Even usps can’t deliver to rural addresses. They deliver to line of boxes at the highway intersection which get ran over or broken into monthly.
Luxury. I live in a PO Box-only zip code. Heaven help you if the USPS gets ahold of anything addressed to your street addresses, you’ll never receive it.
The reason some beer and wine is carbonated is because alcohol is made by yeast eating sugar and producing alcohol and carbon dioxide. If you bottled the beverage before all the sugar had been consumed by the yeast, the process would continue and carbon dioxide would be trapped by the bottle, pressurizing it and forcing the carbon dioxide to stay dissolved until the bottle is opened.
Cognac is a liquor. Liquor is made by distilling something that’s been fermented, to increase the alcohol concentration beyond the point at which yeast can survive. Traditional production methods could not produce a carbonated liquor. It’s possible to add carbon dioxide directly now, but alcoholic beverage styles are largely dictated by tradition.
Production methods, however, do take advantage of modern technology, commercially produced beer is typically pasteurized, killing the yeast, and the expected carbon dioxide is added. This eliminates a risk of misjudging the sugar content at bottling, which can lead to excessive pressure causing exploding bottles.
Be wary of less standard bottom bracket shells on some older frames
This really isn’t the problem it used to be. In the last few years, companies have offered inexpensive square-taper and Hollowtech II bottom brackets for Italian, French, and Swiss threading.
Right now is a great time to be fixing up an obsolete frame, and stocking up on spare parts.
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Other people have touched on it, but I really want to emphasize how completely ordinary it used to be to go to someone’s house uninvited, unannounced. Well into the telephone age, it was regularly done. And you were expected to always invite them in.
If you wanted to appear to be an at least minimally functional member of society, you would keep some sort of snack food, a cake, cookies, scones, muffins, et cetera, constantly in stock so that you could offer refreshments to literally any person anyone in your household had ever met in their lives, showing up at your door at absolutely any time.
Refreshments were the bare minimum. The further back you go, the more likely your guests were going to want to live with you for a while.