if you keep the beer cool and chilled you should be able to have plenty of hop character for several months. after that, it's mostly malt-dominated beers that keep their flavor (and also improve over time, depending on the beer).

I've never tried it (it's really pretty easy to make actual beer or cider once you've got the equipment) but I've read quite a bit about it on the homebrew forums. The ice distillation technique is actually a legit way of making beer. it's how natural ice manages 5.9 % abv without having any flavor (usually if you're…

There used to be, because fresh aluminum is a reactive metal (when you cook with it, it forms a passive oxidation layer the first time so it doesn't ruin your food). but nowadays, they have a special liner in the cans that achieves the same effect.

and if you really want to get ghetto, throw it in the freezer till a big chunk of ice forms. You can toss the ice, leaving you with more concentrated booze. Congratulations - you've just distilled wine into liquor!

Also if you chill it for a couple of days in the fridge, that'll make a big difference.

excellent beer indeed! Both the pale ale and the scotch ale are highly recomended.

Double-hopped / triple hopped = marketing BS
Don't believe the "Double - hopped" or "triple-hopped" hype - virtually all beers feature multiple varieties of hops, or at the very least, hops that are added at multiple stages in the brewing process. Hops added at the beginning of the boiling process will generally…

no need to apologize Alex; the original Beavis and Butthead is still hilarious. w/o the videos, it's alright to waste some time now and then. I'll even defend the movie (it was my first date with my wife, so I'm a bit biased). but the original still holds up IMO

Dinosaur rock
I propose a new term for Nickleback, Korn, Creed, etc. - constipation rock. it's the only way to explain such horrible singing. the lead singer was stuck on the toilet trying to pinch a loaf so they just brought the mike in.

@ murray - if you want to be technical about it (and I'm a nerd, so I do), she was referring to Checkov's concussion-related claim to be an admiral.

aw, fuck it. if it's my time, it's my time. I'll take mine with a pulse, please.

ok, let's try this. so Qui Gon's a Jedi, and of course he's wise and calm and all that. And he can reduce all the splendor and magic of The Force into a simple blood test (one that he evidently carries with him at all times). and… I guess that's about it.

I think by the end of the TOS movies they had something like 3 captains and 3 commanders on board (Kirk, Spock, and Scotty being Captains, and Checkov, Uhura and McCoy being commanders).

Things like that really, really piss me off, Rollo. As much as I rant and rave about copyrights and piracy around here, it's bullshit that copyright has been extended as much as it has. Congress is being very shortsighted here. There's a cultural value to the public domain that can't be defined in dollars and cents.

I like that concept also. But I always imagined that the little bit of Anakin left in him is his nagging knowledge that he really brought it all on himself. He betrayed the Jedi, he killed Padme, he killed his own kids (or so he thinks). He's stone-cold evil, but he's got that little bit of undeniable knowledge left,…

The transporter clones a babel fish inside your ear while you're beaming up. They do it while you're in the "buffer" or whatnot.

Revence of the Sith
Not to get too off topic here, but Zack's right about the ending to Revenge of the Sith; It's a huge cop-out. On the whole, I really liked RoTS, and I wish that all of the prequels had it's tone. But the "lost the will to live thing" was lame.

Re Worf being saner than Yar
for that matter, any of the following Trek Characters are saner than Yar:
Commodore Decker
McCoy during ST III
Spock during Ponn Farr
The Guy Who Looked at The Medusan
Lokai and Bele
Ira Graves
Senile Sarek

I thought Time Squared was at least a 4th season episode
And for that matter, "The Measure of a Man" felt like a much later episode, at least in my recollection. I've got a theory that when you look back at the early episode of a TV series and you're surprised by how many of the "Classic Episodes" occur earlier in the…

My understanding is that El Zilcho is correct - the original license only included boadcast and repeats. Original music (for example the Simpsons and Seinfeld as mentioned above) is not an issue becuase it's created under contract for the production company, so the production company holds the copyright. For licensed…