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- been making soda both fermentation and force carb for about a year....am now getting into cider and wine.
- Outdoors stuff,Kayaking golf hunting and fishing.
- I am a Milwright by trade but currenlty working for DOD as a precision rigger and crane operator
- Kevin Young
- classic rock
- Historical Military movies, Red Tails, Pacific, Band of Brothers. Black Hawk down (went to school with one of the guys who got the Medal of Honor portrayed in that movie) Randal Shugart.
- Revolution, Last Resort
- Fire and Ice series, what the HBO series Game of Thrones is based on
- Just started December 2011......I have a pretty extensive work shop ( I am a millwright so I can weld, do electrical work. I was an electronics tech in Army and I am a licensed HVAC tech) I had alot of the equipment around my shop to get started with very little investment. I traded in one of my welding bottles for a CO2 bottle and had an unused Nitrogen regulator laying around the shop that all i neded was an adaptor to use for CO2. I bought a 5 gal Korney keg and wala I started making sodas. I have made a couple of small batches of grape soda and rootbeer.........grape was great root beer not so much yet.....
- been doing soda for about a year am currently making Hard Iced Tea, Affelwein (Ed Worts recipe) and some freeze fortified Apple Jack
- Affelwein, and Hard Iced Tea,
- Apple Jack
- I have kegged birch beer and root beer, grape soda.
- Male
- Married
- Newville
- Pa
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Posted in thread: Irish style cider on 01-02-2013 at 11:45 AM
Yes Hunting laws in PA are the only place where church and state have an incestuous
relationship. It’s OK for the government to dis allow manger scenes on public property,
or to remove the 10 co...Posted in thread: Irish style cider on 01-01-2013 at 03:36 AM
I liked it a lot.......wished Id bought more when I was in Michigan. Have not seen it around
here in PA.....PA has the most antiquated liquor stores in all of America. You have to buy beer
at a beer d...Posted in thread: Irish style cider on 12-31-2012 at 01:51 PM
Ok at the risk of looking more stupid then normal.....I was in Michigan this week and bought
several ciders at a great brew shop / alcohol vendor. I bought a pear cider (Magners) that said
Irish on it...Posted in thread: Help Me Get Into Guns... on 12-15-2012 at 10:03 PM
My handgun of choice is the Colt 1911, Its not a sexy gun like a Glock or a HK but it is a
proven platform, easy to take apart and put back together. It is still one of the most
duplicated and most mo...Posted in thread: Help Me Get Into Guns... on 12-14-2012 at 10:21 AM
If you are going to get a hand gun don't start out with a Glock or Glock like pistol I suggest
a 22 rim fire pistol such as a Ruger 22 or a Browning 22 or even a revolver. 22S are cheap to
shoot and a...Posted in thread: Welcome USMC6590 on 12-01-2012 at 07:46 PM
Welcome to my son USMC6590' He and I have been making wine together even though he is on Active
duty in North Carolina and Im at home in PA.Posted in thread: what is the best way to resize the hole in a carboy bung on 11-25-2012 at 01:50 AM
Dremel makes a bit that works well on woods and plastics and rubber its a tungsten bit that
costs about 15$ at most home improvement stores It won't load up but it will take off your hide
in a hurry i...Posted in thread: Freeze concentration on 11-25-2012 at 12:00 AM
an old man who told me how to make apple jack or how he made it back in the day. He told me to
put my finished cider in a bucket and put it in a chest freezer and after a day or so use a
screen or a s...Posted in thread: Hard Iced Tea on 11-21-2012 at 02:34 AM
Ok this is what I did.....5 gals of sugar sweetened Swiss Premium Lemon tea cooler, One can of
frozen lemon aid. 4 lbs of cane sugar, yeast and yeast nutrient. Wine yeast. It started
fermenting slow b...Posted in thread: Hard Iced Tea on 11-18-2012 at 12:49 PM
I'm headed to the store but I'm buying Swiss Premium Ice Tea Lemon aid Cooler to use as my base
and I'm jumping right in to a 5 gallon batch. Sounds like one gallon is a waste of time.
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