In the previous post, we made full-mash homebrew beer. Two weeks later, our fermenters have stopped bubbling, and they are full of sweet, sweet beer. Unfortunately, the beer is flat and warm. What can we do to rectify this unfortunate situation? Ah yes, we can bottle the beer.

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About a year ago I put up a post explaining how to make homebrew beer, the kit way.  Making beer from kits is easy and fast, and you don’t need much equipment.  The beer, however, while easily equal to Tui, Heineken and the like, fails to measure up to the real beers like Duvel and [...]

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Libertarianz spokesman Luke Howison congratulated Steve Crow today for his triumph over the fascism of the Auckland City Council. “Well done Steve! You have successfully taken on the closed-minded authoritarian bureaucrats of the Auckland City Council – and won!” “Only the most politically correct ‘liberals’ like Cathy “not-in-my-backyard” Casey and the most repressed conservatives like [...]

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As tagged by Phil some time ago … The Rules: Link to your tagger and post these rules on your blog. Share 7 facts about yourself on your blog, some random, some weird. Tag 7 people at the end of your post by leaving their names as well as links to their blogs. Let them [...]

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Phil and I have been getting into the homebrew scene in the last few months, and I’m proud to present this photo walk-through of the brewing of our third batch of kit beer. Making beer with a kit is fairly simple and the initial setup takes only an hour from go to whoa. The first [...]

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Minnesota police have a mystery on their hands. I’m happy to help them out. Testicle surgery mystifies police When conventional medical professionals refused to remove a 62-year-old local man’s testicles, the man hired other “professionals” to do the surgery. He would not tell officers who they were, saying he didn’t want to get them into [...]

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The NZ Herald has the slightly unusual case of a successful long-distance relationship: Convicted pack rapist Peter McNamara fathered a child while in Rimutaka Prison. He made arrangements with a prison doctor to provide a semen sample for his partner. McNamara’s partner, Joanne Percy, gave birth to a boy in Tauranga Hospital in January and [...]

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I sometimes make forays into strange places, psychologically. I find it fascinating to explore the limits of strange and different thoughts people can have while still being sane. I’m talking about REALLY strange places, like the world of eunuch/castration fetishism. I liken the experience to watching a car crash in slow motion: you know that [...]

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