Welcome to General Chat - GAW Community Area
This General Chat area started off as a place for people to talk about things that are off topic, however it has quickly evolved into a community and has become an integral part of the GAW experience for many of us.
Based on its evolving needs and plenty of user feedback, we are trying to bring some order and institute some rules. Please make sure you read these rules and participate in the spirit of this community.
Rules for General Chat
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Be respectful to each other. This is of utmost importance, and comments may be removed if deemed not respectful.
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Avoid long drawn out arguments. This should be a place to relax, not to waste your time needlessly.
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Personal anecdotes, puzzles, cute pics/clips - everything welcome
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Please do not spam at the top level. If you have a lot to post each day, try and post them all together in one top level comment
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Try keep things light. If you are bringing in deep stuff, try not to go overboard.
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Things that are clearly on-topic for this board should be posted as a separate post and not here (except if you are new and still getting the feel of this place)
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If you find people violating these rules, deport them rather than start a argument here.
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Feel free to give feedback as these rules are expected to keep evolving
In short, imagine this thread to be a local community hall where we all gather and chat daily. Please be respectful to others in the same way
Got my third glass 5-gal carboy from Italy finally. One more on the way. I put handles on them and then fill with distilled water that has been re-mineralized with mineral pack. Storing them for emergency water.
Working my own water distiller system and then testing water purity afterwards. Input is double-filtered tap water: RV filter attached to sink waterline and then Berkey charcoal+flouride filtration system. Testing several ways before I optimize. Glass is best for longterm water storage to avoid microplastic leaching.
If the water goes to 💩 I guess I’ll have to learn to like beer. Hopefully someone will make some rum or something.
Very true! I’ve never tried moonshine even the legal moonshines. Don’t know what I’m scared of I drank Everclear back in the day. That’s illegal in many states. I rarely drink maybe a non lime margarita on the rocks a few times a year from a Mexican restaurant. I made the comment because 100s of years ago the beer was safer than water in Europe.