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Thanks for the compliments. Gotta love the 22oz bottles.

Actually, the Trippel is not my first. I did an American Amber in July. The Amber mentioned previously in this thread is my second attempt at it, and my first attempt at creating a recipe from scratch. The trippel, however, was my first big beer (krausen went up into and out of the airlock ). I am now using a blowoff tube for all beers, just in case. Less cleanup. I will let you know how this latest Amber turns out, along with the Wit.

XB PM'ed me and stated that Southern Tier rates their IPA at 65 IBU, which is pushing the ceiling of an American IPA. The Imperial can go over 100 IBU, so it still has a way to go to be the "hoppiest" beer out there. Just an FYI for you, my Belgian trippel seems to be getting favorable reviews (except for head retention, which is non-existent). It goes down well and the flavor is pretty well balanced between hops and malt. I racked to secondary this weekend, my second attempt at an American Amber Ale. This was the first recipe I created from scratch. FG was a little high (1.026 when my target was 1.015), but fermentation was complete and I did not want it sitting on the trub for too long. I will let you know how it turns out. The Belgian Wit is up next and I will probably do that around Christmas.

International Bitterness Units. This spec is mainly controlled by the hop additions to the brew (some other factors can contribute to this, but it is mainly hops). The higher the number, the more bitter the beer (or the more hops that were added during the brew cycle). Triple hopped can mean different things. It could mean three different hops were used, or that it was hopped during the boil, dry hopped in primary fermentation and dry hopped again in secondary or in the keg/bottle. I am leaning towards the second if they are using it in their marketing.

I highly doubt that. I am not sure of the specs of their IPA, but I cannot imagine they are the "hoppiest." I know that Dogfish puts out a 90 minute Imperial IPA rated at 90 IBU. Imperial IPA's typically have higher IBUs and gravities than American or English IPA's.

...or brew your own. You can add so much hops that your beer tastes like you are gnawing on a hop leaf.

So, they are sticking with the CBRN definition and adding ballistic missiles (for now)? Of course, "means of delivery" can mean more than just ballistic missiles. Hell, it could mean crop dusters.

I hear that CTM gives March of the Penguins "two thumbs up."

...and history tells us that there are a lot of union workers being paid to sit on their azzes and cannot be fired because they are a member of a union. Therefore, you need additional union workers to make up for the lazy POS's using their unions to protect their incompetent azzes. Do you need me to repeat my story of 5 union workers being necessary to log items being offloaded from a truck (one to carry the table, one to carry the chair, one to carry the clipboard, one to sit on the chair at the table with the clipboard and one to offload the truck). Gee, I cannot imagine why America cannot compete in the global marketplace.

So, are you saying that people are incapable of getting decent wages, benefits, etc on their own?

IowaBill never said that. He said that you can get good wages, benefits, etc without joining a union. People do it every day, thus proving his and my point.

I am more than just a pretty face.

Yup. I use it on myself for migranes.

Dr. Mikau Usui. He is credited with re-introducing Reiki to the world. I am a Level II Reiki practitioner.

Good. I wanted to make sure I didn't miss anything.

Did you say something?

No it is not. Do you agree, or are you too blind to anything outside of staunch union mentality?

...and there are situations when IowaBill is absolutely correct.

Had 2 Nissans: both great cars that I never had a problem with Had a Ford: Worst POS I ever owned Currently have a Honda: Great car with no problems to date. Wifey owns a Honda: no problems to date She had a Nissan before that, no problems My mom has a Ford and it is always having trouble She had a Nissan before the Ford and never had a problem My dad has had Buicks, Oldsmobiles, and now a Dodge: always giving him trouble. Explain again why I should buy American?

I agree that TT has the best shot of the three. If Ralph makes it, it will be after he passes. Unfortunately, I do not think that TT will make it this year. The competition is too tough. Maybe next year (I have not seen who is eligible, so I do not know what his chances are).

That is why I think that Young may make it ahead of Carson. I am torn as to which I think will make it, between the two of them.

I think it will be Aikman, Reggie White, Carson, Irvin and Dent. You can debate whether Monk will make it before Irvin, but Thurman, Andre and Ralph will be on the outside looking in this year. Young may make it in over Carson.

Details...details...

The problem arises in the fact that we may NOT have a veto vote. To use my gun example, this would come out of the GA, not the SC. Therefore, we can abstain from voting or vote no, but we cannot block the vote, ala veto.

I think that it gets back to what dave_b stated earlier: Does the U.S. Congress need to ratify any changes to existing treaties? If so, then wouldn't they need to ratify each resolution passed by the UN since it is a modification to the "treaty" originally ratified by Congress? Also, how are you going to distinguish between domestic and international issues? Take the gun example I proposed. You originally stated that it is a domestic issue. The UN would make a case that US guns are being used in other countries, thereby making it an international issue. We use foreign guns here (hell, I own several). If Chinese guns were banned from private ownership by the UN, do I have to give up my MAK-9?