I don't bottle much, but occasionally I'll bottle in the PET type bottles (like soda bottles) if its something that I do not want to age more than a few weeks. On higher gravity beers, if I bottle, I go with glass.
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I don't bottle much, but occasionally I'll bottle in the PET type bottles (like soda bottles) if its something that I do not want to age more than a few weeks. On higher gravity beers, if I bottle, I go with glass.
This is for give aways. I don't really have enough glass to part with much of it. Empty soda bottles I've got.
Does it make me a cheapskate to be unwilling to buy the juice base for the best wine I've ever tasted? I'm pretty sure I've figured out how I made that batch, but the juice is 4 bucks a quart on sale.
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I probably never would have listened to him. But somebody I know of, Hank Williams Jr, mentioned him once or twice. I see the similarity in the two of them.
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Thank you for posting a song with lyrics LG.
Time for me to hit the sack.. G'night HBT.
Time for me to hit the sack.. G'night HBT.
bottlebomber
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Dan said:
Night mi hermano
Nope. I don't play. I'd love a chunk of that though.
It's possible. I was a risk taker in my younger years.
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I don't believe you were that much of a risk taker
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Yeah, I don't gamble either. Someone in Florida got it. I went into an Indian casino at 18 once, and lost $40 of my hard earned cash in about 5 minutes. That was the end of my gambling career.passedpawn said:
Moms that bad?beaksnbeer said:
Well, I learned something today. You can use 28mm closures to seal used soda bottles. If the soda bottle has the deeper cap. It seems that most name brand soda uses a cap with two layers of threads. Most off brand soda uses a three layer thread. The caps are different depths.
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Just put dishes from the last two days into the dishwasher. I've used Cascade detergent for years. Powder was a little cheaper but a pain, sometimes makes the little detergent dispenser door hard to close if I over fill. The liquid stuff is less hassle but more expensive. My brother of all people turned me on to these.
These little packets are awesome! They look to small to do anything good but they are the best I've ever tried. Not expensive either.
Going to BBQ some chicken here shortly and then my daughter and I are going on a little motorcycle ride. Just close to home. She'll be riding an HD 883 Hugger. Tomorrow I'm taking her up to the mountains but she'll be a passenger. She's not ready to make a bike trip on the Freeway yet on her own bike. I'm hoping the riding experience tomorrow as a passenger will help her understand riding a little better. And if I'm being honest, deter her from wanting to pursue riding. (Fatherly worries)
Don't get those mixed up with your snuff pouches.
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One difference between making friends in real life and making friends online, is that online you can get to know people so much quicker. I have a friend that I've had for 8 years or more and it took us a year of knowing each other to become good friends. I'd see her maybe once a week at the most when hanging with mutual friends, we'd talk for a few minutes here and there. Took a while to get to know each other. In fact when we first met, she admitted she didn't like me at all. I forget which words she used but I think one of them was arrogant. And I thought she a prima donna snob. Then over time we realized how much we had in common, and we'd laugh at the same things, had a lot of the same pet peeves, and shared a lot of the same interests.
Wasn't the first time, nor will probably be the last, that friends have said that at first they weren't sure about me. I overheard some of my son's friends talking, one that was at the apartment for the first time, said "hey dude, your mom's a little weird." And one of the roommates replied, "no, she's just eccentric." Then he started talking about how I brewed beer.
In real life, from first impression to making a friend can be a long process. And, also the anonymity as mentioned, easier to open up about things. In real life, you complain about your neighbors, it gets back to the neighbor that you don't like them, now you got a neighbor pissed at you. That won't happen here, we can b*tch about neighbors all we want.
Wasn't the first time, nor will probably be the last, that friends have said that at first they weren't sure about me. I overheard some of my son's friends talking, one that was at the apartment for the first time, said "hey dude, your mom's a little weird." And one of the roommates replied, "no, she's just eccentric." Then he started talking about how I brewed beer.
In real life, from first impression to making a friend can be a long process. And, also the anonymity as mentioned, easier to open up about things. In real life, you complain about your neighbors, it gets back to the neighbor that you don't like them, now you got a neighbor pissed at you. That won't happen here, we can b*tch about neighbors all we want.
Little hot down here today, but I do love living in Clearwater. I like to kayak and get out on the water in the early AM. So nice.
Clearwater/St. Pete runs these ads (I don't know why they run the locally, doesn't make any sense). They are really nice. There's a whole bunch of them and they all are similar, like this one.
Hope you all enjoyed your weekend.
Here's another one. Use your outside voices. Love it.
Clearwater/St. Pete runs these ads (I don't know why they run the locally, doesn't make any sense). They are really nice. There's a whole bunch of them and they all are similar, like this one.
Hope you all enjoyed your weekend.
Here's another one. Use your outside voices. Love it.
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Little hot down here today, but I do love living in Clearwater. I like to kayak and get out on the water in the early AM. So nice.
Clearwater/St. Pete runs these ads (I don't know why they run the locally, doesn't make any sense). They are really nice. There's a whole bunch of them and they all are similar, like this one.
Hope you all enjoyed your weekend.
Taught a Biab class today down on 590 south of you had great weather (2) ended up not taking their beer so I ended up getting stuck with 10 gallons of Pilsner
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I might not explain this well enough to make sense. Reading Bobbi's last post gave me a thought. As you all know, because I remind you often enough. I spent most of my adult life in the military. From day one in the military you spend enormous amounts of time with each other and end up getting to know a person pretty well. Lifelong friendships are made.
A few weeks ago I called a guy I knew very well from over 20 years ago. Last time I saw him and his family was in 1993. We were stationed together in Japan from 1983-1988. It was as if no time had passed we just talked for about an hour.
As the years went by, moving and changing duty stations whether it be right down the street or on the other side of the world I'd quickly get settled in and surrounded with like people, sometimes not under the best conditions but we became part of each other's life. Another weird thing about spending a life in the military is even though you might move to a new station you always end up seeing a person again, or inevitably talk to a person that knew your old friend.. It's a big circle.
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I spent most of my adult life in the military. From day one in the military you spend enormous amounts of time with each other and end up getting to know a person pretty well. Lifelong friendships are made. A few weeks ago I called a guy I knew very well from over 20 years ago. Last time I saw him and his family was in 1993. We were stationed together in Japan from 1983-1988. It was as if no time had passed we just talked for about an hour.
As the years went by, moving and changing duty stations whether it be right down the street or on the other side of the world I'd quickly get settled in and surrounded with like people, sometimes not under the best conditions but we became part of each other's life. Another weird thing about spending a life in the military is even though you might move to a new station you always end up seeing a person again, or inevitably talk to a person that knew your old friend.. It's a big circle.
I'm going to keep this short. (at least for one of my posts)
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PP, looks like paradise!
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Happy Sunday folks.
Dan, you're right! With good friends you can pick up right where you left off. Even after many years.
It's hot today here, as well. So I'm getting my PBR on whilst grilling some meat!
Cheers!
Dan, you're right! With good friends you can pick up right where you left off. Even after many years.
It's hot today here, as well. So I'm getting my PBR on whilst grilling some meat!
Cheers!
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Ya know LG? At one point I would probably have said eww to your past post. Luckily, my daughter has opened my eyes a bit to music. (EDIT) And so have you LG!
I like the song you posted. Will admit, don't like every song you have posted but that ain't you. That's my closed mindedness. Give me time.
It's been chemistry to rescue twice so far. First drano crystals to fix my bathroom sink drain a couple days ago. Then Goo Gone to get rid of the stubborn adhesive residue on a wine bottle for me.
I've got my beer all bottled with priming sugar. My cider is in the bottling bucket with some bentonite powder. For some reason I was thinking that would be ready to bottle tomorrow. It's more likely to be 3-4 days though.
The rice is cooling for the new batch or red rice wine. Once I'm sure it's all the way cooled off I'll harvest the previous batch and use the discards in the new one. That way I don't need to use more dried RYR or rice yeast balls. The main batch will go back in the drink dispenser and get some bentonite powder. Once that's cleared I'll pasteurize and bottle it. I'd like to age some this time and see how it changes.
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I consider that song to be metaphorical, and therefore non-creepy.Ya know LG? At one point I would probably have said eww to your past post. Luckily, my daughter has opened my eyes a bit to music. (EDIT) And so have you LG!
I like the song you posted. Will admit, don't like every song you have posted but that ain't you. That's my closed mindedness. Give me time.
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Just got an update on SpotTheStation Space station. (Thank you PP)
Seems as though it always appears overhead around 4-5 in the morning. Man, I'm dead asleep at the time. Do you think NASA would change their schedule for me? Ahahahah..
Seems as though it always appears overhead around 4-5 in the morning. Man, I'm dead asleep at the time. Do you think NASA would change their schedule for me? Ahahahah..
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Have you seen this video, I got lost on youtube. He thought he killed this guy, but the guy was just knocked out. This was earlier this year. Then a couple days ago he was arrested for beating a guy to death because he says he was drugged and assaulted. A sad story, really.
Kai, the hatchet wielding hitchhiker. Original unedited interview and his story checked out although he did lie about where he was from, but gave that wink.
Kai, the hatchet wielding hitchhiker. Original unedited interview and his story checked out although he did lie about where he was from, but gave that wink.
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Dang, that is exactly what I wanted to be doing today. But it did not happen.
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Sorry it didn't happen for you.
Once the weather gets hot I grill almost every Sunday.
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This was the guy that saved somebody and now he his being arrested? Cause he killed a guy, if I remember right (didn't re-watch the video) a guy ran a person down and was trying to kill another after that? That's when our "Trevor Hall" looking peace lover to the killer out.
What's the purpose of the bentonite powder?
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LabRatBrewer said:
It's a clarifier... Something about being positively charged and neutralizing negatively charged sediment, or some such.
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So much for anybody else being a protective citizen.
I have got to buy a grill this year. I didn't have the money last year with buying my house.
Pretty much. It's got a pretty strong charge, so other particulate matter tends to stick to it. That forms large enough clumps that they drop out of suspension.
About a month ago, I took the trub from a batch of concord wine that went a little meaty added salt to it to make it a saturated salt solution and bottled it. It's pretty much soy sauce now. Not so fruity as when I bottled, and much more meaty. Interesting experiment. In another couple months I'll side by side it with some commercial soy sauce and see how things stack up.
Any of you late nighters have a favorite lager you can link me to. Since I can now control the temp down to nice cold levels I thought I'd brew a lager. Thanks.
I got the large red rice wine batch harvested. I was looking at the beverage dispenser it was in. I think I misremembered. I think it's a 3 gallon dispenser. So I've got about 1 1/2 gallons of red rice wine. Back in the dispenser after removing the starch solids, and with 1 1/2 tsp bentonite powder in it. Sorry, no pictures. My camera battery was dead and hasn't charged yet.
I mixed the leftover starch mass with the now cool rice. I did this with my hands, the rice paddle thing wasn't cutting it. It's really red, like fatty ground beef red. That's hanging out in a food grade 5 gallon bucket with an airlock.
I was going to make ice cream again tonight, but I might pass. It's late and I'm kinda tired.
I mixed the leftover starch mass with the now cool rice. I did this with my hands, the rice paddle thing wasn't cutting it. It's really red, like fatty ground beef red. That's hanging out in a food grade 5 gallon bucket with an airlock.
I was going to make ice cream again tonight, but I might pass. It's late and I'm kinda tired.
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Mmm 4 more days till I am grilling over a campfire. It has been raining all weekend here so I have been working inside. A buddy had a mini 4 wheeler that he has no spark and it will not run. I spent the better part of a day finding out what was wrong with the stupid thing simply because it is a cheap Chinese knock off. Turns out you can not get parts for those so I am going to take a ford ignition module and wire it in:rockin:
Pretty much got everything ready for camping and have been thinking about brewing a gallon batch up there. Not sure how that will work though because I will not be able to control the temps at all.
Pretty much got everything ready for camping and have been thinking about brewing a gallon batch up there. Not sure how that will work though because I will not be able to control the temps at all.
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