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Non alcoholic beer?
Yuck. Or do I recall that wrong? You take up drinking? New York will do that ya know…
I’m not a teetotaler, it’s just that in practice I don’t drink. I drank about 4oz beer last year, or maybe the year before. I used beer in making stew and had a bit left over. It was domestic beer, brewed in my domicile.
Someone cracked that joke a couple days ago so I made the image, and then posted it in many places in order to spread the offensiveness. #winning!
Gotcha, I think 🙂
You homebrew for cooking I take it?
I don’t drink very often or very much. Beer is odd to me in that I don’t even like the taste of the first one, but once the alcohol works a bit the rest taste good. On the coast I’ll usually have a couple with a cigar in the evening.
Not domestic though as I prefer non domestic beer* and violence over there 🙂
* #1 Harp, 2nd Heineken (Harp is hard to find, Heineken always available)
I brew for cooking and for gifts — a 2L soda bottle full of homebrew is almost always welcome. In theory I drink some, too, but in practice hardly any.
Maybe I’ll give it a try…
Maybe not. I have a good understanding of basic chemistry, but it appears that it is far cheaper to purchase the beer already brewed and bottled, even shipped across an ocean. 🙂
I recall driving to Knoxville, back in the 70’s, to visit friends at UT we would stop sometime before Knoxville and buy beer in milk cartons. Tenn already had a higher alcohol content than NC or SC, and that stuff was closer to liquor. It had a lot of junk in the bottom so you would toss the last couple ounces.
This is known as the “good old days”…
You don’t need knowledge of chemistry unless you want to get fancy. All you need is a basic knowledge of food handling and good habits regarding cleanliness. I’m practically anal-retentive when it comes to cleaning the equipment and the bottles. I’ve never had a “skunked” batch. There was one 12oz bottle which may have been bad based on smell; I poured it out rather than take the time to check it more thoroughly.
If you don’t drink much then the cost of the equipment is much greater than the savings over buying bottled beer.
For me, it’s a fun hobby (performed only once a year or less, lately) which costs nearly nothing now that I have the stuff.
Well, my original comment got eaten by the machine…
I mentioned chemistry in order to say the process isn’t the problem, It’s the price as you correctly divined. Pretty expensive to make the first batch, and not cheap to make any batch unless you’re going to make a lot.
OTOH, I’ll have to dig around, I may have much of the stuff needed.
Day two, another Glorious day in America!
Hey Mike!!!
If you’re reading, my wife alerts me to the fact that MS Edge web browser display CF as a bunch of “junk”. I opened it on my edge browser and go the same thing. Just an FYI.
Works fine with Brave, DDG, and dissenter browsers.
Oops, take that back, Brave works fine, DDG and dissenter display the same crazy stuff…