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Down here we never had to worry about forty below temps, but I shore did hate them dang red wasps who just LOVED to build nests right under the lip of both of the two holes in grandma's outhouse. There are places I don't think the Good Lord ever meant for a man to get stung. And, btw, as big...

LOL Tom, My wife is pretty sure I'm completely around the bend, but guess she figures after 33 years of putting up with me, they won't take me back for a refund. She came in this past spring, and I was sitting in the living room, up to my eyeballs in corrugated doublewall board I had scavenged...

Fairly new to this stuff myself beyond, but something you said kind of struck a chord about something I had read a while back. I'm going to be the first to raise my hand to no expertise in the subject yet, so I may be completely off base on this one. If any of the other members think so...

Cool Troy. While there has been some right neat iron roll out of Milwaukee, I just never found the great joy in Schlitz that Dad did. More of a Sam Adams type myself. :) I lived a few nautical miles (lol... as in a few HUNDRED) down the map from you for three and half years in a little place...

You know, that phenomenon has always been a point of extreme curiosity about human behavior to me. I grew up with a Dad who *LOVED* Schlitz beer. I mean *LOVED* it. He also loved to hunt, and passed that gene along. As dearly as he loved that beer (yet to figure it out - I just have one...

I don't know about Franklin's ability to speak Latin, Troy. Wouldn't really surprise me if he did as it was pretty common educational fodder in those days. I do know that fellow got around and *KNEW* how to have himself one big ol' time! I was reading around the web about him the other night...

You know, we eat a LOT of both broccoli and cauliflower around here. You've got me wondering about using both in a cream soup. It certainly tastes reasonable on my mind's "tongue". It's not like the werms are missing out. As long as one neighbor keeps tossing out his newspapers, and the other's...

Wasn't that one uttered by a fellow by the name of Benjamin Franklin?

An agreeable enough post, sid, and one that I can get behind. Personally, these days, due to certain health considerations I limit myself to *one* beer or *one* glass of wine per day, and won't drink liquor at all. (Not that I have any problem with anyone enjoying their favorite libation...

No kidding? The things I've learned around here. I know I chop my green stems up instead of feeding them to the werm herd now and use them with a bit of sake and EVOO and soy sauce to make stir fry with. Once I tried them, I really was saddened that I had turned so many into castings over...

Allie, I never in the world would have thought of making zucchini wine. From what I gather, folks will try just about anything in wine making. One of the things that makes it so interesting, I think. Now if I can just figure out how to juice that 'possum I caught last night....

Man, I just *KNEW* when I came in the door I was gonna like this place!:i

Or you COULD have it like I like it. We used to raise two steers a year for the freezer (six kids and all kind of liked this thing called "food"). My cousin had married a big old backwoods boy who I used to like to hunt and fish with. Good guy. Kind that would help you move. Which we did. A...

Hey, smurfe! We's dang nigh ree-lated, I reckon. I'm on the edge of de swamp in SW Mississippi just north of the Louisiana border. And yep to that frozen thingie. I have a gallon of blueberry that is nearly ready for bottling. It was my first attempt, and golly, I wish I had known enough...

I know *I* try to make sure my roadkill is fresh before I throw it on the smoker too, Wade. New as I am, I don't think any amount of experience would entice me to try to make anything edible out of something rotting and growing mold. Heck, I don't even trust them stinky-feet cheeses for that...

sjo, you just really stirred up my curiosity to the fever pitch on this question. The main reason for that being that under "sugars" on the required nutrition label on foods, "sugars" can and do include high fructose corn syrup. From the reading I've done in the past half hour, I know for a...

Yep, that *would* be some PO-tent stuff indeed! lol As to To Keel Ya, I love the taste of that stuff. Alas, as I said, it leads to things like shopping cart races with thirty participants (fifteen cart monkeys and fifteen pilots) at the local 24/7 supermarket and bribes to the manager to not...

I'd be surprised if there wasn't a banana beer recipe out there to be had, sid. I have a good chat friend couple in South Africa, and from what they tell me, that is the drink of choice (mainly because it's what they have to work with) for many of the indigenous folk there. I also understand...

So sorry, Allie. I was typing in the dark again. The original post should have read "beginning SG of 1.133" and NOT 1.333. I guess my "elderly" state got me again.

Sid, Allie and I have been discussing this very subject in another thread. I appear to have a batch of that 19% ABV stuff here myself, and for the life of me all I can figure out is that the starches in the bananas are acting as a lil' rocket fuel factory of their own in addition to the sugars...