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Serious answer: You have exceeded my level of chem-foo. Except at they are alcohols with a hydroxyl group (-OH) and not an (H2O) attached to each carbon.

Un-serious answer: If you take one of these with your xylitol or sorbitol you will not have the issues aforementioned.
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Serious answer: You have exceeded my level of chem-foo. Except at they are alcohols with a hydroxyl group (-OH) and not an (H2O) attached to each carbon.

Un-serious answer: If you take one of these with your xylitol or sorbitol you will not have the issues aforementioned.
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I was just thinking that if Billy-Klubb would just give me a good punch in the berries, I'd have bigger things to focus on...
 
This isn't quite "funniest things you've overheard," in case anyone remembers that's what this is supposed to be, but...

A few years ago I went to a local Oktoberfest, and they were serving an authentic German beer that was warm and just awful. I took the mission (drank the beer) -- what the hell else was I going to do -- but I really didn't know what I would do when I found him. (Sorry, got off track there.) Anyway, this scary-looking guy with dreads sits across from us at our table, and he has a plate of pigs feet and this awful beer, and he decides he just cannot choke this crap down. But before he leaves, we talk a bit, share a few laughs, and he whips out a CD of his band, called "Drunk in the Garage." Turns out he is the lead singer. On the way home, we play it, expecting it to suck, and it is actually quite good (rock). Every song is a drinking song, and most are hilarious. I never followed up on this band, but that guy made my night. I hope he's had a few and is belting one out in his garage right now.

Anyone hear of them?
 
Serious question...where do sugar alcohols like xylitol and sorbitol fit in? I know they have fewer calories, that they are mostly indigestible (although bacteria in our colon can break them down, hence the potential of "explosive diarrhea"), but are they also in the hydroxyl group?

You do realize, of course, that Explosive Diarrhea would be an excellent name for a band.
 
Frank Gallagher, Homebrewer
on Showtime's "Shameless"

Frank's Brew Stand looks like what I imagine a non-homebrewer sees when he/she looks at one of our 3-tiered rigs.
hot liquor tank up top with an immersion chiller, mash tun, boil kettle and still pot all connected with hoses, with liquid moving through them. still pot at bottom right.

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Frank takes bacon he just fried, wood chips, which includes a baby pacifier he gathered from a Chicago South Side playground, and tosses it all into the still pot.

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and pours himself a ball jar full of carbonated, beautifully colored, perfectly clear brew from a picnic tap

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Frank Gallagher, Homebrewer
on Showtime's "Shameless"

Frank's Brew Stand looks like what I imagine a non-homebrewer sees when he/she looks at one of our 3-tiered rigs.
hot liquor tank up top with an immersion chiller, mash tun, boil kettle and still pot all connected with hoses, with liquid moving through them. still pot at bottom right.

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Frank takes bacon he just fried, wood chips, which includes a baby pacifier he gathered from a Chicago South Side playground, and tosses it all into the still pot.

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and pours himself a ball jar full of carbonated, beautifully colored, perfectly clear brew from a picnic tap

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Saw this the other night and just facepalmed
 
I always try to get my buddy to try different beers. He never budged and sticks strictly to his Coors light. So one day I asked him why he only drinks Coors light and he says " I don't really like the taste of beer, I drink Coors because it tastes like water"
 
I always try to get my buddy to try different beers. He never budged and sticks strictly to his Coors light. So one day I asked him why he only drinks Coors light and he says " I don't really like the taste of beer, I drink Coors because it tastes like water"

The plight of a cocktail drinker, on a cheap beer budget.
 
Frank Gallagher, Homebrewer
on Showtime's "Shameless"

Frank's Brew Stand looks like what I imagine a non-homebrewer sees when he/she looks at one of our 3-tiered rigs.
hot liquor tank up top with an immersion chiller, mash tun, boil kettle and still pot all connected with hoses, with liquid moving through them. still pot at bottom right.

Frank takes bacon he just fried, wood chips, which includes a baby pacifier he gathered from a Chicago South Side playground, and tosses it all into the still pot.

and pours himself a ball jar full of carbonated, beautifully colored, perfectly clear brew from a picnic tap

If only it were that easy.
 
Hell franks setup looks better than mine. Sure every thing seems to be hooked up wrong but I'm still working with equipment I built before I really had a clue, like the five gallon water cooler I thought hey five gallons for a five gallon batch will work perfect. And the turkey fryer port and burner, like 7 gallons hell I'll never have a boil over. I built so much crap that now I've got to replace a piece at a time between every brew day, I'd take his setup and be three step closer than I am now. Not sure what I'd do with a still pot though, maybe make some flavor extracts.
 

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