Recent content by troy2000

OK, I give up on the pictures. Haven't managed to cross paths with my son the electronics/computer whiz, and still haven't figured out why every computer I hook my phone up to insists there's nothing to import. At least I have it narrowed down to the phone now. On to the brew day... to put it...

The next step was to steep the pods in hot water. Basically like mashing them, except that the sugar's already there and no enzymes are needed. Most people who do this boil down the results to make mesquite syrup. Supposedly the darker you roast the pods, the less time you need to extract...

Slight progress on the photo's: my laptop now admits my phone is connected. But when I hit <import pictures and videos> it says there are none. !@#$%... Anyway, back to the subject: mesquite beans themselves are rock-hard little bundles of protein and nutrition. It takes a stone metate or...

I haven't brewed anything for about a year. Didn't plan it that way; life just kept getting in the way. So I set out to brew a nice, straightforward saison just to get back into the groove. Then I noticed all sorts of mesquite beans laying around outside my travel trailer, and a little light...

Bacon 'n Bourbon Anadama Bread. I started with a basic anadama bread recipe (flour, cornmeal, salt, yeast, molasses, water and butter), and substituted bacon grease for the butter. Then I fried a couple of bacon slices until they were good and crispy, crumbled them into the dough, and added a 1...

I don't think this qualifies as cooking, but I'll toss it in anyway. I had a yen for a Bloody Mary, but no Bloody Mary mix on hand. It was drizzling rain outside, I was barefoot with a couple of drinks down me already, and there was no way I was going to drive somewhere to buy some. So I...

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I'm not a machinist, but I think about the most threads per inch you'll see on a 1/2" tap is thirty two, and they'd be pretty shallow threads. I doubt your thermowell has that many threads per inch. So the odds of getting a tight and strong connection are pretty low because you'll have at most...

You don't own the same Webster's I do, apparently. In mine anarchist and liberal are two separate words, with very different meanings. How do you square your description of liberals as anarchists with the common conservative belief that liberals love big government? That seems like a pretty...

You'd use a thread tap, which cuts the threads as you screw it into the hole. But I think most stainless steel pots are too thin to provide secure threads for a 1/2" or thereabouts fitting...

One of my brothers had a father-in-law who was justly renowned for his marinade/BBQ sauce. He used to send his sister in the Midwest a gallon of it every year, but he never gave her the recipe. I was having coffee with him one morning as he went thru his mail, and he passed me a letter from...

Basically, 'crazy taken to a whole new level.' Comes from a youtube video posted about three years ago, according to knowyourmeme.com: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/cray-cray

And the bartender says, "what is this? Some kind of a joke?"

Lighten up. I think even professional brewers are allowed to go off the clock and do their own thing now and then; their breweries don't own them 24/7. And there's nothing surprising about the notion that maybe their own thing is homebrewing, since that's probably where they started. I was...

I have a 55 gal steel, epoxy-lined drum with a lid, that was used to ship frozen carrot juice. But I'm saving it to make a tandoor oven...