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Old member here, but always a beer maker. I'm looking to get started with making wine, and am wondering if there is a go-to book to buy? I will be making wine from kits, at least to begin with. I remember when I bought my first beer making equipment, it came with a book that was considered "the"...

How are big green egg grills for making pizza? I have spent years trying to perfect home made pizza. I think I have come about as far as I can on ingredients and preparation. My bottleneck now is my oven only goes up to 550 F. I'm not willing to play with it to disable the self clean door lock...

Does anyone have BBQ sauce recipe that tastes like Open Pit Original? I moved to Louisiana from Wisconsin in January. The other day I was at the store and was going to pick up some Open Pit barbecue sauce. No dice. Went to a different store. None there either. Same thing at the third place...

I have recently moved from Wisconsin to Louisiana and am trying to cook some local dishes. My first attempt at red beans and rice was very successful, but the I was not thrilled with the jambalaya I made yesterday. Anyone have any tips on how to make really good jambalaya?

SWMBO has invited a few friends from work over for a poker night this Saturday. I'm looking for some suggestions on what to feed them. Is it a good idea to try to make things that they can eat while they are playing cards, or is it better to just take a break and have a more substantial meal...

I was watching the PGA yesterday and Y.E. Yang made a chip from the fringe of the green to make an eagle, and I wondered "how the heck do they do that kind of thing so often?" I've never been any good at golf- to me it's an amazingly hard sport. The only thing I can compare making long shots...

Why did Bob Hayes make it into the Hall of Fame? Now, I've got nothing against the guy personally, but I just never thought he was that good. I was actually around when he played, and I remember that he was always referred to as "The World's Fastest Man," due to his having held the world...

I have an inexpensive Homelite gas weed trimmer that fell over and the plastic choke lever broke off. It's only about 4 years old and the motor works fine. It probably hasn't even been run for more than an hour in the time I've had it. Even though a new one is probably only $79.95 I don't want...

I am 51, but SWMBO is only 37. She is reading about all the hoopla surrounding the 40th anniversary of Neil Armstrong's setting foot on the moon and can't figure out what all the fuss is about. Now Walter Cronkite has died and she is wondering why everyone is all upset about that. Did things...

I am moving my business to a much smaller office and one of the things I am losing is a huge storage area. I'm going to have to sell or throw out a lot of stuff and one of the things I have "re-discovered" there is my old stereo system from the late 1970's. I have a receiver, a Hitachi...

I'm not really a beginner, but I'm putting this thread here because it's been almost a year since I brewed up a batch I'm really rusty. So, I brew up an American Amber Ale last weekend, and I've got the wort cooled and am pouring it into the carboy and it's getting really, really full, but...

I am currently scaling back a bit on my homebrewing operations and will be doing a lot less all grain brewing for now. EdWort's Haus Pale is my favorite homebrew, though, and I'm wondering, has anyone ever converted it to an extract version?

Consumer Reports finds many Americans can't resist risky behavior: Swab your ears? Survey says you're not alone - Behavior - MSNBC.com OMG! It's a good thing they didn't ask how many homebrewers drink homebrew while brewing :drunk:

I re-installed Windows XP on a computer recently, using a new CD that I purchased. When I was asked for my Product Key, I used the one that came with the new CD. I forgot that the computer came with a license for XP that is taped to the side of the case. Now if I want to use the XP installation...

Normally I get frustrated with Linux because when I can't get things to work all of the people who can help can only speak geek-tech-speak and not normal English. Usually, for most of the thing I do, Windows just works and Linux does not always work very easily. Last night and today, though, I...

What rock bands are really good to listen to when you have been exposed to a little of the hop plant's cousin? Which bands sound worse? For me the biggest one was Ted Nugent back in the 70's. Ordinarily, his music was just "ok" for me, but partake of a little of a certain herb and.... "wow...

Let me start out by saying that I don't root for either the Steelers or the Chargers and I did not bet any money on the game yesterday. That being said, the antics of the officials at the end of that game were nothing short of ludicrous. The NFL should be embarrassed and ashamed of themselves.

Whenever SWMBO gets a new laptop computer, I inherit her old one. This normally means I get a computer with a battery that's shot. It just seems to me that laptop batteries in general just suck, as does the way that the machines are designed to utilize the batteries. I just read somewhere that...

Our son is in 9th grade and is playing freshman football. He comes home from practice every day smelly and filthy. We asked him why he hadn't taken a shower after practice and he said that no one take a shower there. Is this normal these days? When I was in school (just after the end of the...

If Ryan Braun played in New York instead of Milwaukee, they'd be hailing him as the next Mickey Mantle about now. When you watch the guy hit, his eyes are as big as silver dollars and it looks like he could hit a double or a home run on every at bat if he wanted to. Assuming his career is not...