Recent content by manaalaq

I am not a beer specialist... nor really a bug specialist, but ticks have eight legs... you look to have something from the coleoptera family there (beetle which is an insect). The picture is a little blurry, but it looks to have six legs and three body segments... is that true? If so, don't...

I'll explain the dry village thing a little better. It is illegal for anyone to have, buy, sell, make, or consume alcoholic beverages of any kind. We just don't really have any law in town... that means, the only people that really have anything to worry about are teachers. If we get in...

I am still in the dreaming phase as my family is moving from a dry village to a wet one (Alaska has three different levels of alcohol laws). Dry village= everybody but teachers have alcohol. Damp= you can import it and consume it at your house. Wet= like most of the main-48. Anyway... as...

Cool. Thanks for all of the information. I'll look around at some of the cabelas type stores in Los Anchorage when we go in this summer. We are looking at flying out of here on the 21st. Our kids are outgrowing their cold weather gear and we'll be spending some green as we try to update...

We have been planning on making a batch of fireweed jelly for a while now and a good canning pot would be nice to have around, especially if I can use it for more than one thing. We have an enamel pot of decent size, but it has been downgraded to boiling traps... nasty thought of mixing those...

I am hoping to be able to do my boil right on my stove top. Those turkey fryers seem to be a little big for that. I will be able to get gas a lot easier where I will be living next year, but it is still expensive as it is either sent in via barge in the summer or haz-mat by plane in the...

I have done quite a bit of reading on this site, but I can't remember reading an answer to my question. I am just getting started and need some advice on a brew pot that will get me started without killing my pocketbook. Size, material type, source? I am thinking I will buy an equipment kit...