Bottling Day
The day after Christmas is Bottling Day! Laying down the Dark Ale for Autumn and Winter. I had racked it 4-5 days beforehand. Final gravity was 1.01, so it will be just under 5.5% ABV.
Monthly archives: December, 2009
Breaking the Fractal V Lifecycle?
Liming has raised three points in reference to my Fractal V Lifecycle. His questions are probing the limits of the model in interesting ways. Before I discuss them, I’d like to introduce a concept and some terminology from an earlier paper I wrote. The V model can accommodate as many levels of design abstraction as …
Fractal V Lifecycle for Pre-Project Activities
Louis has got a new article version of my earlier blog post on the Fractal V Lifecycle up on alinement.net magazine/community website. He’s also added some thoughts of his own on extending the concept into pre-project activities. For these sorts of activities I tend to favor putting them on top, i.e. on the left but …
Dark Ale Again
It’s been a madly busy year, with barely enough time to drink beer, let alone make any. But on the weekend I managed to find an hour to put on a new batch. Hopefully when the Christmas holidays come around in a couple of week I’ll find time to bottle it! I’ve gone with a …