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"Adapt, improvise and overcome." As soon as they start taxing "natural" CO2 emissions, I'll find a way to scrub those carbon emissions from the atmosphere, preferably at or near the sources. All that is lacking currently is an economic incentive that is lucrative enough to motivate me (or other folks like me, who like to come up with creative technical solutions to sticky problems)! ;D
 
Or we could stage a "Fart-in" where a group eats a bunch of cabbage and beans and then visits some local legislators in their offices. Tax that!
 
Medsen Fey said:
[Rant]

.....Just wait and see - but unfortunately you just might have to hold your breath while you wait. >:( [/rant]
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The best way to save the planet from CO2 is for everybody to stop exhaling! Think about it! There are over 6 Billion of us on this planet. If we all collectively stopped exhaling, we could run the dirtiest cars ever built. Industrial pollution would be a minor thing.

Of course, INhaling is not a bad thing. There is no CO2 produced when you inhale (although there might be some CO or other carbon byproducts developed depending on what you are inhaling. But no CO2!).

Let's stop needless exhalation! The planet will thank you for it!

:cheers:
Wade
 
You realize that folks are trying to make GMO grains that reduce cow farts, right? "Any day now" was like 5 years ago. :eek: Can't wait for that debate: GMO vs. Global Warming. Watch out! Heads are going to explode. :rolleyes:
 
I know...you shouldn't hold things back like that Medsen. It can't be that good for you.

:P

/now that we've totally derailed the thread
 
Back to your previously scheduled thread topic....

One of my brewing buddies has a friend who will be traveling to the UK (to someplace in Scotland, actually) shortly after the New Year. She has promised to bring back a bottle of T.N.P. for us to evaluate. So, stay tuned for tasting notes -- to come eventually to this thread! ;)
 
wayneb said:
Back to your previously scheduled thread topic....

One of my brewing buddies has a friend who will be traveling to the UK (to someplace in Scotland, actually) shortly after the New Year. She has promised to bring back a bottle of T.N.P. for us to evaluate. So, stay tuned for tasting notes -- to come eventually to this thread! ;)
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Well I could probably do it from here Wayne, but I'm not prepared to pay stupid money for beer!

All of the "looney juice" beers I've tried in the past have been truly awful imitations of the original brew type and certainly not worth the money, just because they have a higher alcohol level............

Particularly when, IMO, it's nothing more than an advertising gimmick......

regards

fatbloke
 
fatbloke said:
All of the "looney juice" beers I've tried in the past have been truly awful imitations of the original brew type and certainly not worth the money, just because they have a higher alcohol level............
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Agreed. We have a "Total Wine" store here with a pretty good selection of international and micro-brews. I decided to taste-test several selections from several BJCP categories - all were high-gravity - thinking they may be styles that I would be interested in home-brewing and were beer styles that I had never tried before. They were all pretty awful...not one was worth the ridiculous amounts of money they charge per bottle...and a few of these were award winners. I seriously doubt that I will be homebrewing anything with an "imperial" attached to the name.
 
High alcohol malt beverages can be good. I've taste a couple of barleywines that were delicious, and they were in the mid-teens for ABV. I've not yet had the chance to try Utopias, (or the Penguin) but I would like see what they're like if only for palate education.
 
I'm not expecting much in the way of complexity, or overall quality, from the T.N.P. But I share Medsen's opinion - some of the high proof malt beverages out there aren't too bad, so I'll keep an open mind going into the taste of this one. It also helps that someone else is paying the bill for that bottle! ;)
 
Hmm, I can't find explicitly what they did to this one, but one would assume they freeze distilled/concentrated it even more than the Penguin beer. Kind of silly to go that far, IMO. Won't it eventually start tasting mostly of alcohol?
 
Unless a beer (or anything else) is fermented to it's final ABV I'm not really impressed, any smuck can fortify something (or in this case distil?). I don't know why these guys do this.

I could just brew some cheap pilsner and beef it up to 70% with everclear, then bam, now I hold the record! :rolleyes:

Probably would taste bloody terrible though!
 
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