Now that is funny!! [sm=happybounce.gif]

 

I had a really good Doppelbock at a Germand restaurant not too long ago, I wish I remeber the name!! Hefeweizen is also very good...

Any good Belgian beers to recommend??

My wife has made up some cordials, and I thought I would try my hand as some mead, a good dry mead, not that sweet stuff they sell....

 

Too bad you can't remember... do any of these look familar?

http://www.those-rogers.net/beers.xls

THAT'S NOT A FAIR QUESTION!!!!! I haven't met a Belgian I didn't like (literally). But my favorite is Chimay Grand Reserve (blue label as opposed to red or tan). They are all good and if you like Hefes but not the darker beers than the tan or red is for you. But don't short-change yourself, at least find a single of the Grand Reserve and give it a try.
Guess I need to update my website.... I noticed I don't have any mead info on it.

http://those-rogers.net/homebrew.htm

A good mead is at LEAST 18 months old. I've only made one batch to completion. I had one bottle left that I was going to enter in a competion. It was about 7 YEARS old. I came home one day and it was gone. The wife drank it!!! She almost got it that night.

Meads, especially dry ones, aren't my thing. I made that one batch (5 gallons) and it took 7 years for the wife to kill it all. She loved it and for a mead it was pretty good. I've got 2 more batches going now. I've decided that I'm going to make a new batch every year. It will be at least 2 yrs before I know if it's any good. One batch is getting close to its first birthday. Another batch I think I started in Dec so I'll have 2 batches that are close in age.

 

Who's laughing? I was serious. According to my step-sister (who I don't know well and who was the previous owner) the car had 300k miles on it. Since the odometer only went to 100k I don't know but it had been flipped at least once. The engine had been rebuilt at least once. She might have siad twice; I just don't remember. I put another 20k on it in the year I had it. And I abused the dog-**** out of it. I went in the Navy and ended up in VA. There is no way in hell it would pass a VA inspection (didn't realize at the time I could keep FL plates on it).

The exhaust manifold leaked which in and of itself wouldn't have been bad but the floor board also had a hole in it. My dad, the yankee redneck, would drop his Old Milaukee's Best cans thru the hole. Because of where the hole was, the back tire would run over the can. He thought that was the greatest thing in the world. Damn rednecks!!

Anywho, when I got to VA I took it somewhere to have it looked at. It was only running on 5 cylinders. One cylinder had zero compression. Didn't seem to matter. Ran the same as when I got it.

Speaking of oil longevity, I decided to scrape all of the crap off of the valve cover on the inside. Just used a putty knife to get rid of the 1/4 to 1/2 inch gunk. Worst mistake in the world. A few days later, I guess another piece got loose and went into the oiling system. Ended up stuck in the oil pump somewhere. The oil light came on, the engine started knocking, but it had plenty of oil. Changing the oil didn't help and I think the engine had to be partially lifted to get at the pump. I wasn't about to do all of that. After a couple of weeks of knocking, it finally passed its kidney stone and kept on going without further complaint. Could be it was stuck in that dead cylinder too I suppose.

Give me an engine like that!!! Damn thing was under powered but even I couldn't kill it.

 

hey brewer bob wat part of VA you live in?

 

I don't. I was referring to my Navy days in Norfolk. ButI'm not living too far from you now. I'm in Essex, MD (21221).

P.S. How do I turn my location on. I'm fairly certain I loaded it in my profile.

 

Go to "My Profile" and fill in the "From" box. It's fairly near the top of the page.

 

The only thing I can find in the stores are the really sweet, cloyingly sweet, meads. For me it would be a toss up between a good dry mead and a 'good' beer.

Nice website by the way.. and yes, Budvar tastes *much* better than Butt-wiper.....

 

BrewerBob, good info on your website, interesting read. Just FYI though on the second homebrew page the background ends before the text does in Firefox, since the text is white it can't be read without highlighting it. Might want to throw background-repeat: repeat-y; in your stylesheet.

 

Although I am impressed with your millage increase,
If you have a problem with your engine and Dodge asks for your maintenance records and you tell them you use amsoil for 15K intervals do you think they will warranty it?

I personally don't think (and have read posts confirming this) so if you don't at least somewhat follow their recommended schedule.
And you can BET Amsoil won't warranty it!

Syn oils are great, I just don't believe Amsoil is that much better than Mobile 1 or others.

I am planning on changing the Dif's (factory syn), and tcase to AMSOIL, but am hesitant with the trans because they are so particular about the ATF+4, and would never be comfortable leaving oil in the motor for 15K.

Just my 2 cents
LB