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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: infuriating spousal money moves

« on: July 24, 2020, 07:03:13 AM »

If a recipe calls for a teaspoon of something, she will buy a hogshead of it.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Beer Connoisseurs

« on: July 22, 2020, 04:03:16 PM »

This weekend we are going on a Iowa/Minnesota road trip.

Day 1 (today): Barn Town in West Des Moines
Day 2: Lua Brewing, Exile, Confluence
Day 3: Forager (Rochester, MN), Pulpit Rock and Toppling Goliath (Decorah, IA)

Day 2 is pretty flexible but I definitely want to hit up Lua.

Very jelly about Toppling Goliath. Plz report back.

Decorah is way the f out there. I was kind of disappointed in the tap room as they didn't have much there that I couldn't get locally, but it was still cool to see. Very large place - bigger than anywhere in KC other than Boulevard. Pulpit Rock, I wasn't hugely impressed with their hops. I've heard they are inconsistent from a couple different people. :shrug:

Confluence/Exile were pretty meh.

Lua and Barn Town were fantastic if you are in to the pastry stout/smoothie style fruited sours.

Rochester - saisons and farmhouse ales. Also had a few of the aforementioned pastry stout/smoothie style fruited sours. Great food too. Overall a really good trip.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Beer Connoisseurs

« on: July 02, 2020, 01:10:03 PM »

GUYS!

About every other week i've been attempting to purchase BKS beers online. They go on sale at 7:00 PM Thursday nights and sell out by 7:01 or 7:02. It's insane.

I pick up on Friday or Saturday and then usually also hit up Alma Mader, and then Rochester for some beer & coffee.

There has been a few new breweries that have recently opened in KC in the past few weeks. Pathlight Brewing seems to be the most promising so far, with a good balance of Haze, west coast and pilsners. Haven't been or tried Rock Creek or Lost Evenings.

Is there a new Normal Brewing in Crossroads? Have seen pics from there. Enjoy the weekend trip.



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Believe it’s called Nimble Brewing. I haven’t tried it yet. Their line up looks great, just haven’t made it there yet.


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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Beer Connoisseurs

« on: July 02, 2020, 07:37:52 AM »

This weekend we are going on a Iowa/Minnesota road trip.

Day 1 (today): Barn Town in West Des Moines
Day 2: Lua Brewing, Exile, Confluence
Day 3: Forager (Rochester, MN), Pulpit Rock and Toppling Goliath (Decorah, IA)

Day 2 is pretty flexible but I definitely want to hit up Lua.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Beer Connoisseurs

« on: July 02, 2020, 07:34:26 AM »

GUYS!

About every other week i've been attempting to purchase BKS beers online. They go on sale at 7:00 PM Thursday nights and sell out by 7:01 or 7:02. It's insane.

I pick up on Friday or Saturday and then usually also hit up Alma Mader, and then Rochester for some beer & coffee.

There has been a few new breweries that have recently opened in KC in the past few weeks. Pathlight Brewing seems to be the most promising so far, with a good balance of Haze, west coast and pilsners. Haven't been or tried Rock Creek or Lost Evenings.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Everyday Food

« on: June 30, 2020, 07:23:09 PM »

Sous vide those chicken breasts, son

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Everyday Food

« on: June 27, 2020, 07:35:50 PM »

Kiwi, underrated fruit

Gotta eat it with the skin on

agree it is good but weirds me out too much.

is golden kiwi common in kansas? i haven't lived there since the kiwi stage of my life. but golden kiwi is even better than regular kiwi.

Not available year round but sometimes. I don’t like it as much.

Don’t you think it’s odd the packages of kiwis include a plastic spoon?

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Everyday Food

« on: June 26, 2020, 08:25:54 PM »

Kiwi, underrated fruit

Gotta eat it with the skin on

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Everyday Food

« on: June 26, 2020, 08:24:51 PM »

Pickled mango
Regular mango
Garlic (raw)
Toasted bread

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: handyman-ness

« on: June 09, 2020, 07:19:12 AM »

have you figured out your layout yet? Sheetrocking the ceiling should be easy for you if you can drywall. Insulation in a basement is more for sound most of the time. Get a door thats prehung and don’t screw up the framing and you’ll be fine. Also in my opinion don’t put carpet down there.

Pretty much. I've measured everything and it's not complicated because it's not a huge area. Just want to hang sheetrock on the walls and a ceiling, no additional walls or oddities. No plumbing. And yes, doing insulation just for the sound.

Good feedback on the prehung door. I had no idea they made doors that weren't prehung, def going that route. And yeah, planning on doing that flooring that snaps together. I've actually done that before, pretty easy.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: handyman-ness

« on: June 08, 2020, 03:28:28 PM »

I've made the decision to finish my basement. What is the bare minimum of skill, knowledge and tools I must posses to accomplish this? I've done some research and it doesn't seem that hard. Plus i've seen other people do it and many of them are complete idiots.

if you can hang the drywall great but hire save yourself the headache and hire someone to do the finish work.

Yea I can do drywall and all that. Haven't ever framed/insulated/installed a door or installed a ceiling.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: handyman-ness

« on: June 08, 2020, 07:49:39 AM »

I've made the decision to finish my basement. What is the bare minimum of skill, knowledge and tools I must posses to accomplish this? I've done some research and it doesn't seem that hard. Plus i've seen other people do it and many of them are complete idiots.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Podcasts

« on: June 08, 2020, 07:47:23 AM »

I listen to quite a few of the Gimlet Media podcasts, such as Reply All, Heavyweight, Science VS, and Every Little Thing.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Beer Connoisseurs

« on: June 08, 2020, 07:44:37 AM »

@AST - I don’t know when my monthly Dallas trips will resume, but Celestial will be high in the priority list when I get down there again.  Do they serve food?  Any trivia nights?  With The Common Table closed (), we’ve been looking for other places in the area.  Tried Braindead and Steam Theory prior to shutdowns.

The spots you want to be are Turning Point (southwest of DFW airport) and Celestial.  Neither serve food but both have food trucks/vendors in most nights they are open.  Both also have trivia (or did pre global pandemic) on random weeknights. 

Both of them can produce IPAs on par with or better than all other breweries in the country.  It is just a matter of being in town when the right one drops.  The Digital Relationship I am drinking tonight is probably the beat IPA i have had in 6 months.

Community used to do Trivia on Wednesdays and has many great choices, including an amazing IPA. Easy access off 35 near downtown Dallas. Food trucks but nothing else in the area other than a couple other decent breweries.

I thought it was okay, but went there after going to Celestial. There is a Thai restaurant that brews their own beers somewhere around there too, with clever names such as "THAI ONE ON"

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: working from home 101

« on: May 15, 2020, 10:59:04 AM »

I'm going to work 100% remote from now on, this is the cats ass

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Beer Connoisseurs

« on: May 09, 2020, 03:28:10 PM »

 

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Beer Connoisseurs

« on: May 09, 2020, 03:06:51 PM »

Narrow Gauge makes some respectable ones, as well as Alma Mader (KC).

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Beer Connoisseurs

« on: May 09, 2020, 02:10:01 PM »

AST, what are your thoughts on milkshake IPAs?

I really like them but typically for dessert. Decadent Ales out of NY makes some of my favorites. Servaes in Shawnee makes interesting ones but sometimes can be pretty odd.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Beer Connoisseurs

« on: May 09, 2020, 02:08:46 PM »

Off the top of my head, breweries to get a New England style or Hazy IPA from. 

Casa Agria, Monkish, Other Half, Tree House, Trillium, Finback, Tired Hands, Weldwerks, Calusa, Cerebral, Resident Culture, The Alchemist, Hill Farmstead, Bearded Iris, Toppling Goliath, Turning Point, Celestial, Spindletap.

Toppling Goliath should be moderately available on the Missouri side of KC, not sure if in Kansas.

crap.

Can get TG anywhere in KS. I'd also add Nightmare brewing makes some pretty good NEIPA and they recently became available here.

There is a local brewery in KC called BKS Artisan Ales that makes excellent NEIPAS.

I've had Celestial provided you are talking about the one in Dallas. vry good.

Was going to go Nashville for a sporting KC game and go to Bearded Iris before covid :(

finally - if you ever go to New Orleans visit Courtyard Brewery Great neipa and pastry stouts.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Beer Connoisseurs

« on: May 09, 2020, 02:04:12 PM »

Give me the dankest haziest juice bombs you can get

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: Have you been furloughed or loss massive revenue during this pandemic?

« on: May 01, 2020, 12:10:01 PM »

I'm really happy for people that they haven't been affected, but this poll still blows my mind. Maybe if a more favorable poster started this thread, the numbers would be different, not sure. 35 Million have filed for unemployment so far. I know we have some successful sales guys on this troll blog too and you can't tell me people are buying right now. Anyways, i'm happy many of you have strong employers. Maybe it's a industry thing too. K-State is a huge engineering school as well.

idk, the poll is kind of worded weird. I have no idea if my company has lost massive revenue or not. They aren't acting like it. Its business as usual for me other than working from home which I think is the cats ass.

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: Have you been furloughed or lost massive revenue during this pandemic?

« on: April 29, 2020, 10:00:33 PM »

No

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Tech Support and Suggestion Board / Re: Archives

« on: October 16, 2019, 02:19:14 PM »

Ticket closed

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Tech Support and Suggestion Board / Re: Archives

« on: October 01, 2019, 09:40:15 AM »

Ticket received

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Kansas State Football / Re: all time great days in bbs history

« on: September 27, 2019, 02:09:36 PM »

Not really a day, but the whole K-State Mask thing really has me wondering if anything beyond 2012 is real