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    odd fruit.......anyone try buffaloberry mead?

    was down along the river last night and noticed the buffaloberry bushes(Shepherdia argetea) are just loaded with fruit due to a long wet spring.....they are a pain in the arse to harvest....the fruit are small, yah have to wait till after a good frost for them to taste good(they are bitter till...
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    Moving story about a feral child

    i dont know if i could have resisted putting the mother down like a bad dog with a bullet to the brain pan..has to be one of the most well written moving stories ive read..... http://tampabay.com/features/humaninterest/article750838.ece
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    any other hunters around?

    the drawings are finally done here in MT.......grand total for special draws are a speed goat tag for both the wife and i and my oldest stepdaughter has pulled a special youth cow elk tag for her first year hunting......add that to the "A" deer tag all three of us already have......2 doe...
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    wierd question......will corn starch cause any issues?

    all right ill explain........ive got a few gallons of my first mead, its spent a month in the primary and am thinking of splitting it into two batches.....the first im thinking of adding chamomile flowers to since i have some in bloom and like chamomile tea and i have read chamomile and mead go...
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    sweet cherries.....are they worth using?

    in most of what i read on brewing/wine/mead making tart cherries are used.....well they are hard to come by up here in BFE so im planting some of my own but wont have much for cherries for a few years.....however i should have access to large quantities of fresh sweet cherries in the next month...
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    suggestions - (sweet mead recipe)

    never made mead but...... ive got 7 pounds of blackberry honey ive got EC-1118, Danstar Nottingham and Fermentis Safale US-05 dry ale yeast suggestions for a sweet mead? its 300 miles to the nearest brewery store so this is what ive got but i can get locally produced alfalfa honey if i...
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    for gun and gadget looneys..........

    in general im not a fan of Glocks......not that they arent a good handgun, i just prefer the looks of 1911's......................but if Magpul starts making these i think i wont buy one......might have to get one for the Jeep, one for the truck and one for the nightstand :D
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    ATF looks to ban world smallest handgun................WTF

    they say someone might sneak it into court houses or airplanes......................so what? you would do more damage throwing your shoe at someone..........if someone shot me with it and it actually hit skin(HIGHLY doubt it will go through anything thicker than a t-shirt) , it might sting a bit...
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    showing off my green thumb...........

    one of my other hobbies is growing plants, be it veggies, fruit trees or my favorite, carnivorous plants Nepenthes bongso from Sumatra small pitcher larger pitcher just opening my lil Nepenthes hamata from Sulawesi
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    lots of head space question.............

    ive got a 7 gal ale pail......any problems with mixing a 3 or so gal batch in it and letting it ferment out? not planning on letting it sit much longer than required to ferment in the pail..............
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    cider question.....quick fermentation?

    i made 2-5 gallon batches of cider one with 2 pounds of brown sugar added.....the other had a couple of cans of Oregon Raspberries added...........the airlock bubbled like mad for about two weeks than stopped......i tried it via a turkey baster last weekend and it tasted like wine more or...
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    first shot at brewing...........

    for me: 5 gallons tree top apple juice 1 can tree top apple juice concentrate 2 pounds brown sugar 1-11g package of Danstar Windsor yeast for the wife: 5 gal tree top apple juice 1 can store brand raspberry & apple juice concentrate 4-15 oz cans Oregon Raspberries in heavy syrup 1-11g...
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    newby from the middle of nowhere in Montana

    new to brewing. found this site when someone on a plant forum told me to search for Edwort's apfelwien :) mainly interested in brewing ciders and mead type brews. picked up a couple ale pales and such at my LHBS(which is roughly 300 miles away) planning on making a slightly modified version of...
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