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BoilerMaker
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Hello from PNW

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Hi,

I found HD late last year. About the same time I dug out the still I made 40 years ago. It's been fun catching up with y'all and learning how to make good whiskey. Some is on oak now and thought I better say Hi before too much time passes.

Learned a lot in a short amount of time....
- Every question has been asked before.
- What tastes good today may not tomorrow, and vice versa. (And it may not have actually changed.)
- Cuts are like other things, a bunch of jars working together are better than one by itself.
- Terminology: panty droppers, budgie smugglers, shackle draggers, billabonk (the list goes on...)

Cheers (:
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Welcome to another member thats been around for a while and finally made a post. As you've probably noticed, there are a good number of us here from the great PNW.
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Welcome from another PNW member. Looking at your handle back in 1968 while a college student I worked at Todd Shipyard and was in the Boilermakers Union. At the time we were building destroyer escorts for the Navy during the Vietnam War.
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Bushman wrote: Wed May 12, 2021 4:03 pm Welcome from another PNW member. Looking at your handle back in 1968 while a college student I worked at Todd Shipyard and was in the Boilermakers Union. At the time we were building destroyer escorts for the Navy during the Vietnam War.
Ha. I looked at that handle, and thought he was a Purdue alum, and likely a transplant :lol:
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My first impression was a whiskey shot and a beer...
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Yea I noticed a lot of folks from the NW and with a wide range of experience. Actually seems many from B.C. and beyond in the north, and going south along the west coast. I guess once everyone going west hit the Pacific ocean and couldn't go any further there was nothing else to do except make stuff, including making booze to drink while making other stuff.

Bushman, that's cool about the shipyards. They were a solid piece of the industrial core. I know that drill of working to get through school too. Wasn't easy. Did you ever stop by the Alki Tavern and stir up trouble?

Anyway, so the handle is part craft and part drink. I'm reasonably good working with metal when I put my mind to it, so the craft part is me. The drink, well that was more my father and he didn't have anything else. After work it was always a Rainer and a shot of MacNaughton's.

BTW, when I mentioned digging out an old still, I meant literally. I buried it when I was a teenager in a forest before going off to get schooled. Never went back to check on it until last summer, 40 years later. Since y'all like photos of stills, thought I'd show you the archeological dig and the survivor.
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Dang! You found it after 40 years? That's impressive. Good thing nobody decided to build a subdivision there.
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Bushman, that's cool about the shipyards. They were a solid piece of the industrial core. I know that drill of working to get through school too. Wasn't easy. Did you ever stop by the Alki Tavern and stir up trouble?
I grew up in Burien and spent a lot of time cruising Alki and partying on the beach back in the day you could have beach fires.
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