Yeast dependent, but you can brew perfectly clean lagers in the 60+ degree range. Safbrew 34/70 is the preferred yeast for warm fermenting lagers, but others may work as well. You’ll still need a fridge to help clear the beer, but you can probably improvise with a bucket and some ice.

Of the big 3, I think Miller’s products tend to be the cleanest of the bunch. Bud and Coors both have a bit of weird flavor to me, but I’m happy with either a High Life or Miller Lite. PBR is right in there as well.

popeco.net is now my peaceful sanctuary on the internet. thank you.

I put 10 years on my Civic, sold it when it died, and paid cash for my Forester. I think someone gave me the same advice around graduation and I’m thankful that it stuck. Fortunately my wife is frugal too, so that helps

I’m very glad that I did not buy a new car out of college and was able to aggressively put money towards my student loans instead of a car payment. My wife’s schooling is paid off, and, 5 years out of college, I’m close very close on mine. We’re fortunate to both have good jobs, but we would be in a significantly…

My backpacking secret - a stick or two of butter in a quality (leakproof) tupperware. Probably not ideal for the hottest of summer trips, but it’s a cheap and easy way to add calories to a meal after hiking all day. Hard cheeses and cream cheese do well too, and pair nicely with a bagel for an easy lunch or breakfast.

I’ll second the Aeropress suggestion, if only for the fact that you can use a standard grind on the beans. It’s also pretty cheap and makes some great coffee.

I should have mentioned it in my original post, but buying fresh coffee is super important. If you can spend money on a grinder (I have just a low-end Mr.…

I know food / wine / coffee snobbery is the worst, but can I recommend trying a quality, lighter to medium roast coffee than maybe you’re used to? Cheaper coffee and darker roasts can have a lot of bitterness to them, and it’s completely understandable to not like Folgers or Starbucks black. But you probably have a…

Is my perception that skewed now? I was just thinking how great the interior looked compared to my 2011 Forester. (But yeah, unfortunately Subaru interiors lean more cut-rate GM than comparably priced Honda / Toyota).

I graduated from a NC school about a decade ago, and I don’t know if I could have asked for a better education. My teachers were engaging and challenging. They developed classes for sports history, and literature from the Holocaust, and our judicial system, and others. My peers and my teachers were diverse, something…

fuck did i just get blackout drunk, create a new account, and then write this?

If 10 days of vacation and 1.5 hours/day of commuting and answering email at home and unpaid paternity leave and shitty employer sponsored health insurance is the price I pay for good old fashioned AMERICAN FREEDOM then you can take your commie pro-labor laws and shove it!

Sure, but how many times do you see drivers use their brakes for essentially no reason on the highway? Or, especially on these rural highways, approach a car that’s going 15 mph below the speed limit? I don’t want the driver behind me to assume that I’m just bleeding speed or following a slow car. Passing a turn…

I noticed the original commenter was from Alabama, and I wonder if this is unique to the deep south. We have a lot of rural, two lane highways, and passing the turn signal back can be a good way to let other drivers know that you may be coming to a stop. I’m not sure why this would be considered “misinformed garbage”

I have a 35 mile commute, mostly on interstate, with pretty light traffic. Leaving town, there is a red light, after which the speed limit increase from 45 to 65 mph. I regularly get stuck behind two cars that not only refuse to accelerate to the speed limit, but will also not get over to allow others to pass. Often…

Please, do the right thing here - string this blind girl along so that Dad doesn’t have to pay his debt to society.

The real trick is to leave a stick of butter on the counter in a covered dish. Then you always have spreadable butter.

Be thankful it wasn’t Castleberry instead

Individually, it may be easier to get around a group of 3, but that also means getting around 5 groups instead of 1. Plus, big groups are more likely to be seen

I used to ride on the road a lot, although I much prefer mountain or gravel riding now. My dad still road bikes semi-regularly, and last year their entire group of about 15 people were pulled over for “impeding traffic” riding single file up a hill out of town. The cop told them to split up into groups of 3 and spread…