Good morning!!!!

[ponytug]

I was sort of joking around, playing on the idea that atmosphere always influences perception. But you're right, the ABV could be part of it. I always figured the bigger difference is that they aren't required to pasteurize for domestic sales, whereas they are required to do it when exporting to the US.

It's possible they're related though, as they might start the export brew from a higher ABV pre-pasteurization, in order to net nearly the same after any evaporation losses. Alcohol does evaporate a good bit faster than water!

Here's a little secret to beers. Many beers are brewed to 16-20% alcohol and then that concentrate is trucked to a local bottler who then uses local water to dilute out the concentrate and bottle it. It saves a chunk of change on trucking, and enables a brewery to brew more gallons of beer from the same size fermentation facilities.

It does change the taste if one has sensitive taste buds. (Curse or blessing depending on the circumstances.)

All the best, Peter

 

[kenmbz]

Here's a little secret to beers. Many beers are brewed to 16-20% alcohol and then that concentrate is trucked to a local bottler who then uses local water to dilute out the concentrate and bottle it. It saves a chunk of change on trucking, and enables a brewery to brew more gallons of beer from the same size fermentation facilities.

It does change the taste if one has sensitive taste buds. (Curse or blessing depending on the circumstances.)

All the best, Peter

Why coors had to change their advertisements.
Would love to see them advertise how they use tap water from Newark NJ to bottle their beer

 

[sodamo]

69°F and 1.78 inches rain and going down pretty good

Managed to tweak my back so need to give it a day off

H&F at friends later this afternoon.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great tractor day

 

[WinterDeere]

Would love to see them advertise how they use tap water from Newark NJ to bottle their beer

Nearly all municipal water tastes like chlorine, to those of us used to drinking from our own wells. But most NJ water is a unique sort of "terrible" that even the boroughs surrounding Philly don't seem to share. Every time I visit the NJ shore points, I'm reminded just how awful their water tastes.

Thankfully, being in "vacation mode", I'm usually drinking more booze than water at the shore, anyway.

 

[rswyan]

49F and sunny @ 12:45, calling for a high of 50F. Low this morning was 26.7F.

Took Kubota over to the barn first thing yesterday and grabbed another dozen 2 x 4 x 8's and brought them back and got them stowed away in the garage.

Glued up the small piece of foam board to fill in the section next to the window on the west wall and got that installed.

Cut foam board and pieced in a small bare area on the south wall around HVAC ducting.

Got measurements taken for the 3 short pieces of 2 x 4 that need installed on that last section of studs on the south wall.

Taped up joints between the foam boar panels.

Cut and installed more unfaced fiberglass in between studs, made decent progress there:

Knocked off early around 17:30 to go out for dinner with friends.

Witches Brew Maragarita @ Chili's kinda put the damper on any further progress after that.

Remembered to put RockBox on charger.

Agenda for today:

Take advantage of the sunshine and do some leaf clean up/blowing with the Cub.

Then back down to the utility room project.

Should be able to get those small pieces for the south wall cut to length and nailed in place.

Beyond that see what else comes up.

Hope everyone is having a decent Thursday ...

 

[daugen]

tried to go out and do a few things and the wind was howling and 50 felt like 40.
nope, tomorrow is another day.

utility room good winter project RS, no wind down there...

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Had a good breakfast with the guys, then went and visited awhile with a guy who is having a tough go at it on kidney dialysis and things aren't going well for him.
When I got home, I decided to rake the leaves away from the back of the house despite the wind trying to blow them back, and I got about 90% past the end of the walkout swale, where the wind can now take them down over the hill.
Drained the eley hose reel, and broke it. Now to see if they will honor their warranty...

 

[Looking4new]

Got the town/dump/Sundridge/quack run done. A1C up = 7.7, back on the metformin, 2 a day one in the A.M. and the other one in the P.M., before meals. The quack agreed with me to try that for the next 5 months. Next appointment 23 April. I'll get the blood work done the first week of April.
I caught him counting on his fingers and called him out about it. All his fancy schoolin' and he still counts on his fingers.

 

[Looking4new]

BEF, was this anywhere close to you?

 

[buckeyefarmer]

BEF, was this anywhere close to you?

No, over an hour away, but used to live down in that area.

Interesting, because our closest city last week announced on FB they are going to do a prescribed burn pretty soon, and I commented how that wasn't the best idea, as dry as it's been and the wind we have been getting. Had one person "Flame" me for my opinion, looked him up, and he is a paid fire fighter....