It is refreshing to see how people in leadership positions can make a world of difference just by running things ethically, and treating people with compassion and good sense---while still helping their business to be strong and grow.
This is awesome. So good to see that big companies remember that their customers and the public, and even their employees, are real people and not just numbers on a spreadsheet.
Willie, Yes, you should start flavouring after you distilled it once. You should have an alcohol in the thumper, but with all art, you change it to your personal feel and change it as your taste do. If you put water in, you would have to wait for it to collect alcohol from the still before it starts to steam. The slobber box is more like a water filter on an air compressor, its to pull off stuff and drain out. If you had a really high output production, you may need one. Most of us would not. see http://wiki.homedistiller.org/Slobber_Box. Rum is from molasses. Try brown sugar if you can't find any at a feed store.
Bro, how much would you spend on 10 pounds of sugar? Compare that to a bottle of Grey Goose. You can make Vodka as good as them at a fraction of the price. Besides, this is more of a folk art and you really can't put a price on that. This is for knowledge and fun.
Questions, Yes, you can pull it off a little at a time. Sealing it and putting in a fridge would be a great idea. If you get the wrong lil bug in there, you have vinegar. You could drop a few campden tabs in there to kill everything, including the yeast. It will slow it down from changing the flavours so much. You can add clearing agents, you can use left over beer or wine too. You don't HAVE to clear it, but the cleaner it is, the less chance of carrying over some odd flavour and scorching it. I don't think the old timers worried, they left the corn floating. I would seal off the water in the cooling bucket with a rubber grommet. Oil it so it slides well.
Water is pretty much the only thing I drink in my day, other than a cup of coffee and maybe a beer. I pay for a filtration system (Brita) because I want my beverage of choice to taste good and consistent (I'm a full-time RVer, so I'm never in one place for long). If the Brita isn't enough to get through horrible water, then I buy huge gallons of the cheapest water available. I've calculated that my water habit costs me up to $200 per year, or $17 per month. How much does the average reader spend on pop, juice, and 'flavoured water' in a month?
And I am qualified to say that the best tap water in Canada can be found in Campbell River, British Columbia. I have no problems drinking that water!
I live in a tropical country, when it's hot it's really hot...I have to agree with you, installing ceiling fans could help beat the weather plus drinking a lot of liquids. I don't turn off my a/c but I don't turn it on from late afternoon up to the next morning like I used to...It saves me a lot. I guess that's what I learn during recession lol, I learn to find ways to save. And this advice could help others as well...nice read.
I was fortunate enough to read the quote from Buffett just around the time the market tanked. I decided I would follow his advice and I invested some money (albeit a small amount, but all of what I had) into index funds. I am thankful I took that course of action today, because I earned an excellent return in a year.
Many times following the sheep has its downfalls. Buffett is a leader, and a free thinker. Sometimes you just need to go against the grain and you end up reaping the rewards.
1. I just finished fermenting 23 litres of corn brew, and I just transferred it to my carboy for clearing. If I decide to distill over a period of time instead of all at once, can I just siphon so much at a time into the still and leave it in the carboy until it's all gone, or would it be best to bottle it?
2. Can I add a clearing agent to make it clear faster?
3. Do I really need to clear the brew like I would with beer or wine?
4. When sealing around the tubing that comes out of the cooling bucket, what would work best for that if I want to break it down after each operation? Would silicone work for hoplding in the water?
Great post. I think a lot of people were scared in 2009. I know I was. Even though my gut was telling me one thing, my mind wouldn't mentally allow me to buy into a lot of unbelievable stock deals. Maybe that's why Buffet is so good at what he does. He's in a league of his own.
Following Warren Buffet's advice to buy good companies, and not confusing the price of a stock with its value, is what pays off. When the market as a whole goes down, the stock of companies that are of solid value can be bought for less. Of course, one has to spend a little time to research that company. Know its facts, such as return on investment, equity, price per share, cash, and sales over 1, 5, and 10 years. Read the annual report. Pick a company that you care enough to research a bit. The internet allows us to know much more about companies.
I'm working my way through Town's books "Rule #1" and "Payback..." to learn how to evaluate a company so that I know when to buy and if I need to sell it, based on the continued value of the company.
Phil Town's point is that the individual investor can be a lot more nimble, and he recommends owning about five indivdual stocks that one considers as one's own companies (shareholders are the owners), as Warren Buffet does (although Buffet's holding company does own the companies).
Only a few of the fund managers beat the stock market indexes, but they always siphon off fees, coming up or going down.
I'm not interested in becoming a rental property tycoon, but we do own 1 rental home. We moved into another more rural home on several acres, and plan to subdivide when we retire. We are now saving furiously for duplex. The rental home is my 1st home that I occupied for 11 years, and I am actually cash flow positive on it in spite of the housing situation and drop in rents.
I am not comfortable having all of my money in paper or Govt assets. I like to have some income generating/tangible assets as well. RE is not for everyone, it can be expensive and scary. But if you will take a friendly, but firm hand with your tenants, be proactive, do regular maintenance walk throughs (for the renters sake, nobody wants to live in a place that's falling apart) and do your homework & credit checks prior to renting, I have found that things generally go very smoothly. Keeping a healthy amount of cash in the bank is crucial to dealing with unforeseen tenant/legal issues.
Of course a renter is not going to take care of the home as if it were their own. This is investing, you must work to distance yourself emotionally from the home. That can be hard to do when you once lived there and love the house, but it's best for your sanity!
I hate it when people lump buy-and-hold with timing. It's the difference between investing and trading.
I worked 15 years in the discount brokerage industry, 13 of it in management. I have never ever seen a single aggressive person make money over the long term trading. Not one. I've seen some people with relatively complicated and sophisticated strategies that involved a lot of trades that worked well but it wasn't really buying/selling the same stock.
One of the reasons I quit the industry was we kept on coming up with more sophisticated ways for investors to be "informed" about trades. The more info and especially the more blinking lights, the more they traded. The problem is, we all knew the more they traded the more they lost. So, it was a bit of a abattoir. The real money in the industry is transactions. So, we honestly don't make much money when someone was an investor and not a trader. The only other way we make money is when people are holding stocks we loan it out to someone else for their use in the form of loans.
zorcy, if some of these oils, like the lemon stuff, have an evaporation point of about 76 degrees, like sort of halfway between your fusels/ (methanol) and the good stuff/ (ethanol), its a killer trying to get rid of the heads and still keep the flavour in. Unless it's already been pre-distilled and you've got rid of the fusels. Or made a near enough methanol-free wash. I'm with you on the thumper thing though; just a couple of questions. Do you need to have the liquid in your thumper already a sort of alcohol-saturated mix? And incidentally, is a "slobber-box" just another term for a thumper? I gave my pot-still away to a cousin a few months back, ( made from a "burco" boiler and a 40 foot coiled copper "worm" type condenser),when I got an air-cooled "smartstill" from a new-zealand guy I know; it just isn't possible to use a thumper with with it, which is why I've been putting my flavourings through a second distillation.And what would you use to get a DARK rum flavour?I've tried making a wash from dark muscavado sugar, but it just doesn't taste like rum.Apart from even going into the subject of colouring it dark.................!1
I'm glad you mentioned Chegg in your post. To save money on your order, use Code CC123047. Put in the code when ordering and hit the "apply" button for the discount. Code also gives an additional $5 back when selling Chegg your used texts.
The code does not expire so use it every time you order!
I fully understand about saving money and the desire to drop a landline in order to do so. But using only a cell phone is like putting all your eggs in one basket. I am a firm believer in redundancy. As another poster mentioned during Ike no cell phones were working well but our landline was doing just fine. We have lost power for hours and sometimes days. The landline still worked while the cell phones were jammed and you could not get through. The fact that landlines are on separate power source is the one reason I will keep my landline.
I think it's a skill that would help more people so I'm glad to see instructions. I actually parallel park all the time since I live in house with limited driveway space in a popular beach area with free street parking.
I'd like to point out just one issue with these directions.
"Align front bumpers" only makes sense when your car is the same length as the other car. What you really want to do is align back bumpers. Back bumpers are harder to see, of course but you can learn this.
This is hard to explain without pics but I'll give it a shot. In a normally sized car, you want to look out your rear right window and see the back end of the other car through the back end of that window.
Alternately, do this once. Line up back bumpers with a sample car, get out of your car to check. Then get in your car and look out your rear & rear right windows to see where the back of the other car lines up with your window.
Remember that spot. That is where you need to start each parallel park job.
Speaking of advanced parallel parking skills. If you car is small enough and you have some friends with you, pick-up the back-end and slide it into the spot.
You'll be strangely satisfied when you manage to get your into a spot that's not much bigger then the car itself. Just make sure you're not parking anybody in.
I'd just like to note, to the people here saying "I drink 8 glasses of water a day, I'm healthy!", well you only need eight glasses total of water per day regardless of the source. You get most of your water consumption through food or non-water beverages anyways (beverages are mostly water to begin with, and so are many foods). You don't need to drink 8 glasses of water a day, which can cause you to visit the washroom more times then needed, you just need eight glasses of water total, including from your other drinks and foods. You could typically never drink a glass of plain water and still be 100% healthy.
That being said, I still drink water, mostly because I'm a student and I frequently run out of funds to buy as much milk as I normally drink (I love milk!) so most days I drink a few glasses of water. I hate the taste though, and I always look for ways to flavour my water, I will have to try the methods listed here!
I always enjoy reading about Warren, his lifestyle, his financial
successes and the like....however unless you are a player in his
league it's hard to imagine that what he does in the markets has
anything what so ever to do with what I can do in the market. Main reason has
to do with the number of zeros following the dollar sign we both have to invest. If you invest many millions at a clip "you are the market" for that stock...you control your own destiny with that kind of horsepower. My suggestion as an individual family type of guy with
a few bucks to invest...leave it to the pros and go sailing or
fishing or what ever else makes you happy, otherwise you'll do nothing but make costly mistakes trying to mimic Warren.
Thanks four sharing your knowledge about Bukisa. I plan on trying them out after I post 100 articles on Ehow.
Thanks four sharing your knowledge about Bukisa. I plan on trying them out after I post 100 articles on Ehow.
It is refreshing to see how people in leadership positions can make a world of difference just by running things ethically, and treating people with compassion and good sense---while still helping their business to be strong and grow.
This is awesome. So good to see that big companies remember that their customers and the public, and even their employees, are real people and not just numbers on a spreadsheet.
Willie, Yes, you should start flavouring after you distilled it once. You should have an alcohol in the thumper, but with all art, you change it to your personal feel and change it as your taste do. If you put water in, you would have to wait for it to collect alcohol from the still before it starts to steam. The slobber box is more like a water filter on an air compressor, its to pull off stuff and drain out. If you had a really high output production, you may need one. Most of us would not. see http://wiki.homedistiller.org/Slobber_Box. Rum is from molasses. Try brown sugar if you can't find any at a feed store.
Bro, how much would you spend on 10 pounds of sugar? Compare that to a bottle of Grey Goose. You can make Vodka as good as them at a fraction of the price. Besides, this is more of a folk art and you really can't put a price on that. This is for knowledge and fun.
Questions, Yes, you can pull it off a little at a time. Sealing it and putting in a fridge would be a great idea. If you get the wrong lil bug in there, you have vinegar. You could drop a few campden tabs in there to kill everything, including the yeast. It will slow it down from changing the flavours so much. You can add clearing agents, you can use left over beer or wine too. You don't HAVE to clear it, but the cleaner it is, the less chance of carrying over some odd flavour and scorching it. I don't think the old timers worried, they left the corn floating. I would seal off the water in the cooling bucket with a rubber grommet. Oil it so it slides well.
Buffett is obviously in a league of his own, but a year ago was a pretty unique point in time—crashes like that don't happen all the time.
As for Phil Town, I liked his first book even though I get more and more skeptical over him as time goes on for some reason. Not sure why.
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The first time I ever parallel parked was when I was 16 and taking my first driver's exam. I had never even practiced it before.
God must have been on my side, because I nailed it the first time.
I think a lot of it is luck, but it can be learned if practiced enough
Water is pretty much the only thing I drink in my day, other than a cup of coffee and maybe a beer. I pay for a filtration system (Brita) because I want my beverage of choice to taste good and consistent (I'm a full-time RVer, so I'm never in one place for long). If the Brita isn't enough to get through horrible water, then I buy huge gallons of the cheapest water available. I've calculated that my water habit costs me up to $200 per year, or $17 per month. How much does the average reader spend on pop, juice, and 'flavoured water' in a month?
And I am qualified to say that the best tap water in Canada can be found in Campbell River, British Columbia. I have no problems drinking that water!
I live in a tropical country, when it's hot it's really hot...I have to agree with you, installing ceiling fans could help beat the weather plus drinking a lot of liquids. I don't turn off my a/c but I don't turn it on from late afternoon up to the next morning like I used to...It saves me a lot. I guess that's what I learn during recession lol, I learn to find ways to save. And this advice could help others as well...nice read.
Great post.
I was fortunate enough to read the quote from Buffett just around the time the market tanked. I decided I would follow his advice and I invested some money (albeit a small amount, but all of what I had) into index funds. I am thankful I took that course of action today, because I earned an excellent return in a year.
Many times following the sheep has its downfalls. Buffett is a leader, and a free thinker. Sometimes you just need to go against the grain and you end up reaping the rewards.
Couple of questions:
1. I just finished fermenting 23 litres of corn brew, and I just transferred it to my carboy for clearing. If I decide to distill over a period of time instead of all at once, can I just siphon so much at a time into the still and leave it in the carboy until it's all gone, or would it be best to bottle it?
2. Can I add a clearing agent to make it clear faster?
3. Do I really need to clear the brew like I would with beer or wine?
4. When sealing around the tubing that comes out of the cooling bucket, what would work best for that if I want to break it down after each operation? Would silicone work for hoplding in the water?
Thanks
Great post. I think a lot of people were scared in 2009. I know I was. Even though my gut was telling me one thing, my mind wouldn't mentally allow me to buy into a lot of unbelievable stock deals. Maybe that's why Buffet is so good at what he does. He's in a league of his own.
Following Warren Buffet's advice to buy good companies, and not confusing the price of a stock with its value, is what pays off. When the market as a whole goes down, the stock of companies that are of solid value can be bought for less. Of course, one has to spend a little time to research that company. Know its facts, such as return on investment, equity, price per share, cash, and sales over 1, 5, and 10 years. Read the annual report. Pick a company that you care enough to research a bit. The internet allows us to know much more about companies.
I'm working my way through Town's books "Rule #1" and "Payback..." to learn how to evaluate a company so that I know when to buy and if I need to sell it, based on the continued value of the company.
Phil Town's point is that the individual investor can be a lot more nimble, and he recommends owning about five indivdual stocks that one considers as one's own companies (shareholders are the owners), as Warren Buffet does (although Buffet's holding company does own the companies).
Only a few of the fund managers beat the stock market indexes, but they always siphon off fees, coming up or going down.
I'm not interested in becoming a rental property tycoon, but we do own 1 rental home. We moved into another more rural home on several acres, and plan to subdivide when we retire. We are now saving furiously for duplex. The rental home is my 1st home that I occupied for 11 years, and I am actually cash flow positive on it in spite of the housing situation and drop in rents.
I am not comfortable having all of my money in paper or Govt assets. I like to have some income generating/tangible assets as well. RE is not for everyone, it can be expensive and scary. But if you will take a friendly, but firm hand with your tenants, be proactive, do regular maintenance walk throughs (for the renters sake, nobody wants to live in a place that's falling apart) and do your homework & credit checks prior to renting, I have found that things generally go very smoothly. Keeping a healthy amount of cash in the bank is crucial to dealing with unforeseen tenant/legal issues.
Of course a renter is not going to take care of the home as if it were their own. This is investing, you must work to distance yourself emotionally from the home. That can be hard to do when you once lived there and love the house, but it's best for your sanity!
I hate it when people lump buy-and-hold with timing. It's the difference between investing and trading.
I worked 15 years in the discount brokerage industry, 13 of it in management. I have never ever seen a single aggressive person make money over the long term trading. Not one. I've seen some people with relatively complicated and sophisticated strategies that involved a lot of trades that worked well but it wasn't really buying/selling the same stock.
One of the reasons I quit the industry was we kept on coming up with more sophisticated ways for investors to be "informed" about trades. The more info and especially the more blinking lights, the more they traded. The problem is, we all knew the more they traded the more they lost. So, it was a bit of a abattoir. The real money in the industry is transactions. So, we honestly don't make much money when someone was an investor and not a trader. The only other way we make money is when people are holding stocks we loan it out to someone else for their use in the form of loans.
Lol good info bro it cost for the sugar but still people out there that got the money and time but great info injoyed readin lol and I hate to read
boycot china now
zorcy, if some of these oils, like the lemon stuff, have an evaporation point of about 76 degrees, like sort of halfway between your fusels/ (methanol) and the good stuff/ (ethanol), its a killer trying to get rid of the heads and still keep the flavour in. Unless it's already been pre-distilled and you've got rid of the fusels. Or made a near enough methanol-free wash. I'm with you on the thumper thing though; just a couple of questions. Do you need to have the liquid in your thumper already a sort of alcohol-saturated mix? And incidentally, is a "slobber-box" just another term for a thumper? I gave my pot-still away to a cousin a few months back, ( made from a "burco" boiler and a 40 foot coiled copper "worm" type condenser),when I got an air-cooled "smartstill" from a new-zealand guy I know; it just isn't possible to use a thumper with with it, which is why I've been putting my flavourings through a second distillation.And what would you use to get a DARK rum flavour?I've tried making a wash from dark muscavado sugar, but it just doesn't taste like rum.Apart from even going into the subject of colouring it dark.................!1
I'm glad you mentioned Chegg in your post. To save money on your order, use Code CC123047. Put in the code when ordering and hit the "apply" button for the discount. Code also gives an additional $5 back when selling Chegg your used texts.
The code does not expire so use it every time you order!
I fully understand about saving money and the desire to drop a landline in order to do so. But using only a cell phone is like putting all your eggs in one basket. I am a firm believer in redundancy. As another poster mentioned during Ike no cell phones were working well but our landline was doing just fine. We have lost power for hours and sometimes days. The landline still worked while the cell phones were jammed and you could not get through. The fact that landlines are on separate power source is the one reason I will keep my landline.
Jerry
I think it's a skill that would help more people so I'm glad to see instructions. I actually parallel park all the time since I live in house with limited driveway space in a popular beach area with free street parking.
I'd like to point out just one issue with these directions.
"Align front bumpers" only makes sense when your car is the same length as the other car. What you really want to do is align back bumpers. Back bumpers are harder to see, of course but you can learn this.
This is hard to explain without pics but I'll give it a shot. In a normally sized car, you want to look out your rear right window and see the back end of the other car through the back end of that window.
Alternately, do this once. Line up back bumpers with a sample car, get out of your car to check. Then get in your car and look out your rear & rear right windows to see where the back of the other car lines up with your window.
Remember that spot. That is where you need to start each parallel park job.
Even cheaper- buy coffee in bulk & make it at home. Tasty, and cheap.
Speaking of advanced parallel parking skills. If you car is small enough and you have some friends with you, pick-up the back-end and slide it into the spot.
You'll be strangely satisfied when you manage to get your into a spot that's not much bigger then the car itself. Just make sure you're not parking anybody in.
I'd just like to note, to the people here saying "I drink 8 glasses of water a day, I'm healthy!", well you only need eight glasses total of water per day regardless of the source. You get most of your water consumption through food or non-water beverages anyways (beverages are mostly water to begin with, and so are many foods). You don't need to drink 8 glasses of water a day, which can cause you to visit the washroom more times then needed, you just need eight glasses of water total, including from your other drinks and foods. You could typically never drink a glass of plain water and still be 100% healthy.
That being said, I still drink water, mostly because I'm a student and I frequently run out of funds to buy as much milk as I normally drink (I love milk!) so most days I drink a few glasses of water. I hate the taste though, and I always look for ways to flavour my water, I will have to try the methods listed here!
I always enjoy reading about Warren, his lifestyle, his financial
successes and the like....however unless you are a player in his
league it's hard to imagine that what he does in the markets has
anything what so ever to do with what I can do in the market. Main reason has
to do with the number of zeros following the dollar sign we both have to invest. If you invest many millions at a clip "you are the market" for that stock...you control your own destiny with that kind of horsepower. My suggestion as an individual family type of guy with
a few bucks to invest...leave it to the pros and go sailing or
fishing or what ever else makes you happy, otherwise you'll do nothing but make costly mistakes trying to mimic Warren.