Stickboy Coffee

Quiznot

An extraordinary event is predicted on a dark world called Earth, a planet still ignorant of the thriving galaxy around it. An organism of nearly unlimited power called a quiznot will arise on its surface. Some take notice and prepare, for if you control the quiznot, you control the galaxy. Which means nothing to troubled teen Timothy Starr—his life is in free fall. After a chance encounter, he’s developed psychokinetic abilities driven by increasingly violent emotions. When his outbursts nearly kill two classmates, he’s banished to the Smithson School, a remote prep school where the teachers don’t seem interested in helping him and the few students he meets with unusual powers like his are reclusive and scared, and for good reason…someone is killing them off. But when his life becomes intertwined with Alizia Hanson, one of the strangely beautiful 'in' kids, he suddenly finds himself at the center of an intergalactic quest and a forbidden attraction. He must discover secrets about himself in order to protect his new friends and Earth's future. "Blends elements of The Last Starfighter and X-Men and a little bit of the sadly canceled TV show Tower Prep...a hero’s quest mixed with teen-outsider melodrama. Its new characters and new story will remind you of classic stuff." - Joe Crowe, revolutionsf.com

Tiger

Make Mead Like a Viking

A complete guide to using the best ingredients and minimal equipment to create fun and flavorful brews Ancient societies brewed flavorful and healing meads, ales, and wines for millennia using only intuition, storytelling, and knowledge passed down through generations--no fancy, expensive equipment or degrees in chemistry needed. In Make Mead Like a Viking, homesteader, fermentation enthusiast, and self-described "Appalachian Yeti Viking" Jereme Zimmerman summons the bryggjemann of the ancient Norse to demonstrate how homebrewing mead--arguably the world's oldest fermented alcoholic beverage--can be not only uncomplicated but fun. Armed with wild-yeast-bearing totem sticks, readers will learn techniques for brewing sweet, semi-sweet, and dry meads, melomels (fruit meads), metheglins (spiced meads), Ethiopian t'ej, flower and herbal meads, braggots, honey beers, country wines, and even Viking grog, opening the Mead Hall doors to further experimentation in fermentation and flavor. In addition, aspiring Vikings will explore: - The importance of local and unpasteurized honey for both flavor and health benefits; - Why modern homebrewing practices, materials, and chemicals work but aren't necessary; - How to grow and harvest herbs and collect wild botanicals for use in healing, nutritious, and magical meads, beers, and wines; - Hops' recent monopoly as a primary brewing ingredient and how to use botanicals other than hops for flavoring and preserving mead, ancient ales, and gruits; - The rituals, mysticism, and communion with nature that were integral components of ancient brewing and can be for modern homebrewers, as well; - Recommendations for starting a mead circle to share your wild meads with other brewers as part of the growing mead-movement subculture; and more Whether you've been intimidated by modern homebrewing's cost or seeming complexity in the past--and its focus on the use of unnatural chemicals--or are boldly looking to expand your current brewing and fermentation practices, Zimmerman's welcoming style and spirit will usher you into exciting new territory. Grounded in history and mythology, but--like Odin's ever-seeking eye--focusing continually on the future of self-sufficient food culture, Make Mead Like a Viking is a practical and entertaining guide for the ages.