Recent content by Chops

Well I'm just west of Steelers 77 in Brodhead with Fuggles, Cascade, and Hallertau all growing pretty well in their second season.

well it's now June, is this better? http://www.mtolympuspark.com/

we do, but on a rainy night when the kids are already in bed it's nice to play something together instead of watching some mindless drivel on tv

wii sports and raving rabbids on the wii are also two great games when you've been drinking. I'll have to look into portal 2, I found Untold Legends on a search earlier, seems like a split-screen Elder Scrolls, which she played as well.

These are all neat ideas, that Mokume Gane is very nice but pricey. I like the damascus steel concept, there's a big press, anvil, and forge in Grandpa's old workshop that would probably get the job done. My plan on the copper and aluminum was to gently pour them in simutaneously on opposite...

looking more for a split-screen co-op game

swmbo and I enjoy ratchet and clank but they're single player, she's played borderlands with me but she's not into fps games like call of duty. we've also enjoyed most of the lego games (the harry potter one feels disjointed and unstructured). Anybody have a suggestion for a game we could play...

I had an idea but I'm not sure what would happen. If I melted copper and aluminum separately but poured them into a mold together would they bond into one piece without completely mixing into an alloy? Basically I wanted to turn a tap handle with more character to it kind of like having wood...

I remember reading the back of a trident package when I was younger, "has been shown to cause cancer in lab rats." how do you get a rat to chew gum and not eat it?

After drinking whatever crap I could get my hands on in high school I got stationed in Bavaria, talk about a whole new world.

I used to be a garbage man and one of my weekly stops was a middle aged single guy that did the same thing, every week he'd have a 35-gallon can filled with CRUSHED miller lite cans. As far as I could tell he was quite unpopular in the neighborhood so most likely they were all his. As far as...

These all look great! The route I took to get a hop strainer is a little different though. Step 1 get a job at a machine shop Step 2 find an 8 in diameter X 12 in tall SS basket in the scrap bin Step 3 pay the $5 that it's worth in scrap Step 4 clean Step 5 use on my next brew day

Crooked Spine Brewery, not sure how mine ended up curved wrong and my wife has scoliosis

I was one of those too. I also had a buddy in high school who was allowed to drink at home so at parties drinking wasn't a big deal to him and was very responsible about it (well most of the time). My two have been helping me since they were 5 and 7, steeping grains, bottling, etc. They've...

I know I'm not Yooper but I thought I'd chime in. Midwest Supplies is only out of stock for the Sprecher Diet Root Beer, everything else is still there.