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Someone who ran across my site made the assertion …
Someone who ran across my site made the assertion that Ginger Beer is possibly Australian in origin. I hadn’t heard that before, and so now I’m off on a fact hunt. First things, putting “Ginger Beer” into Google as your search terms sure pulls up different hits than it used to, including this site with some simple Root Beer and Ginger Beer recipes. Pretty similar to the stuff that I’ve seen before, but quite nice to finally start seeing this sort of thing around the net.
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Oh, and I got more birthday presents a couple of w…
Oh, and I got more birthday presents a couple of weekend’s ago, and one of them was from my In-Law’s who had made a trip up to a home-brew place and bought a bunch of supplies, including a brew pail with spigot, racking cane and tubing, some Gnome extracts, and a case of bottles! Quite nice of them all told, though I think I’ll only be able to use the pail for non-root beer brewing given how badly it contaminates everything.
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Logged into the Northern Brewer Forum’s for the fi…
Logged into the Northern Brewer Forum’s for the first time in too long and ran across a Root Beer thread! Hopefully something comes of my replies to it. In the meantime, I haven’t gotten around to the yeast test yet. Busy, and lack of motivation. Possibly mixed with some fear of more failure. Hopefully this weekend though. In the meantime, I did get this link out of that forum thread that is worth reading.
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What a weekend! The party on Saturday went really …
What a weekend! The party on Saturday went really well and we drank a LOT of good soda and it seemed like everyone got a nice sugar buzz going for most of the evening. Thankfully there were only a couple of flavors that were, er, unpalatable. Unfortunately among them was one of the Journey Foods root beer flavors: Shenandoah Sassafras Root Beer. The problem is not that they use Star Anise as one of the ingredients, it’s that they used a LOT of Star Anise as one of the ingredients.
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So I’m having a little party thing on Saturday nig…
So I’m having a little party thing on Saturday night (5/24/2003) and I’m putting together a bunch of odd and interesting soda’s to get. The list so far:
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Listening to the Empire Brass album Braggin’ In Br…
Listening to the Empire Brass album Braggin’ In Brass it’s really obvious what the difference between technically well executed jazz, and really good jazz is. Unfortunately, this is only an example of technically well executed jazz. It’s good to listen to, but it just sounds so clean and sterile. Good jazz to me is anything but sterile, and work by similar instrumentation such as Big Mama Digdown’s is Great jazz.
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There’s another update coming to the Lindows.com u…
There’s another update coming to the Lindows.com unsubscribe saga, but first this: I actually used the word “practical” in the same sentence as “Religious Studies” and “Philosophy”, and I was not under any outside influence, nor was I being sarcastic. What an odd experience. The specific context was in reference to Huston Smith as follows: He’s more into the practical aspects of religion so his background is in Religious Studies and Philosophy.
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Oh, this is just so…. well, after sending off th…
From: feedback@lindows.com Subject: Lindows.com Autoresponse We’re sorry, but your email has not reached anyone at Lindows.com (this is an automated message). It appears you are trying to contact our support team. For support issues, please visit http://support.lindows.com (24 hours a day, 7 days a week) where you can access our knowledge base with hundreds of FAQ’s. If you don’t find your particular issue and you still need to contact someone at Lindows.
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I read the most recent Michael’s Minutes from Lind…
I read the most recent Michael’s Minutes from Lindows.com this morning. What a complete load of tripe. I have now unsubscribed from all of their mailings, and when I got the cancellation confirmation it mentioned that if I was unsubscribing because I was dissatisfied I should send them some feedback. So I did: The cancellation confirmation message that was sent after I had removed my address from your mailing lists suggested that if I was unsubing because I was dissatisfied I should send a message here.
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More cool Home Media Option tricks: Current weathe…
More cool Home Media Option tricks: Current weather/radar