My best recipe vs... 'variety'

Howdy Ya'll,

My best recipe for homebrew ale,
'mein' 7Lb - 7.5 - 8Lb Hammerbier,
is the best I can produce,
its my very best.
Better than 'store bought' beer or ale,
half again as strong, and not over carbonated,
Its just my favorite.
'Fermintis Safale 56 and S-04 yeast, and DME.'
Besides quantity of DME and various combinations and amounts of hops, there is no variety, thats it.
Period.

Now ya'll I love variety and when I go to the beer store I get several different types of beer and wine.
And lately I have been throwing in a bottle of
'Casadores' tequila
or a fifth of 'Famous Grouse',
and next time I am going for a half gallon of rum.
But back to variety,
I love variety.

I told my disability judge that I brewed between 50-100 gallons every year between the first and last killing frost,
hog killing season, you know.
In order to minimize the incidence of air borne spoilage micro organisms.
The judge {who was ex military and had horses too} said:
" But Knife, why do you stop at 100 gallons,
the max legal amount is 200 gallons?"
Well, you honor sir, you just get tired of it thats all,
{Variety, you know.}
The wise old judge looked down at me and said:
"Yes Knife, after 100 gallons of your homebrew ...
I would think I'd get tired of it too."
The judge laughed out loud and after a moment of that, I said:
Hey! ... its not that bad!

And he laughed at that too.

But back to Variety...
Like Rotell canned sauce... the original is the best.
Thats why it is the original, it is the best.
All their attempts at variety are inferior,
as the original is the best and can't be improved upon.
Even the Rotell company itself can't possibly improve upon it.
Its the best.

The same with my homebrew.
'Mein Sieben Pfund Hammerbier'
at 6% alcohol is my best and to differ from what is best for the sake of variety...
is an exercise in futility.
I don't put coffee or grapefruit rinds in there either,
or make it too strong.
I still bottle because I like the experiance of walking into my brewery and looking up at all those shelves filled with hundreds of clean green bottles full of my homebrew.
But variety ...


I'll just go get me a homebrew,
and for variety...
a shot of Cactus juice...
or Scotch...

J. Knife and .Sandymay

I didn't know the word "ya'll" was actually written out. I thought it was just a spoken phenomenon. How strange. Then again I do write out the word "wicked". As in wicked awesome. But even my friends with thick Boston/South Shore accents don't write "wicked ah-some". Hmmm...

-Ben

what about wicked piss-ah?

Ben Dude,

I just noticed your interest in the word 'Ya'll'.
And that you were from Massachusetts too.
I have been in Brockton Mass.
Have friends up there.
'Ya'll' as far as being a written rather than a spoken term,
is actually relatively uncommon, even down here.
However myself, being a published poet and an author,
use 'ya'll' as a 'Texas' colloquialism and a comfortable familarism.
A contraction and westernisation of the southern 'You All'.
You all - Ya'll.
And a linquistic contraction of the yankee
'Youse guys'
And since it has been used, {by me}
it is actually used as a 'common usage term' in the general
{American}
english language.


'Ya'll be careful'

'and don't git none on ya'

Jack the Knife

Chief" What him say?"....
Brave" Him say burn down fort"

Actually, I think (from living there four years) that "youse guys" is really a Chicago-ism. Dem and Deez and Doze....

Jim Dude,
'Chicago-ism', got it.
Thank you, I stand corrected.

Knife

Cheers to you, Jack.

Knife, you always leave us with more than you take.
Thanks.