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Kurt Weiser
Junior Member
Username: Kurtweiser
Post Number: 48
Registered: 02-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, February 19, 2005 - 05:14 am: | 
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Any one hanging out in Southern California tonight will be able to collect enough by just putting fermentation buckets outside.
It is insane out there right now. |
Belly Buster Bob
Senior Member
Username: Canman
Post Number: 2138
Registered: 02-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, February 19, 2005 - 11:57 am: |
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acid rain lager....right on
Bellybuster Bob
www.bellybuster.netfirms.com
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Joe DiBenedetti
Junior Member
Username: Docwino
Post Number: 28
Registered: 01-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, February 19, 2005 - 02:29 pm: |
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Don't laugh, but I've heard of a guy that used melted filtered snow. Calims it was the best lager he ever brewed.-------Hope it wasn't the yellow snow. |
Bill Pierce
Moderator
Username: Billpierce
Post Number: 2350
Registered: 01-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, February 19, 2005 - 03:12 pm: |
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Depending on where you live, you might need to add calcium carbonate to raise the mash pH. But it would likely be very good water for brewing a Czech pils. |
Belly Buster Bob
Senior Member
Username: Canman
Post Number: 2139
Registered: 02-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, February 19, 2005 - 03:15 pm: |
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I don't know...rain is the sky's filter. What goes up comes down in the rain
Bellybuster Bob
www.bellybuster.netfirms.com
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Bill Pierce
Moderator
Username: Billpierce
Post Number: 2352
Registered: 01-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, February 19, 2005 - 03:18 pm: |
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I can think of numerous places (islands, for example) where rainwater is the main source for household use, even drinking. |
Jeffery Swearengin
Advanced Member
Username: Beertracker
Post Number: 657
Registered: 03-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, February 19, 2005 - 04:10 pm: |
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I rather like Rainman Lager myself! 
CHEERS! Beertracker
"From man's sweat and God's love, beer came into the world." ~ Saint Arnold of Metz (580-640) - Patron Saint of Brewers
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Hophead
Senior Member
Username: Hophead
Post Number: 1206
Registered: 03-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, February 19, 2005 - 05:13 pm: |
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I think the point is that many people live near big cities, and the rain that falls would not be a great choice to drink due to the pollution content. Of course, after a couple of daze of straight rain, one would think the rain would be 'cleaner'... Phoenix is sharing the same rain as far as looking out my window goes... |
Tom
Junior Member
Username: Benchbrew
Post Number: 70
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, February 19, 2005 - 06:15 pm: |
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What a waste of a good weekend. Its an absolute deluge out there right now! This has been the most rain I seen since Ive been in so cal. |
Bill Pierce
Moderator
Username: Billpierce
Post Number: 2353
Registered: 01-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, February 19, 2005 - 09:10 pm: |
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It beats five years of prolonged drought in the Southwest. |
J. Steinhauer
Intermediate Member
Username: Jstein6870
Post Number: 491
Registered: 03-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, February 20, 2005 - 05:51 am: |
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Problem is, when it comes down like that, it doesn't have time to soak in. Doesn't help with the drought much, when it sweeps homes down the mountain and mud into the ocean. |
Richard Nye
Advanced Member
Username: Yeasty_boy
Post Number: 571
Registered: 01-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, February 20, 2005 - 11:34 am: |
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I lived in So CA for 10 years, and it's the only place in the US where rain makes the national news. |
John Jacox
Junior Member
Username: Johnj
Post Number: 84
Registered: 03-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, February 20, 2005 - 02:00 pm: |
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I moved from Southern California to Florida in May of 01. Every day the local news was all fired up about the ongoing drought, yet every afternoon it rained like gangbusters! We had more rain in June of 01 (in Florida) than we had in a whole year during the drought in California that went on in the early nineties. I guess it's all relative. |
Chris Bodley
Junior Member
Username: Cincichris
Post Number: 95
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Monday, February 21, 2005 - 06:49 pm: |
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If untreated - I'd be more inclined to drink rainwater than any water coming from the ground here in the Midwest.
I thought they piped drinking water in to California since it rains so infrequently... |
Bill Pierce
Moderator
Username: Billpierce
Post Number: 2383
Registered: 01-2002
| | Posted on Monday, February 21, 2005 - 07:37 pm: |
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Southern California provides about 20 percent of its water from local reservoirs in the nearby mountains. The remainder is brought by aqueducts from the Sierras and the Colorado River. The first project was built in the 1920s, with major additions to the system in the 1940s and 1960s. Water is what allowed the tremendous population growth that occurred in the region. |
Denny Conn
Senior Member
Username: Denny
Post Number: 4259
Registered: 01-2001
| | Posted on Monday, February 21, 2005 - 07:43 pm: |
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"It beats five years of prolonged drought in the Southwest."...or the northwest. We're so far behind it's scary.
LIfe begins at 60...1.060, that is.
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Bob L.
Junior Member
Username: Bobcaat
Post Number: 94
Registered: 03-2003
| | Posted on Monday, February 21, 2005 - 07:49 pm: |
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Rainwater is polluted in the country as the big cities. When the rust belt was being hit by the EPA for smokestack pollution, one solution was to build a taller smokestack sending the pollution and acid rain from the Ohio valley to the mid-atlantic states. Air pollution travel vary far from the source. |
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