I used to make my own wine and champagne when I was underage. Got a text from a family member today asking me if I still knew how to do it lol
I brew my own beer occasionally and hard cider is easy as hell to make. Or stock up on Everclear. A couple of bottles go a long way. In a pinch airplane glue and those fat black markers will get you through a rough week.
Back in Mississippi I made some hard cider. It was horrible, but mixing it with Sprite I was able to down enough of it to get a buzz. Or maybe it was some sort of alcohol poisoning. Whatever it was, it was not a pleasant experience.
I’ve made it two ways- once about 10 years ago in a glass carboy, with an airlock and the right kind of yeast. It came out awesome. The first time was in high school when I stashed a gallon of cider in my closet and tossed some baking yeast in. It wasn’t great but it was drinkable and had alcohol.
I made something like 5 carboys with airlocks and champagne yeast, but I think somehow I fucked the whole mess up. I was drinking really heavy back then, so who knows exactly what I did. That whole last few years in Mississippi is pretty foggy.
My in laws keep bees and we’ve made mead with them a few times. The best batch had habaneros, followed closely by one with tons of ginger and black pepper. All have been palatable, though, and all of them will fuck you up. The ones we’ve tried to test have clocked in from 14-18% abv and are extremely unforgiving the morning after.
Legitimately one of the funniest things I've ever seen: Rarely does such stupidity and such brilliance come together in such a perfect union. Spoiler The "Little Mac" joke at the end is genius
I feel like I remember you posting about this on the old board. Didn’t it end up like 20% alcohol when it was done? That’s some hardcore hooching.
My favorite subreddit is r/prisonhooch https://www.reddit.com/r/prisonhooch/ people there make cheap alcohol out of anything fermentable.
Chappelle's fans have gotten fuckin' weird. They're aggressively defending him on Twitter like they were teenage k-pop fans, but they're 38 year old men who in theory have to work in the morning.
So more info coming out about the shooting on the Rust set. The armorer was a 24 year old girl, her first gig as lead armorer. The AD was fired off of other movie sets for safety reasons involving firearms. He's the one that grabbed it from a rack and said "COLD GUN!" and handed it to Baldwin. WHO COULD EVER HAVE THOUGHT THERE WOULD BE PROBLEM HERE?!?!? https://www.thewrap.com/rust-armorer-inexperience-hannah-gutierrez-fired-nicolas-cage-film/
Gonna be a lot of blame to go around on that one. Any time a system with redundant safety measures fails, there's a lot of people who were doing shit they weren't supposed to.
One slip here, followed by another, followed by another... each individually relatively insignificant, but combined?
Jungle Julia, Li'l Bandit and I went down to Boca Chica beach today, to get one last look at it before Elon Musk totally fucks it up. Here's Elon's bullshit: Spoiler Spoiler The best part was we drove down to the mouth of the Rio Grande River. It's been years since I've been down here. Spoiler Other side. It's not as impressive as it must have been in the '50s, before they built all the dams.