That's the common story, yes. That would've been only 20% corn or rice adjuncts, though. It wasn't until after Prohibition, when people got used to drinking beer with no body, that brewers started turning to 40% corn or rice in order to emulate the thin body and taste of Prohibition beers while also increasing the…

Oh, interesting. I've never brewed with rice adjuncts before, and didn't realize you needed a higher brewing temperature for starch breakdown. That definitely qualifies as harder. And also qualifies as yet another reason not to brew with highly attenuable starch adjuncts.

Totally off-topic— but what do you use to hand-mill grains? I have a Corona mill, but I'm not satisfied with it (it's made for milling corn, not barley, and crushes it a little bit finer than I would like for my mash). Just using a rolling pin takes forever, though.

Why is that harder, though? It's not like it's more difficult to extract fermentable sugars from corn or rice than it is to extract them from barley. It's probably harder to get it from barley, I would guess, due to the thicker hull.

Does anybody know what the fuck "brewed the hard way" is supposed to mean? I literally have no clue what that phrase means. What is the hard way? Do they think brewing craft beers is easier? Any pickup-driving, open-carrying, moustache-hating dudes (and who are we kidding, obviously it's just aimed at dudes)…

So, I disagree with you, obviously, since I think servers do a hard job and should get far more than minimum wage for their efforts.

Wow that customer's an ass, sorry.

I sure hope the next thing Kate Saunders ordered at a restaurant with OldGuy was a fresh glass of better boyfriend. twoheadedgoat's friend, too, though she could have seen it coming, the whole "libertarian" thing is a barely disguised euphemism for asshole.

The law is that changing into work clothes is generally not compensated unless it's "integral and indispensable" to the principal work duty. Generally, that means you're not going to get compensated for time putting on a uniform unless your employer forces you to do it on work time. Most employers therefore don't…

I feel for those people who have to bring their own food into restaurants. It's so hard to find DNA-free food these days. They're not even required to label it! And sometimes if you ask restaurants, they'll tell you their food is DNA-free even when it isn't. As if I can't tell the difference from tasting it.

This is how I feel about ice cream with cookie butter cores:

Sure, there are good reasons to not order farm-raised salmon. But this dude was somebody who clearly didn't actually ever want to order the salmon OR the beer and just wanted to ask stupid questions for no reason at all. If he'd actually cared how much beer was in a pint, he would've ordered the pint, but he didn't,…

There are laws against it for some employees in some industries, like trucking and health care, and possibly in some other fields involving operating heavy equipment, but none in food service that I know of. Because this is America, land of the free-to-work-your-employees-as-much-as-you-fucking-please.

Ok reading this I now realize you were joking. Whoops, you got me.

They could easily look pretty similar from a few feet away, and not everyone is familiar with Japanese cooking.

Ooh boy I can't wait for the arguments people make trying to defend laundry detergent lady. SOME PEOPLE AREN'T FAMILIAR WITH YOUR HIGH-CLASS FANCY KITCHEN STORES AND SO MISTAKE THEM FOR TRADER JOE'S ALL THE TIME! MAYBE SHE WAS FROM A DIFFERENT CULTURE WHERE COOKING OIL LOOKS LIKE OUR LAUNDRY DETERGENT! IT IS…

There are plenty of decent paying careers people can get into that don't require advanced education.

It's important to remember that this is quite possibly only a temporary victory: because the NLRB finally made an official ruling on a specific case, the cases can now be appealed within the federal court system.

Lasagna with no bechamel? No thank you.

Growing up, I always thought the point of gingerbread houses was to make them, decorate them, take a picture, then destroy them with a hammer and put gingerbread and frosting into the mouth part of your face until you can't do that thing anymore. Then I discovered people who just decorate them and let them sit out…