Your plans for July 4th

[MeatyPortion]

Well? What are they?

I'll probably watch The Patriot, shoot off some illegal fireworks, drink some homebrew, eat some brats, pass out with an American flag draped over my unconscious form, and wake up screaming the death metal version of Yankee Doodle Dandee.

 

[CDbrews]

actually Im heading home to ireland on the fourth to go to a wedding. Its a shame i wont be here for the festivities but the flight was the right price for leaving on that day

 

[Swordsman]

Going to get blasted on some microbrews (no homebrew ready yet, keep interrupting my pipeline), eat a lot of meat at two different BBQs, probably also shoot off some illegal fireworks, sleep it all off, then go to work Monday and make double time on holiday pay.

 

[Dunerunner]

Fly the Flag, cook up some Jumbo hot dogs, Boston Baked Beans, draw a pint or four of either my IPA, Heffe or something from Brewery Ommegang or Russian River, watch my neighbors land bottle rockets on my roof and fire off the 50 cal. black powder Plains Rifle.

 

[shelly_belly]

Brew beer. Duh! Medium Rare anyone?

 

[david_42]

"An Old Fashioned 4th of July" in beautiful downtown Willamina. Except no waterball battles between the fire departments. You string a 100 ft cable about 25 feet in the air and put a big ball on it. Place a small town volunteer fire department at each end. Start the ball in the middle. Object: hose the ball to the other team's post. Secondary goal: soak everyone in the park.

Great fun on a hot, Illinois summer day.

Beer pipeline is full.

 

[ErieShores]

Neighbors house for some illegal fireworks, great company and ****ty beer. God bless this country.

 

[TotemWolf]

Slow smoked dry rubbed ribs. With homemade baked beans and rolls and all the other trimmings. Fireworks of course. Shared with good friend and the family. All washed down with some homebrew.

 

[Bassman]

I honestly have no plans and sort of don't care. I was supposed to go to a friend's house in the evening, eat hamburgers, drink beer and watch them light some illegal fireworks with their kids. But they couldn't get fireworks so they moved it to a friend's place a bit out of the city and that involves leaving earlier which kills my day and things I wanted to accomplish, such as bottling, playing my new bass, finish the painting in my hallway. Also I have to work Monday and don't want to deal with driving back on a Sunday night and getting stuck in traffic.

So my new plans are, bottle, practice, paint and go to the pub for a burger and a beer.

 

[arturo7]

The day begins by following the time-honored family tradition of blasting John Phillip Sousa records on the hifi.

Heading downtown mid-morning for the parade.

Party in Sunset Beach in the afternoon. Bringing along 5 gallons of IPA as well as hearty slabs of smoked pig and cow flesh.

cheers!

 

[Ricand]

We'll be BBQn some big bone steaks and shooting off some legal fireworks. Our city is great, we have fireworks stands up at Safeway and you can only shoot them off INSIDE the city limits (it's still illegal in the county). We have specific hours, between 8 and 10 from June 29th until July 3rd. On the 4th you can shoot them off till midnight. This is California. Our city turned down a Wifi proposal for citywide coverage because the RF waves might be dangerous, but fireworks F*** YAH! Oh and we'll be smokin some legal bud too.

 

[azscoob]

The rest is just details, flying proudly at my home every day.

 

[MountainManWannabe]

I just cleaned up the grill for those rib eyes I was talking about in the cooking forum. Was thinking about taking my mini 14 out into the woods to celebrate my second amendment rights by shooting some cans. Later on take the wife and kid down to the lake to cool off.

Tonight we'll grill and build a fire. We live on a hill so we can see the fireworks two towns over. My amber ale still needs some time, but I have plenty of IPA.

It's weird. This is the first Independence day that I've really felt in a long time.

 

[homebrewer_99]

Still not sure..., but beer will be involved...

 

[weirdboy]

I'm going to a friend's house later where we'll make some grilled cheese sandwiches on the grill and drink copious amounts of alcohol.

Also SWMBO brought me back some interesting beer from Japan and I thought I'd do a red, white and blue beer thing at the party later:

 

[david_42]

Went to a party last night and had some very fine scotch. No hangover, but the GI is not happy. But, that might have been the hot Italian sausage in the breakfast burrito I had yesterday. FedEx didn't deliver my replacement debit card, so I've got almost zero cash. Hard to hit the credit union, it's in Texas.

Oh, well. I can buy a piece of pie and a burger during the parade this evening. GF is in Dearborn, MI, so I'm at loose ends.

 

[MeatyPortion]

There have been fireworks going off almost constantly in my neighborhood for the past 3 days. Tonight I'll shoot off the last ones.

I have a pack of brats, some corn on the cob, cheese, vidalia onions, watermelon, and I'm just about ready to check my beer. Should be carbed up nicely by now but who knows? I have Capital Autumnal Fire Doppelbock and Point 2012 as backups.

 

[DeathBrewer]

It looks like I may be brewing and BBQing alone, possibly joined by some brew buddies. Either way, relaxing evening with meat, corn and beer.

 

[MeatyPortion]

I just tried my American Golden Ale. It's like I made Miller or something. What the hell, I'll drink it.

 

[DeathBrewer]

My buddy made an American Light Lager or "PBR Clone"...it was VERY good...a little more flavorful than PBR and a little more of a corn flavor, but very refreshing.

Yesterday was chill but productive. A friend came by with his equipment and we rolled out two batches of beer...a pilsner cream ale and my Oaktown Brown. I hit my numbers exactly and it was his first all-grain.

Hope everyone had a good 4th of July! I think this year had the noisiest and most numerous fireworks I've ever seen in the area.

(don't forget. she's french )

 

[MeatyPortion]

Watched The Patriot last night while reading a collection of documents relating to the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the steps leading up to their creation. Also drank beer, whiskey, and ate beer-steamed brats with onions, grilled corn on the cob, baked beans, and watermelon. The brats turned out great and I have some saved for lunch this week. Shot of a couple bottle rockets out of my yard past the neighbor's house and enjoyed the Fitchburg fireworks that were going off in a nearby park. A good night all around.

 

[Ricand]

My buddy made an American Light Lager or "PBR Clone"...it was VERY good...a little more flavorful than PBR and a little more of a corn flavor, but very refreshing.

OT, but I've been looking for a light lager recipe for my PBR friends. They leave PBR bottles in my keezer and KNOW it will still be here when they visit again. Could you point me to your buddies recipe?

 

[DeathBrewer]

OT, but I've been looking for a light lager recipe for my PBR friends. They leave PBR bottles in my keezer and KNOW it will still be here when they visit again. Could you point me to your buddies recipe?

I've emailed him. Should get back to me by tomorrow. If I recall, it's one of his 30-day lagers fermented low but conditioned at room temp (no additional lagering.)

 

[mullenite]

Ended up blowing up a watermelon with a homemade bomb, shooting off lots of illegal fireworks and drinking a corny of homebrew blonde ale in about 2 hours.

 

[arturo7]

Ended up blowing up a watermelon with a homemade bomb, shooting off lots of illegal fireworks and drinking a corny of homebrew blonde ale in about 2 hours.

Sounds like fun. Ya shoulda invited a couple people over!

 

[DeathBrewer]

OT, but I've been looking for a light lager recipe for my PBR friends. They leave PBR bottles in my keezer and KNOW it will still be here when they visit again. Could you point me to your buddies recipe?

It was 4 lbs of 6-row and 3 lbs of corn. Light bittering hops (he used a mixture)...you could use saaz, fuggle, tettnanger, something like that. Use a small amount of saaz or something soft at the end to smooth out the beer. WLP940 Mexican lager yeast is really good, or you can use wyeast american lager yeast.

 

[Homercidal]

Went to Cadillac with family and MIL. Too hot and had to sneak my crappy beer because I didn't know they had a rule against alcohol there. Then, went to see fireworks on other side of lake, except the wife forgot to check the date of the fireworks and they ended up being the night before.

Oh well, I got some G&D's pizza and headed home to crash in front of the TV. Went to Michigan's Adventure the next day.

 

[IrregularPulse]

(don't forget. she's french )

And we only got her because nobody else wanted her!


We camped all weekend and drank beer and watched fireworks and set off our own. Good times.

 

[mullenite]

Sounds like fun. Ya shoulda invited a couple people over!

There were about 10 of us to start, ended up being about 15 later on. Figures out to be about 5 beers each from the keg in two hours... we were getting a little... tipsy...

Then someone went out and got a 12 pack of Sam Adams Summer Ale and a 12 pack of Yuengling. All in all a good time.