My current rant's in another thread. Feeling better already, but still steamed. More later.
Nickolas
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Bad day in Athiest/Jehovah's-Witnessville
by Nickolas inbear with me for a day or two, ok?
if i don't vent a bit i'll leave gray matter spontaneously spattered all over my office walls..
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Bad day in Athiest/Jehovah's-Witnessville
by Nickolas inbear with me for a day or two, ok?
if i don't vent a bit i'll leave gray matter spontaneously spattered all over my office walls..
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Nickolas
Bear with me for a day or two, ok? If I don't vent a bit I'll leave gray matter spontaneously spattered all over my office walls.
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Got my own wine kit from a local brew shop...
by sinis in...and its pretty cool.
took me four hours to take the grapes off the stems.
had about 25 lbs from my vine (white grapes).
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Nickolas
I used to make a lot of wine from grapes purchased directly from the vineyards. Like two plus 40 gallon barrels a year. I used barrels and 12.5 gallon demijohns. One year I did three barrels, which is about 720 bottles. No, I didn't drink all that wine myself in one year, but I sure did my best with inventory control. It was good stuff but you don't get much variety when you're consuming nothing but your own product. The kicker was having to move house. I had the equivalent of a thousand bottles to move and I swore I'd never do that again. With no move in sight now I could get back into it but I just go down to the wine store and restock my wine cellar. Some really good deals out there from Chile and Argentina but most of my favourite reds these days are coming out of Australia. Here in Canada the Niagara white wines are world class and inexpensive for what they deliver, although I'm really starting to fall in love with kiwi whites.
Be careful about sulphites like campden tablets. Headache city for people who are sensitive and possibly the single greatest contributor to really bad homemade wine other than wine that's turned to vinegar. I never put sulphites directly in my wine. Never. I used sulphites to wash everything that would come in contact with the fermenting grape juice and the wine. Barrels, demijohns, bottles, hydrometers, everything. I also used sulphites to rinse bottles before bottling but you could never taste it in the wine and it never gave people headaches. To make consistently good wine without zapping it with chemicals you've got to get religious about keeping bacteria out of the process. Keeping your hands clean is also important, as is maintaining your vapour locks while fermentation is still underway. Don't let outside air come into contact with your fermenting grape juice. I often had to keep vapour locks on the barrels and demis for two months before it completely stopped and I was able to apply seals. I never lost a single bottle of wine to vinegar, even the bottles I stored for 7-8 years.
The batch you're making, btw, is going to be a little on the sweet side. If your yeast has some power you'll end up with a 1 or 2, which is still drinkable in my books. You can get a really drinkable product from DIY kits - especially the one you describe. You can't go wrong with real grapes - but don't expect top end because a year or so in storage does any red wine some good.
On the lighter side, the wife and I drove past one of those big signs with the replaceable letters erected next to a DIY wine shop. The original sign said ... NEW!! 7 DAY WINE, but someone had removed the first N.
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THE END (TRUTH) IS NEAR. "RELIGULOUS" BILL MAHER
by clarity infor those who didn't see this ...mayer travels around the world interviewing people about god & religion.
quite an eye opener!.
this a trailer ...the dvd is about 1 1/2 hrs long, actually a lot of laughs.. .
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Nickolas
Bill Maher has a difficult time hiding his incredulity. That is true. It's really hard for me sometimes, too. When for example someone speaks to me with genuine sincerity about patently absurd things, I'd better not have a mouthful of mashed potatoes. But, yeah, he grates sometimes. Good movie though.
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What is the most offensive/idiotic piece of WT literature you've read from the past 20 years (approximately)?
by Chemical Emotions ini think that some of the dumbest were ones that pertained to science- not all of them, but a few, particularly the ones about evolution.
the most offensive (and also dumbest) were the ones about women, and the ones about rape.
those were horrible.
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Nickolas
marked.
Keep asking questions, godrulz.
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Nickolas
You should convince Pfizer to print that poem on their Viagra label, CoCo. Sales would double.
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I kinda hope my wife finds out about me
by Anony Mous inso we had a 'special' visitor today in our hall, somebody from patterson, young fellow with a wife.
off course i didn't catch that at first until he started name dropping in the first 5 minutes that he was from bethel .
so he goes on rambling about how we live in the last days and blah-di-blah .
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Nickolas
A good start. All the best.
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Please don't send me a link to the new elder's manual
by EntirelyPossible inwe shouldn't post them here because of legal reason, so whatever anyone does, please don't even think of sending an email with a link at [email protected].
that would be unethical and it shouldn't happen.
i hope i have been very clear in that i do not want the link, and certainly not at my personal email address of [email protected].
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Nickolas
**snort**
(damn allergies)
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I want to go to the UK and Canada... recommendations?
by Free!! inok everyone i am going to canada soon, vancouver to be exact, i was wondering if anyone can recommend places to go??
i love sight seeing and i want to take advantage of my time there (almost a week)... so what would u recommend?.
also i am planning a 1-2 week trip to the uk in october or maybe december, i know they are many uk posters here.... also, i want to take advantage to the max of my time there.. i want to go to those hidden treasures in the country side... maybe 1 day or 2 in london, but i want to see the wonderful uk country side... want to stop by scotland and ireland if possible... .
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Nickolas
Only a week? Hardly enough. Rent a car and drive northeast from Vancouver to Jasper then south through the Columbia ice fields to Banff and Canmore, then onto Calgary to catch your flight to the UK. It will take you the better part of a day, but be prepared for the drive of a lifetime.
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How important are God and Jesus to you?
by Nickolas ini ask this question because it goes to:.
- how disposed to objectively considering contrarian evidence you are, and.
- how much i might be messing with your life and happiness by helping you see things the way i do.. i read the posts of many people on this board who are apparently happy, even deliriously happy, with their theism.
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Nickolas
Who?
Best answer so far, btw.