Tastes like it was brewed the hard way.
Bawhahahah let's not beat that horse again until Super Bowl "L"
Tastes like it was brewed the hard way.
You can't?
There's no way that doesn't taste like cough syrup.
Yeah, you can milk anything that has nipples.
Haha. I see what you did there focker.
Some of this thread's comments concerned risks in making alcohol at home. Beside comments about taxation, I saw comments about distillation contaminants, including wood alcohol and antifreeze.
I think the risk of blindness with illegal 'stills' was due to some folks putting (inexpensive) wood chips into the mash (making "Wood Alcohol" which is methanol). Methanol binds to the optic nerve (blindness). 1 teaspoon can blind an adult. Antifreeze is usually ethylene glycol, which human livers convert to oxalate. Oxalate crystallizes in cells and they die. Important stuff like kidneys, liver.
Fun fact: To solve both of these you use dialysis, but for methanol ingestions until you can get it set up, you start IV ethanol (goal is to get the blood level to 0.1 mg/dl). In a methanol ingestion, ethanol binds to the optic nerve better, blocking methanol and preventing some of the damage. Years ago, I had a 4-year-old who had swallowed methanol. When her ethanol level reached 0.1, she uttered the universal phrase: "I really love you guys..."
There's something special about ethanol, isn't there...
There's something special about ethanol, isn't there...
Saw a billboard for these earlier. View attachment 259407 alloy series...
Boiling wood chips in ethanol does NOT produce methanol. Please do your homework and stop regurgitating fallacies which further misconceptions about the D word and hinder legalization efforts.
And we really should not be discussing this here at all. I enjoy this thread. Please dont get it locked.
On the topic of Steel Reezy:
http://dontdrinkbeer.com/2012/03/23...ot-211-problems-and-this-beer-is-all-but-one/
In the comments of an article about the Small BREW Act someone posted a comment saying "they are just trying to give craft brewers like Samuel Adams a break while Bud, miller, and coors suffer"
I almost spit my beer out
I suppose with the 6 million barrel definition, these are all micro-breweries again?
EDIT:
We need a new term. I propose the term "Pico-brewery". That will be the new definition of any brewery producing less than 1 million - 6 barrels a year of product. Anything less than that is simply a home brewer.
For reference:
More than 6 million barrels a year but less than a 100 million= Craft brewery
Between 6 million barrels a year and 1 million barrels = Micro brewery
Between 1 million barrels a year and 6 barrels = Pico Brewery
Less than 6 barrels a year = Home brewer
Is this about right? Granted, I'm blowing wind with a beer in hand.....
On the topic of Steel Reezy:
http://dontdrinkbeer.com/2012/03/23...ot-211-problems-and-this-beer-is-all-but-one/
Awesome read. Nailed the appearance as being the only good thing!
Less than 6 barrels a year = Home brewer
Hey, before you knock Steel Reserve, remember that it takes some pretty talented brewing to be so consistent...I bet you couldn't homebrew a high gravity lager as well as they could...when you've got nothing to hide behind except your high ABV, those off flavors start getting pretty apparent!
And don't forget that SR has it's place, just like any beer... If it's wicked hot out and I've just mown the lawn, I love me a good PBR, but if I'm just trying to get f*&Ked up on the cheap, nothing beats a good couple Steel Reserves!
Of the cheap brews that are sold as singles at gas stations, SR is the best. I don't know about the fruit one. It's full of flavor, esp compared to a king can of miller light, etc.
Hey, before you knock Steel Reserve, remember that it takes some pretty talented brewing to be so consistent...I bet you couldn't homebrew a high gravity lager as well as they could...when you've got nothing to hide behind except your high ABV, those off flavors start getting pretty apparent!
And don't forget that SR has it's place, just like any beer... If it's wicked hot out and I've just mown the lawn, I love me a good PBR, but if I'm just trying to get f*&Ked up on the cheap, nothing beats a good couple Steel Reserves!
You only brew 6 barrels a year? Better pick up the pace!
The problem is these are all just marketing terms that can mean whatever you want them to mean.
Regardless, I don't think anyone would mistake Yeungling for a craft brewer.
Hey, before you knock Steel Reserve, remember that it takes some pretty talented brewing to be so consistent...I bet you couldn't homebrew a high gravity lager as well as they could...when you've got nothing to hide behind except your high ABV, those off flavors start getting pretty apparent!
And don't forget that SR has it's place, just like any beer... If it's wicked hot out and I've just mown the lawn, I love me a good PBR, but if I'm just trying to get f*&Ked up on the cheap, nothing beats a good couple Steel Reserves!
Father in-law found my mashing paddle, asked if I used it to keep SWMBO in line lolz!
Father in-law found my mashing paddle, asked if I used it to keep SWMBO in line lolz!
In a methanol ingestion, ethanol binds to the optic nerve better, blocking methanol and preventing some of the damage.
Lager Ale = Kölsch
My Father and FIL both tried my homemade Pale Ale (5.5% 44IBU).
They both agreed not bad.
They both indicated it was bitter (they both are commercial lager drinkers)
Then FIL said: "kind of reminds me of Guinness, because of the bitterness. But you cant repair a driveway with it, not like you can with Guinness. You can tar a roof with that stuff".
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