Ginger beer? Delicious?

I'll stick with the meth.

Link farked for anyone else?

Looks like they're helping themselves. mmmm beer.

You can has my username: Link farked for anyone else?

worked for me.

I was going to come in here and make a joke about the DEA being retarded before I realized this was New Zealand. Then I realized that was a silly assumption, since the US doesn't bust meth labs. We only care about teh evil pot!1

It was a "bloody ginger beer" setup, not a delicious ginger beer setup. Get it right, submitter. Pay attention.

Damn you subby, now I want a ginger beer. And to anyone that doesn't know/doesn't like ginger beer, suck it.

FTFA: Detective Senior Sergeant Mike Whitehead confirmed police had attended a call to a possible clan-lab on Beerescourt Rd after an alarm activation. Believing a clan-lab was set up, they carried out what Mr Whitehead described as "an appropriate response" given the situation and the information they had to hand

Just what the fark is appropriate on a dual-island country the size of farking North Carolina? And here I thought the z'landers were cool. Brewing beer should be a pastime, let alone the name of the street.

And we give our own US cops heat for overreactions? Sounds more like an agressive pissed off next door neighbor to me.

Bin_jammin: Damn you subby, now I want a ginger beer. And to anyone that doesn't know/doesn't like ginger beer, suck it.

This↑ Loves a Dark & Stormy

What a douchebag neighbor

Stop blaming it on the neighbor. The neighbor was just filling in details for the reporter.

The police were called by the security firm who responded to an alarm. Of course neither of them stopped to consider why anybody engaged in an illegal operation would have outside security involved. That alone should have prompted a much softer, considered response by the police.

If this happened in the US, poor guy would have been busted for running a hoax drug lab. Can't go making the cops look stupid, you know.

It worries me how often New Zealand turns up on Fark.

Thermo1 Yeah, me too. Kiwi Sex, Drugs (ish) on the front page today, when's rock and roll?

Oh and Yay for Hamilton making it to Fark

/Not really

fanbladesaresharp
z'landers

Zed-Landers?


Zed's dead baby. Zed's dead.

Cool, New Zealand has freedom too!

Thermo1: It worries me how often New Zealand turns up on Fark.

danduran has been running a one-man campaign for NZ to get its own tag for a couple of years now. We're like the Florida of the South Pacific except with fewer alligators.

As a brewer, I'm wondering why you need a still for ginger beer.

Or any beer, for that matter.

the Beerescourt Rd property

JWideman: If this happened in the US, poor guy would have been busted for running a hoax drug lab. Can't go making the cops look stupid, you know.

This.
But only after they destroyed the whole setup and ransacked the house, took the children and killed the dog.

/Amerika

I brew a mean ginger beer. Alcohol around 5%, too. Goes effing awesome with spider rolls.

Bin_jammin: Damn you subby, now I want a ginger beer. And to anyone that doesn't know/doesn't like ginger beer, suck it.

THIS

Bin_jammin: Damn you subby, now I want a ginger beer. And to anyone that doesn't know/doesn't like ginger beer, suck it.



/never tried ginger beer
//would like to

Having had ginger beer, and knowing that meth will wreck your body if it doesn't kill you, I think I'd rather try the meth.

Slightly funny ginger beer story here.

I decided to make my own once, using distilled water, baking yeast, sugar and fresh ginger. Fermented in 2L pop bottles then put in the fridge. No alcohol, just fizz. It was pretty good, though the last 1/3 of the bottle was yeasty.

So I take a bottle to a dessert potluck/drinking party. It was only about 1/2 drunk and I left the bottle there. The host left it on his kitchen counter sans refrigeration and went away for the weekend.

CO₂-based IED! The f*cking thing apparently detonated with the force of a small bomb over the weekend, due to the yeast culture fermenting more CO2. It blew his toaster to bits and sprayed sticky goo and shredded polyethylene all over his kitchen. Not good :(

Ginger beer is awful, and your sucks. headline

That's the problem with security company dweebs and mall guards.. they all washed out in their quest to become real cops and go on to spend the rest of their lives in search of the ultimate "I told you I'd make a good cop" moment. And they usually fail.

//mall guards are reincarnated Gestapo

mmmmmm..... ginger beer


//ginger beer and jalapeños even better

Dark and Stormys...

/NOM NOM NOM
//lives in Nashville, no ginger beer here. : c

If you're going to bust a meth lab, make sure it isn't delicious ginger beer brewing

...or confused headline writing.

Oh man, it's only 9am and I'm craving a Dark & Stormy

This isn't good.

Attention all New Zealanders:

Peter Jackson raped my childhood.

That is all.

Mmmm. Ginger beer, vodak, and lime for me, please.

Moscow Mule?

This stuff makes pure mescaline look like ginger beer.

The suspected clandestine drugs lab (clan-lab)...

Isn't "clandestine drug lab" a bit redundant? I don't know of too many "overt drug labs."

Well, I hope he brewed enough ginger beer for everyone!

A neighbour said a burglar alarm at the Beerescourt Rd property had been activated, triggering a response from a security firm.

BEERSCOURT RD. What did they expect?

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We call it ginger ale in the states, unless ginger beer is a completely different thing.

luckyeddie: As a brewer, I'm wondering why you need a still for ginger beer.

Or any beer, for that matter.

My guess is that it's so much easier for lazy reporters to describe the setup as a still than as fermentors. (Probably with valves going bloop, bloop, bloop...) I bet it was a bit fancier than a plastic bucket.

For those cringing at ginger beer, how about some Beer and Ale from Pea-shells _nw? (No, never tried it. No pea to pee process is going to involve my body, thanks!)

Dickloserman: We call it ginger ale in the states, unless ginger beer is a completely different thing.

No, we call it ginger beer in the states.

Ginger ale is carbonated corn syrup water. Ginger beer's made with real sugar and can clear your sinuses.

Nice to know the security firm you've been paying is so quick to burn you.

ALSO, nice to know they're so stupid they can't tell a meth lab from a gingerbeer setup.

Dickloserman: We call it ginger ale in the states, unless ginger beer is a completely different thing.

Different. (new window)

Edumacation. The polices, they gots it.

Cosmic Crab: Dickloserman: We call it ginger ale in the states, unless ginger beer is a completely different thing.

Different. (new window)

I've never had fermented ginger beer, but . . .

ginger beer > ginger ale. It has more bite.

mrEdude: Nice to know the security firm you've been paying is so quick to burn you.

ALSO, nice to know they're so stupid they can't tell a meth lab from a gingerbeer setup.

This is one of the reasons why I don't contract for home security.

I have some homebrewing equipment in the garage and basement as well as some equipment for reloading ammunition (including a few pounds of gunpowder). All of it is perfectly legal and for legitimate use, but I can see some rent-a-cop "security specialist" entering my home per contract terms and then calling the po-pos for my meth lab/IED manufacturing operation.

/Sadly, I don't homebrew anymore.
//I do reload regularly for target-shooting. Much cheaper than buying loaded ammo regularly.

/Sadly, I don't homebrew anymore.

Have a 5-gal mash/lauter tun cooler you want to sell me?

My GRANDMOTHER makes Ginger Beer.

Of course, being a WW2 combat veteran, she would have chased the cops out of the house with her sack of service ribbons and medals.

I prefer MaryAnn beer.

Egalitarian: Attention all New Zealanders:

Peter Jackson raped my childhood.

That is all.

Holy snappin' assholes. Get over it.

thisispete: Thermo1: It worries me how often New Zealand turns up on Fark.

danduran has been running a one-man campaign for NZ to get its own tag for a couple of years now. We're like the Florida of the South Pacific except with fewer alligators.

Having been to both FL and NZ, I just don't see the connection... Maybe if you could get L&P in Florida, things would be different...