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Based on my discussions and experiences with them, they buy alcohol commercially (just like your or I would) and then give it away to clients for free. Works well in a setting like that, were people might have to wait a few minutes, but aren't likely to hang around all day like you sometimes see...

Yeah, federal and state laws both apply. Oregon does not require any license to give away alcohol in connection with something else. There are quite a few barber shops in Portland that I'm aware of that do this. I believe that Oregon's statutes also only refer to the explicit sale of alcohol...

Huh, I seem to be in the minority here. PC gamer to the bitter end.

Deschutes Obsidian Stout. Needed a bit for a recipe I'm making. Have to do something with the rest!

Nope, still no good! Even under the influence of Portlandia.

No, it isn't. I'm not talking about the wounding capacity of the round; it is phenomenal. I'm not talking about the lethality of the round; it is more than adequate in many situations. I'm talking about the likelihood of a .224 bullet penetrating an interior wall and injuring or killing...

.45 ACP and 00 buck will penetrate just as readily as .223 Rem, and retain more lethality in doing do. Not to suggest that .223 won't also be lethal, but it will be less so. This isn't true of all rifle rounds at all, but the .224 bullet's combination of shape, weight and speed all play into it...

I did the same thing with my first all grain batch, also BIAB. Even forgot the Whirlfloc! I tried playing with isinglass when I racked to secondary to dry hop (I don't think it helped), but everything cleared up just fine. They pour a little hazy, like every other beer I've ever brewed, which I...

Russian River

Well, I'm torn on this one. I really dislike that it's another BMC attempt at playing craft. But I accept at face value that it's true to a recipe that was in use before Prohibition. And I think that's cool. I drank some last weekend at a local microbrew festival and enjoyed it well enough...

There's no such thing as the best beer in the world. Unless you're talking about The Abyss ;) I'm a big Red Chair fan, as well. Which is good, because it was Cinder Cone (the old recipe, not the new one that lasted one batch before being axed) that really got me into beer. And the Red Chair...

Can't say I've ever encountered this before. But as with some others, I rarely have Oakshire in the bottle. From the tap, it's always been good. I've been to their brewery once, and I sure don't recall seeing anything resembling a bottling line, but that doesn't mean much of anything. Here in...

Yeah, lead is illegal everywhere for waterfowl. I use steel exclusively, and 2 3/4 has proven more than sufficient. Same for geese, though if I seriously expect to be taking a shot at some, I will swap to BB loads.

3 1/2 for duck? Not necessary! I've hunted my entire life with a 2 3/4" Winchester Model 1912, and it's plenty good at killing duck. And geese, for that matter. Don't let that dissuade you with you really want a Super Nova, but don't sell yourself up just because you think you need the longer...

Monopoly is rarely the correct word. MLB is a monopoly. Commercial brewing in America is an oligopoly, the economic effects of which are not substantially dissimilar to those of a monopoly. AB Inbev currently holds something like 39% of the domestic market. MillerCoors holds another 26%...

It's a magazine subscription. My girlfriend bought me this last autumn. BC is a nice magazine, but much more akin to Cigar Aficionado than to BYO or Zymurgy. Also, it only publishes quarterly, I believe, and is fairly thin for such a long cycle. That said, I get the impression that it's the baby...

Yeah! I want in! Good, good stuff up there...

Yeah, 4-7 days before racking and bottling. But I'll be dry hopping this batch. Does that matter? In other words, should I just add the fining agent a week before bottling (i.e., along with my dry hop charge), or should I add it in, wait a week, and then dry hop? Or does it just not...

Having nothing better to do today than buy grain and watch my yeast grow, I've been drinking lots. In some kind of order: my own make of something. It's either an imperial dunkelweizen, or a weizenbock. Not sure. Then, there was a Ninkasi Sleigher, a Full Sail Wreck the Halls, a Double Mountain...

Not the weekend, but I'm going to brew up another batch tomorrow before I head home for Christmas. It'll be my first all grain batch, BIAB-style. Doing a fairly simple American IPA that should be ready for dry hopping just about the time I return. Not really a clone of anything. I was given an...