• BOTL UPCOMING MAINTENANCE

    Hi Everyone, as mentioned in my introduction post, BOTL needs quite a bit of updating, patching and whatever else I might come across. Over the next few weekends BOTL may be unreachable on occasion as I do migrations or updates, etc. Just be patient - we'll be back! I'll generally try to keep these maintenances until later in the evenings.

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  1. mthhurley

    Chicagoland Area May 6-7

    Hope we get a chance to get everyone together!
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    New Lagunita's Brewery coming to Chicago!

    Looks like Lagunita's will be opening a full scale production second brewery right here in Chicago in 2013. From reading the tweets from the owner, looks like they tabulated the cost of shipping all the beer they do towards the east coast and he said it paid for an entire second brewery to be...
  3. mthhurley

    The 2012 BOTL™ Chicagoland HERF :: June 23rd

    Excellent trailer there E! Can't wait!
  4. mthhurley

    Homebrewers - Whats Fermenting?

    The chocolate banana stout is done and sitting in the basement. Hit my numbers, but way off on volume. Gonna be a small batch when all is said and done.
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    Happy Birthday Barndog

    HBD slacker! See ya soon.
  6. mthhurley

    Cigar Smoking and Health Insurance

    I wish...that same answer got me flagged as a smoker with my doctors and nurses.
  7. mthhurley

    Cigar Smoking and Health Insurance

    So to Aaron's point, if they can find that you lied on your application, whether it had to do with the cause of your death or not, they can deny your claim. Just like many health insurance companies are doing now for major medical. They find some history of something little that you didn't...
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    Some good beer news

    Yep....Love me some Central Waters!!!
  9. mthhurley

    I hate Newegg.com

    I love NewEgg and shopped with them for many years and have never experienced anything but top notch service. They will continue to get my business so I'm sorry that had had a bad experience. One in a million as far as I'm concerned.
  10. mthhurley

    Homebrewers - Whats Fermenting?

    I could also solve all problems with a 7 gallon conical fermentor, but that comes with issues of temperature control, a full size fridge to try and manage it...etc...etc..
  11. mthhurley

    Homebrewers - Whats Fermenting?

    Me personally, I decant. Reason is if I make a 2L starter and 5.5 gallons of beer, I'm really pushing the capacity of that 6 gallon bottle if I dump the 2L in..pretty much guaranteeing a major blow off and wasting yeast (suppose the burton union could solve this). So I chill, decant and let it...
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    Challenges with our baby

    My thoughts are with you and your wife Chris. God speed Jack.
  13. mthhurley

    Homebrewing Groupon back up again

    Second chance for those that did not jump the first time :) http://www.groupon.com/deals/midwest-hydroponic-and-homebrewing-supplies-llc-pittsburgh?sd=false&utm_campaign=3925582&utm_medium=afl&utm_source=rvs
  14. mthhurley

    Tebow to the Jets

    Yup..Jet's apparently are contractually required to pay his $5M signing bonus back to Denver...It's in the damn contract. How do you not read that before cutting a deal???
  15. mthhurley

    iPhone 4/4S folks...Speaker information I did not know

    Didn't know it switched back and forth and used the one for noise cancellation.
  16. mthhurley

    iPhone 4/4S folks...Speaker information I did not know

    Very interesting information here about which speakers/microphones are used for certain types of calls. News to me! Clip: ....The iPhone has two microphones and two speakers, one of each on the bottom and another pair on the top. The microphone on the bottom is the grille to the left of...
  17. mthhurley

    Backing up Dvds to a hard drive.

    If you convert them to MP4 formats, yes. on my Mac, I use RipIt for a one pass rip, compress, convert. For two step, I used to use MactheRipper to rip the full size. Then HandBrake to convert to MP4 and shrink. I have probably a terabyte of movies ripped and served up on my iMac to...
  18. mthhurley

    Homebrewers - Whats Fermenting?

    it's not the beer...it's the yeast and that's actually more concerning IMO. I don't like blow offs like that, which is why I use Ferm Cap to keep it down. As I understand it, when you get a blow off like that, you're blowing out all the top-cropping yeast, which is the prime stuff.
  19. mthhurley

    Homebrewers - Whats Fermenting?

    http://www.mrmalty.com/calc/calc.html Unlikely you have a 4L flask, so you could use a couple growlers...
  20. mthhurley

    Dark Lord Day 2nd Chance

    That was quite a chase today, better than any of the Monster Series chases. I got lucky and looked at my phone as soon as I woke up so it was a group effort. I'll post a couple pics of what happened. This was the line behind us. Less than 2 hours after they announced this even happening...
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