Last night I had a couple glasses of the sake, specifically doburoku, I brewed over the last two weeks. The taste is pretty good for my first try. It is a bit sweet and very smooth. Each glass went down real easy and didn’t leave me reeling due to the taste or alcohol content. I suspect it contains about 12-15% alocohol by volume which makes one glass of sake comparable to a glass of wine. The recipe I used says the final product would be about 15-18% alcohol by volume but I think I used a bit too much water while brewing. You can read more about the technical aspects of brewing sake on Wikipedia or take a look at the recipe I followed. Read on for more about my brewing process. (more…)
The Boston Scalability User Group is hosting a technology round-table meeting on Wednesday January 28th at 6 p.m. The meeting is at the IBM Innovation Center in Waltham, MA.
This is the first time we’ve done the round-table style meeting and I’m excited to see how it goes. Guests are encouraged to come prepared with questions, answers and opinions on application scalability tools, strategies and designs. Hot topics will include platform and software stack, cloud computing and resources, vendor tools and support and CDNs. Those are my guesses about hot topics doesn’t mean the meeting is limited to those topics.
Guests, be the regular or first-timers, will drive the direction of the discussion. We’ll talk about solving technical problems based on past experience or serve as an advisory panel on where and when to use a particular tool.
Full meeting details are at the BostonSUG web site. We ask that you sign up for the meeting at the meeting registration page so we have an idea of how much food to buy. There will be snacks and bottled water at this meeting.
Hope to see everyone on the 28th at 6 p.m.!
