by DrLeaks
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CaptPenguin 2 points ago +2 / -0

I understand that the increase in warehouses made the problem worse. Stitzel-weller, in Louisville, had one of the worst whisky fungus coverage of any place I have ever seen. It is not even an active distillery but there are a half dozen other distilleries nearby, and lots of rickhouses aging bourbon.

I don't know that it is complete bullshit. The fungus culture is everywhere, it's just thriving where there is a large concentration of alcohol. If one were able to find a practical filtration system for the rickhouses, the pot or column still would still be a contributing factor.

Here is what was said in the article:

As for air filtration technology that has been offered up by some as a solution, it is easy to say but not possible to do. Barrelhouses require ventilation – and are designed to do so naturally – to allow for the movement of whiskey in and out of new charred oak barrels during the aging process.

The rickhouse is already a concentration of ethanol vapor, it's already a big fire hazard. Introducing a filtration system could impede ventilation and cause more severe safety issues.

'Existing independent and government research shows that there is no reasonably available control technology to prevent ethanol emissions without significantly adversely affecting the taste and quality of Jack Daniel’s or any other aged whiskey.'

They aren't trying to make whisky in a sterile vacuum. The aging process in that location gives the aged spirit the trademark character for their JD brand. Just like aging Lagavulin or Caol Ila on the Scottish coast of Islay gives those scotch whiskys a certain recognizable brand character.

Is there some reasonably designed system that lets the characteristic environmental impurities into the aging environment, but can also contain all of the ethanol from escaping in a safe manner?

by DrLeaks
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CaptPenguin 2 points ago +2 / -0

It feeds on the ethanol in the air, so it just overgrows in alcohol rich environment. The scientific name is baudoinia compniacensis.

A lot of rickhouses are painted black so it's not always as noticeable on those structures. But is very noticeable on the trees around distilleries.

by DrLeaks
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CaptPenguin 5 points ago +5 / -0

This covers everything near any distillery. It is one way that cops would sniff out moonshining stills, as well.

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CaptPenguin 2 points ago +2 / -0

Archive link, because the floating banner on the site is cancer: https://archive.ph/gLoaZ

by DojaDog
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CaptPenguin 2 points ago +3 / -1

Conspiracy is two or more people conspiring, or agreeing to cooperate in a crime. It is a legal term, someone can be charged with conspiracy to commit a crime.

Conspiracy theory is a glowie psy-op term that has you thinking conspiracy means that something is fake.

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CaptPenguin 1 point ago +1 / -0

Why is it hypocritical? It just seems like an ignorant take: "big company is bad".

They can't really articulate the why, because they don't really understand how Blackrock really works or why the company is bad.

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CaptPenguin 3 points ago +3 / -0

I have been off of Reddit for well over two years. I was on Ruqqus until that imploded. I have been on communities.win for 10 months. The article was authored last week.

This is the first time I've seen an article explain the relevant law in layman's terms on any of the .win communities. But it feels like it is 6 months to a year late to really make the best impact.

Was it censorship, or something else like shills forum sliding posts with ineffective religious exception forms and documents? You think someone couldn't have posted something like this on substack 6 months ago, and evaded censorship?

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CaptPenguin 1 point ago +1 / -0

Why was there not an organized effort to point this out when it was happening every where last year?

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CaptPenguin 5 points ago +5 / -0

87 cents a pound, as pictured, is pretty cheap for whole muscle protein.

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CaptPenguin 0 points ago +1 / -1

It was 2001...Transferring a digital copy to a PC might not have been a trivial thing.

This is how I know you are a moron. I found 3 old birthday tapes 2 weeks ago... Told my father to go to this store and ask for those to be converted in digital format

The person you're replying to is saying digitizing was not trivial in 2001. It was not trivial, because not everyone had a TV tuner/capture card as standard equipment on their PC. Now technology has advanced to where it would be trivial for anyone to get an analog capture dongle. It would not have been trivial to even get a capture card in 2001, let alone do this transfer yourself. Its the kind of equipment a wedding photographer, or other enthusiast, might have in 2001.

Its so trivial you told your dad to do go do it at the local store, for you, right?

How old are you?

You are the one who sounds like an ignorant child.

by pkvi
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CaptPenguin 1 point ago +2 / -1

Melinda is a pretty handsome woman.

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CaptPenguin 4 points ago +4 / -0

It's not even all Nalgene bottles. Some colors are worse than others when exposed to UV light, as far as leeching plastic.

At home I just grab a quart Mason jar for drinking water. Save the Nalgene for when I am on the move.

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