White House serves up home-brewed beer

Perth Now ^ | September 17, 2011 | correspondents in Washington

[Red_Devil 232]

Hey pyx have you seen this? Great info with pictures at the Knewahound’s link in post 37. Would be nice to have a monthly Home Brew Thread for Freepers.

[bkopto]

I would have thought Zero and Sasquatch would be brewing this:

Stuff Ghetto People Like

(Now, don't nobody turn me in to AttackWatch.com)

[skr]

No sarcasm tag needed.

[knews_hound]

Actually, I also run the Homebrewers Ping List...

Just sayin.

[chiefqc]

How long before that would close because of being poorly run by someone with no experience?

Mac daddies best job prospect after being thrown out of office is standing on a street corner reading from a teleprompter.

[Red_Devil 232]

Please add me to the ping list! Ever thought of doing a monthly or whatever thread?

[Red_Devil 232]

The purpose of drinking malt liquor isn’t for the exquisite taste but to get s$it faced drunk. No alcohol enthusiast or anyone with a decent palate will drink malt liquor for the taste. In fact, most malt liquors smell and taste like day old p!ss water. Despite all the flaws and social indicators associated with malt liquor, it remains a popular staple in the lives of ghetto people.

[i_dont_chat]

. . . Let them drink beer. . .

[Allegra]

White House curator Bill Allman said the Obamas are the first to make a brew at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

Well, I'll be danged. They accomplished something constructive after all...

[pyx]

How on earth do you thoroughly clean glass carboys with necks and small openings ? A long wire brush will only go so far and reach some places. The upper part of the glass carboy can only be very lightly scrubbed with a smaller wire brush.

Almost all glass carboys I've seen look like THIS ONE. Not to be confused with the glass demijohn.

For brewing beer are you using a 6 gallon brew bucket ?

[knews_hound]

We rely mostly on good cleaners to do most of the work.

Oxy Clean, among others, will remove all of the gunk in the carboy with minimal, if any, scrubbing.

I actually use a plastic vessel called a Better Bottle. It is generally the same size as a glass carboy without the inherent dangers associated with easily broken glass ones.

The truth is, I’m lazy, and prefer to let chemistry do the hard work ;0)

Cheers,

knewshound

[pyx]

unless it’s changed, 200 gallons per household a year is the limit ( 100 gals per adult).

That's obviously 20 five gallon batches.

At about 40 bottles of beer per five gallon batch, that's roughly 800 bottles of beer per adult per year. Its unfortunate that the federal government has inserted itself into these sorts of limitations on making a food product at home for home consumption.

Also notable is that in the US and in Canada, one is "not allowed under any circumstances" to make ANY spirits (hard liquor) at home for home consumption. In Australia and New Zealand, there are no such limitations on homemade spirits (liquor) for home consumption.

Even stove top POT type distillers to distill homemade mash (mash carefully made from scratch or starting with good quality homemade wine) to heat the carefully made mash or wine to 78 degrees Fahrenheit (NEVER ABOVE 80 degrees Fahrenheit) and made from distillers home-fabricated using fairly large stainless steel pots or stainless steel water kettles outfitted with very very good FOOD GRADE seals to prevent any sort of leakage and then connected to a 12 foot piece of 1/2 inch, eight-time coiled copper tubing immersed in a bucket of ice-water to cool the gas into a liquid that drips the results into a glass jar sitting on a lower wood-stool after discarding the first 1% to 5% and discarding the remaining 20% because they have off-flavors, are not allowed by the government.

For some odd reason, people are home distilling in order to bump-up homemade table wine into very fine quality and enjoyable sipping Cognac (with results of the brandy being well above 25% +++), are not allowed in Canada or the US.

And anyone who would make and use a stove-top POT type distiller like the ones shown in THIS DRAWING and THESE PHOTOS should know that these sorts of things should never be very simply fabricated at home using the bare minimum of tools and knowledge.

Of course, some people foolishly go out and just make their own from supplies purchased at Home Depot or Lowes or Ace Hardware or Home Hardware after looking up drawings to home fabricate distillers on the Internet by going to places like The Home Distiller Org or using Google to search for other places on the Internet.

In my opinion, with the repeal of Prohibition, the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms should have never been in the regulating business in the first place and I believe such limitations should have never been made. In my own opinion, Mommyment really has absolutely no place in one's kitchen or if one chooses to have one, their home brewery or home distillery. As an adult, and as long I don't injure or cost others, I believe I have the right to make decisions for myself about what foods to consume and enjoy.

If one wishes to bake bread or make beer (the two processes are virtually identical) or to make wine or distill spirits in the privacy of their own kitchen for their own consumption and enjoyment, one should have that right.

None-the-less, such limitations are in my opinion, the result of lobbying efforts by the large brewing corporations and their obliging pals in the political ruling class to limit and squeeze the hobbist, home and small brewer out of production. Brewing at home or making wine at home is a thumb in the eye to the political ruling class. Yes, we do need some government but, I believe it should be limited to pretty much the bare necessities of what it can do. The Constitution as it was written and intended would be a very good start.

Very recently, I left Mississippi and relocated with family, in Canada. And although I home brew my beer and make wine at home, there are no limitations on the amount one makes here. There are however, regulations on distribution and to whom I may give the results of my labors.

[pyx]

Would be nice to have a monthly Home Brew Thread for Freepers.

Go for it and sign me up.