I wrote a bit about gold as an investment a while back. Briefly, I think its "store of value" properties make it a much better buy when it is not approaching its all-time highs.
The mighty dollar is not looking all that mighty. But - remember - the dollar sinks or rises against other paper currencies. The Euro is hitting a new high against the dollar but that doesn't mean europe is the place to be financially. In the end it's all paper. The dollar will be abandoned and hence drop from here for a myriad of reasons, mainly our deficit.
Gold has risen in 5 years from $240 to $730 because it's becoming the currency of choice. As the dollar tanks, expect investors to flee the american equity market, both domestic and foreign investors, then Katy bar the door! After the big dip, some american assets will appear cheap to foreigners, things like Real Estate after it corrects back to 2001 or beyond prices, and american companies.
Yeast won't make methanol, so you're not going to accidentally end up with it following this process to make moonshine.
The old way to make methanol was through a process called "destructive distillation," in which you basically operate your still directly on woodchips (rather than the must), which is why it's called wood alcohol.
I don't think making wood alcohol was ever a mistake. Most of the methanol posionings must have resulted from someone finding industrial methanol and not understanding (or not caring) that it was poison.
I ended up being able to breastfeed without any formula supplements, but I did a bit of research and came to the same conclusion--go for the generic brands if you can.
However, this recent article from the washington post discusses how the Department of Health and Human Services toned down a campaign that was intended to encourage more women to breastfeed. The point as it relates to formula is that one of the people attacking the pro-breastfeeding message was a formula lobbyist who "four months earlier directed the Food and Drug Administration's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition food safety center, which regulates infant formula." (this quote is from the top of the third page of the article)
I have serious doubts whether someone who went directly from the FDA job to lobbying the industry he was supposed to regulate did much regulation at all--name brands or generics.
I signed up for this offer a month ago and the website said I should be getting my copy in a few weeks. I haven't received anything yet - has anyone gotten theirs? Does anyone know of a way to contact somebody from that website regarding this? Any help is appreciated!
when my wife started working, her milk dried up unfortunatly and we had no choice to switch. we tried 'name' brand stuff (our boy is lactose intollerant) but the cost was astronomical. then we did walmart brand and quite a saving.
the guilt trip is enormous! Because if its not name brand it must be dirt!
yikes.
we didnt think about the switch tho, and he got fussy for a while.
Ive never really looked into moonshine, but enjoy brewing beer. I have heard there is a danger with moonshine producing methanol(very toxic) instead of Ethanol(for good times).
Maybe this method bypasses the issue by not creating a mash and using only sugar? Just wondering if there are any dangers in the above process?
I recently read an article about the benefits of chocolate milk....I can't find it now (naturally) but I remember its benefits being compared to those attributed to Gatorade. Now that's something I can get behind.
one small point: alcohol boils before water does, so you don't actually have to bring the still to a full boil. just about 190*F, according to Wikipedia.
also, for home beer brewing, check out a kit by the "Brewer's Best" brand. they have a good starter equipment kit, as well as ingredients kits for many different kinds of beers. easy, and turns out well.
I love Target, and their price adjust policy! I always keep my receipts and scan their ad to ensure something I recently purchased hasn't gone on sale. However, I do believe their is a time limit on the adjustments - ie: you can't take something you bought 3 months ago because it's now on sale and get the price adjusted. I think there is a 6 week limit, I may be wrong..?
You can find supplies as well a books at Amazon.com. Try searching for homebrew beer kit or homemade wine kit. There are also plenty of sites on-line that specialize in homebrew supplies, and any good-sized town will likely have a local source. (In Champaign-Urbana I know both a local hobby store and the local beer-and-wine superstore have beer-making supplies.)
Of course you'll likely have more trouble finding stills for sale. Making one isn't too tricky, though.
I never knew you could do this, and the web site is great I am going to try it out and see what happens, I always wait for sales all the time to come up before shopping. Thanks for the tip!
Not a bad post, but folks shouldn't go and start distilling based solely on this. One important thing to throw away, what, the first and last 5% of the distillate? I haven't done this in a while, but getting rid of the "heads" and "tails" will get rid of nasty hangover-inducing compounds like aldehydes and ketones (related to alcohol, but poisonous).
In fact, the reason one shouldn't drink "wood alcohol" or methanol, is because when your liver tries to break it down like good alcohol (ethanol), it turns it into formaldehyde instead. Narsty.
. . . know what the name of that tea might be. I think it was from Celestial Seasonings . . . I think it had the word roast in the name . . . It was really coffee like.
will be thanking you for this one, Philip. Brings back memories of the bathtub wine tasting competitions in Kuwait. Oh, but not me . . . I never did that . . . I just er, heard about it. I would never break the law in a foreign country and drink illegal alcohol.
Thanks for letting me know that you're using my flickr pic!
In Albania everybody is happily moonshining, a tradition that doesn't get policed. And yes, they just make the equioment themselves - which is cheaper and just as effective. Tastes nice too! ;-)
The Nekkid Truth probably has loads of useful information.
However, beware of visiting the site if you have a slow or non-broadband connection. The site seems to continue loading forever and ever. This caused a hard crash on my usually ok Firefox browser.
Thanks for the heads up, Wise Bread. Thought I'd pass on this advice.
I still think repeating a digit is a good idea because then the burglar doesn't know how many digits are in the code. If you have oil on 4 digits but you're code is actually 5 digits, the burglar will never know that.
Thank you so, so much for this informative, strictly entertaining, and not remotely practical post. As a Southern boy, a born cook-it-yourselfer, and a great fan of the White Lightning, I couldn't be happier to have found this post. While I would never dream of trying it myself, I'm really grateful for the step-by-step, "how-to"-like approach, for the sheer entertainment value, of course.
I'm also interested in homebrewing beer and wine. Aside from the books you mentioned, can you point to any good online resources, especially for equipment and supplies?
In the meantime, I can't wait to get my hands on Ms. Freed's book, and I'm even more excited to try not making moonshine.
I wrote a bit about gold as an investment a while back. Briefly, I think its "store of value" properties make it a much better buy when it is not approaching its all-time highs.
². I really hope the dollar keeps falling until it'll be R$1 or less, so I can buy & have a Mac shipped for as low as in US.
Is that another one? I'll have to start compiling a list of these to go shopping for. Thanks for the info.
The mighty dollar is not looking all that mighty. But - remember - the dollar sinks or rises against other paper currencies. The Euro is hitting a new high against the dollar but that doesn't mean europe is the place to be financially. In the end it's all paper. The dollar will be abandoned and hence drop from here for a myriad of reasons, mainly our deficit.
Gold has risen in 5 years from $240 to $730 because it's becoming the currency of choice. As the dollar tanks, expect investors to flee the american equity market, both domestic and foreign investors, then Katy bar the door! After the big dip, some american assets will appear cheap to foreigners, things like Real Estate after it corrects back to 2001 or beyond prices, and american companies.
Yeast won't make methanol, so you're not going to accidentally end up with it following this process to make moonshine.
The old way to make methanol was through a process called "destructive distillation," in which you basically operate your still directly on woodchips (rather than the must), which is why it's called wood alcohol.
I don't think making wood alcohol was ever a mistake. Most of the methanol posionings must have resulted from someone finding industrial methanol and not understanding (or not caring) that it was poison.
I ended up being able to breastfeed without any formula supplements, but I did a bit of research and came to the same conclusion--go for the generic brands if you can.
However, this recent article from the washington post discusses how the Department of Health and Human Services toned down a campaign that was intended to encourage more women to breastfeed. The point as it relates to formula is that one of the people attacking the pro-breastfeeding message was a formula lobbyist who "four months earlier directed the Food and Drug Administration's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition food safety center, which regulates infant formula." (this quote is from the top of the third page of the article)
I have serious doubts whether someone who went directly from the FDA job to lobbying the industry he was supposed to regulate did much regulation at all--name brands or generics.
Morning Thunder?
I signed up for this offer a month ago and the website said I should be getting my copy in a few weeks. I haven't received anything yet - has anyone gotten theirs? Does anyone know of a way to contact somebody from that website regarding this? Any help is appreciated!
when my wife started working, her milk dried up unfortunatly and we had no choice to switch. we tried 'name' brand stuff (our boy is lactose intollerant) but the cost was astronomical. then we did walmart brand and quite a saving.
the guilt trip is enormous! Because if its not name brand it must be dirt!
yikes.
we didnt think about the switch tho, and he got fussy for a while.
Ive never really looked into moonshine, but enjoy brewing beer. I have heard there is a danger with moonshine producing methanol(very toxic) instead of Ethanol(for good times).
Maybe this method bypasses the issue by not creating a mash and using only sugar? Just wondering if there are any dangers in the above process?
By jove, I think that's it. Thanks, Linsey!
I recently read an article about the benefits of chocolate milk....I can't find it now (naturally) but I remember its benefits being compared to those attributed to Gatorade. Now that's something I can get behind.
Myscha.. could this be it?
http://www.celestialseasonings.com/products/herbal-teas/roastaroma.html
one small point: alcohol boils before water does, so you don't actually have to bring the still to a full boil. just about 190*F, according to Wikipedia.
also, for home beer brewing, check out a kit by the "Brewer's Best" brand. they have a good starter equipment kit, as well as ingredients kits for many different kinds of beers. easy, and turns out well.
I love Target, and their price adjust policy! I always keep my receipts and scan their ad to ensure something I recently purchased hasn't gone on sale. However, I do believe their is a time limit on the adjustments - ie: you can't take something you bought 3 months ago because it's now on sale and get the price adjusted. I think there is a 6 week limit, I may be wrong..?
Some lovely ideas there and I was just going to bin those old jeans, silly. Time to try the beer cooler one
You can find supplies as well a books at Amazon.com. Try searching for homebrew beer kit or homemade wine kit. There are also plenty of sites on-line that specialize in homebrew supplies, and any good-sized town will likely have a local source. (In Champaign-Urbana I know both a local hobby store and the local beer-and-wine superstore have beer-making supplies.)
Of course you'll likely have more trouble finding stills for sale. Making one isn't too tricky, though.
I never knew you could do this, and the web site is great I am going to try it out and see what happens, I always wait for sales all the time to come up before shopping. Thanks for the tip!
Not a bad post, but folks shouldn't go and start distilling based solely on this. One important thing to throw away, what, the first and last 5% of the distillate? I haven't done this in a while, but getting rid of the "heads" and "tails" will get rid of nasty hangover-inducing compounds like aldehydes and ketones (related to alcohol, but poisonous).
In fact, the reason one shouldn't drink "wood alcohol" or methanol, is because when your liver tries to break it down like good alcohol (ethanol), it turns it into formaldehyde instead. Narsty.
. . . know what the name of that tea might be. I think it was from Celestial Seasonings . . . I think it had the word roast in the name . . . It was really coffee like.
will be thanking you for this one, Philip. Brings back memories of the bathtub wine tasting competitions in Kuwait. Oh, but not me . . . I never did that . . . I just er, heard about it. I would never break the law in a foreign country and drink illegal alcohol.
Good job.
Thanks for letting me know that you're using my flickr pic!
In Albania everybody is happily moonshining, a tradition that doesn't get policed. And yes, they just make the equioment themselves - which is cheaper and just as effective. Tastes nice too! ;-)
The Nekkid Truth probably has loads of useful information.
However, beware of visiting the site if you have a slow or non-broadband connection. The site seems to continue loading forever and ever. This caused a hard crash on my usually ok Firefox browser.
Thanks for the heads up, Wise Bread. Thought I'd pass on this advice.
I still think repeating a digit is a good idea because then the burglar doesn't know how many digits are in the code. If you have oil on 4 digits but you're code is actually 5 digits, the burglar will never know that.
Thank you so, so much for this informative, strictly entertaining, and not remotely practical post. As a Southern boy, a born cook-it-yourselfer, and a great fan of the White Lightning, I couldn't be happier to have found this post. While I would never dream of trying it myself, I'm really grateful for the step-by-step, "how-to"-like approach, for the sheer entertainment value, of course.
I'm also interested in homebrewing beer and wine. Aside from the books you mentioned, can you point to any good online resources, especially for equipment and supplies?
In the meantime, I can't wait to get my hands on Ms. Freed's book, and I'm even more excited to try not making moonshine.
Cheers!