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In America, they only sell those keg cans in certain regions. Whenever I go to the Northeast, I will get a Heineken Light Keg can. You don't get fresher beer than that.
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They can be tough to find in Canada, too but for some reason up here in the north our local store always has a bunch of them. I used to get Japanese Sapporo beer in a similar keg but it needed a special pump and was a butt pain if you didn’t have one. I like the way Heineken does it.
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I've drank all kinds of 'good' beer over the years and got to where I couldn't drink them anymore. Same thing with the bourbons. Most beers these days just doesn't sit well with me but can usually stomach one or two and that's it. Used to drink Jack Daniels for example but these days it makes me gag and just the smell of it makes me turn from it but now a days I can't drink any hard stuff straight. And it's pretty funny how so many bad mouth Coors and yet it's #7 in the top 20 list....?
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I have a gluten allergy. I can't consume anything with wheat or other grains in it. However, I am O.K. with drinking Bud Lite. I used to drink special, expensive gluten-free beers. They were awful! It tasted like they filtered the gluten out by running it through a horse.
They use rice and malted barley.
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Q: What do Coor's Light and sex in a canoe have in common??
A: They're both close to water!
The stuff tastes like water but it still has the same ABV that all the others do. The new Coors (Light) isn't as smooth as old brew when the family ran the show.
Well fellas, Off to brew some Octoberfest.
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A quick story ( I know, my stories are never quick) about why I drink weak beer all day instead of water...
In 1969 my family moved just north of here, to a now abandoned mining town called Pine Point. The town had only been founded in 1964 and was still being built when we moved there. We lived in house number 12, that being the 12th. house built. Ultimately there would be a few hundred, and a population of a few thousand. Anyway...
The water supply at that time was taken from a well, and was freakin’ AWFUL! Although I hope and imagine that it was treated in some manner to make it safe, it stunk to high heaven of sulphur. If you poured a bathtub full of water your entire house would absolutely reek. From cooking with it and drinking it you would produce the foulest gas that man is capable of. I’m not kidding. It tasted vile.
So I never willingly drank water. Obviously you have to, and I did, but I hated it. Powdered Kool Aide was a big seller, we all drank tons of it. Eventually a proper pipe was constructed to Great Slave Lake and a water treatment plant was built and we got fantastic tap water, but it was so imprinted on my mind that to this day, fifty years later, I still will not willingly drink water.
I don’t drink soft drinks because of the caffeine and sugar in them, so I drink light beer, either non alcoholic or low alcohol. If I’m in a situation where it’s not desirable to stink of beer I will drink iced tea, but it has the caffeine and sugar that I avoid. Mexico is perfect for me, their culture and climate are conducive to me consuming their excellent beers.
As a side note, if you’re bored and looking to learn some obscure ****, just Google Pine Point. It will bring up a fascinating story on the town. How it was built from nothing starting in 1964, to becoming a very prosperous modern town, to being shut down and completely bulldozed in the late eighties. The streets and hundreds of kilometres of mine roads are still there out in the middle of nowhere. It is a popular camping and off road vehicle destination now. You could spend a week out there exploring and not cover everything.
In 1969 my family moved just north of here, to a now abandoned mining town called Pine Point. The town had only been founded in 1964 and was still being built when we moved there. We lived in house number 12, that being the 12th. house built. Ultimately there would be a few hundred, and a population of a few thousand. Anyway...
The water supply at that time was taken from a well, and was freakin’ AWFUL! Although I hope and imagine that it was treated in some manner to make it safe, it stunk to high heaven of sulphur. If you poured a bathtub full of water your entire house would absolutely reek. From cooking with it and drinking it you would produce the foulest gas that man is capable of. I’m not kidding. It tasted vile.
So I never willingly drank water. Obviously you have to, and I did, but I hated it. Powdered Kool Aide was a big seller, we all drank tons of it. Eventually a proper pipe was constructed to Great Slave Lake and a water treatment plant was built and we got fantastic tap water, but it was so imprinted on my mind that to this day, fifty years later, I still will not willingly drink water.
I don’t drink soft drinks because of the caffeine and sugar in them, so I drink light beer, either non alcoholic or low alcohol. If I’m in a situation where it’s not desirable to stink of beer I will drink iced tea, but it has the caffeine and sugar that I avoid. Mexico is perfect for me, their culture and climate are conducive to me consuming their excellent beers.
As a side note, if you’re bored and looking to learn some obscure ****, just Google Pine Point. It will bring up a fascinating story on the town. How it was built from nothing starting in 1964, to becoming a very prosperous modern town, to being shut down and completely bulldozed in the late eighties. The streets and hundreds of kilometres of mine roads are still there out in the middle of nowhere. It is a popular camping and off road vehicle destination now. You could spend a week out there exploring and not cover everything.
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Can only imagine what metals might have been in that well.....also....
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/pine-point-mine-nwt-osisko-metals-1.5372889
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Also, Russian satellite cosmos 954 crashed there in the seventies, scattering radioactive debris everywhere. The army invaded with hazmat suits and Geiger counters. Very, very strange thing to experience.
I just got started. This is a LME batch (liquid malt extract) I filter tap water to get rid of the chlorine and metals through a Brita filter. I have used bottled water and prefer reverse osmosis but a lot of that water is just wet and has no taste. Minerals can do some good. I boil some water, stirr in the LME, add cold water to the 2 gallon mark, and if the temp is correct, sprinkle the provided yeast. Octoberfest is a very simple recipe and in a couple weeks it will be ready for bottling. I use table sugar as priming sugar to carbonate it while bottling. The sugar gives the left over yeast cells something to eat and it produces Co2 as a by product which gives the beer a foamy head. You can keg and force Co2 in it. I have a system but prefer bottles much better. (easier to transport to car shows) LOL Malt Extract on the left and diluted in boiling water on the right.
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Budweiser. It's what's for dinner! Hineken is my favorite but I save that for special occasions. I do like a good stout or porter!
I brew a nice Sticky Wicket Oatmeal Stout and a Chocolate Orange Stout for the holidays.
Ready to get happy. I'll take a picture in a few days.
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We always grow way too many raspberries. Thought that I’d try a different way of preserving them.
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Now that looks like a great Christmas dinner!
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There are some vodka`s made without grains available.
You can make vodka from anything that has starch or sugar. The starch has to be converted to fermentable sugars where as sugars, sugar washes, syrups, honey or the like can just be fermented by adding yeast and may be a small amount of nutrients to keep the yeast working.
The chocolate orange Stout should be real tasty by Christmas time. FYI I macerate the orange zest in vodka before adding it to the wort.
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