Oh yes, raise the price and no-one will be drunk anymore. It's allready cheaper to get drugs than alcohol in many places, perhaps someone in the government...
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jackwofalltrades
jackwofalltr...
Sep 1, 2010 8:25 pm
ReasonTV has posted an online documentary about the home distilling movement. Thought you guys might be interested. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXcalGrgjM8...
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tgfoitwoods
Sep 2, 2010 5:39 am
Last Saturday was my birthday, and my kids and kids-in-law, bless 'em, gifted me with a pedicab tasting tour of Portland's Distiller's Row, an area of many...
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wal
waljaco
Sep 2, 2010 8:23 am
Hi there, I saw this on ABC Online and thought you might be interested: Russians told to light up and knock 'em back ...
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Jeff Stewart
stewartdba
Sep 2, 2010 11:06 am
I hate to be point out to people that alcohol is a poison.  If your binge drinking or indulge in other  reckless drinking eventually you will OD.  What...
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waljaco
Sep 3, 2010 8:43 am
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abbababbaccc
Sep 3, 2010 1:18 pm
I've noticed violent behaviour and even wars being fought over the control of middle east water resources ... Slainte, Riku...
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waljaco
Sep 4, 2010 10:40 am
What are the facts? http://tinyurl.com/2baj13k wal...
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Jeff Stewart
stewartdba
Sep 4, 2010 12:17 pm
I have often struggled with the question  'does alcohol make you violent'.   I have seen good people turn into jerks when they dink, and other come out of...
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bbmdave
Sep 6, 2010 7:13 pm
http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2010/09/03/moonshine-going-legit/#content OR Tiny URL http://tinyurl.com/23k5934...
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Harry
gnikomson2000
Sep 6, 2010 10:45 pm
... Readin' the comments is funny. All the rebs givin' it to the yanks for tryin' to make 'shine. :) One thing I DO take issue with is the way all these...
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Ion Brown
brown_ion
Sep 7, 2010 5:30 am
Harry, It surprises me that someone who writes an article like that on moonshine can be so badly informed. It's disappointing . Ion...
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lowerarchy
Sep 7, 2010 9:35 am
... Hi everyone. Long time lurker, third time poster. This is a bit of a sidetrack, but why is everyone so against selling your homemade booze? You'd think the...
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L Newsom
sparkadelic007
Sep 7, 2010 9:36 am
Apparently, Ion, being from NZ has shielded you from Rupert Murdoch. Being badly misinformed, and blatantly biased, is a prerequisite for working for Fox News...
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Steve Spence
sspence65
Sep 7, 2010 10:09 am
Fox news is the only source of unbiased news here in the US. The rest print whatever makes the whitehouse happy currently. Steve Spence Renewable energy and...
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Henk
hstuurman
Sep 7, 2010 11:08 am
As much as I hate the law about illegality of distillation, I will never compair distillation with marijuana!!You're talking about a drug, illegal in almost...
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eric_yendall
Sep 7, 2010 12:22 pm
Brilliant satire Steve. For a moment I thought you had been consuming too much of your own product and it almost went over my head. But unfortunately off-topic...
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tgfoitwoods
Sep 7, 2010 3:14 pm
Lowerarchy, I think I speak for many of us when I say my biggest reason for not selling my work is an aversion to being confined and possibly married to the...
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joe giffen
rum2do
Sep 7, 2010 7:02 pm
Hi Bob, I agree totally.This is a HOBBY, to turn it into anything else will ruin it. If you want to sell alcohol that you make, get a licence and start a...
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Derek Hamlet
derekhamlet
Sep 7, 2010 8:05 pm
... I'll go one stronger. If Joe's advice makes no sense to you as a strategy to meet whatever your goals are in distilling, then please leave this list NOW....
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Rufus
rufusroughguts
Sep 7, 2010 9:50 pm
Derek, I'm not sure I follow your logic. Am I correct in assuming that anyone who aspires to create a legal boutique distillery should not be part of this...
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Rufus
rufusroughguts
Sep 7, 2010 11:12 pm
Derek, I'm not sure I follow your logic. Am I correct in assuming that anyone who aspires to create a legal boutique distillery should not be part of this...
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Derek Hamlet
derekhamlet
Sep 7, 2010 11:54 pm
... No, I meant that anybody who bootlegs their hobby spirits and gets caught does us all a disservice and draws unwanted attention. I share my hooch...
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danev2
Sep 8, 2010 12:07 am
I've pulled out the little still again. Due to a whole long story of circumstances and happenings. I am finally able to get back into it. I have plans on...
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slipthruthecracks
slipthruthec...
Sep 12, 2010 8:53 pm
I recently started a corn mash to try my hand at some bourbon. This is my first go around so it was a sweet mash and not sour. I used 40 pounds of flaked corn...
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tgfoitwoods
Sep 13, 2010 6:21 am
Jack, I'm embarrassed to say I've never SG after separation of spent grain from a corn wash, but that non-transparent, creamy color and pleasant sour, not...
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slipthruthecracks
slipthruthec...
Sep 13, 2010 2:24 pm
Well, ZB, Just in case there was more there for the yeasties to eat and convert, I repitched. I will give a few days and if there is no activity, it will...
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roger
happy.feat
Sep 13, 2010 4:42 pm
I just got finished building my first pot still. It's a 2 gallon stainless pot, inverted salad bowl: held with spring clamps, a stainless sink drain: screwed...
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tgfoitwoods
Sep 13, 2010 7:37 pm
Roger, What I do for cleaning and testing a new still is this: I charge the still with water and start it up without cooling water, to steam out all the flux...
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roger shattuck
happy.feat
Sep 13, 2010 8:33 pm
Thanks, that sounds about like what I was planning. The bucket is a 5 gallon Pickle bucket from a restaurant, it should be OK. I couldn't get the dill pickle...
