I live in MA. We have bottle/can deposits. That shits’ $0.05 each. It adds up FAST. Plus you hay that $0.05 per can/bottle when you buy them so it’s like a small savings account. Save up a few bags’ worth and bring them in to the redemption center. Boom free beer money.

The caveat that all recycling tips are highly dependent on how your local processor handles its recyclables makes me tempted to not take any advice that isn’t given specifically by my local processor. It just seems impossible for a writer from some major metro area hundreds or thousands of miles away to give me advice…

1990: SAVE THE TREES, USE PLASTIC BAGS
2019: HOLY FUCK WAIT

First, aluminum is way easier to recycle than glass.

You don’t need to use garbage bags for recycling...

or just drop your aluminum recycling off at a metal recycler (get cash for the cans while you’re at it) there’s a metal recycler on my way to work so it’s pretty easy to do.

If you’re in a deposit state, crushed cans don’t always work in the deposit machine. This was something I had to get used to when I visited NYC for a while. 

“It was my favorite when it was hard to find, but as soon as it got ubiquitous I just didn’t (don’t) like it anymore.”

This right here is the heart of the matter, and it has nothing to do with the beer recipe.

It is not a thing for 99.9% of big beer. Blending batches makes infection of the beer more likely and just is not an optimal method when you want the same exact flavor/consistency across millions of beers.

I’ve generally found that larger breweries (again, in general) are able to purchase more and better QA/QC equipment. In scaling up, a lot of breweries actually make greater investments in the quality and consistency of their beer. I have no experience with how this works in the snack cake industry. 

I don’t think your average beer nerd knows how insulting it is to a brewery when they say shit like “the October canning run is so good - much hoppier than the September batch.” Yet I see it in beer groups all the damned time. 

I love craft beer, but I hate the way craft beer drinkers play this “the brewery changed my favorite beer!!!” game.

Here’s to hoping you wake up to dozens of replies asking the same question I did ;-)

Between Boy Scouts, Lifeguarding, and Ski Patrol, I’ve been trained and retrained for many years. Whoever is taking charge needs to directly call out assignments.

Don’t be timid about getting involved and directing specific others to do helpful things until another person identifies themselves as more qualified to be in charge. I was playing city-league softball, when a guy snapped his ankle sliding into home. No one immediately stepped up to tell a specific bystander to call…

Footage from this year’s Browns playoff-clinching win against Pittsburgh:

If that happens, then I wonder where the fissure will open up to swallow us all whole, because that’s clearly the final sign of the apocalypse.

Pittsburgh is the new Cleveland.

Well, the Browns are making good decisions so....end times? Mirror-verse? We’re now in an issue of What If? 

Please forward this to Drew as an early submission for WYTS: Giants Edition—