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  1. Maybe I'm diverging a little bit, but I was wondering if anybody had any amusing stories about things that went wrong with their craft brews that they learned from and can laugh about now. I might have a few years under my belt in this field, but I can still mess things up, like that time I got distracted and dropped about a cup's worth of walnuts into a rye mash. (I know, whoops, right? Never, ever multitask when you're brewing.) Anyway, does anybody else have some stories to share?
  2. Just thought I'd share this since I've been a homebrewer for a LONG time and used to live in Illinois. Basically this bill allows homebrewers to share their brews with friends and family, enter competitions and allows homebrew distributors to host demonstrations and education for the interested public. Here's the article I found: http://beerpulse.com/2013/07/illinois-governor-signs-homebrew-bill-allowing-competition-entry-sharing-and-more-772/
  3. What would you think of forming a co-op to buy ADI when the time comes? Or else having the brewers' association create a certification method/definition that we market as being one that is widely adopted and agreed-upon by craft distillers and NOT created by a corporation. If we get the jump on this, ADI could wind up with egg on its face. Edit: Only...Instead of calling it "certified" since it's trademarked, use some properly professional-sounding synonym. "Authentic?"
  4. I would say watch LOTS of Youtube videos, especially if you're a visual learner. Also, nothing beats experience in the brewing world.
  5. I haven't really worried about my CO2 though I have heard that it has practical benefits for people who are more technologically savvy than me if you can find a cost-effective way to store it. Really, I suppose the CO2 my still produces is absorbed by a few decorative trees I have growing indoors, not far from where I keep it. As has been mentioned, waste grains are commonly sent to local farmers to use as feed and I've had some luck with making bread with mine.
  6. The French toast sounds good. I've mostly made bread for my family to eat out of my spent mash. It's good as bread bowls for soup. Does anybody know about the legalities of doing similar as a menu item for a restaurant?
  7. Serious (and legal as can be!). How's it going?
  8. ^^For the spam issue, I'd probably flag the most commonly Spam words to trash messages with those words. I wish, wish, wish there was a government organization I could report blog comment spam to. But, anyway, I like the poll idea. My first pick for customer involvement, though, would be to attract some customers who know whiskey for a taste-test and a questionnaire on what they like about your product and what they would improve.
  9. Great...Now I got moonshine all over my keyboard. Thanks for the grin though.
  10. ^^Sudzie, I was just about to use IEEE, which is one organization that regulates technological standards ranging from "Wi-Fi" to integrated circuits, to make roughly the same point. It's a worldwide organization that is not tied to any single government and seems to mostly rely on the open market for enforcement. It works because I can make a Bluetooth-enabled tablet, you can make a speaker system that can be remote-controlled with Bluetooth and provide an app, and both devices will work together regardless of who manufactured it. Companies that follow widely agreed-upon standards stand a better chance of succeeding; those that go off on their own path tend to fall by the wayside. I won't deny that there are lousy products on the market that theoretically follow these standards, either, like a lot of the junk you see in the technology department at Wal-Mart that people buy because it's cheap. But enough about IEEE. It would most certainly help our cause to form a standards organization. The challenge will be getting enough independent brewers and/or large companies on board to make it stick, along with publicizing, "We're going to be putting together agreed-upon standards to ensure that our brews are the highest possible quality, regardless of the exact recipe or method. Browse our list of members to find a brewer near you." Once we have enough sticking power, the open market should do the rest and weed out the ones who don't follow our standards.
  11. If I were you, I'd be looking for a city that isn't so negative about independent distillaries. Sounds to me like this lady (or someone like her; there's usually a crowd) will cause you nothing but trouble, usually using obscure regulations and city ordinances. It has happened and I've heard of independent brewers getting into scraps with city officials who wanted to make themselves feel important. But, anyway, I recommend looking at credit unions that are friendly toward veterans who want to start their own businesses and staying in contact with the SBA. Good luck.
  12. My friends call me Moonshine Jane. I've been making moonshine for a while and loving it. Looking forward to making friends and trading tips on this forum.
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