...if you feel brave enough.?ÿ Found this pile while surveying today.?ÿ Wifey must of put her foot down.?ÿ Either the beer goes or she goes...
The crew and I once found a gallon jar full of weed and money.?ÿ It was just outside the fence at a minimum security state prison/ work-release center.?ÿ It was spirited to the truck under a safety vest.?ÿ
Some on the crew thought it would stealing to take it, others thought it was a "finders-keepers" situation.?ÿ But after lunch we all felt better about the situation.?ÿ 😉
Wink wink nudge nudge Say no more!
Wifey left.?ÿ This is what was rounded up after all of his buddies passed out from the celebration.
Being as not very many of them are the same, maybe this person is a craft brew critic, and those are the brands that weren't worth drinking ??ÿ who knows.
That seems like a logical explanation. There's some interesting names there: "Spiteful Brewing", "Peanut Butter" ...
Perhaps their "Best if drunk by" date expired. ??? ????ÿ
I laughed ???
If any of those are "Billy Beer" grab it up. I've heard collector's will pay big money for those.
@peter-lothian I grew up about 30 miles from Plains and visited there several times.?ÿ I know it was for collection only but Billy beer was rank.
Andy
I have a can of JR beer, unopened, from the early 1980's when Dallas was the big show on TV.
My mother has a six pack of Billy Beer and a six pack of J R Ewing Beer. She has never drank a beer in her life. There is one missing from the 6 pack but I don't remember which brand. The neighbor wanted to try one years ago. She was my typing teacher in High School.
At different times in the past I have seen either one being advertised for sale for well over $100 but I have never seen any actually sold for that price. Ebay currently has it for under $20 per 6 pack.
Somebody had to hide the collection it seems, and fast ?????ÿ
They've got a few homebrews in there too, judging from the tell-tale markings on those caps. I would steer clear of those... of course, they make great bottle bombs.
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All of these things are clear to those of us who used to be alcoholics?ÿand?ÿhomebrewers ?????ÿ
..All of these things are clear to those of us who used to be alcoholics and?ÿhomebrewers ?????ÿ
I use to love brewing batches of homemade beer when I was a young man.?ÿ ?ÿI had it down to fine science.
Then I started branching out and experimenting with different ingredients.?ÿ ?ÿSorghum molasses makes a good brew with a few other things...juniper berries instead of hops makes a horrible tasting concoction...
I tried my hand at potato beer.?ÿ Getting the sugars correct was a little challenging and I did have a few bottles that popped their tops.?ÿ But I finally got a good batch and couldn't wait to try it.?ÿ My buddies all came over for poker and we drank up almost the whole batch.?ÿ It was a drunk mess of idiots for sure.
Two of my friends stayed over (passed out) and the next morning was deadly.?ÿ We were all sick as dogs with volatile stomachs and a headache that made me want to go to the ER.?ÿ We all finally survived and the remaining bottles of potato beer were christened "Ol' Splitskull".?ÿ I moved on from brewing potatoes.
A few months later I was doing some reading.?ÿ The potatoes I had used for my brew had spent some time outside.?ÿ When I peeled them I remember they all had a green tinge, but hey, potatoes get green in the sun.
Unknown to me I had concentrated a naturally occurring toxin called solanine by brewing green potatoes.?ÿ I'm really glad I didn't kill anybody.?ÿ The beer was good but the side effects weren't worth the trouble.?ÿ I was scared to try another batch even without any green potatoes.?ÿ
@paden-cash I adhered pretty strictly to the Reinheitsgebot (four ingredients!) when I was brewing but I experimented quite a bit with the yeast, and occasionally using simple sugars with my Belgians. Brewing is experimentation after all. While I never had any deadly batches, I had my share of drain-pours and skull-splitters. I had buddies blackout at the house a couple of times. ???? If you ever feel like reading it, Randy Mosher's?ÿRadical Brewing was a favorite source of inspiration during my days behind the ol' mash'n'boil and he gets into effective use of things such as juniper berries and gluten-free grains.
I am familiar with green potatoes. My father-in-law grows them and has warned my wife of that issue. I can imagine mashing and extracting sugar from them would be pretty risky. It's quite fortunate your situation turned into a bad hangover and funny stories for your buddies instead of looking like a cult kool-aid ritual.
@holy-cow most of the surveyors I know are best if drunk by 5, 6pm latest.
At high school, our chemistry teacher made home brew beer, and I remember him saying that it didn't give you a headache because it didn't have the preservative chemicals in it that mass produced beer has.
Green eggs and ham might go good with that green potatoes beer... ?????ÿ
@richard-imrie?ÿ I had one recently called "Tasty AF Peanut Butter and Chocolate Milk Stout" by Saloon Door brewing.?ÿ Was almost like drinking a reses peanut butter cup.
