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Mute Dog Brewing @mutedog.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

We went to the pumpkin patch this morning. Found a lot of fun and funky pumpkins. Didn't bring home a single "normal" pumpkin.

It's a selfie of me! I'm holding a light yellow pumpkin that's covered in warts. I'm wearing a ridiculous jack-o'-lantern T-shirt but instead of a mouth it just has a crazy handlebar moustache

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Mute Dog Brewing @mutedog.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

There was some fun fog this morning on the dog walk. #fog #PNW

rays of light emanate through the fog and into the darkness from a maple tree that has grown branches all around a street light outside my house.

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Mute Dog Brewing @mutedog.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Drinking a hopped cider at The Gorge White House outside of Hood River, OR #Cider #HoodRiverFruitLoop #CurrentlyDrinking

A glass of cider on a metal table with some trees in the background

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Mute Dog Brewing @mutedog.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Had to take a load of layers off of the Element instrument cluster just so I could resolder a couple of wires in order to get the dash lights working again. What a PITA. Also now I gotta put this all back together... #DIY #CarRepair #HondaElement

All 5 layers of the instrument cluster laid out on the floor of my garage

Up close photo of my shitty solder fixes

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Mute Dog Brewing @mutedog.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

The rest of the hops have been harvested. Time for a beer, I think. Also, I have homegrown hops in the freezer going back to 2020. I apparently need to brew hoppier beers or something... #HopHarvest #Hops #HomeBrewing

Traditional selfie of me screaming inside a hop bine.

All of the Glacier hops hanging in my garage taking up a ton of space.

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Mute Dog Brewing @mutedog.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

Well, I did it. It looked cool, but it was an annoying pain in the ass. I should have bagged the hops, but then it wouldn't have looked as cool, LOL #HomeBrewing #FreshHops

Fresh harvested hop cones, branches and leaves all yeeted into the kettle

The hop branches in the kettle after I stirred them all into the wort

A pile of cooked hops that I've pulled out of the kettle with my stirring stick

The aftermath, hop branches at the bottom of the kettle as it's almost fully drained of wort. It drained super slow as a few cones made their way into the valve...

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Mute Dog Brewing @mutedog.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

So I cut all of the flowering branches off of the larger central bines. This should be more manageable and will hopefully fit along with the immersion chiller.

All of the flowering branches in a keg bucket and the big leafy bines laying on the floor next to it

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Mute Dog Brewing @mutedog.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

The idea is to cram this into the kettle at the end of the boil. I'm not sure this is going to work...

Flowering hop bines hang in a large loop from the ceiling in my garage. It's about 3 feet by 2 feet in size. I'm probably going to have to cut it up to fit it in

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Mute Dog Brewing @mutedog.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

Who's dumb ass idea was it to harvest hops in the middle of brewing?? #HomeBrewing #FreshHop #HopHarvest

A dumb ass (me) with a couple of flowering hop bines around my neck with my brewing equipment in the background

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Mute Dog Brewing @mutedog.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

I think this is the lowest FG I've ever witnessed. This is a second wine I made on the Riesling and Chardonnay grapes in 2024 and just dropped a load of extra sugar on it to see what would happen. I expected a sweet wine, apparently they yeast didn't care […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

a FG hydrometer floats in a white wine sample inside a narrow test jar. The reading at the surface indicating a gravity of 0.985.

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Mute Dog Brewing @mutedog.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

My in laws went to Iceland recently and brought back this dried fish for me (among other gifts, they don't hate me). It smells so strongly that even sealed inside two ziplock bags I can still smell it when I open the cabinet it's in...

Icelandic dried fish inside of two ziplock bags

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Mute Dog Brewing @mutedog.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

If any winemaker tells you that their process is sanitary, they're lying to you. Grapes grow in a field, there's bugs on them when they're harvested. It's impossible to keep fruit flies away from the action. I do this by hand so it's certainly worse for me […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Destemmed Moscato grapes waiting to be pressed for juice. They're obviously already fermenting.

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Mute Dog Brewing @mutedog.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

Moscato harvest; not the prettiest looking grapes this year, but that doesn't mean they can't make good wine. And if they don't, then it will turn into Pisco. #WineMaking #Moscato

A big green bucket full of Moscato grapes

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Mute Dog Brewing @mutedog.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

Bitter Norwegian pale ale 6% Using 1ml of hop extract at 60 minutes produced way more than the 10 IBUs I was told it would. This beer is quite bitter. I mitigated it a bit by adding calcium chloride to the finished beer, but it's still fairly bitter. I am a […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A willi becher glass full of opaque yellow beer with a good amount of foam on top, extending out of the glass

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Mute Dog Brewing @mutedog.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

Peshastin Saison. This beer was fermented with wild yeast that I caught from Saskatoon berries I picked on a hiking trail near Peshastin, WA. The beer is a little bit fruity and very faintly tart. There's a nice maltiness despite it being fairly dry. It's a […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A green 750ml bottle stands next to a goblet of yellow beer

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Mute Dog Brewing @mutedog.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

Drinking a glass of Arnegard gong pale ale whilst I keg and dry hop said ale. The gong made quick work of the beer fermenting it down to 1.006 in less than a week. #HomeBrewing #Beer

I'm holding a glass of hazy yellow beer in front of a stainless steel fermentor that's being transferred into a corny keg

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Mute Dog Brewing @mutedog.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026

Made Shakshuka tonight. Highly recommended.

Eggs cooking in a pan full of spicy tomato sauce, basically Shakshuka

Shakshuka dished up onto two plates. Unmolested tomatoes from the harvest in the background

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Mute Dog Brewing @mutedog.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026

What's Your Leaven Worth? This is a saison fermented with yeast I captured from wild cherries that I picked in Leavenworth, WA last summer. It's nice and fruity with a little bit of tartness. It's really a pleasant beer, especially after the freaking moth […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

I'm holding a goblet of pale beer with a finger of head on it. In the background moth larvae webbing and corpses are burning on my driveway

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Mute Dog Brewing @mutedog.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026

@pejacoby I opened it. Pretty good, not too bitter but not too sweet. I think I got it at a good point. I'm enjoying it quite a bit. #Beer #Stout

A photo of a bottle of 2024 Kirkland (Costco) Vintage ale, bourbon barrel aged imperial Stout brewed by Deschutes brewery. A goblet of said beer stands next to the bottle with a dark tan layer of foam on top

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Mute Dog Brewing @mutedog.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026

While trying to open a stuck shut yeast jar the freaking glass jar cracked! I didn't let that stop me so I cut a hole in the lid and rescued my precious yeast 😆 #HomeBrewing #Yeast

A glass jar full of yeast with a noticeable crack in it and some liquid can be seen pooling around the base. I'm holding a jar opener device on the left

The cracked jar but now a hole has been cut in the metal lid so I can spoon the yeast out

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Mute Dog Brewing @mutedog.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026

I'm drinking a glass of saison fermented with a wild culture I got from wild cherries growing near the river in Leavenworth, WA last summer. This is from a low fill at the end of the bottling line. Yeast seems to have a little fruity funk, but also […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A tulip glass that's quite full of beer stands next to a 750 bottle that didn't quite fill all the way at the end of bottling a batch of beer. Next to that is a ball jar full of the yeast cake from the beer; writing on a short strip of masking tape on top of the jar lid says, "Leavenworth cherries"

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Mute Dog Brewing @mutedog.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026

Yesterday it got really hot. My bees did this, I'm not totally sure why other than it probably helps keep the temperature inside the hive a bit lower. It's going to get hot again today so I'm going to see if I can set up a big umbrella to shade the hive from […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Mute Dog Brewing @mutedog.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026

Someone needs to breed or GMO a Wisteria that produces non-poisonous beans. Look at this incredible harvest of forbidden beans!

Tons of wisteria beans in their pods laying on my deck

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Mute Dog Brewing @mutedog.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/07/2026

So I've been slowly making progress on my new fireplace. I got all of the stone and wood facing for the fireplace done. The black walnut slab is fully sanded and so incredibly smooth (600 grit FTW). I'm going to finish with Tung oil and then mount. After that […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

The new fireplace in progress, I have stone tile most of the way up on either side of the gas fireplace insert, drywall behind. I have some scaffolding in place in front of the fireplace insert for the stone tile to rest on while affixing to the drywall. The walnut mantle is in place above.

The face of the fireplace is complete. All of the stone tile is on and a 1x10 stained and finished board is above it leading up to the walnut mantle which still needs to be finished.

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Mute Dog Brewing @mutedog.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2026

You can obviously tell which is which. The chocolate malt loaf tastes roasty, which is not really surprising. I'm glad I only added 3%; much more I could see turning unpleasant. I don't dislike the flavor, but it's also not the best, tastes kinda like there's […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Two sourdough boules, the one on the left is a darker brown from the chocolate malt that was part of the flour

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Mute Dog Brewing @mutedog.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026

I'm making sourdough today and decided to do one of my two loaves with 3% chocolate malt in the grist (is grist the correct term here?). The color difference was subtle in the four but pronounced once the dough was mixed. I'll be baking later this evening or […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

unmilled white wheat kernels with the occasional dark brown kernel of chocolate malt in the mix. Chocolate malt is dehusked, dark roasted barley malt, named more for the color it possesses than the flavor.

Two bowls of freshly milled flour, the left bowl has four with the chocolate malt, and the right bowl is 100% white wheat. The color difference is subtle, but noticable, with the left bowl being just a tinge darker in color.

two bowls with freshly mixed sour doughs, the left bowl with the chocolate malt and the right bowl with all white flour, the color difference is quite obvious, with the left bowl being a light brown and the right bowl a light tan color.

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Mute Dog Brewing @mutedog.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/07/2026

Wild yeast Elderflower Wit This is so good. Obviously I'm biased because I brewed it, but it's just so nice and refreshing and delicious. Elderflower is definitely present in the nose and flavor. Tastes great on a warm summer afternoon. #CurrentlyDrinking #Homebrewing #Beer #Wit #WildYeastFTW

I'm holding a goblet full about 2/3rds with wit and 1/3 with foam

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Mute Dog Brewing @mutedog.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026

Yesterday I borrowed my friend's router and got to work on leveling the mantle slab. It's incredible the texture that was hiding under the nasty rough cut. Today I am sanding it. #WoodWorking #BlackWalnut

The router sled over the mantle slab, a small portion of the slab has been cut down through the rough cut

A close view of the slab where half has been routed down and the other half is rough cut to show the drastic difference. Beautiful wood grain and a reddish color can be seen on the routed side. The rough side is just harsh saw marks and utterly beige.

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Mute Dog Brewing @mutedog.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026

I make two sourdough boules a week . I use fresh milled flour that I grind myself. This lets me try weird things like adding malted wheat to the flour. First I tried 10% malt and this time I did 5% both times the dough and resulting loaf has been a lot wetter […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Two sourdough boules sitting on a cooling rack on top of a glass top range

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Mute Dog Brewing @mutedog.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2026

I saw this amazing homemade deer xing sign while on a bike ride this afternoon.

Homemade deer xing sign consists of the silhouette of one larger and one smaller deer that are kind of on top of each other and may potentially be about to start getting it on. Above the deer is the word "Deer" with a large gap between the D and the rest of the word because the larger deer's head is in that space. below the deer toward the bottom corners of the sign are two capital Xs the sign is orange with black illustration and text, it is mounted below a 25 MPH speed limit sign.

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Mute Dog Brewing @mutedog.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/07/2026

The Glacier hops I'm growing are getting quite tall now. This one has reached the roof which is about 25 feet / 7.6 meters and it still wants to go higher. In past years I had lines going up to the peak of my roof which is probably another ~8 feet / 2.5 […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A hop bine curs around the eaves trough on the edge of my roof

A zoomed out view where you can see the hop bine by the eaves trough and the height of it going down below my second story deck. Houses and trees can be seen in the background.

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Mute Dog Brewing @mutedog.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/07/2026

Anyone have any experience in ungluing these type of stone tiles? Heat gun didn't do anything, oscillating tool is working ok, but I'd love an easier method. #diy #tile #glue

Tetris shaped stone tiles made by glueing smaller rectangular stone tiles together to make a uniform shape for easy installation. Easy until you gotta unglue them anyway...

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Mute Dog Brewing @mutedog.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/07/2026

The hops are starting to get fairly tall. This photo was taken out of my second story window, so it's probably close to about 20 feet / 6 meters at this point. #HomeBrewing #Hops #Gardening

A hop bine twists its way up some twine. A house and trees are out of focus in the background and some hazy reflection of blinds can be seen in the glass of the window the photo was taken through.

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Mute Dog Brewing @mutedog.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/06/2026

Trump is adding his obnoxious image to US passports. So it is absolutely the duty of every other country to make some sort of passport stamp that makes him look like a clown or more of an idiot something. I'm sure Denmark is probably up to this task, but it'd […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Proposed new page for US passports featuring a creepy pedophile asshole.

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Mute Dog Brewing @mutedog.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/06/2026

Bottling the plum wine. I need to make room for the blackberry wine that will need to be pressed soon. #WineMaking

I'm holding a clear glass wine bottle that's full of translucent red/pink plum wine

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Mute Dog Brewing @mutedog.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/06/2026

Wild yeast Elderflower Wit. I have this on tap as well, but they always taste a little better out of the bottle for some reason. #Beer #HomeBrewing #WildYeast #CurrentlyDrinking

A dark green 750ml bottle stands next to a goblet glass about 2/3rds full of beer and the rest with foam

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Mute Dog Brewing @mutedog.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/06/2026

The dough rose so much I decided to just bake it today and skip the fridge ferment as there's not much bacteria in the culture anyway. #Baking #Bread #WildYeast #Fermentation

Big fat fermented dough taking up a load of space in a stainless steel bowl. Parchment paper is in the counter next to it.

Tightened dough loaf on the parchment paper with a cross cut out of the center. This was right before it went into the Dutch oven that had been preheating in the actual oven.

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Mute Dog Brewing @mutedog.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/06/2026

I milled some wheat to attempt making a loaf of bread using my wild 'abbey' yeast culture to leave it. Going to treat it kind of like a sourdough. #Baking #Bread #Sourdough #FreshMilledFlour

Milling the wheat into flour with our Mock Mill, this is the first pass for a coarse grind. Afterwards I ran it through a second time for a fine grind

About 50 grams of yeast slurry that was collected off the bottom of my fermenter a week ago. This was from the Elderflower Wit.

The dough ball, I'll do some stretch and folds before giving it a cold ferment

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Mute Dog Brewing @mutedog.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/06/2026

The second Torch Cactus flower has opened now and the first one looks to be fading. The worst part about these flowers is how briefly they last. #Cactus #TorchCactus #BloomScrolling

The Torch Cactus with two flowers, one freshly opened and bright light pink, the other slightly closed and a bit darker pink

A more head on view of the newly opened torch cactus flower you can see more details of all the stamens and the crazy pistil of to one side.

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Mute Dog Brewing @mutedog.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/06/2026

The Torch Cactus has opened one of its three blooms! These things are so incredible. #Cactus #TorchCactus #BloomScrolling

Side view of the cactus with all three flowers visible. The right most flower has opened

Spectacular torch cactus flower in full bloom. There's a few layers of petals that go from bright pink to light pink at the edges, with a load of stamens in a circle in the middle

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