Xmas Greetings from Sweden
I have been a member of this wholesome Forum only about a year or so and it´s about time to take a look at the time passed.
I´ve been fortunate enough to find many friends here and eventhough we don´t have the same opinion on things most people here have an opinion and aren´t ashamed to share theirs.
I´ve found the TAG being the only Forum at the WWW where everyone is granted the right to say what you think and how you feel without being stampled as a Neo-Nazi or an idiot. Kinda last Bastion.
With this i´d like to say Very Merry Christmas to you all and a Happy New Year of shooting 2014.
My parting words being : I hate you all and thank no one but myself …
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Its the middle of summer here in sunny NZ and Im about to leave for a 2 week beach camping/spearfishing holiday..
Celebrating Christmas at this time of the year is such a commercial joke..
No one knows the real birthday of Jesus, No date is given in the Bible..
There’s a strong and practical reason why Jesus might not have been born in the manger in the winter, but in the spring or the autumn! It can get very cold in the winter and it’s unlikely that the shepherds would have been keeping sheep out on the hills (as those hills can get quite a lot of snow sometimes!).
During the spring (in March or April) there’s a Jewish festival called ‘Passover’. This festival remembers when the Jews had escaped from slavery in Egypt about 1500 years before Jesus was born. Lots of lambs would have been needed during the Passover Festival, to be sacrificed in the Temple in Jerusalem. Jews from all over the Roman Empire travelled to Jerusalem for the Passover Festival, so it would have been a good time for the Romans to take a census. Mary and Joseph went to Bethlehem for the census (Bethlehem is about six miles from Jerusalem).
December 25th was chosen because the Winter Solstice and the ancient pagan Roman midwinter festivals called ‘Saturnalia’ and ‘Dies Natalis Solis Invicti’ took place in December around this date – so it was a time when people already celebrated things. Pagan’s would cut a tree from the forest and decorate it in coloured material to honour the gods that brought healthy crops in the coming spring..
With all that in mind, forget all that is commercial with this holiday and enjoy the time with your friends and family’s and be kind to all..
Commercial crap.. I believe this is why multi shots are a must..
mmmmm venison…
And you guys want singelshots only………..!!! 😯
THIS is why a multishot is a must ….!!!! 😉
Merry X-mas !!
You gays…
The virgin part is true, we are now looking to take to the longboats as in the old days and find new hunting grounds so if you have them lock them up.
hOOt mead is actually really good but we by it from micro brewery only at our pagan festival do we brew the ceremonial brew.
And i’m sharpening the knife…
Merry Christmas to all
Dr. 👿
Merry Christmas Ville. I hope you enjoy that 3-some with Dr. Evil and Snipertittiegirl. Rock on. :8:
Personally, I hope Dr. Evil castrates you with a dull Puukko, while both of you are eating pickled herring, in a drunken stupor, induced by a bad batch of Mead, during your pagan holiday celebrations….I heard you guys had to cancel your big midnight celebration, because no one, in all of Finland and Sweden, could locate a virgin!!! Is that really true?
Other than that…Season’s greetings.
Halfdan’s Viking Mead Recipe
Mead (Honey Wine) – 5 gallon recipe (reduce volume ingredients equally for smaller gatherings!)
8-10 lbs pure raw honey (for light, delicate Mead)
(or) 12-13 ” ” ” ” (for medium sweet Mead)
(or) 15-16 ” ” ” ” (for very sweet or alcoholic Mead)
4-5 gallons purified spring water (not distilled)
3 tsp. yeast nutrient (or 5 tablets)
1 tsp. acid blend (combination malic/citric acid)
5-7 oz. sliced fresh ginger root (1 finger’s length)
1/4 tsp. fresh rosemary (optional, as desired)
5-6 whole cloves (optional, as desired)
1-2 vanilla beans (optional, as desired)
cinnamon/nutmeg (optional, as desired)
lime/orange peels (optional, as desired)
crushed fruit (peaches, strawberries, grapes, etc.)
1 tsp. Irish Moss (to clarify Mead – http://www.therawfoodworld.com/fresh-irish-moss-1lb-raw-wildcrafted-pi1002386 )
1/2 tsp. clear gelatin (to clarify Mead)
1 spotted newt’s tail (optional, as desired 🙂
1 packet yeast (champagne or ale yeast)
Heat spring water 10-15 minutes till boiling. Stir in honey, yeast nutrients, acid blend, and spices (rosemary, ginger, vanilla, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, lemon peel). Boil for another 10-15 minutes, (overcooking removes too much honey flavor), skimming off foam as needed (2 to 3 times during last 15 minutes). After 15 minutes, add Irish Moss or clear gelatin to clarify. After last skimming, turn off heat, add crushed fruit, and let steep 15-30 minutes while allowing mead to cool and clarify. After mead begins to clear, strain off fruit with hand skimmer and pour mead through strainer funnel into 5 gallon glass carboy jug.
Let cool to room temperature about 24 hours. After 24 hours, warm up 1 cup of mead in microwave, stir in 1 packet “Red Star” Champagne, Montrechet, or Epernet yeast (or Ale yeast in order to make mead ale), and let sit for 5-15 minutes to allow yeast to begin to work. Add this mead/yeast mixture to carboy jug and swirl around to aerate, thereby adding oxygen to mead/yeast mixture.
Place run-off tube in stopper of bottle, with other end of tube in large bowl or bottle to capture “blow-off” froth. Let mead sit undisturbed 7 days in cool, dark area. After initial violent fermenting slows down and mead begins to settle, rack off (siphon off) good mead into clean sterilized jug, leaving all sediment in bottom of first jug. Attach airlock to this secondary carboy. After 4-6 months, mead will clear. During this time, if more sediment forms on bottom, good mead can be racked off again to another clean sterilized jug.
When bottling, in order to add carbonation, add either 1/4 tsp. white table sugar per 12 oz bottle, or stir in 1/2 to 1 lb raw honey per 5 gallons mead (by first dissolving honey with a small amount of mead or pure water in microwave).
Enjoy! Skål!
Valhalla H 😯 😯 t
Merry Christmas Guy’s! Even you S.V., you o’l hate monger! 😆
Knife
happy holidays to you sir.. did you get around to testing my xmas gift on paper?
Merry Christmas to you Sir Ville.
Merry Xmas friend! :8:
Gabe G
Merry Christmas Ville! :party:
Merry Christmas brother.
May the new year bring health, happiness,prosperity and lead flying through the air to all.
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And you guys want singelshots only………..!!! 😯
THIS is why a multishot is a must ….!!!! 😉
Merry X-mas !!
OOP’s, oh shit, now I have to Re-Load!!! 😯 😳