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The Republicans are trying to pass a bill that would make it legal to take home brew off your property to share. Currently the DOR has deemed it illegal to share home brew with your neighbor. Many homebrew competitions have been canceled in Wisconsin because it's a $10,000 fine to carry a bottle of home brew off your yard. This is a problem for many home brew clubs as it is illegal to share.
On a Federal level we're all good but in Wisconsin the Department of Revenue says no no - "after the event in India where like 15 people died from illegal moonshine it's way to dangerous to make home brew". I don't think they understand that beer was originally made thousands of years ago because it was the one that thing humans could drink that WOULD NOT KILL YOU!
There is absolutist nothing that can survive in home brew that can kill you. Nothing can survive in the combination of alcohol and low PH. It's why beer was invented in the first place.
But remember, the DOR also felt making movies in Wisconsin was a bad thing.
SO - now Republicans are trying to pass Bill 395 that would make it OK to do what we have been doing for decades. The Tavern League is dead set against Bill 395.
I was reading in Beer Advocate about more more and more communities are having small brewery's open, not unlike Hydro Street Brewing in Columbus. America is starting to be like France with wine. Local, small breweries making enough for the community. Slowly chipping away at the mega brewery's that are now owned by non-americans (Bud).
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You know - seriously - if I had understood the Columbus water before I moved here I seriously doubt I would have moved here. The water is so terrible. Who in the past decided to dump Baking Soda into our water and call it good??? Can our water dudes fix this???
I have a copy of the Sun Prairie (SP) water. WOW - that is nice water.
Sodium - Cbus 106ppm SP - 4ppm
Calcium - Cbus 19ppm SP 66ppm
I've been asking others around the U.S. what there water is and there are a number of communities that also soften there water but our? It's the worst in America . . so far. No one, that I have seen so far, has more sodium in their drinking water.
NOTE - since I put the question out we are not the WORST!! Actually Carmen Indiana is the worst so far with 250 ppm sodium. The installed RO water systems. So while I do not have to have water softeners I might get a RO water system (about $200).
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Working on shots of the Auditorium and it seems there is Audi burn out. HOWEVER - I still think there is hope. I have said all along that there is a majority of people that live in Columbus (normally not people that grew up in Columbus) that are excited about what Columbus can be!
These people see a future. To quote Batman (don't ask) "Tomorrow is one dream away. Don't look at the past and stop looking at the present, instead look at the future . .. if we ask ourselves . . .what can be . . .what will be . . tomorrow, then we are asking the right question. Because to hope, to dream, to predict is to shape the city yourself."
So lets not let renovating the Auditorium fall by the wayside.
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Cold - no worries - this is just a dash of winter - the next 7 days will STILL be above average . . on average. Once this cold flows south we will have warmer weather flow back over us and Canada and Alaska is still way above average - there is no REAL cold weather north of us. Europe is where all the cold is . . . VERY cold.
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Now I must prepare to brew - as Oaked, Dead and Arrogant will be brewed today.
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Cute photo of the day
Caydance and Josh
Caydance and Josh at a Down Syndrome walk.
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