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Welcome from a member just south of the BC border.

Sometimes I wonder when I see one of my posts the next day!

Welcome, sounds like you’re off to a good start. The PNW is well represented on the forum.

I am currently in Austria trying to post with my iPhone, sorry about the sideway pictures.

Walking around Salzburg I found two interesting shops. My wife says I am like a magnet drawn to alcoholic establishments. The first one was a cask store and if you brought your bottle back you could have alcohol from one cask or combine alcohols. Looked like most casks were 50% and they were either ...

Amazing, we are currently in Europe thus did not see it but have seen through other forums some amazing pictures,

Thanks for the PM, hope we can make it work. I am heading to Austria today for 4 days then back to Munich for a day before flying to Gran Canary.

Welcome, different reasons for wanting to get involved in the hobby. Enjoy the journey!

Welcome, just before Covid I visited Quebec City then boarded a cruise ship to New York. I very much enjoyed visiting that part of the world.

While in Austria try Strohs rum (carefully). The unique butterscotch flavor is amazing. Wish I could get it here. God that brings back memories of drunken nights on my adolescents. Be careful with that 80 ABV rum, it'll end your night fairly quick My German friends say it is very strong but not kno...

I agree with all that has been said. From the other side of the fence I find myself posting links or giving short answers to questions that have been discussed over and over. The comments made about learning styles is true, a lot of questions asked on the forum I have to give a lot of thought too as...

Here are some absinthe links on this forum:
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First night in Germany we went out with our friends to a local family run winery for wine and appetizers. Fun catching up after a few years apart. The family we are staying with, she is an English Teacher in Germany but back in the early 90’s we brought her to the United States as a nanny for our so...

Lots of fascinating jobs here and a buttload of real, honest hands on people. Great group. I’m 21 years in the US Army, followed by another 19 working for a state. Started a computer forensics company in my “spare time” during the later years and sold it 10 years later. Been retired, ran for state ...

Heading to Europe today for the month of April. Will start in Germany then second week head to Austria for 3 days. Travel back to Munich to fly to the Canary Islands for a week of sun and beach. The last week will be wine tasting in Portugal. Will have limited internet but should be able to check fr...

Retired school teacher, taught design engineering.
Had two CNC machines
1 3D printer
3 different CAD programs on all the computers.

Congratulations, when I first started I would taste test with my wife women (at least my wife) had a better sense than I did. I collected a bunch of pint jars that had measurements in 2, 4, 6, 8, and 12 oz increments. I never used smaller jars just collected less when getting close to the hearts and...

I’ve smoked two cigars in my life. The first one as a teenager I had my dads muscle car, I had been drinking and hit a patch of ice on the road. Did a 360 lucky I stayed on the highway but puked my guts out. Fast forward to 30 years later and I smoked a cigar on the balcony of our cruise ship with m...

Happy Birthday Nerdybrewer, hope you have a great day! Also it is Mulekicker birthday and although he has not been on the forum for years I remember back in 2010 or 2011 I bought my first controller from him as he was making and selling them to members. If you felt you had enough experience he even ...

Welcome, lots of bad advice out there in the World Wide Web. Forums are a great place to get the right information.

Thank you for the kind words and welcome to the forum.

Welcome, all first posts must be made in the Welcome Center thread and accepted before posting elsewhere. If you made a post in the welcome on someone else’s welcome post it probably wasn’t accepted as well. Looks like you are all good to go now. Enjoy the forum.

Welcome, MooseMan hit the nail on the head, you are starting the same way I did when I first got started. I decided to build my very first still with very little experience soldering so I chose to build it starting with the easiest part to solder first. Enjoy the journey it’s a great hobby.

Google solera method for aging. You can use barrels or jars, I used a combination as I didn’t have 3 barrels at the time I started using the method. It’s a rotating method so you never fully empty a barrel unless you take a break from distilling.