The Dysfunctional-Palooza Obnoxious Masshole BS Thread

[j1laskey]

My once a year check in at The Matterhorn.

Crushed a HSA before this BBB Subby.

I love winter and Maine

 

[day_trippr]

What's wrong with them? sounds like you schedule a lot of running around for supplies. [...]

I don't run around, but I do like having my options denoted, so I can at least call around to see if someone has what I need.
As for online ingredients - morebeer.com and the like - between delivered prices for the small specialty grain needs I might have, and the viability of liquid yeast when delivered (of which I've read numerous disappointing stories) I'd just assume get what I need local, when I need it. As base grains are a non-issue, that's pretty much all I need...well, that plus gas but I think I've got that covered.

On that count...what I should do is get a 50 pound siphon tank and a fill hose and put an end to the small insanities of 5 pound refills...

Cheers!

 

[paulthenurse]

While you’re at it get helium and O2 and we can make trimix. Not so good for beer but you don’t get the bends.

 

[Dland]

I don't run around, but I do like having my options denoted, so I can at least call around to see if someone has what I need.
As for online ingredients - morebeer.com and the like - between delivered prices for the small specialty grain needs I might have, and the viability of liquid yeast when delivered (of which I've read numerous disappointing stories) I'd just assume get what I need local, when I need it. As base grains are a non-issue, that's pretty much all I need...well, that plus gas but I think I've got that covered.

On that count...what I should do is get a 50 pound siphon tank and a fill hose and put an end to the small insanities of 5 pound refills...

Cheers!

The 50# siphon tank idea is intriguing, they are kind of heavy, but one could get a tank dolly like for the torches, and they would last a few years. The 20#s are pretty manageable though, and having two negates the worry of running out at inconvenient time.

Reminds me when I used to wheel my oxy/acetylene rig around to oxygenate wort. I did eventually get a dedicated brewing O2 tank for cellar. Lazier, and more wealthy with age I guess.

As to morebeer, it's pretty easy to get to $60 and free shipping, but I get it with the yeast, shipped wet yeast has been less than 100% success, esp in warmer months. I'm pretty much resigned to Fermentis dry pitch products on that front, and they have worked well for me. If there were a LHBS, I'd be sure to use it. I'm sure there are other home brewers in this county, but I've yet to meet any of them.

 

[paulthenurse]

Isn't Dukes more of a Pink Zinfandel county?

 

[Dland]

More of a Green Grass county actually, esp if you count only the year 'rounders.

Drink wise, lots of "craft" beer types, not that there is much fresh, and the bud & nip bottle crew on way home from jobsites.

 

[paulthenurse]

I say you should talk to Cape about shipping his elixir out that way but then we’d have to listen to him rant about the vagaries of likka distribooshun in MA.

 

[Dland]

From what I hear, those vagaries are substantial, still, I'd go to the packy & try Cape's brew. Have not been there much since I started brewing, except for an occasional bottle of hard stuff.

Do the packys in 'merica deliver? I used to get a weekly delivery every Thursday, kept me from having to go over the drawbridge in summer traffic. The delivery gal gave me some grief when I ended my weekly order, claimed they would go out of business, but that is bull, there are so many worse alchys than me around here. Heck, I'm not even a house painter, those guys make some of the fishermen seem moderate.

 

[bob1852]

I say you should talk to Cape about shipping his elixir out that way but then we’d have to listen to him rant about the vagaries of likka distribooshun in MA.

Meh, just get a conical instead...

 

[Cape Brewing]

Meh, just get a conical instead...

Ridiculous.

And actually I LOVE the distro laws in Mass. Love em! Don’t change a THING!

The distro laws are way more positive from the distributors side... which is why I own a distributorship.

Leave those laws RIGHT where they are baby.

 

[TheDudeLebowski]

I've had Bog before.

 

[Cape Brewing]

Me too! Hell... I’m having one right now.

It’s “meh”.... not enough goo-goo berries, lactose, Peanut Butter Captain Crunch or glitter. I gotta work on that.

 

[bob1852]

Me too! Hell... I’m having one right now.

It’s “meh”.... not enough goo-goo berries, lactose, Peanut Butter Captain Crunch or glitter. I gotta work on that. View attachment 666690

You guys getting in the hard seltzer game yet? Curious to see your spin on that.

 

[Cape Brewing]

Yup. We have 15 bbls in a fermenter right now.

I wanna throw up every time I walk by it but we do. It will be tap-room only and we do actually get a large number of requests for gluten free stuff... and we also have groups that cone in where one person just “isn’t into beer”... so... as much as I wanna throw my own feces at that fermenter, it makes sense to have one on tap.


OMG! “Spin”!!! I just caught that! That’s gold. It’s funny cuz years ago we said that on our website and then you just said it. That’s great.

 

[HoppyDaze]

So insecure

 

[TheDudeLebowski]

I read a couple articles on the push pull dist model. Do breweries have to publicly document they're open for this or can it just be word of mouth/connection between establishments? Knowing the states laws I wouldn't be surprised that it had to be written.

My golf clubs restaurant/bar likes to think they're into craft brew. MBC to them is craft brew but I'd like to see more local nano support. They hold beer events but it's kind of sad. The previous pro was trying to change that but he left. Is it word of mouth?

 

[bob1852]

we do actually get a large number of requests for gluten free stuff...

Mead is gluten free, too...

You should do a collab with @Saccharmyces , though I don't think he's active here anymore...

 

[Cape Brewing]

Mead is gluten free, too...

You should do a collab with @Saccharmyces , though I don't think he's active here anymore...

You need a completely separate license (winery in Mass) for mead... and it also has fo be hard-walled off, separate operations.

 

[Dland]

Not the easiest state to be self employed w small business.

 

[bob1852]

You need a completely separate license (winery in Mass) for mead... and it also has fo be hard-walled off, separate operations.

Yeah, the whole wine v. beer licenses are odd at both the fed and state level.

You can make a braggot under your beer license though, right?

Meaderies can't use any malt at all, from my understanding, while breweries can use honey since the feds consider it an acceptable alternative to malt.

 

[Dland]

One good thing about making your own hooch, don't have to worry about any of that stuff.

 

[paulthenurse]

He’s like the Ever Ready Bunny, just give him a little push and he’ll keep going and going and going...

 

[TheDudeLebowski]

I don't know which I like better: belichicks or John henrys press conferences

 

[paulthenurse]

Bill don’t give a fat f at a rolling donut what anyone thinks. The Human Weathervane don’t take a dump without a public opinion poll to guide him.

Bill’s are WAY better

 

[TheDudeLebowski]

You throw in the being out of touch with reality and Mr Burns complex? Plus add the clown of Tom Werner? I'm going with Henry.

 

[paulthenurse]

You make a compelling argument.

 

[paulthenurse]

 

[Dland]

Looks like your the bunny, o pink one.

Anyway, here's something less frivial; Interesting factoid, apparently no one died in combat on this ship during its entire time of active service.



I got to say, as interesting as this is to me, sometimes it occurs it is somewhat depressing how much our species spends to kill each other.

 

[day_trippr]

We should send one of these starter packs to Hoppy

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Breweries nor meaderies can make a true braggot in NY, but some people are trying to get that changed, and cider counts as wine as well. Places producing both need separate spaces or, this one guy keeps everything on wheels and rolls away the beer stuff when making cider then rolls away the cider fermenters when brewing beer. Pain in the neck.