Mega Thread The Random Thoughts Thread Part 1

[raman]

Huh? It's delicious and keeps you awake.

I need more help getting to sleep, thanks.

Even the best coffee is just okay. It's about on the level of the best mandarin. And yet there's no endless, tedious cultural conversation about mandarins.

 

[Dylan8]

Coffee is only good if it's got a bunch of sugar heaped in because I am 12.

 

[manureid]

Gingerbread Stout. Oh yes

 

[LukeSA]

I need more help getting to sleep, thanks.

Even the best coffee is just okay. It's about on the level of the best mandarin. And yet there's no endless, tedious cultural conversation about mandarins.

Which there should be, i like mandarins more than i like coffee.

 

[Rankor]

I have a small electric blanket wrapped around the fermenter which is on a timer set for 4 hours on at night but the bottle conditioning i just leave in cool dark place for a few weeks. Definitely not a professional setup, I am planning on building a insulated box and buying a cheap heatlamp.

The thing i hate is the inconsistency of brews, do the same shit everytime but have different results, some beers turn out really nice but some taste like the devils piss.

Don't worry about a heat lamp. I just put a normal light in the chest freezer and it heats up fine.

Temperature control is the most important thing to obtain consistency.

Look up stc-1000 temperature controller. Does hot and cold. Just need fridge or freezer.

 

[Magus]

Crazy talk.

I can't decide what I'd rather live without: good coffee or good beer?

 

[Dylan8]

Crazy talk.

I can't decide what I'd rather live without: good coffee or good beer?

Beer. Always beer.

 

[raman]

Crazy talk.

I can't decide what I'd rather live without: good coffee or good beer?

LOL that's one of the all time no contests.

 

[Magus]

LOL that's one of the all time no contests.

Well until I'm allowed to drink beer before work, it's a tricky one.

 

[Dylan8]

Beer. Always beer.

Wait I read that wrong. The other way around. I could live without good coffee because good coffee isn't that good anyway.

 

[Duck Farmer]

Wait I read that wrong. The other way around. I could live without good coffee because good coffee isn't that good anyway.

I could never return to the days when that Moccona freeze-dried instant shit was considered the pinnacle hot beverage.

 

[JimmyBeerCans]

raman just doesn't like coffee.. thx for sharing bud

 

[raman]

Well until I'm allowed to drink beer before work, it's a tricky one.

Do it! Stick it to the man.

 

[LukeSA]

Don't worry about a heat lamp. I just put a normal light in the chest freezer and it heats up fine.

Temperature control is the most important thing to obtain consistency.

Look up stc-1000 temperature controller. Does hot and cold. Just need fridge or freezer.

I am going to make an insulated box, i have a roll of insulation laying around and some scrap wood.

Looked up the stc-1000 controller, looks a little too advanced for me to set up. I think my issue is more bottle sterilisation than temperature control.

 

[Garibaldi Red]

Saw him go round in a car before the 1998 GF. Knew he was one of the great boxers, remembered him lighting the torch at the Atlanta Games etc, but it was a case of "ohhh cool" *polite applause*.

Saw When We Were Kings on SBS not long after and retrospectively realised I'd been in the presence of true sporting greatness and probably should've applauded a bit harder than a 58yo lady recognising Ian Baker-Finch tapping in for par at Royal Huntingdale.

I stood and shouted "Ali Boma Ye" as he went around the ground. The f'en Crows supporters around me had no idea.

 

[Magpiespower]

I could never return to the days when that Moccona freeze-dried instant shit was considered the pinnacle hot beverage.

For years, my ignant ass thought coffee tasted like this...

 

[edgie]

It was when my mum told me that Cassius Clay died I realised my mum is old. There's nothing wrong with that though. She still refers to Adelaide as the Camry Crows.

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[tribey]

Even the best coffee is just okay. It's about on the level of the best mandarin. And yet there's no endless, tedious cultural conversation about mandarins.

As someone who ridiculously spends too much on drive-thru McCafe coffees, this statement could not be further from the truth.

The gap between a well-made coffee and a poorly-made one is stark, before we get into things like beans, blends and general whathaveyee.

 

[Schulzenfest]

Coffee can GAGF.

 

[Macca19]

I'm happy to drink bad coffee as 90% of places make bad coffee anyway.

 

[Macca19]

You are off the chain Macca.

Dont get me wrong, I dont mind a bit of meat on pizza, but generally meatlovers is incredibly overrated. When im making at home ill generally have a chilli base (usually use gourmet garden hot chilli), roast capsicum, portobello mushroom, rehydrated porcini, red onion, cherry tomatoes, basil, oregano, garlic, pine nuts (trust me, you'll never go back), baby capers, prosciutto, mozzarella then parmesan sprinkled on top. Delish.

The chilli base instead of tomato base is a must imo.

 

[I Dont Care]

Having the best coffee culture is kind of like having the best racism culture, though.

There is no point to coffee.

You need to live more. Coffee is the default, go to pleasure when all else is lost

 

[I Dont Care]

For years, my ignant ass thought coffee tasted like this...

My eyes...

 

[raman]

You need to live more. Coffee is the default, go to pleasure when all else is lost

How sad.

 

[I Dont Care]

How sad.

I was thinking the same. A life without coffee is sadnesses bones laid bare