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You know - if I was Todd Frye I would be thinking about buying Iceland. I hear they are going bankrupt and some cash and a few cases of beer might be all it takes.
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I see stocked are tumbling today and in an odd way this is good. When real panic FINALLY hits many people think that the end of this current dark times is nearing. Like a pimple popping. Just like in 1999 when everybody was panic buying tech stocks, they did not want to be left behind.

I'm a contrarian and when things look the worst I feel we are nearing and end. After all we are in an epic world class bad market. Might as well just hang on. It's no longer the economy driving the market but dumb bunny's wringing their hands and panicking.

Sit tight - the storm will pass. Remember, when all the major magazines had bulls talking about how GREAT it was and EVERYONE was making money - BAM, market collapes. Look at the news stand now, what do you see. DOOM AND GLOOM. Think contrairian.
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I hope to see some of you at the AUTUMN IRON ANTIQUE TRACTOR SHOW tomorrow.

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Last night I had my final golf banquette. I resigned from being the guy in charge after nine years. The course owner finally got to me. Having two control freaks trying to run a league just does not work. There were other reasons but I wanted control to keep golfers happy and he wanted control to get every penny he could out of each golfer. At least I KNOW I'm a control freak, but I like to control for the common good, I know (or at least think I do) what will make things run correctly that will benefit the most people.

Make a league fun and you will make money. Happy golfers are spending golfers.

Now he can see what a hassle it is to make 28-40 people happy. I never had any problems with golfers and the normal complaints because I liked to use common sense.

Case in point (I know you guys really do care about all this). We had a huge storm go through one night, people got soaked. In the club house many were ready to call it a night and a lot of people left. The owner saw on the radar that it was clearing in an hour and we could get out.

I wanted to call it a night, no one wanted to golf and many had already gone home. But the owner say's NO! Rules say we golf in the rain. So I was overruled and we golfed and he said anybody that left forfeits the match. So much for ME running the league.

Two guys in their late 60s were soaking wet and went home. They came back and found out their match was forfited and they quit the league. Pissed me off but I kept my mouth shut.

Rules get in the way with common sense. I feel rules are a guideline and common sense should never be ignored.

BUT - I digress - had to get that off my chest - sorry.
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Pick up The Onion if you can find one - it's the 1783 Edition.

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BALD EAGLES - Can nothing be done about these regal pests!
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I had to put on a blowoff tube on my newest batch of beer, my High Amped Tectonically Overcharged Amber. I've been trying to figure out what style this is. The recipe was an Amber but so much freaking hops it's up there in the IPA range. So I had to look at the differences in IPA and this . . . THING!!

Basically it was the malt's used will make it darker then the lighter colored IPA. Did you know IPA (India Pale Ale) was the first "light" beer?

The industrial Revolution in England was brought about because of the use of coal. Coal provided an efficient source of energy and in addition coke derived from coal allowed the production of steal.

But the cool thing was that coke allowed malsters an alternative to wood for fueling their kilns. They could now make NON-brown smokey malts without the aroma from the wood used. Thus, pale malts equaled pale ales.

But porters and dark beer was still for the common brew for a laborer and pale ales were mainly for the upper crust. One brewer in east London brewed mostly pale ales and because of an imbalance in shipping rates there was a large market for his pale ales outside England.

India was self sufficient in everything so when India ships came back to India they were always empty, India needed nothing. So shipping rates back to India were REAL cheep.

The pale ale was all going to Russia but the Napoleonic wars were putting an end to all of that. The brewers needed another buyer, India.

Problem with India was that the voyage was not the greatest thing for their amber colored beer. SO, the brewers put MUCH more hops into the brew because it acted as a preservative, but this made for a very bitter beer. To fix that reduced the gravity (sugar). This helped the yeast ferment better leaving less residual sugar which abated spoilage.

And that my friends is how IPA's got their name. A highly hopped higher alcohol beer.
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Now its head down work time

Rod