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    Home brewing advice

    in Off the Wall Archives

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    It's actually pretty easy to get into it. I am a low level hobbyist and pretty much have used just kits so far. Come with the ingredients and instructions. Used Brewers Best and have had good luck. Also used a kit from Niagara Traditions and it worked well also. A beginners kit can run you a little more the $100, kits about $40. For bottles I use what I drink from and have purchased bottles from Consumers for the deposit cost - just be careful to grab the cleanest.

     

    Hate to say because he is kinda goofy, but Craigtube on YouTube actually is very helpful. Corny, but informative for a beginning brewer. Watch his older stuff first. Also, a bunch of other good stuff on YouTube.

    Bon Jovi: 1 Billion

    in The Stadium Wall Archives

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    My sons were playing

    Pop Warner football for the Middletown, NJ Eagles when BonJovi's son Jesse was ready to play tackle football. BonJovi had a mansion on Navesink River Rd - across from Red Bank, NJ. This placed him in the Eagle's district. Jesse and dad made a couple summer practices before John decided that the Eagles were "too big a venue" for his son. He was able to transfer Jesse to another Middletown Pop Warner team - the River Plaza Chargers - after River Plaza threatened to force a couple of boys playing with their friends for the Eagles, to transfer to the Chargers. Other than that particular section of Middletown, the Eagles are made up of kids from lower to middle class families. The Chargers district includes more affluent families. We were scrimmaging the Chargers the week the SI article about how BonJovi and then Giants QB Kerry Collins were helping the 'disadvantaged' kids at River Plaza. A fellow Eagles coach and I joked that the Charger parents waiting out the scrimmages in their air conditioned luxury cars - reading SI - must be shocked to find out how poor they were. The saddest part of this story, and the thing that knaws at me to this day, is that BonJovi could have made a huge difference across the river. The Red Bank kids were from poor families. Their equipment was old. The kids wore different uniforms and helmets. Sometimes they forfeited away games because there weren't enough parents to drive. If the guy insisted on having his kid transferring out to play in a smaller "venue", Red Bank would have been the perfect choice. The fact that years later, BonJovi has been able to broker a deal with Notre Dame to dress his 5'9" 180lb son as a walk-on cornerback from little Poly Prep day school in Brooklyn, comes as no surprise. This continuing desire to manipulate his son's world may soon produce the NFL' s youngest team president... Jesse Bongiovi.

     

    I am tired of those with money pushing their agenda on the rest of us. I have no problem with people who have money and worked very hard to get were they are. The problem I have is when they throw the $$$$ around or special treatment.

     

    If he really did submit a bid already, he will lose. We have many local potential buyers who surely have inside track on the bidding process. He would be an idiot to place a bid already.

     

    The person/group who lands the Bills will be someone who is not in the news about it at this time. Not Trump, not bon jovi. I put my money on group that may, or may not, have Kelly in their corner. Personally I believe it will be Jacobs.

    HUGE KUDOS to WGR!!!

    in The Stadium Wall Archives

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    Coverage during the day was excellent.

     

    Schopp and Bulldog were their usual tool selves in the afternoon. Some guy asked if getting Mario would afford the Bills the ability to move down from 10 in the draft, and they acted as if the guy was a schmuck. Bulldog was better in the morning without Schopp.

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