Beer

[Michaelangelica]

A small aside

Could this only happen in Canada?

http://www.news1130.com/news/local/article.jsp?content=20060929_101152_2588

Vancouver has a pumpkin ale, which is described as tasting like pumpkin pie in a glass. If you'd like to learn more, you can always sign up for beer school at http://www.justhereforthebeer.com.

[Michaelangelica]

In the Middle Ages (actually even well into the 19th century) beer was a safer drink than water, because the brewing proces starts with boiling the "wort" (liquid obained by filtering the mixture of barley + sometimes other cereals and malt). Addition of hops in a later stage had a antibiotic effect on less desirable microorganisms.

How many types of brewing yeasts are there? I know one Australian company (Burns Phillip) provides most of the yeast All of one type, I think. (?)

I always thought Sherry was fortified with brandy like Port; so you live and learn. I think the brandy is also used to kill the yeast and stop further fermentation.

 

Has anyone brewed their own beer or spirits?

 

On hops; is it the fruit or the flower that is used? I just thought they had funny, flat, leaf-like flowers. I have never seen or heard of hops "fruit" so

This was interesting from Duke's data base on hops

http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/duke/farmacy2.pl

Chemicals in Hops

ALPHA-PINENE Fruit:

 

Allelochemic; Allergenic; Antiacne; Antibacterial; Antifeedant; Antiflu; Antiinflammatory 500 mg/kg; Antipneumonic; Antiseptic; Antispasmodic; Antistaphylococcic; Antiviral; Cancer-Preventive; Coleoptophile; Expectorant; FLavor FEMA 15-150; Herbicide IC50=30 uM; Insecticide 0.82 uM/fly; Insectifuge 50 ppm; Insectiphile; Irritant; P450-2B1-Inhibitor IC50=0.087 uM; Perfumery; Pesticide; Sedative; Spasmogenic; Tranquilizer; Transdermal

 

ALPHA-SELINENE Fruit:

 

Perfumery

 

ALPHA-TERPINEOL Essential Oil:

 

ACE-Inhibitor 100 ug/ml (weak activity); Aldose-Reductase-Inhibitor 100 ug/ml; Allelopathic; Antiacne; Antibacterial MIC=800-1,600 ug/ml; Anticancer; Anticariogenic; Antiseptic; Cicatrizant ED50=240 ug/g mus; FLavor FEMA 5-40; Insecticide 1.29 uM/fly; Motor-Depressant; Nematicide MLC=1 mg/ml; Perfumery; Pesticide; Sedative; Termiticide IC100=5 mg/g; Transdermal; Vulnerary ED50=240 ug/g mus

 

ASTRAGALIN Fruit:

 

ACE-Inhibitor ID50=180 ug/ml rat (24 hr.); Aldose-Reductase-Inhibitor IC30=1 uM IC62=10 uM; Antileukemic; Expectorant; Hypotensive; Immunostimulant

 

BETA-ALANINE Fruit:

Avicide; Neurotoxic to birds

 

BETA-EUDESMOL Fruit 60 ppm;

 

Antianoxic ED60=300 orl mus; AntiEBV; Antimutagenic ID50=0.09 uM/ml; Antipeptic; Antisalmonella >0.18 uM/ml; Antitumor-Promoter?; Antiulcer; Calcium-Antagonist 40 uM mus; CNS-Inhibitor; Hepatoprotective; Neurogenic; Pesticide; Sedative

 

BETA-PINENE Fruit:

 

Allergenic; Antiinflammatory; Antiseptic; Antispasmodic; Candidicide; FLavor FEMA 15-600; Herbicide; Insectifuge; Irritant; Perfumery; Pesticide; Spasmogenic; Transdermal

 

BETA-SELINENE Fruit 150 ppm;

 

Perfumery

 

CAFFEIC-ACID Plant:

 

Aldose-Reductase-Inhibitor 4 ug/ml (weak activity); Allergenic; Analgesic; Antiadenoviral; Antiaggregant; Antiaging; Antiatherogenic; Antibacterial; Anticancer; Anticarcinogenic; Antidepressant; Antiedemic; Antielastase IC50=86 ug/ml (475 uM) IC50=93 um/l; Antiescherichic; Antiflu; Antigonadotropic; Antihemolytic 25 uM; Antihepatoadenomic 200 ppm diet orl mus; Antihepatotoxic; Antiherpetic 50 ug/ml EC50=>50 ug/ml; Antihistaminic; AntiHIV EC50=200 ug/ml; Antihypercholesterolemic; Antihyperthyroid; Antiinflammatory; AntiLegionella; Antileukemic; Antileukotriene; Antimelanogenic; Antimutagenic; Antinitrosaminic; Antiophidic; Antioxidant 1.3 x Vit. E 1/2 BHA 1/3 quercetin 30 mM 50 uM IC57=30 ppm; Antiperoxidant IC35=200 ug/ml IC50=44 uM IC85=100 ug/ml; Antiproliferant; Antiprostaglandin; Antiradicular 1/3 quercetin 10 uM 30 mM IC50=32-35 uM; Antiseptic; Antispasmodic EC50=3.4-15 uM; Antistaphylococcic; Antistomatitic; Antisunburn; Antithiamin; Antithyroid; Antitumor 200 ppm diet orl mus; Antitumor (Skin); Antitumor-Promoter IC42=10 uM; Antiulcerogenic; Antivaccinia; Antiviral IC50=62.5 ug/ml; Anxiolytic; Calcium-Antagonist IC50=1.2 uM rbt; Cancer-Preventive; Carcinogenic 2% (diet); Chemopreventive; Cholagogue; Choleretic; Clastogenic; CNS-Active; Co-carcinogenic; Collagen-Sparing; COX-2-Inhibitor IC32=100 uM; Cytoprotective; Cytotoxic TC50=200 ug/ml; Diuretic; DNA-Active; DNA-Protective; Fungicide MIC=0.4 mg/ml; Hepatocarcinogenic 400 ppm diet orl mus (in the absence of alcohol); Hepatoprotective; Hepatotropic; Histamine-Inhibitor; Immunostimulant; Insectifuge; Leukotriene-Inhibitor; Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor IC27=5 mM IC50=62-148 uM; Lyase-Inhibitor IC50=94-164 uM; Metal-Chelator; Ornithine-Decarboxylase-Inhibitor; Pesticide; Prooxidant; Prostaglandigenic; Sedative 500 mg; Sunscreen IC50=2.5 mg/l IC91=5 mg/l IC98=25 mg/l; Tumorigenic; Vulnerary; Xanthine-Oxidase-Inhibitor IC50=39.21 uM

 

 

CAMPESTEROL Stem:

 

Antioxidant IC37=10 uM; Hypocholesterolemic

 

CANNABIDIOL Leaf:

 

Analgesic; Antibacterial; Anticonvulsant; Antiepileptic; Antihepatometabolic; Antiinflammatory; Antiseptic; Pesticide

[eric l]

How many types of brewing yeasts are there? I know one Australian company (Burns Phillip) provides most of the yeast All of one type, I think. (?)

I always thought Sherry was fortified with brandy like Port; so you live and learn. I think the brandy is also used to kill the yeast and stop further fermentation.

 

Has anyone brewed their own beer or spirits?

 

 

Basicly their are wild yeasts and cultivated yeasts. Wild yeasts are still used in Belgium for some specialty beer types (lambic, and derived products)

Cultivated yeasts are either top-fermenting or bottom-fermenting. Wikipedia gives a brief explanation : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewer%27s_yeast

The brewing process gives new yeast, the brewer can collect it and use it for a new brew.

Sometimes brewers use wine yeasts for specialty beers. Sherry yeast is an example : sherry is indeed fortified with alcohol (brandy) but with "fino" there is an extra fermentation after this fortification with "flor", which is collected on top. It is this "flor" that is used by some brewers to make high alcohol beer. With port and with "oloroso" type sherry, the fortification is indeed done to a level where further fermentation is imposible.

 

There are many "real" home brewers in Belgium and the Netherlands, "real" meaning that they do not work with commercialized kits, but do experiment with new formulas. But very few of them have websites with an English version.

 

I myself have made cider from apples for a couple of seasons. It is actually much easier than brewing beer, but it is season linked. This means that you will have to process your yeast to conserve it for next year, or to buy fresh yeast, or to count on natural (=wild) fermentation and hope for the best.

 

Because you make beer from cereals, you can start your brewing any time, you do not need to conserve the yeast. But you may need different strains of yeast for different types of beer.

[Tormod]

Maybe off-topic (is there a real topic here?) but about 10 years ago I spent a month in Northampton, England, and there was a beer festival at a local pub (the Fish and Parrot - where do they get these great pub names from!).

 

It was 50 cents for a half-pint, and they had 100 kinds from all over the world. I don't remember much apart from trying different kinds every day, but I can safely say that I will never, ever again drink Chinese strawberry beer. *shudder*

[Michaelangelica]

DRUNK ON THE AUTOBAHN Beer Truck Driver Drinks His Load

Spiegel Online - Berlin,Germany

With thousands of crates of beer in the back, it's tempting to have a party. ... "It wasn't just the truck that was filled with beer. ...

http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,440754,00.html

Beer Truck Driver Drinks His Load

 

With thousands of crates of beer in the back, it's tempting to have a party. A truck driver did just that, until German Autobahn police spoiled his reckless fun.

 

It proved too tempting.

Zoom

DDP

 

It proved too tempting.

The driver of a truck transporting 2,500 crates of beer drank so much of his cargo that he started zig-zagging along a busy German motorway.

 

"The truck was using up the full width of the motorway and it took a great effort to force it to stop," police said in a statement. Police managed to stop the vehicle near Frankfurt and breathalysed the 42-year-old Slovenian driver.

 

"It wasn't just the truck that was filled with beer. The driver seems to have consumed part of his load," police said. The man's driving licence was confiscated and the Italian haulage company is sending a new driver to continue the journey.

[Kirk Gregory Czuhai]

http://GeorgeWBush.TK

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[Michaelangelica]

Strawberry Beer??!

What were you thinking??

 

 

JEAN McCLELLAND:

Beer stein an invention caused by the bubonic plague

 

Who would think that the bubonic plague, flies and beer steins would have anything in common?

As the adage says, "Invention is the mother of necessity."

 

Some 500 years ago Europe was inundated with swarms of flies during the summer months. This combined with memories of the plague called for some sort of action by citizens.

By the 1500s folks in Germany had figured out that the plague had taken fewer victims in areas that adhered to certain hygienic standards.

Cleanliness made a difference in who lived and who died so laws were passed to encourage citizens to leave their filthy ways to the past.

One of those laws was that all food and beverage containers had to have lids to protect people from dirty insects.

 

Covered containers were just a small part of the movement to clean up the community.

Another law required that beer could only be made from hops, cereals, yeast and water. This allowed for a better quality beer and did away with the recipes that made beer from rotten bread and such.

 

Long story short is that the beer industry took off in Germany and has never looked back. The covered beer stein was one innovation that took the fancy of the population long after the threat of disease had passed.

The upper class would have had their beer steins made from pewter but the commoner would have embraced those made of pottery.

Other mediums used would have included ivory, porcelain, wood, silver and more.

Everyone would have had their own individual stein and some of them could be right fancy.

All sorts of designs from coats of arms to biblical scenes have turned up on the outside of these steins

More at:-

http://www.herald-dispatch.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061008/LIFE/610080380/1004

[eric l]

Strawberry Beer??!

What were you thinking??

 

 

 

More at:-

http://www.herald-dispatch.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061008/LIFE/610080380/1004

 

Considering the strawberry beer : Belgium does have traditional fruit beers. This has long been limited to cherry flavoured beer from spontanuous fermentation. Since this beer was rather was already rather sour, and the cherries added were also of a sour variety, often sugar was added before drinking it.

 

Considering the covered steins and the law requiring beer to be brewed exclusively from water, cereals, yeast and hops, this law, known as "Reinheitsgebot" still exists in Germany. I did not know the covered steins have the same historical background.

[InfiniteNow]

Considering the strawberry beer : Belgium does have traditional fruit beers. This has long been limited to cherry flavoured beer from spontanuous fermentation.

Yummmm.... Lindeman's Lambic Ale.

 

:beer: + :beer: = :beer:

[Michaelangelica]

OK NOW I am going to thow up

SABMiller launches chocolate beer

 

Thu, 12 Oct 2006

 

Global brewing giant SABMiller is to launch an innovative chocolate beer, brewed with six different malts, including a dark chocolate malt. The launch is in line with the group's continuing efforts to develop its specialist beer portfolio.

http://business.iafrica.com/news/275548.htm

[eric l]

OK NOW I am going to thow up

 

Well Michael, if that was referring to the Lindeman's Cherry Lambic, you'd better be advised that Lambic, being of spontaneous fermentation and unfiltered, will have more effect on the other end of the digestive channel (if consumed in large quantities).

[InfiniteNow]

MMMM.... chocolate beer. :umno:

 

 

Would this be anything like Young's Double Chocolate Stout?

 

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chocolate_stout

[Michaelangelica]

My God

Ecological BEER?:?!!

http://www.drinks-business-review.com/article_news.asp?guid=D3616BBB-8B60-4943-A39D-643B77CFD6C5

What is the world comming Too ??!!

ierra

Nevada uses beer waste to reduce energy costs

18th October 2006

By Jamie Cregan

Sierra Nevada, the US brewer, is using beer power to reduce its energy costs with the help of FuelCell Energy, a manufacturer of ultra-clean electric power plants.

 

The move was made possible by the recent upgrading of FuelCell Energy's 1-megawatt direct fuel cell power plant at the Sierra Nevada brewery, to use fuel created from a waste by product of the beer brewing process.

 

Through the upgrade Sierra Nevada has increased its sustainability and energy-efficiency, while realizing substantial cost savings by offsetting its purchase of natural gas.

 

The brewery's fuel cell power plant, which began running last summer and was dedicated by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, initially ran on natural gas.

 

To boost the brewery's energy efficiency and ecologically friendly profile, Sierra Nevada founder Ken Grossman sought to convert the ultra-clean fuel cells from operating solely on natural gas to a gas mixture that the brewery produced as a byproduct, methane.

[Michaelangelica]

looks like an important historical document.

Need broadband so can't tell

http://huderon.blogspot.com/2006/10/how-to-chug-beer-in-under-4-seconds.html

 

Beer darts???

http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2784060

[Turtle]

Beer darts???

http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2784060

 

It doesn't take beer or an adult to stick a dart in a buddies apendage, and I can tell you a shoe is no protection from deep penetration either.:pirate: :edizzy:

 

I'm working my way through a 6-packs...erps...6-pack of IPA's from Bridgeport Brewing Co. out of Portland Oregon. :hihi: Forgive me Racoon; I'll have to buy more I guess. :beer:

[InfiniteNow]

Damn you Turtle. I've just decided to stop at the store on the way home and pickup some India Pale Ale... :edizzy: You're such a bad influence!

 

 

:hihi:

[Turtle]

Damn you Turtle. I've just decided to stop at the store on the way home and pickup some India Pale Ale... :pirate: You're such a bad influence!

 

 

:hihi:

 

So I am told. :beer: Here's to ya buddy! :edizzy: