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The Pub / merry Christmas/happy holiday of choice everybody

« on: December 24, 2011, 01:42:54 PM »

I hope everybody has a great safe and happy weekend.  I'm turning the computer off to try and enjoy Christmas Eve and Christmas morning with my family. 

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Commercial Beer Reviews / Schlenkerla Urbock in Las Cruces N

« on: December 09, 2011, 09:04:36 PM »

My wife is graduating tomorrow so we're here for the ceremony.  Our daughter wanted a beer so we went to the liquor store across the street from our hotel and I found Schlenkerla Urbock for $5.  I bought a baker's dozen tonight and will probably buy the rest tomorrow.  I was really surprised to find it here, but if they can get it here I should be able to find it in Carlsbad.

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The Pub / Tinnitus

« on: November 30, 2011, 10:07:25 AM »

For some unexplained reason I woke up 3 weeks ago with a busted eardrum.  Since then the pain is minimal to tolerable but the high pitched scream in my left ear is driving me crazy.  If it had been the right ear I wouldn't have to listen to my wife's endless chatter in the car but no such luck.
Do any of you smart people out there have any remedies for tinnitus that doesn't require a bullet to my head or cutting my ear off with a steak knife?

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The Pub / Happy Thanksgiving

« on: November 23, 2011, 07:02:11 PM »

I hope everybody has a safe and happy Turkey Day, a day full of good friends, family, food and above all great beer.

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The Pub / Black friday

« on: November 11, 2011, 04:28:51 PM »

I hope the mods don't consider this political, I think of it as pro-family, pro-sanity.
http://www.change.org/petitions/target-corporation-push-back-the-opening-of-target-retail-stores-on-black-friday-to-5am
Lets all enjoy Thanksgiving and wait until Friday morning to let our shopping frenzy take over.

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The Pub / Bama vs LSU-what to drink?

« on: November 05, 2011, 09:44:28 AM »

Roll Tide. 
I'm gonna go light during the game, probably homebrewed Oktoberfest.  But after Bama wins I've got a 2009 Bourbon County Stout that's calling my name.  If they lose it'll probably be my last bottle of oxidized Old Saguaro barleywine-my version of a hair shirt.
Roll Tide

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The Pub / CD to mp3

« on: October 26, 2011, 07:30:55 PM »

I have a Pioneer 300 disc CD changer and lots of CD's sitting around.  I'd like to record the music onto a computer(or external hard drive) but I'm an old guy and not real sure how to go about it with the lest expense and effort.  Any of you young compooter literate engineer types have any suggestions?

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Ingredients / freezing crabapples.

« on: September 18, 2011, 09:45:36 AM »

I have about 5-6 gallons of cherry sized crabapples on my tree.  Usually I make a crabapple cider with them but this year I don't have time to mess with them.  Can I pick them, freeze them, and use them later like I do cherries?  If not for cider what kind of beer would they go well with?  I'm looking for an interesting alternative to the same old cider every year

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Ingredients / Is dark candi syrup gluten free

« on: August 17, 2011, 02:38:54 PM »

I'm about to brew a gluten free beer for a friend.  All the recipes for dark GF beers call for dark candi sugar for coloring, but I have a bunch of the dark candi syrup and would rather use that.  It has more flavor and seems like it would do a better job of giving the beer some color.

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All Things Food / Horseradish

« on: August 12, 2011, 06:41:07 PM »

Over the past 2 weeks I've been digging the tumbleweeds out of my garden.  today I found the 2 horseradish plants I started back in March and they're still alive.
This is the first time I've even planted them so first how do I know when to dig up the roots and second how can I process them.  Just chop, simmer with vinegar and salt and can?

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All Grain Brewing / Keg 2 of rye pale is cloudier than keg 1

« on: June 02, 2011, 09:12:39 PM »

I brewed 10 gallons of rye pale back in January, kegged it in February and finished the first keg back in April.  The first keg was a pretty golden color but was never even close to clear.  I tapped the second keg tonight and it's cloudy like the first one but much darker, almost a muddy brown.  It tastes OK for a flat beer but I'm wondering if the rye makes it cloudy.  The recipe was 25% rye, 75% 2 row pale.

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Equipment and Software / food grade silicone sealant for cooler/mash tun

« on: May 18, 2011, 04:11:42 PM »

So I'm in the big city(Midland TX) for a couple of days and have access to Lowes and Home Depot.  Does anybody know of a brand of silicone sealant I can use on my future mash tun that I can find at one of these places, or some other place I can look?

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The Pub / Bin Laden's dead

« on: May 01, 2011, 08:48:13 PM »

hasta la vista a**hole.  Time for a celebratory brewski.

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The Pub / 9 uses for beer

« on: April 29, 2011, 08:43:44 PM »

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ygreen/20110429/sc_ygreen/ninesurprisingusesforbeer;_ylt=AoR54.CWZV9.pxs__5_SB9kXIr0F;_ylu=X3oDMTNlN3Rwa3BpBGFzc2V0A3lncmVlbi8yMDExMDQyOS9uaW5lc3VycHJpc2luZ3VzZXNmb3JiZWVyBGNjb2RlA29mZmcxNGsEY3BvcwM1BHBvcwM1BHNlYwN5bl90b3Bfc3RvcmllcwRzbGsDbmluZXN1cnByaXNp

Short but interesting read.  I'm gonna have to try the fruit fly thing, I know they love my beer because they're always in my faucets.

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All Things Food / Radishes

« on: April 19, 2011, 10:47:05 AM »

Unlike the previous 3 years all my radish seeds sprouted and now I have an over abundance.  Plus eating more than 3 or 4 at a time causes my sinus cavities to seal up tight.  Has anybody ever tried processing them into a horseradish type stuff I can preserve?