, host a free homebrewing workshop at the store each month.\r\n\r\nA group of friends and I went to one a couple of weeks ago, and here\'s what we learned: Whipping up a batch of homebrewed beer is a pretty easy process. The only tricky part? Waiting until the beer reaches drinkable perfection.\r\n\r\nSo if you can boil water, and if you can sit around and delay gratification for long periods of time, you can make beer.\r\n\r\nEmpowering, isn\'t it?\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6547\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1862-3/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6547  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1862.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nThe first step in making a batch of beer, then, is that whole boiling-of-the-water thing I just mentioned.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6548\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1855/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6548  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1855.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6549\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1857-2/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6549  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1857.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nNext comes the malt, or grain (usually barley) which has been sprouted and then halted by heating in a kiln. This is the stuff that provides the fermentable sugars and body of beer, both of which are pretty awesome things.\r\n\r\nSteeping the malt in the boiling water for an hour or so is what converts the starch into fermentable sugars. This step is called mashing.\r\n\r\nBy the way, malt can be purchased as a liquid extract, and in powder form, too. What you see used below is the liquid malt extract; above, actual grain, because Dave is a certifiable bad ass.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6550\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1865-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" />\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6551  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1868.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></p>\r\nAnd then there are hops. Let\'s not forget about those.\r\n\r\nKnow what a hop looks like?\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6552\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1864-3/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6552\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1864-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nKinda like that. They\'re these beautiful little cone flowers from the hop plant that add that lovely bitter taste for which beer is so widely known. Hops can also add citric and floral flavors to a beer, as well as a variety of aromas, just depending on the hops you decide to use.\r\n\r\nFor the record, I like hops. I like hops a lot.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6546\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1915/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6546  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1915.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nSomething else cool about hops is that how they\'re used in beer is, as Dave at High Gravity put it, like building a good spaghetti sauce. Know how garlic or basil can taste vastly different in a spaghetti sauce depending on when you add it to the pot? With hops and beer, it\'s the same sort of thing. So, hops are added to beer in stages to sort of build the flavor profile of the finished product.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6553\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1840-2/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6553\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1840-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAfter you bring that mixture to a rolling boil, cool it rapidly to about room temperature. Then, transfer the whole mess to a fermenting vessel. Which is, in the case of many homebrewers, a good, old-fashioned five-gallon bucket.\r\n\r\nAt this point, you\'ve got a big, plastic bucket full of something called wort. While that sounds pretty gross, it\'s just a word that means unfermented beer.\r\n\r\nThen, add yeast. This is when the magic happens.\r\n\r\nI\'ll be frank: Yeast is the freak in the family of beer ingredients. I mean, it\'s a living, unicellular mico-organism that eats the sugar produced during the brewing process of your beer. It metabolizes those sugars into alcohol, carbon dioxide and a huge range of flavors, depending on which type you use. Another fun yeast fact: It multiplies by a type of asexual production called budding.\r\n\r\nYeah. You just got scienced. Yeast will do that to you.\r\n\r\nYou can add other ingredients to your beer, too - not fried chicken or Mike &amp; Ikes or anything like that, but within reason, there are still lots of options. It all depends on the type of brew you\'d like to end up with.\r\n\r\nThen comes the hard part: Waiting. It\'s time to let this bucket-o-ale ferment at room temperature for 7-10 days or so.\r\n\r\nThe process would be a bit different at this point if we were making a lager (another type of beer that\'s fermented differently than is ale), but rather than go into how so here at TDT, you can read more <a href=\"http://www.dougfishback.com/\">here</a>.\r\n\r\nAfter that first week you might opt to transfer the beer to a secondary vessel. This can help to clear the beer of yeast sediment and avoid any off-flavors that could happen should you decide to stick with using just one bucket.\r\n\r\nLet the beer spend another week at least in this secondary vessel. After that you can move the beer to a bottling bucket. Add priming sugar (after yeast, this is a way of naturally carbonating the beer), bottle and leave at room temperature again for 7-10 days.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6554\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1905/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6554  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1905.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6555\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1910/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6555  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1910.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6556\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1912/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6556  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1912.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nOr? Drink.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6561\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1917/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6561  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1917.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nHi, <a href=\"http://havesporkwilltravel.blogspot.com/\">@travelingspork</a>!\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6562\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1918/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6562  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1918.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nActually, Dave at High Gravity said that it\'s best to wait for another few weeks before throwing a few of these babies back. The flavors and complexity of the beer can only improve for a good while at this point.\r\n\r\nBut, yeah right. We\'re amateurs. We can\'t wait. We just learned to make our own beer, for Pete\'s sake.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6563\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1916/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6563  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1916.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nSee that face? That\'s the smile of someone who doesn\'t usually like beer finally tasting one that she likes.\r\n\r\nPrecious, isn\'t it?\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6548\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1855/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6548  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1855.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nWant to learn more about the art of homebrewing? It\'d be a good idea to check out a meeting of FOAM, or the <a href=\"http://www.alemakers.com/\">Fellowship of Oklahoma Ale Makers</a>. They\'ve had a thing about teaching others about how beer is made and promoting the art of homebrewing since 1984. If you\'re looking for some community instruction, with these folks would be a good place to find it.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6553\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1840-2/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6553\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1840-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTheir next meeting is Thursday, March 10, at 7:30 p.m. Find it at the Unitarian Church Log Cabin, at 8432 S. Sheridan Road here in Tulsa. The doors open at 7pm. The next meeting after that is April 1.\r\n\r\nIf you don\'t have time for a meeting, check out <a href=\"http://www.alemakers.com/\">the FOAM website</a>. It\'s chock full of beer and beer making information in the form of forums, recipes, news, quotes, homebrewing links and more.\r\n\r\nIf you don\'t want to dip your toe that far into the vast pond that is homebrewing, you can always attend the free workshop at High Gravity. The next one\'s on Saturday, March 19, at 11 a.m.\r\n\r\nEither way, when St. Patrick\'s Day rolls around, you\'ll have lots to talk about after those first few green beers. Like how certain specialty malts affect head structure. Or how many HBUs (Home Bittering Units) you like in a beer. Or, you know, the asexual nature of yeast. It\'s all fair game.\r\n\r\nBecause you now know how to make beer. And knowledge, my friends, is power.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6563\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1916/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6563  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1916.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nAnd refreshing.\r\n\r\nHave you ever made your own beer? How would you describe the process? Most important, did you like the outcome?','How to Make Beer: High Gravity Shows How (St. Patrick\'s Day 2011)','When it comes to figuring out how to put a beer together, we Tulsans are lucky.','inherit','open','open','','6545-revision-22','','','2011-03-04 18:14:36','2011-03-05 00:14:36','',6545,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/6545-revision-22/',0,'revision','',0),(6583,1,'2011-03-04 18:18:26','2011-03-05 00:18:26','<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6546\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1915/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6546  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1915.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\n<em>This post is the first in a series here at TDT celebrating St. Patrick\'s Day, one of Tulsa\'s very favorite holidays. Erin go Bragh!</em>\n\nIn case you can\'t tell by the endcaps at your local big box store, which are no doubt filled with all things leprechaun and shamrocks and lucky this-and-thats by now, St. Patrick\'s Day is coming.\n\nAnd you know what that means: Beer is about to happen. Lots and lots of beer.\n\n<!--more-->\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"24\"]</p>\nWith the passing of each St. Pat\'s, more and more beer drinkers are opting for craft-style beers over the ol\'-reliable, mass-produced varieties. Hand in hand with that has come beer lovers who are enthusiastic about learning how what is probably the world\'s oldest alcoholic beverage is made, and they\'re making beer of their own by the gallon at home.\n\nWhen it comes to figuring out how to put a beer together, we Tulsans are lucky. On the southwest corner of the 71st Street and Memorial Drive intersection is <a href=\"http://www.highgravitybrew.com/\">High Gravity</a>, a homebrewing and winemaking supply shop. The folks who own it, Dave and Desiree Knott, host a free homebrewing workshop at the store each month.\n\nA group of friends and I went to one a couple of weeks ago, and here\'s what we learned: Whipping up a batch of homebrewed beer is a pretty easy process. The only tricky part? Waiting until the beer reaches drinkable perfection.\n\nSo if you can boil water, and if you can sit around and delay gratification for long periods of time, you can make beer.\n\nEmpowering, isn\'t it?\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6547\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1862-3/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6547  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1862.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\nThe first step in making a batch of beer, then, is that whole boiling-of-the-water thing I just mentioned.\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6548\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1855/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6548  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1855.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6549\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1857-2/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6549  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1857.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\nNext comes the malt, or grain (usually barley) which has been sprouted and then halted by heating in a kiln. This is the stuff that provides the fermentable sugars and body of beer, both of which are pretty awesome things.\n\nSteeping the malt in the boiling water for an hour or so is what converts the starch into fermentable sugars. This step is called mashing.\n\nBy the way, malt can be purchased as a liquid extract, and in powder form, too. What you see used below is the liquid malt extract; above, actual grain, because Dave is a certifiable bad ass.\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6550\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1865-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" />\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6551  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1868.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></p>\nAnd then there are hops. Let\'s not forget about those.\n\nKnow what a hop looks like?\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6552\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1864-3/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6552\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1864-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\n\nKinda like that. They\'re these beautiful little cone flowers from the hop plant that add that lovely bitter taste for which beer is so widely known. Hops can also add citric and floral flavors to a beer, as well as a variety of aromas, just depending on the hops you decide to use.\n\nFor the record, I like hops. I like hops a lot.\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6546\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1915/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6546  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1915.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\nSomething else cool about hops is that how they\'re used in beer is, as Dave at High Gravity put it, like building a good spaghetti sauce. Know how garlic or basil can taste vastly different in a spaghetti sauce depending on when you add it to the pot? With hops and beer, it\'s the same sort of thing. So, hops are added to beer in stages to sort of build the flavor profile of the finished product.\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6553\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1840-2/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6553\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1840-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\n\nAfter you bring that mixture to a rolling boil, cool it rapidly to about room temperature. Then, transfer the whole mess to a fermenting vessel. Which is, in the case of many homebrewers, a good, old-fashioned five-gallon bucket.\n\nAt this point, you\'ve got a big, plastic bucket full of something called wort. While that sounds pretty gross, it\'s just a word that means unfermented beer.\n\nThen, add yeast. This is when the magic happens.\n\nI\'ll be frank: Yeast is the freak in the family of beer ingredients. I mean, it\'s a living, unicellular mico-organism that eats the sugar produced during the brewing process of your beer. It metabolizes those sugars into alcohol, carbon dioxide and a huge range of flavors, depending on which type you use. Another fun yeast fact: It multiplies by a type of asexual production called budding.\n\nYeah. You just got scienced. Yeast will do that to you.\n\nYou can add other ingredients to your beer, too - not fried chicken or Mike &amp; Ikes or anything like that, but within reason, there are still lots of options. It all depends on the type of brew you\'d like to end up with.\n\nThen comes the hard part: Waiting. It\'s time to let this bucket-o-ale ferment at room temperature for 7-10 days or so.\n\nThe process would be a bit different at this point if we were making a lager (another type of beer that\'s fermented differently than is ale), but rather than go into how so here at TDT, you can read more <a href=\"http://www.dougfishback.com/\">here</a>.\n\nAfter that first week you might opt to transfer the beer to a secondary vessel. This can help to clear the beer of yeast sediment and avoid any off-flavors that could happen should you decide to stick with using just one bucket.\n\nLet the beer spend another week at least in this secondary vessel. After that you can move the beer to a bottling bucket. Add priming sugar (after yeast, this is a way of naturally carbonating the beer), bottle and leave at room temperature again for 7-10 days.\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6554\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1905/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6554  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1905.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6555\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1910/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6555  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1910.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6556\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1912/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6556  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1912.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\nOr? Drink.\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6561\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1917/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6561  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1917.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\nHi, <a href=\"http://havesporkwilltravel.blogspot.com/\">@travelingspork</a>!\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6562\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1918/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6562  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1918.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\nActually, Dave at High Gravity said that it\'s best to wait for another few weeks before throwing a few of these babies back. The flavors and complexity of the beer can only improve for a good while at this point.\n\nBut, yeah right. We\'re amateurs. We can\'t wait. We just learned to make our own beer, for Pete\'s sake.\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6563\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1916/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6563  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1916.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\nSee that face? That\'s the smile of someone who doesn\'t usually like beer finally tasting one that she likes.\n\nPrecious, isn\'t it?\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6548\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1855/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6548  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1855.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\nWant to learn more about the art of homebrewing? It\'d be a good idea to check out a meeting of FOAM, or the <a href=\"http://www.alemakers.com/\">Fellowship of Oklahoma Ale Makers</a>. They\'ve had a thing about teaching others about how beer is made and promoting the art of homebrewing since 1984. If you\'re looking for some community instruction, with these folks would be a good place to find it.\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6553\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1840-2/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6553\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1840-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\n\nTheir next meeting is Thursday, March 10, at 7:30 p.m. Find it at the Unitarian Church Log Cabin, at 8432 S. Sheridan Road here in Tulsa. The doors open at 7pm. The next meeting after that is April 1.\n\nIf you don\'t have time for a meeting, check out <a href=\"http://www.alemakers.com/\">the FOAM website</a>. It\'s chock full of beer and beer making information in the form of forums, recipes, news, quotes, homebrewing links and more.\n\nIf you don\'t want to dip your toe that far into the vast pond that is homebrewing, you can always attend the free workshop at High Gravity. The next one\'s on Saturday, March 19, at 11 a.m.\n\nEither way, when St. Patrick\'s Day rolls around, you\'ll have lots to talk about after those first few green beers. Like how certain specialty malts affect head structure. Or how many HBUs (Home Bittering Units) you like in a beer. Or, you know, the asexual nature of yeast. It\'s all fair game.\n\nBecause thanks to the folks at High Gravity and my rudimentary research, you now have a pretty good idea of how to make beer. And knowledge, my friends, is power.\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6563\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1916/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6563  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1916.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\nAnd refreshing.\n\nHave you ever made your own beer? How would you describe the process? Most important, did you like the outcome?','How to Make Beer: High Gravity Shows How (St. Patrick\'s Day 2011)','When it comes to figuring out how to put a beer together, we Tulsans are lucky.','inherit','open','open','','6545-autosave','','','2011-03-04 18:18:26','2011-03-05 00:18:26','',6545,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/6545-autosave/',0,'revision','',0),(6584,1,'2011-03-04 18:14:36','2011-03-05 00:14:36','<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6546\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1915/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6546  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1915.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\n<em>This post is the first in a series here at TDT celebrating St. Patrick\'s Day, one of Tulsa\'s very favorite holidays. Erin go Bragh!</em>\r\n\r\nIn case you can\'t tell by the endcaps at your local big box store, which are no doubt filled with all things leprechaun and shamrocks and lucky this-and-thats by now, St. Patrick\'s Day is coming.\r\n\r\nAnd you know what that means: Beer is about to happen. Lots and lots of beer.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"24\"]</p>\r\nWith the passing of each St. Pat\'s, more and more beer drinkers are opting for craft-style beers over the ol\'-reliable, mass-produced varieties. Hand in hand with that has come beer lovers who are enthusiastic about learning how what is probably the world\'s oldest alcoholic beverage is made, and they\'re making beer of their own by the gallon at home.\r\n\r\nWhen it comes to figuring out how to put a beer together, we Tulsans are lucky. On the southwest corner of the 71st Street and Memorial Drive intersection is <a href=\"http://www.highgravitybrew.com/\">High Gravity</a>, a homebrewing and winemaking supply shop. The folks who own it, Dave and Desiree Knott, host a free homebrewing workshop at the store each month.\r\n\r\nA group of friends and I went to one a couple of weeks ago, and here\'s what we learned: Whipping up a batch of homebrewed beer is a pretty easy process. The only tricky part? Waiting until the beer reaches drinkable perfection.\r\n\r\nSo if you can boil water, and if you can sit around and delay gratification for long periods of time, you can make beer.\r\n\r\nEmpowering, isn\'t it?\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6547\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1862-3/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6547  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1862.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nThe first step in making a batch of beer, then, is that whole boiling-of-the-water thing I just mentioned.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6548\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1855/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6548  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1855.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6549\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1857-2/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6549  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1857.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nNext comes the malt, or grain (usually barley) which has been sprouted and then halted by heating in a kiln. This is the stuff that provides the fermentable sugars and body of beer, both of which are pretty awesome things.\r\n\r\nSteeping the malt in the boiling water for an hour or so is what converts the starch into fermentable sugars. This step is called mashing.\r\n\r\nBy the way, malt can be purchased as a liquid extract, and in powder form, too. What you see used below is the liquid malt extract; above, actual grain, because Dave is a certifiable bad ass.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6550\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1865-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" />\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6551  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1868.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></p>\r\nAnd then there are hops. Let\'s not forget about those.\r\n\r\nKnow what a hop looks like?\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6552\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1864-3/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6552\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1864-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nKinda like that. They\'re these beautiful little cone flowers from the hop plant that add that lovely bitter taste for which beer is so widely known. Hops can also add citric and floral flavors to a beer, as well as a variety of aromas, just depending on the hops you decide to use.\r\n\r\nFor the record, I like hops. I like hops a lot.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6546\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1915/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6546  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1915.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nSomething else cool about hops is that how they\'re used in beer is, as Dave at High Gravity put it, like building a good spaghetti sauce. Know how garlic or basil can taste vastly different in a spaghetti sauce depending on when you add it to the pot? With hops and beer, it\'s the same sort of thing. So, hops are added to beer in stages to sort of build the flavor profile of the finished product.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6553\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1840-2/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6553\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1840-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAfter you bring that mixture to a rolling boil, cool it rapidly to about room temperature. Then, transfer the whole mess to a fermenting vessel. Which is, in the case of many homebrewers, a good, old-fashioned five-gallon bucket.\r\n\r\nAt this point, you\'ve got a big, plastic bucket full of something called wort. While that sounds pretty gross, it\'s just a word that means unfermented beer.\r\n\r\nThen, add yeast. This is when the magic happens.\r\n\r\nI\'ll be frank: Yeast is the freak in the family of beer ingredients. I mean, it\'s a living, unicellular mico-organism that eats the sugar produced during the brewing process of your beer. It metabolizes those sugars into alcohol, carbon dioxide and a huge range of flavors, depending on which type you use. Another fun yeast fact: It multiplies by a type of asexual production called budding.\r\n\r\nYeah. You just got scienced. Yeast will do that to you.\r\n\r\nYou can add other ingredients to your beer, too - not fried chicken or Mike &amp; Ikes or anything like that, but within reason, there are still lots of options. It all depends on the type of brew you\'d like to end up with.\r\n\r\nThen comes the hard part: Waiting. It\'s time to let this bucket-o-ale ferment at room temperature for 7-10 days or so.\r\n\r\nThe process would be a bit different at this point if we were making a lager (another type of beer that\'s fermented differently than is ale), but rather than go into how so here at TDT, you can read more <a href=\"http://www.dougfishback.com/\">here</a>.\r\n\r\nAfter that first week you might opt to transfer the beer to a secondary vessel. This can help to clear the beer of yeast sediment and avoid any off-flavors that could happen should you decide to stick with using just one bucket.\r\n\r\nLet the beer spend another week at least in this secondary vessel. After that you can move the beer to a bottling bucket. Add priming sugar (after yeast, this is a way of naturally carbonating the beer), bottle and leave at room temperature again for 7-10 days.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6554\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1905/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6554  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1905.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6555\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1910/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6555  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1910.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6556\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1912/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6556  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1912.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nOr? Drink.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6561\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1917/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6561  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1917.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nHi, <a href=\"http://havesporkwilltravel.blogspot.com/\">@travelingspork</a>!\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6562\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1918/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6562  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1918.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nActually, Dave at High Gravity said that it\'s best to wait for another few weeks before throwing a few of these babies back. The flavors and complexity of the beer can only improve for a good while at this point.\r\n\r\nBut, yeah right. We\'re amateurs. We can\'t wait. We just learned to make our own beer, for Pete\'s sake.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6563\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1916/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6563  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1916.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nSee that face? That\'s the smile of someone who doesn\'t usually like beer finally tasting one that she likes.\r\n\r\nPrecious, isn\'t it?\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6548\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1855/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6548  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1855.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nWant to learn more about the art of homebrewing? It\'d be a good idea to check out a meeting of FOAM, or the <a href=\"http://www.alemakers.com/\">Fellowship of Oklahoma Ale Makers</a>. They\'ve had a thing about teaching others about how beer is made and promoting the art of homebrewing since 1984. If you\'re looking for some community instruction, with these folks would be a good place to find it.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6553\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1840-2/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6553\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1840-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTheir next meeting is Thursday, March 10, at 7:30 p.m. Find it at the Unitarian Church Log Cabin, at 8432 S. Sheridan Road here in Tulsa. The doors open at 7pm. The next meeting after that is April 1.\r\n\r\nIf you don\'t have time for a meeting, check out <a href=\"http://www.alemakers.com/\">the FOAM website</a>. It\'s chock full of beer and beer making information in the form of forums, recipes, news, quotes, homebrewing links and more.\r\n\r\nIf you don\'t want to dip your toe that far into the vast pond that is homebrewing, you can always attend the free workshop at High Gravity. The next one\'s on Saturday, March 19, at 11 a.m.\r\n\r\nEither way, when St. Patrick\'s Day rolls around, you\'ll have lots to talk about after those first few green beers. Like how certain specialty malts affect head structure. Or how many HBUs (Home Bittering Units) you like in a beer. Or, you know, the asexual nature of yeast. It\'s all fair game.\r\n\r\nBecause you now know how to make beer. And knowledge, my friends, is power.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6563\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1916/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6563  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1916.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nAnd refreshing.\r\n\r\nHave you ever made your own beer? How would you describe the process? Most important, did you like the outcome?','How to Make Beer: High Gravity Shows How (St. Patrick\'s Day 2011)','When it comes to figuring out how to put a beer together, we Tulsans are lucky.','inherit','open','open','','6545-revision-23','','','2011-03-04 18:14:36','2011-03-05 00:14:36','',6545,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/6545-revision-23/',0,'revision','',0),