What are you drinking now?

[TheDudeLebowski]

We moved to Austin from Santa Cruz in 1994 for a better life for the family. Austin is slowly turning into a mini San Francisco with all these fracking transplants... It's good for house prices though. Wife lived in California her whole life before we moved so think she's a bit home sick. I tried to convince her to move to a small farm town in Nebraska but that didn't go over well. Thanks for the response.

Waited too long to start walking but made it back alive! Luckily I hydrated last night.

HB Electrolyte concoction
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Maybe we should start up a retirement thread. My buddy that I golfed with wants to still work in retirement as a tax consultant. There's interesting things like capital gains and income tax from retirement funds that make the discussions interesting. I'm in a completely different boat as the majority of my friends. Lots have kids and others have no retirement fund at all. So any discussion is met with blank stares. My wanna be tax advisor is my only feedback. It's interesting as a income tax free border is just miles away from me. I got decisions in piles of high tech employee stock that has some big decisions as I pull the plug on them. I almost pulled the plug on a small cabin during COVID to claim a new tax free residency

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

Maybe we should start up a retirement thread. My buddy that I golfed with wants to still work in retirement as a tax consultant. There's interesting things like capital gains and income tax from retirement funds that make the discussions interesting. I'm in a completely different boat as the majority of my friends. Lots have kids and others have no retirement fund at all. So any discussion is met with blank stares. My wanna be tax advisor is my only feedback. It's interesting as a income tax free border is just miles away from me. I got decisions in piles of high tech employee stock that has some big decisions as I pull the plug on them. I almost pulled the plug on a small cabin during COVID to claim a new tax free residency

That's one of the suggestions. Get in a retirement group, especially if early retirement is the plan. I've watched loads of videos over the years and had butt loads of Excel sheets until I finally took the suggestion of a YouTuber and signed up for this. It's indispensable!

Took some time to figure it out but for $10/month, worth every penny.

https://www.newretirement.com

 

[NotSure]

Spent the day cleaning the solar panels and cleaning out the gutters and am exhausted. Decided to dip into the aged HB and am having a Wee Heavy I made last July. Golden Promise for the base malt and a little Roasted Barley. 8.5% ABV, mashed high with a FG of 1.025. Hopefully the remainder will make it the rest of the year. Probably should brew another batch.

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

Mashing in a Belgian Tripel

 

[BongoYodeler]

HB, Hacksaw Revenge - Irish Red Ale.

 

[Rish]

HB brown

 

[BongoYodeler]

HB, Rock Island Lager

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

Here's some f'ed up-ness..

I get RO water from the Whole Foods RO Kiosk and never had an issue. I've been battling getting the pH down on the mash scratching my head. Of course , the meter reads the calibration liquid properly. Finally took a reading directly from the 5gal bottle. 9.8..WOW! Called them about it but have no idea what I'm making beer out of. Anyway time for a another.

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

RO Update. I drove down to WF and showed a manager. Fortunately, he understood the issue. Got a $25 gift so winning..I guess?

 

[BongoYodeler]

RO Update. I drove down to WF and showed a manager. Fortunately, he understood the issue. Got a $25 gift so winning..I guess?

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I’ve mentioned this before on HBT, if you have a nearby Culligan check about prepaying for RO water. I do that and it’s 30 cents/gallon. I prepaid $75 for 250 gallons. Each time I go in for water they swipe my card and it deducts the gallon amount. A good deal for those of us who use RO but don’t want an in-house RO system.

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

I’ve mentioned this before on HBT, if you have a nearby Culligan check about prepaying for RO water. I do that and it’s 30 cents/gallon. I prepaid $75 for 250 gallons. Each time I go in for water they swipe my card and it deducts the gallon amount. A good deal for those of us who use RO but don’t want an in-house RO system.

It's 45C here. Our big grocery chain used to have RO for 15C but everything is Alkaline water now. Stupid people. How does raising your stomach pH do any good?

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Nitro cold brew for two.

 

[Rish]

Bro. T Abbey Ale. Great aroma, taste and body, 9.4%. I really like it!

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

Moving on..

 

[TheDudeLebowski]

Interesting collab. Not bad. Like a Belgian summer beer.

 

[hilljack13]

I like blueberries!

 

[MaxStout]

At Trader Joe's today to pick up a bunch of 4 Buck Chuck (inflation, I guess). Still a bargain, so we got a case of Chardonnay, and a second case mix & match. Need to be well-stocked.

While there I picked up a 4-pack of Pseudo Sue. Cracked one open this afternoon.

 

[grampamark]

Earlier, HB Cream Ale.

Now, HB Altbier.

 

[camonick]

HB IPA

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

Wort finally heating

 

[orionol73]

Sample of a HB Sabro pale ale, one week in the bottle. Still green but coming along nicely! Had tons of coconut headed into the dry hop, get a lot of the cedar/mint until it warms up and then kapow!

 

[orionol73]

 

[grampamark]

IPA and tacos.

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

I'm going to marry this when I grow up

 

[Broothru]

Potosi Brewery, Potosi, Wisconsin.

Photo #1: Sampler of two pale ales, two Continental lagers, two American (non-hazy) IPAs.

Photo #2: The best burger I’ve had in a long time.

 

[Section1]

Homebrew Blonde and a Brown Ale to recover form work today.

 

[beermanpete]

Vieux Carré

 

[camonick]

 

[Broothru]

Potosi Brewery, Potosi, Wisconsin.

Photo #1: Sampler of two pale ales, two Continental lagers, two American (non-hazy) IPAs.

Photo #2: The best burger I’ve had in a long time.

Story behind the photos:

A few weeks ago I was watching Lester Holt on the NBC National News. For the ‘happy talk’ closing story he was in Potosi, WI, at a brewery in this small town (pop. 646) that is home to a brewery that had sustained the town for well over a hundred years. Just about everyone in the town had a connection to the bar, and when it was failing 20-25 years ago, the town was also failing and doomed to expire with it.

So the people pitched in to save it. Much had to be scrapped and reimagined. After 10 years of fundraising and sweat equity put in to rebuilding this iconic local landmark, it reopened. It won out in a competition by the American Brewers Association to house its National Brewing Museum, beating out Milwaukee, Chicago and a host of other large metropolitan hopefuls.

I was fascinated by the news story, and as luck would have it, we were headed to upstate Wisconsin anyway for a family wedding. The visit to New Glarus could wait till next time (snagged a case of Spotted Cow nonetheless), so we made this stop on the way home to Maryland. Added bonus: the brewery participates in Harvest Host, so our prairie schooner Duke of Earl Grey made a beeline for this little town along the Mississippi River where we parked overnight for free.

The brewery is (remarkably) thriving, and cranking out some really good beers. The museum has an unbelievable collection of American beer memorabilia, and the facility holds an unbelievable archive records, books and reference materials for research. I spent several hours in the museum, and browsing through the library archives and historical records. It’s a treasure trove.

If you like history and love good beer, you owe it to yourself to put this place on your (Beer) Bucket List. It’s a road trip you’ll not regret.

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

HB Dubbel