25/m/Straight burbs-near Minneapolis Looking for new friends, good times, shenanigans and maybe a date.
Op on mobile.
Where do you live: Dakota County
Favorite movie: The Princess Bride
Favorite book: The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss
Favorite Food: Either a really good Zuppa Toscana or a nice plate of smoked ribs
Hobbies: movies, books, anime, video games cooking, brewing hard cider, cruising 4chan
Profession: salesman
>>23894663
Bump!
I can't believe soc is still here. Terrible attempt to un-cancer /b/
Anyway burnsville fag here
Lakeville, straight, what up!
Was waiting for a mn thread. Marshall here
>>23895242
What are you up to?
Working. You?
>>23895334
Same, but being a salesman means I have alot of down time.
>>23895592
No shit I'm in sales to. What do you sell? Are you marshall area too?
South Metro, furniture! You?
Agricultural products
>>23895762
Not gonna lie that sounds pretty boring. At least I have a computer to fuck around on. Watched 3 episodes of Bob Ross's the wonders of painting the other day, following along on MS Paint
>>23895780
Yup really boring. Hahaha I work from home. Do what I want every day
>>23895813
You sir are living the dream!
I know this is sort of taboo around here, but I'm a 21 y.o. Sissy/Femboy hoping to hook up tonight around the twin cities, kik me if there's any interest.
Kik: Yawaworhtsselesu
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>>23894782
>Dakota County
>Minneapolis
Why not say that you live in South of St. Paul/Bloomington?
Also, If you're a hard cider fan, I'd recommend mixing Angry Orchard with Black Helicopter. It sounds weird but its actually pretty good.
Duluth here!
23 M
>>23897276
Actually I brew my own in the fall and it's usually ready by early winter. During the summer I drink strong bow and hornsby. but that does sound like a good mix. i'll have to try it some time. thanks man!
>>23897309
Hello Duluth!
>>23897458
I've brewed beer and wine, never tried making cider. Do you use your own apple trees for your brew?
>>23897882
there's 2 orchards near by that I buy from. Nice folks, gave me a good deal and invited me to dinner.
>>23897900
>Nice folks, gave me a good deal and invited me to dinner.
This
and this
>i'll have to try it some time. thanks man!
Are reasons why I Love Minnesota. Especially once you get into the smaller towns.
What kind of apples? I've always thought that Honeycrisp would make an excellent cider.
>>23897991
Yea, I'd like to know as well. I have 5 honey crisp trees and 5 other randoms in my yard.
38/M/Isanti County
Where do you live: Isanti County
Favorite movie: The Hunt for Red October
Favorite book: The Green Mile
Favorite Food: Pho
Hobbies: Fishing, Gaming, 4 Wheeling, Music, Reading
Profession: salesman...same as op, feels weird man
Anyone here into cycling and/or urbex?
>>23898034
>5 other randoms
I'd assume crab-apples, if they're native? Are the fruits small?
Good movie choice btw.
Decent hobbies, I haven't read "The Green Mile" but I've heard good things (just don't go onto /lit/ with it-those fags will call Tolstoy an idiot.)
Here's a dumb fact that I'm sure that no one cares about: my family immigrated from Ireland just east of Isanti County.
>>23898111
No, random apple trees, just to polinate. I'm thinking of planting an orchard though with rows of different kinds.
The Green Mile is a way better book than movie imo and the movie was pretty damn good.
>>23898136
>No, random apple trees
Weird. S. MN is probably within the range of apple trees then. I grew up in N. MN where only chokecherries and crab-apples would grow (and a few wild plumbs).
>orchard though with rows of different kinds
Might as well if you're planning on sticking with the same place for the rest of your life. Select trees already 5 or more years along the way if you actually want to see them bearing fruit before you have to pass them onto your kids.
Plus the rows look nice if you have the space.
>>23898161
Yea, I'm in the middle of the state and they grow pretty well actually. At my old house it took 5 years to go from a 5' tree to a 9' that was giving a bunch of apples each year. The ones I have now I actually took better care of and they're really growing fast. The Jobe's tree stakes help a ton.
>>23897991
>I've always thought that Honeycrisp would make an excellent cider.
Not really... Whilst they have a shit load of sugars, the tannins are quite low, the acidity isn't bad though. The best apples are just a good mix that has a decent amount of tannins and low to moderate acidity. Too much sugar and you'll kill the yeast, not enough tannins and you don't get that "crisp apple" taste, and too much acid and you got rot gut.
>>23898174
>middle of the state
For whatever reason, I've always assumed that Duluth was the cut-off point for the middle of the state.
>5 years to go from a 5' tree to a 9'
That's not bad (which is why I suggest you plant your variety now if you want to see fruit before you're older).
>Jobe's tree stakes
Interesting. I'll have to pick up a box when I'm ready to break free from my rental overlords.
>>23897991
>>23898034
Crab apples actually have moderate amount of sugar and moderate to high acid. if you pair it with a high tannin low acid apple apple it should turn out good. like i said it's all about the mix. Remember there is not such thing as a perfect cider apple.
>>23898197
>Too much sugar and you'll kill the yeast
This is true. I'm just questioning if Honycrisps actually have more fructose than say, partially frozen wine grapes. They're sweet, not THAT sweet.
Otherwise, I'd agree that the tannin/sugar balance might be too off for a wine, but I don't know. I've never tried it myself. A lot of the "wine" grapes taste like absolute crap if you taste them raw and a lot of the "ready to eat" grapes, which are delicious, would probably make a pretty crappy wine.
>>23898237
See right around week 3 of fermentation of I test sugar levels vs alcohol and play it by ear. If the sugar is too low I add honey (which naturally has formaldehyde in it so it can't contaminate the batch) and batch get stronger. Check back in 3 weeks for de-yeasting
>>23898218
>it's all about the mix
Very true.
I was speaking more on the actual growing ranges though. Northern MN differs A TON from Southern MN in terms of growing conditions.
I remember (and this will seem weird) wanting to order some fruit trees as a kid from some farm catalog that my parents got so that I could watch them eventually blossom and bear fruit as and adult. I specifically remember that all but a few fruit-trees would not grow in the area based on the catalog's own reference (including most apples).
As a side-note (and agreeing with your point), chokecherry wine would likely be delicious if you added enough sugar to it.
>>23898270
Excellent advice.
I wasn't aware that honey contained formaldehyde. After one or two trips into the dissection room, your nose generally tips you off if you come anywhere near it. I do know that honey does contain anti-microbial properties, but I won't pretend to know what the specific compounds are (beyond sugar as a preservative).
>>23898282
Yeah those fuckin glacier gave all of us the good soil and you guys all the clay.
>>23898034
Huzzah! I'm not the oldest dude in these threads. 29/M/Minneapolis.
>>23898481
>you guys all the clay.
You don't know the half of it. I once asked my parents if I could make a pot out of our back-yard. They told me to come back with the biggest pot they could find.
I'm still digging. Still haven't found their pot stash.
>>23898538
The sarcasm run deep in your family then?
>>23898578
Unsurprisingly it does. While I was digging my old man told me to keep digging until I hit china, then he told me to go get him a beer before I got tired.
>>23898489
Oh come on being the oldest on here is like being the last immortal in Highlander
>>23898628
THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE!
I AM GANNONDORF!
You know it's actually a bunch of Minnesotans when everyone is talking about apple cider and honey crisp apples.
Am I allowed to say hello here if I used to live in the state and moved 20 minutes-ish from the border to South Dakota? I miss my MN... everything really. Still go to Mankato pretty regularly though!
>>23899300
Close enough, welcome!
>>23899712
Whoo! Thank god I am so tired of South Dakota right now. Just an alarming number of cows and people driving tractors down the wrong side of the road.
>>23899752
My experience in South Dakota is that it is quite rural, yes. Simple, well intentioned folk for the most part.
>>23899800
Oh yeah. For sure. People are so unbelievably friendly here, everybody says hello when you go out walking and the people at the local coffee shop know my order and my major in school and ask me about my life, but it's also the first place I've lived where I have had to be super low key about like... any kind of dissenting thought. Like, god forbid you are not a Christian. Ooh boy.
I do kind of miss that about Minneapolis. Like it was expensive as fuck and taking the train home at 11 PM was kind of scary, but it was less homogeneous.
>>23899822
Agnostic in the streets, atheist in the sheets. I just let them make their own assumptions and if it comes up then I let them know.
>>23899834
That is my new favorite expression. How have I never heard this before oh man.
But yeah, that's pretty much how I deal too. Just smile and nod and don't volunteer information that people don't wanna know.
>>23899946
I just rewatched this episode the other day. Ron Swanson is full of good advice.
>>23897473
You're also Duluth?
>>23900172
Nope Lakeville. But I've spent a few nights there.
24 bi m in Lakeville. Kik: limitless3116
>>23900612
Sorry I'm straight, still... what are your interests?
Anybody still on here?
>>23901523
Me! However I seem to be the only Duluth person!
>>23901747
Well we still love ya.
Blaine here, hi everybody! Enjoying reading the apple conversation. Haven't made a cider before but I've brewed a few batches of beer. Need to make a temp controlled fermentation chamber though, I get some weird off flavors more often than I would care to admit.
>>23902052
Temp control isn't as big a deal with cider.
20, M, Straight
In Eagan
Looking for friends, losing my virginity, or a real relationship.
Currently broke as fuck because jobs suck.
Snapchat/kik is Richiejack. Message me there since I'll never find this thread again..
320 here.
Favorite Book: Call of Cthulu by HP lovecraft.
Movie: Jurassic park (the first one, all others are shit)
Song: don't have one.
I'm currently a NEET
18/M
How's it going you assholes. Ready for the heatwave this weekend?
>>23903490
I just got 2 six packs of hard cider and a shit load of books, I'm ready.
>>23903490
Wow, first ever 320 I've seen here.
27.m.Mostly Straight
651
Looking for a weed dealer, a girlfriend, and friends. I know *nobody* here.
Might as well do this too. Dgaf:
Favorite Movie-- Reefer Madness or Dumb And Dumber (most watched.)
Book- Good Omens
Food- God Dammit, Minnesota, get some good Mexican Food.
Hobbies- Smoking bowls, writing, playing games, pretending I'm writing when I'm really just staring at a blank screen trying to make anything come out, nerd shit idfk.
Profession: Looking for a job after ragequitting mine about two weeks ago. Had a few interviews. Waiting to hear back.
Kik: NotCronenbergMorty
>>23904289
Good Omens is my favorite book of all time. If I was still in the Twin Cities I would definitely hit you up.
>>23904514
Hell yeah, It's good to see someone else who likes it.
It's relatively unheard of, compared to most of Gaiman's books.
Bump to keep it alive
>>23904619
For real. I wish more people had read it. Although speaking of Gaiman's other stuff have you read American Gods?
>>23905969
I have. Finished it a few months ago.
Actually *just* found the Barnes And Noble Hardcover edition I've been looking for for years last week at the MOA.
>>23906037
Have you heard about the mini series adaptation of it? Gillian Anderson was just cast as Media and I am soooo hyped.
Also, fun fact, used to work at MOA and that B&N has rats like nobody's business.
Am I the only one in winona
>>23903490
You wouldn't happen to be in hutch?
Bump for life!
>>23906794
Never thought id see the day
Hello hello. MPLS here.
I'm happy to see all this cider talk, although it's disappointing to learn honeycrisps aren't a great cider apple, since I love honeycrisp apples and cider
>>23906914
Most cider snobs HATE confectionery apples because under whelming taste, although Crispin does make a honeycrisp cider which I know is dosed with a shit load of honey to improve the taste.
>>23906944
Not a big fan of crispin, especially over ice the way many places serve it - it's pretty much just apple juice once the ice starts to melt. I do like crispin's brown lane, though.
>>23906944
It's also not actually made from Honeycrisp apples. It's why they call it Honey Crisp Cider.
>>23907041
Explains all the honey.
>>23904289
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27.m.Mostly Straight
651
Looking for a weed dealer, a girlfriend, and friends. I know *nobody* here.
Nice
Anybody else sick of this fucking weather?
>>23909385
So fucking hot and humid
21 male here looking to cheat on gf hit me up if you're female and and want to be lewd
>>23910634
Ugh... it seems like there are two camps here at 4chan honest folk looking to have a good time and weed obsessed douche nozels who just wanna fuck.
>>23910857
Why not both?
>>23910887
Okay three camps.
>>23906215
I live just outside of Hutchinson.
Anybody live near the twin cities?
