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    The Walking dead

    i don't read the comics, but i would if there was spin off about the adventures of daryl's evil brother's severed hand. I thought for sure they would run with that.
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    Worst Commercial Beer You've Ever Had?

    I'm with you on the triple bock- i split a case with a buddy in 94. we paid 120 bucks for it, and that was the most i could ever imagine paying for beer back then. we drank bottles on and off over the years, and not a one has improved with age- in fact many of the corks dried out and rotted in...
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    Flanders Red Input

    if you just lathe or whittle a leg to plug the opening like a tapered bung stopper, and jam it in until it seems airtight, it could crack the glass when it swells- if you put a nice cushion of teflon tape around it, you get a nice seal and it won't crack the neck.
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    Primary in a wine barrel

    levi was trying to quell a desire to use a barrel that had been sitting empty for three years...
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    Primary in a wine barrel

    it sounds like you are doing everything right- i don't get vinegar in my barrels- i do top with argon anytime i pull the bung, but there is also a pellicle in the barrel which is protecting the beer from the o2 in the headspace- as for the o2 permeating the wood and getting into the liquid-...
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    Hibiscus Mead technique?

    i used hibiscus that i got in the spanish spice aisle - we use them for jamaica. I used one full package of them for a gallon. they are dried and it would probably be about two cups worth. I did the steep method like for tea- i let the tea cool and added honey to that. i did three pounds of...
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    Primary in a wine barrel

    oh and in asia they call it rambic. i am assuming that there it is made from full grown sheep, not just the babies.
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    Primary in a wine barrel

    i primary-ed in my barrel and it did krausen up - i have a pic somewhere - it looks like a mushroom cloud billowing out of the top. I left about four fingers of headspace below the bunghole. I just let the krausen run all down the sides and onto the floor, then when it was done- i topped off...
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    Neat fact about white labs vials

    is that really true? is it through white labs or your LHBS?
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    How Do I Put This?

    i'm having an extra testicle installed. i think it will help improve my balance.
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    What are you drinking now?

    home brewed gose. i love opening a corked bottle of HB.
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    Evil face in your beer!

    do you ever see evil faces in your pee bubbles in the toilet? I peed on jimi hendrix until he turned into larry david, this morning. But i don't consider either of them to be evil.
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    Secondary with B. lambicus

    Are there any wineries in north queensland?- i got one of mine from a brewery and one from a winery. They may not have any available, but will probably put you on a waiting list.
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    If only we could get rid of the big 3

    well i grew up on yuengling and don't love either of the three beers you are raging against- but i know i can damn sure taste the difference in all of them. Are they similar? - yes, they share certain traits and characteristics. Laugh all you want- they don't taste the same.
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    bottle the 1 gal. batch soon...

    i use the carbonation tablets for my 1 gallon batches.
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