[TheForge] The hard cider is good... OT:

[Cheryl Brimson]

What a Philistine.  Sixteen year old single malt isn't about getting drunk.  It's a religious experience.
John




Oct 25, 2010, at 1:52 AM, blakkpawss at yahoo.com wrote:

> Where's the fun in that?  Yeah, you can get drunk.  But, you miss out on all the dangerous and time consuming screwing around stuff that leads up to the drunkeness.
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> From: Cheryl Brimson <cbrimson at me.com>
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> Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 01:49:46 
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> Subject: Re: [TheForge] The hard cider is good... OT:
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> Mike:
> I can't believe that someone would want a weedeater powered blender.  That is just too much!  Haven't they heard about single malt scotch?  You don't even use that much ice and it doesn't have to be pulverized in a $700 blender!  I can buy a lot of 16 year old cask strength single malt for that much money.
> John
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> On Oct 25, 2010, at 12:53 AM, Mike Spencer wrote:
> 
>> 
>> With reference to:
>> 
>> me> http://home.tallships.ca/mspencer/temp/cider-press.html
>> 
>> CGRAF <adveniam at att.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 10/24/2010 4:50 PM, Jerry Frost wrote:
>>>> Geez you guys are getting complicated! Can't I just use the juicer
>>>> attachment on my Kitchen Aid mixer?
>>>> 
>>>> Jer
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Gee Jerry, consider who you are talking with..
>>> A simple solution? Come on man get real.
>> 
>> Ha!  If you think my cider press is bizarre, wait till you see my
>> grout pump.  I thought I could just, you know, rent one.  No way. Even
>> the Brit-trained FOAF stone mason doesn't know where there is one.  Feh.
>> 
>> So I built one.  Runs on compressed air, includes an orange plastic
>> street-hockey ball as a moving part.  Goes through the motions but I
>> have yet to test it with actual wet, sloppy cement.  Pics, eventually,
>> if it works.
>> 
>> But Frosty, would you want to run 4 bushels of apples at one go
>> through your Kitchen Aid mixer?  Or your blender?  Not that any
>> consumer blender would stand up to it.  Ya gotta pay maybe $700 and up
>> to get a *real* blender these days. Yeah, every blacksmith ought to
>> have one of these:
>> 
>>  http://www.tailgatorzone.com/features.html
>> 
>> Only I want a stainless steel hopper on mine.
>> 
>> 
>> - Mike
>> 
>> -- 
>> Michael Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada       .~. 
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>> mspencer at tallships.ca                                     /( )\
>> http://home.tallships.ca/mspencer/                        ^^-^^
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