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Facebook comes in usefull

Postby RUM57L » Thursday Aug 04, 2011 9:34 am

.. Apparently you can search facebook for things for sale within your local area.. Yesterday I asked my Mrs who was searching for baby stuff etc to have a look for "beer / Homebrew" on facebook.

This lead to me picking up around 5 crates of homebrew bottles and a bottle drying board that fits 30 tallies.

Funny thing is the bottles are full, apparently brewed by the ladies now deceased german father, there is some identification on some of the bottles indicating the brews are lagers and are some are dark and others pale.

There is also a darwin stubby, 2.25 litre munich lager brewed in '06.

All the beer caps are rusty so obviously old, i opened one and it was still carbed up, poured quite well.. looked like a pale lager.. tasted like the old green hb taste.

Ended up with 54 long necks
I didnt count how many stubbies but probally around 30.
1 Darwin Stubby.
3 glass cordial bottles full of what i think is GIN...
1 drying board.

Not bad hey
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Re: Facebook comes in usefull

Postby Oliver » Thursday Aug 04, 2011 12:01 pm

Nice work. As you say, it seems that Facebook is good for something :D I, too, had no idea that you could use it that way but will have to give it a try now.

Let us know how the rest of the brews are.

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Re: Facebook comes in usefull

Postby RUM57L » Friday Aug 05, 2011 9:25 pm

Tooks some pics of the recent aquisitions

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Re: Facebook comes in usefull

Postby Tipsy » Saturday Aug 06, 2011 12:18 am

That Darwin stubbie would be crying out for a yeast starter
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Re: Facebook comes in usefull

Postby RUM57L » Saturday Aug 06, 2011 8:15 am

I dont know what to do with it, put it up in the bar.. open and reuse the bottle? any suggestions?
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Re: Facebook comes in useful

Postby Oliver » Saturday Aug 06, 2011 2:14 pm

If it's full of homebrew, I'd chill it, open it and drink it if it's OK.

If it's full of NT Draught, I'd chill it, open it, have a taste to remind yourself why you homebrew then tip the rest down the sink :lol:

I have an empty Darwin Stubby, which is in a cupboard. The beer was revolting - just CUB megaswill, but worse from what I remember.

I like the idea of using it as part of the process to step up a starter. Or put it on the bar. Or both, and just have it on display when it's not on starter duties.

Cheers,

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Re: Facebook comes in usefull

Postby RUM57L » Saturday Aug 06, 2011 11:20 pm

The ticket on the back says munich lager.. 2006 i think.. can only give it a go hey
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Re: Facebook comes in useful

Postby Oliver » Sunday Aug 07, 2011 1:03 am

Do it :-)
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Re: Facebook comes in usefull

Postby punkin » Sunday Aug 07, 2011 5:46 am

Just joined on facebook to try and find the local classifieds, but buggered if i know how to search for it. Says in the wiki that they've had classifieds for years, but it comes up as nothing when i search?
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Re: Facebook comes in usefull

Postby jello » Sunday Aug 07, 2011 6:24 am

Maybe you need to add it as an application or something? I'm not a big fan of facebook, so I'll gladly live without their classifieds.
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Re: Facebook comes in usefull

Postby Oliver » Sunday Aug 07, 2011 12:58 pm

I think Jeff's probably right. There are dozens of apps about classifieds: http://www.facebook.com/search.php?q=cl ... s&init=srp

Perhaps RUM57L can check with his lady about which one it was.

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Re: Facebook comes in usefull

Postby RUM57L » Sunday Aug 07, 2011 2:19 pm

Hey MRS RUM uses the facebook marketplace to find stuff .. apparently you access this from typing marketplace into the white search box... She said theres no specific HB one though just stumbled accross a lady selling off her fathers goods
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Re: Facebook comes in usefull

Postby Oliver » Sunday Aug 07, 2011 3:10 pm

I reckon this might be the one: http://www.facebook.com/apps/applicatio ... 8581025231

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Re: Facebook comes in usefull

Postby punkin » Sunday Aug 07, 2011 6:56 pm

Thanks guys, i tried twenty different searches this morning and came up with nothing.

That works.
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