I just checked, and it seems that in my younger days at this forum, whenever anyone said I was talking rubbish, I just accused them of being Trolls. Seems I did this to Bigun and eriksquires amongst others. 
These days I am entirely serene and copacetic. Am studying the Buddha.
But did miss my chance in the (now sadly deceased) "Goodbye, cruel forum" thread:
Goodbye all.... the conclusion is that this site really is near to pointless.
I wanted to work "The Pointed Man" from the famous cartoon "The Point" in somehow.
Oh well. Nearly Christmas and no bans yet.
These days I am entirely serene and copacetic. Am studying the Buddha.
But did miss my chance in the (now sadly deceased) "Goodbye, cruel forum" thread:
Goodbye all.... the conclusion is that this site really is near to pointless.
I wanted to work "The Pointed Man" from the famous cartoon "The Point" in somehow.
Oh well. Nearly Christmas and no bans yet.
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In the US, we are told the barrels can only be used once. There is a fair trade in obviously beat-up half barrels, typically sold as planters or spiffed and padded as chairs.
Individually?? Who is your gardener?
+1 on propane burner.
Due to a mis-delivery, I am using Calcium Chloride road salt. Killed a lot of chronic crabgrass AND the seeds it spreads. I even spared some good grass in the back. In the driveway I am liberal and indiscriminate. We also use Clorox, it smells, but does not linger or migrate.
I thought that other stick was a floor paint remover. The same thing on a short handle is sold for stripping siding. Slow and dangerous but few fumes and has been reported to remove many layers. (I use the propane torch, especially on sap-knots.)
Whisky was aged in used sherry barrels, or other used barrels which had been used for wine.
The caramel is added using sophisticated techniques like HPLC, and fractional distillates are segregated, the smoother ones go into aged whisky.
Anybody think how much Johnny Walker sells in a year?
Where are the storages, where 12 years worth of whisky in barrels are kept before being bottled?
And the 21 year and 50 year vintages sometimes sold?
The 2033 sale year batch must be in production, how many thousand cubic meters are they going to make and store?
To modify my earlier post:
Whisky is distilled without filtering, and vodka is distilled after or before filtering.
There are some legal requirements in USA and Europe for the origin of the alcohol used for the drink to be called whisky, sadly in India most of the whisky has sugar cane based alcohol, so it is really flavored rum. Or vodka, to be pedantic.
There are companies supplying whisky flavor, just add to raw alcohol, dilute to required strength, and bottle!
Most people here drink to get drunk, the niceties are lost to them.
Gin is flavored alcohol, the flavor coming from mainly juniper berries.
Vodka is filtered flavor less alcohol from any plant or industrial source.
The caramel is added using sophisticated techniques like HPLC, and fractional distillates are segregated, the smoother ones go into aged whisky.
Anybody think how much Johnny Walker sells in a year?
Where are the storages, where 12 years worth of whisky in barrels are kept before being bottled?
And the 21 year and 50 year vintages sometimes sold?
The 2033 sale year batch must be in production, how many thousand cubic meters are they going to make and store?
To modify my earlier post:
Whisky is distilled without filtering, and vodka is distilled after or before filtering.
There are some legal requirements in USA and Europe for the origin of the alcohol used for the drink to be called whisky, sadly in India most of the whisky has sugar cane based alcohol, so it is really flavored rum. Or vodka, to be pedantic.
There are companies supplying whisky flavor, just add to raw alcohol, dilute to required strength, and bottle!
Most people here drink to get drunk, the niceties are lost to them.
Gin is flavored alcohol, the flavor coming from mainly juniper berries.
Vodka is filtered flavor less alcohol from any plant or industrial source.
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In America, we are no longer allowed to buy creosote to paint posts put in the ground,
but we can put all we want in our stomachs- whiskey, bacon, sausages, liquid smoke(for those living too close to others to smoke their own food).
I wonder if the chimney sweeps have to dispose of such as toxic waste?
but we can put all we want in our stomachs- whiskey, bacon, sausages, liquid smoke(for those living too close to others to smoke their own food).
I wonder if the chimney sweeps have to dispose of such as toxic waste?
There was a favourite kind of candy we always boat on the bought to Finland, the Tar tablets:
Of some reason Finland is not only the land with the tousand lakes, but also the land of licorice.
I cannot say if these tablets contained creosot, probably not but were very popular.
We even have a bottle of Finnish Tar Schampoo.
There are, sadly many places, especially around old sawmills that are polluted with creosote.
Of some reason Finland is not only the land with the tousand lakes, but also the land of licorice.
I cannot say if these tablets contained creosot, probably not but were very popular.
We even have a bottle of Finnish Tar Schampoo.
There are, sadly many places, especially around old sawmills that are polluted with creosote.
Whisky is still aged in sherry barrels. I am currently working my way through a Tamnavulin Sherry Cask Edition.
In answer to your storage questions, whisky is stored in huge 'bonded warehouses' or 'bonds'.
A 'whisky bond' is a storage space in which the payment of duty and VAT is suspended on whisky until it is removed or exported. This tax free zone is where we set whisky down to mature.
As to quantity of production, up to 500,000,000 litres of whisky can be produced in Scotland annually.
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Pharisäer (Pharisee)
about 0.04 l rum
1 cup of freshly brewed coffee
sugar at will
Whipped cream on top
Cocoa powder for decoration
Hot Cocoa with whipped cream for the kids
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Hot Cocoa for adults is called Tote Ante - Dead Auntie and is like a Pharisäer but with cocoa instead of coffee.
The story behind the Pharisäer is absolutely fantastic.