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What's the most expensive lesson you've learned?

Don't buy salvaged vehicles unless you are dead sure you gonna keep it for life. And don't cotumise it if you intend not loosing that money. I've bought my Harely salvaged 10 years ago, put a lot of work and money on that. Now I want to sell it and I just can't, even taking a 20% loss on the market price. And that is without adding the parts money I've spent. Bike original goes for 40K. I've put around 12K on parts and upgrades. I'm asking 32K and can't sell it. Furthermore, the dealership don't accept that bike on a trade cause of the salvage mark it has.

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What is a belief you’ve done a total 180 on?

The American dream.

Born in a south American country, I've grown bombarded by USA propaganda. Later on, by studying word history through different points of view, I've realized the evil USA imperialist practices are and the damage it has imposed to all the "underdeveloped" countries. "Not all USA is bad, but it's always USA doing bad things".

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What's the most expensive lesson you've learned?

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Whasing it is Highly illegal where I live. Furthermore, it's extremely unethical. I'd not like to buy a vehicle that was salvage without knowing it previously.

Changing frames would be OK, but I'm pretty sure that a new legal frame in good shape plus documentation and labor swaping it would be more expensive than the amount of money I'd be able to recover upon selling.

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What's the most expensive lesson you've learned?

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Salvage vehicles are those that wore at some point Involved in some kind of accident that has inflicted considerable damage to it. It has different degrees of damage, going from minor to severe. Although the vehicles are able been repaired to it's full functionality and safety, they'll have it's documentation marked as salvage forever. Mine was marked as minor damages, I got it already repaired, if one is curious.

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Whisky - Is it worth trying?

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I'm sorry, it seems that I failed to explain where I'm at in terms os distilling.

I'm a long time home Brewer. I'm reading and studding about distilling, I know the cuts and the safety issues, although I don't fully understand how one could mix heads and tails for redistilling, or even blanding, once heads are basically pure Metanol which is highly toxic.

My question is more in terms of is it possible to craft a high-end whisky at home, just like I can brew a commercial grade or even better beer?

As far as I've read, it would be similar to a high gravity aged beer, where the outcome will only be discovered years ahead.

I've brewd really good aged beers as well as really crappy ones. The difference is that in 2ich years I could taste the outcame instead of 10ich years.

You pointed some interesting point here. It's whey easier to maintain a controlled environment for 2 years than for 10 years, fore sure.

Thanks for your reply.

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Rate my grist #2 - Belgian Quad

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Thanks for the replay. I've brewd a handful of dubbel and one trippel before, but have gone way wrong in the French oak to the point it got unbearable. It took something like 8 months to start been drinkable, and It was over in something like a week hahahah. For this one I'm using Lallemand Belle Saison, starting in 20°c and just letting it go till is stops rising. Gonna set my tic to 30°c - the upper temp limit specified in the yeast chart and let it go its way. Guess priming with 6sh g/L of table sugar and letting it set for a long time is the way to go, although it's gonna be tough to handle the drinking desire hahahaha

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My 48yr old unopened bottle of beer. (Circa 1975)

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Not quite right though. Beers like Dubbel, Trippel and Quad, Barley wine, Russian Imperial Stouts, Acid beers and so on keep maturation when bottled. One can try this experiment: get yourself 2 bottles of Orval, drink one right way and take notes. Than, drink the other one 2 ~ 4 year later. You'll get a completely different beer. For my taste, 2 years is the sweet spot. In fact, the only way to keep the bottled beer to maturate is pasteurization, which is not a good practice taste wise.

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Airlock liquid

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Not really, but it's on my goal. I intend building a kegerator and use my fridge just for fermentation. I cold crash in the same fridge for the momment. Oh, and I do have a valve for closing my airlock, mostly for preventing oxidation tham infections concerns.