On Today Only: The Awl Is Auditioning New Commenters!
@binkysdream: & servicey!
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On Today Only: The Awl Is Auditioning New Commenters!
@Nrbelex Quit it wit' your humblebraggin'...
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On Today Only: The Awl Is Auditioning New Commenters!
@boyofdestiny Aww, I had a little star sticker, but then someone came and took it away as punishment for reciting all of my comments out loud ALL IN CAPS WITH NO PUNCTUATION.
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On How To Make Hard Apple Cider
@Roxanne Rholes@twitter Haha, you have caught me. I use corn sugar because that's what my first "how to brew" handbook recommended. And it's what the homebrew store carries, so I never bothered to question it! Apparently table sugar and malt sugar are also fine to use: http://www.howtobrew.com/section1/chapter11-4.html
The one benefit I can think of is that corn sugar is 100% fermentable, while malt sugar isn't - so maybe it's a consistency issue?
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On How To Make Hard Apple Cider
@Odm I once bottled in plastic without checking to see if the yeast had fully converted all the sugar, and the resulting pressure caused slow leaks around the bottlecaps. I didn't catch on until I noticed that my dog had been really lazy and pink around the ears for several days - apparently, he'd been lapping up the spillage and getting roaringly drunk during the day when I wasn't home. Since he didn't get sick, it was copacetic - happy dog, clean kitchen floor. Much better result than shards of glass and beer residue splattered around the kitchen!
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On How To Make Hard Apple Cider
@Bus Driver Stu Benedict yeah, two words: Campden Tablets. Or, just boil it if you don't mind having slightly cloudy cider. Pitch some yeast, shove in an airlock, and forget about it for two or three months. Your results will be much, much better tasting and less likely to make you sick. For bubbly cider, boil a few tablespoons of corn sugar in some water, add to your cider, bottle, and let it sit for another week. If you invite enough friends over to drink the finished product, you'll ensure that your cider doesn't sit in bottles long enough to create any potential bottle bombs. And, if your friends bring booze and leave it, then you're ahead of the game.
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On Survey Says! The Complete Online Dating Advice Guide For Women
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On You Wouldn't Like Pat Kiernan When He's Angry (Or Would You)
@Bryan Keller And you just know they throw away tons of M&M's each day based on this exact phenomenon (what, they're going to pick through bags of mixed M&M's to return them to the correct dispenser? Please.)
Solution? Hang out by their dumpsters at closing time. Bring a big stick to fight of the RAUS and you're golden.
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On What It Was Like To Work At 'The Source'
My husband popped the question shortly after we'd both attended a talk by Kim Osorio at CUNY (I was in the publishing program, he came as seat meat). I still have the copy of her book "Straight From the Source" that she autographed for me about an hour before he proposed. Despite this, it was still a really romantic proposal.
And that's my story about The Source.
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On Today Only: The Awl Is Auditioning New Commenters!
@sigerson: Shh or they'll start talking about Julia Allison again.