Danger brewing
Longtime readers of my journals may recall my nearly fatal experiment in beer brewing, as depicted and described in this entry and its comments.
I'd been intending for a while now to give it another try, but hadn't got around to it. But a confluence of factors -- reading Beer in America, the Early Years -- 1587-1840, and it being October, with its cool, dark evenings, and me having some Mr. Beer Vienna Lager mix (described on the can as a traditional Oktoberfest beer) -- I decided that tonight was the night. I dug out my Mr. Beer brewing kit (sort of a paint-by-numbers approach to beer making), and I currently have a keg of delicious-looking, foamy wort fermenting, and in two weeks I'll know if I have a batch of beer or a 8.5 quart ticking bomb.
Stay tuned. And just to be safe, take cover.
More thoughts currently brewing, but I'll save those for another time, or perhaps will just keep them to myself, as is sometimes the wisest course.
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Favorite trivia bits from Beer in America:
1. The saying "mind your p's and q's" comes from a directive tavern keepers would give to the help, to keep track of the customers' tabs and mind their pints and quarts.
2. A cure for lunacy required one to "work (stir) herbs into clear ale, say 7 masses over the worts, add garlic and holy water, then have the patient suffering from lunacy drink it out of a church bell."
I'd been intending for a while now to give it another try, but hadn't got around to it. But a confluence of factors -- reading Beer in America, the Early Years -- 1587-1840, and it being October, with its cool, dark evenings, and me having some Mr. Beer Vienna Lager mix (described on the can as a traditional Oktoberfest beer) -- I decided that tonight was the night. I dug out my Mr. Beer brewing kit (sort of a paint-by-numbers approach to beer making), and I currently have a keg of delicious-looking, foamy wort fermenting, and in two weeks I'll know if I have a batch of beer or a 8.5 quart ticking bomb.
Stay tuned. And just to be safe, take cover.
More thoughts currently brewing, but I'll save those for another time, or perhaps will just keep them to myself, as is sometimes the wisest course.
_________
Favorite trivia bits from Beer in America:
1. The saying "mind your p's and q's" comes from a directive tavern keepers would give to the help, to keep track of the customers' tabs and mind their pints and quarts.
2. A cure for lunacy required one to "work (stir) herbs into clear ale, say 7 masses over the worts, add garlic and holy water, then have the patient suffering from lunacy drink it out of a church bell."
2 Comments:
I'm thinking live beer cam so we can watch the explosion in real time
By Virtualbri, at Sun Oct 29, 08:56:00 PM MST
You do know you can't make beer from Mentos and Diet Coke, right?
By David Moles, at Sun Oct 29, 09:42:00 PM MST
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