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Re: Beering your own Beer
« Reply #15 on: August 29, 2007, 05:48:56 pm »
Quote from: Doc on August 28, 2007, 08:28:29 am
Something I've had in the back of my head for a while: My dad has a bunch of bee hives so I was thinking of trying to brew some Mead but my brewing experience is exactly 0. Any suggestions on getting such a thing started?

I'm lazy and haven't read the whole thread yet (oh, and I also have to comment on how much I laughed re:  hittin' on twins merit badge!).  But, there's a book called _The Compleat Meadmaker_ that is very helpful and awesome.

I've only made mead once, with 15 pounds of honey from a local beekeeper, and it was awesome.  Magical.  Thing is, be very patient.  It needs quite a bit of time to age well--at least a year, 3 or 4 or 5 years makes it that much better.  The stuff I made has been aging for about 4 years now, and it's probably been a year since we last tried it--I should test it again!  It's about 16% ABV, sweet, and still.  I would REALLY like to make a dry, sparking mead sometime. 

I definitely want to make some more here soon, because it's so wonderful.  total nectar of the gods, yo. (Io, Saturnalia!)
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Re: Beering your own Beer
« Reply #16 on: August 29, 2007, 05:53:09 pm »
Quote from: littlefallsmets on August 28, 2007, 09:50:38 pm
Ah man, I missed this earlier... I appreciate the kind words, Nab!

Comparison to Mark Twain is pretty much the second highest compliment one can give or receive in my little corner of reality.

What about Wodehouse, aka "The Master?"  He's pretty damn awesome, too!  Although, you're right, Sam Clemens or "Plum" Wodehouse . . . either would be damn fine praise.
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Re: Beering your own Beer
« Reply #17 on: August 29, 2007, 06:11:32 pm »
LFM, do you think Twain would be in the movie business if he were alive today?
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« Reply #18 on: August 29, 2007, 06:26:03 pm »
Quote from: wombat on August 29, 2007, 06:11:32 pm
LFM, do you think Twain would be in the movie business if he were alive today?

No, he'd be frantically clawing at the inside of his coffin if he were alive today.
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Re: Beering your own Beer
« Reply #19 on: August 29, 2007, 06:41:44 pm »
Hm. That's a really good question.

If Twain were alive today, he'd probably have tried getting into movies and failed already. His stuff was really about the written word, y'know? The patience to take in the whole story, every bit of it, and only come to your thoughts at the end of the ride.

But IF you get into the movies or the teevee and succeed? That's where the bread is. And Twain went through money quickly, a lotta bad investments, so he'd probably try to get where the bread was first.

That's why he was a riverboat pilot for a while and why he tried being a gold prospector. It was where the bread was at.

Really good fuck*ng question, though, womb@. Made me think about some things.
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Re: Beering your own Beer
« Reply #20 on: August 29, 2007, 06:58:26 pm »
Quote from: littlefallsmets on August 29, 2007, 06:41:44 pm
And Twain went through money quickly, a lotta bad investments, so he'd probably try to get where the bread was first.


I hadn't thought of that aspect of it. He might have ended up frittering away all his talent on bad movie and TV projects. That's a sad thought, because what if there are Twains doing that now?
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Re: Beering your own Beer
« Reply #21 on: August 29, 2007, 08:01:37 pm »
Quote from: littlefallsmets on August 29, 2007, 06:41:44 pm
Hm. That's a really good question.

If Twain were alive today, he'd probably have tried getting into movies and failed already. His stuff was really about the written word, y'know? The patience to take in the whole story, every bit of it, and only come to your thoughts at the end of the ride.

But IF you get into the movies or the teevee and succeed? That's where the bread is. And Twain went through money quickly, a lotta bad investments, so he'd probably try to get where the bread was first.

That's why he was a riverboat pilot for a while and why he tried being a gold prospector. It was where the bread was at.

Really good fuck*ng question, though, womb@. Made me think about some things.

Didn't Twain help out US Grant there at the end by publishing his autobiography or something when Grant was broke? Maybe it was the other way around. I ain't looking it up - I have too much work I'm ignoring already and that would just exacerbate it.

He was a great/grand/what-have-you uncle, IIRC.
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Re: Beering your own Beer
« Reply #22 on: August 29, 2007, 08:12:18 pm »
Aw, damn, womb@.

You are totally making me think I should take another shot at the one novel I got in me.

Man.

Man.
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Re: Beering your own Beer
« Reply #23 on: August 29, 2007, 08:37:15 pm »
at the same time, Twain would have grown up in a culture centered around Mass Media other than Literature if he were alive today? so, maybe his talents would have expressed themselves differently?
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Re: Beering your own Beer
« Reply #24 on: August 29, 2007, 08:40:23 pm »
Quote from: littlefallsmets on August 29, 2007, 08:12:18 pm
Aw, damn, womb@.

You are totally making me think I should take another shot at the one novel I got in me.


Of course you should. What's there to lose? And besides, why should I be the only one suffering through trying to sell a novel around here?
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Re: Beering your own Beer
« Reply #25 on: August 29, 2007, 09:01:00 pm »
To bring this back around the other side of the mountain, why isn't the title 'Beering your own Brew'?
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Re: Beering your own Beer
« Reply #26 on: August 30, 2007, 05:55:33 am »
Quote from: theinevitable on August 29, 2007, 08:37:15 pm
at the same time, Twain would have grown up in a culture centered around Mass Media other than Literature if he were alive today? so, maybe his talents would have expressed themselves differently?

He probably wouldn't have teamed up with Nikola Tesla to battle Thomas Eddison and JP Morgan for a start.


The feeling I always get from Twain's work was that he loved the art of writing but he wasn't above churning out some crap to make a buck so my guess is he would have been one of those successful hollywood people who uses his crazy successful commercial projects to finance the good stuff.
Or he might have been some fuck with a blog, who knows.
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Re: Beering your own Beer
« Reply #27 on: August 30, 2007, 07:07:06 am »
Quote from: Doc
Or he might have been some fuck with a blog, who knows.

Hey... I'M some fuck with a blog!
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« Reply #28 on: August 30, 2007, 10:10:30 am »
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Re: Beering your own Beer
« Reply #29 on: August 31, 2007, 02:26:46 am »
He'd be the new Onstad, obviously. 
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