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I like the bracket you made. Needlessly complicated, but not overly so. Just right.
I like it too. I could see it being more complicated but not by much.
hunter_le five
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Congration to those that remain. Onto Round the Third.
hunter_le five
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Nah, Clint got out in the first round. NotClint is kicking ass so far though.
Just want a door knocker to hand a piece of paper that reads nothing more than to call me or send me an email. Cost to fly there and spend a night or two is about $800-$900. Cost to replace the panel, much more. Cost to go to court, not sure but I am looking into it.
@hunter_la5 I have a suzuki savage.
iijakii
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All the cool kids have Suzukis.
hunter_le five
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I tried to buy one "for my wife", but she saw right through that.
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1977Brewer
Free Dan Hess.
What else is the bike doing?
I've been using StarTron lately with good results, todays gas sucks.
It feels sluggish and it has stalled twice on a busy highway. It also smokes a little from the exhaust and I need to replace the gasket because the engine has something on it that is leaking. Assumption is a gasket.
It's not the burning oil smell is it? That is definitely no bueno. Isn't/wasnt there a motorcycle surgeon here in the house?
The sluggishness, stalling and smoke could all be the gummed up carb, the leak is hard to see from here, if you want to send pics I look but my suggestion would to clean the area and run/take it for a ride and try to determine where it's coming from. How big of a leak is it?
Here, not a Suzuki expert by any means but the Savage is pretty simple
Just for that, I'm carpet bombing your front. door with more saisons
Are we doing QOTD anymore? I would think a good one might be:
What got you into brewing and what was your first beer? Drinkable?
hunter_le five
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QOTD: I got into brewing because I was underage and not cool enough to have friends that were of age reasons. Procured a beer making equipment kit and bottles from a LHBS, and immediately set out to make some hard cider, because it sounded easy. 5 gallons of cheap apple juice, white sugar, bread yeast. Came out extremely sour, estery, and yeasty, because I had no clue what I was doing. Me and my roommates drank it all anyway. It was many years before I attempted another cider.
Then I remembered seeing beer ingredient kits at the shop, and thought I'd try that. Extract altbier, fermented way too warm, because again I didn't know what I was doing. We all thought it tasted great, compared to that cider at least.
Then I remembered seeing beer ingredient kits at the shop, and thought I'd try that. Extract altbier, fermented way too warm, because again I didn't know what I was doing. We all thought it tasted great, compared to that cider at least.
I had to fill in extra credit hours to be a full time student my last semester in college. Found out we had a beer brewing course. Met only once a week for 3 hrs on Friday afternoon but you could bring beer to drink in the class. Once got to a place where I wasn't moving every 6 months or so, I immediately started brewing
First batch was a hefeweizen. Drinkable, but not executed well at all. Second one, a porter, turned out well enough to share with strangers. Looking back, I should have made a saison. No temp control required
First batch was a hefeweizen. Drinkable, but not executed well at all. Second one, a porter, turned out well enough to share with strangers. Looking back, I should have made a saison. No temp control required
It seemed so cool. And I liked drinking beer. I figured I could make award-winning brews in no time. Many years later, I have one bronze medal and one silver medal to show for it. Of course I've only entered 3 competitions so I think I'm doing ok.
My first beer was a Mr. Beer kit. I don't remember it but I also don't remember any of those batches being any good at all.
Several years later my first full size batch was a Brewers Best Alt. As I recall it wasn't bad at all. I remember sharing it with friends and they told me my brewing was sucking less and less.
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1977Brewer
Free Dan Hess.
That would not bother me in the slightest. Might net you a return box on my usual slow time frame.
I accidentally clicked a Kegerator.com ad on Facebook. Seriously. First beer was a 1 gallon Moose Drool clone from Northern. Bottled way too soon, but the last couple bottles were decent.
QOTD: I can't remember why I started. Probably my roommate thought it was a good idea and I had a chemistry degree, so....
I think my first beer was a Brewer's Best amber ale. No idea if it was good or not. I was OCD meticulous and I'm pretty sure we drank it all.
I think my first beer was a Brewer's Best amber ale. No idea if it was good or not. I was OCD meticulous and I'm pretty sure we drank it all.
Nice, my 3rd brew was actually formulated off of Northern Brewers all grain moose drool
Mine was Austin Home Brew DeadGuyAle clone. This was 10 years ago in my first HB run. No temp control, no bottling bucket, just racked into bottles..messy. Nothing really came out good, go figure. At least I drink them now.
OT..lastest find. Except for the odd "ashy" sense at end, it's well done.
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OT..lastest find. Except for the odd "ashy" sense at end, it's well done.
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BrewinBromanite
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My bro in law got us each matching 5 gal extract kit setups one Christmas. First batches we did a canned extract bock and an English brown, side by side. The LBHS guy convinced him to add a pound or two dry malt extract to boost the alcohol. Mystery dry yeast sprinkled on top and zero temp control. Turned out half decent, but not great by any means. Found a couple bottles almost 2 years later that tasted like crisp lagers. Go figure. I instantly became obsessed with the hobby from day one.
hunter_le five
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And then there were three.
SupervisingChildren
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Not a clue what my first batch was. I think it was a summer ale extract kit that came with the setup that the misses gave me for Christmas, which she regretted quickly. Didn't start taking notes on all my batches for a year or 2, but I think it was drinkable.
First batch was a Irish red. It was sweet but okay. Started because, well I just thought it would be fun to make my own beer. bought a kit as a congrats on ending a year of unemployment gift to myself
iijakii
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My BIL brewed and came over and showed me how to do a partial mash. After that I went AG. My first beer was a milk stout and at the time I thought it was fantastic. No idea if it would be by standards now. I did a frozen-bottle water bath so I kept it in the 60s overall, so don't think I had any bad off flavors. It'd probably be way too sweet for my tastes now. Think my second one was a Dead Guy clone and great. I then made a Hefeweizen and it was the worst beer I've made to date, and my only undrinkable one.
