Beer

[Jay-qu]

I drunk beer on the weekend - some Crown Lager and some Coopers sparkling ale

[Michaelangelica]

A cleaner environment... through beer - Care2 News Network

 

A cleaner environment... through beer - Innovation - MSNBC.com

A cleaner environment... through beer

Fuel cell a battery where bacteria consume water-soluble brewing waste

Updated: 1:34 p.m. ET May 2, 2007

 

CANBERRA, Australia - Scientists and Australian beer maker Foster's are teaming up to generate clean energy from brewery waste water — by using sugar-consuming bacteria.

 

The experimental technology was unveiled Wednesday by scientists at Australia's University of Queensland, which was given a $115,000 state government grant to install a microbial fuel cell at a Foster's Group brewery near Brisbane, the capital of Queensland state.

 

The fuel cell is essentially a battery in which bacteria consume water-soluble brewing waste such as sugar, starch and alcohol.

[Michaelangelica]

Mayonnaise and Beer:)

Mayonnaise and Beer | FMBV

[Queso]

ew mayo.

I just rode my bike down to Bud's mini mart and picked up a 6 pack of Blue Moon belgian wheat ale.

Cheers, mates.

I gotta paint my family's house.

[InfiniteNow]

Thanks for the link MA.

 

Cheers... to a full life WITH beer.

[Michaelangelica]

Thanks for the link MA. :lol:

 

Cheers... to a full life WITH beer. :)

I think people basically lived on beer and bread 1-3,000 years ago. I think it was probably full of a few more vitamins and minerals then. Probably looked more like soup:confused:

I know the Egyptians paid the workers on the pyramids in bread, beer and radishes (radishes:confused: )

 

Saw this over the weekend. Seems some now can't live without it.

Is there any significance in the fact that it comes from 'The Gulf Times'?

More beer please, say Australians stranded by floods

Published: Thursday, 14 June, 2007, 07:29 AM Doha Time

 

SYDNEY: Residents of a small Australian town cut off by this week’s floods received more than just essentials yesterday when emergency workers dropped off a large amount of beer.

Hinton has been isolated since Sunday by surging floodwaters following days of severe storms which left nine people dead and caused millions of dollars of damage.

The township’s 400 residents were anxious that the pub would run dry ahead of yesterday night’s much-anticipated rugby league match between New South Wales and Queensland states.

Gulf Times – Qatar’s top-selling English daily newspaper - Europe/World

 

:beer:

 

Bugger Hypography

Now I've had to google Ancient Egypt and beer and why radishes?

"Beer, together with bread, oil and vegetables, was an important part

of the wages workers received from their employers. The standard daily

ration during pharaonic times was two jars containing somewhat more

than two litres each. It was a healthier drink than water drawn from

the river or some canal, which was often polluted."

Ancient Egypt: Beverages

Not Egypt but the 17C coun't have been all bad

Two gallons of beer a day was part of the rations allocated to each youngster in the Children's Hospital of Norwich, England. This, in 1632. Beer is food, the English said. Maybe so. Serve it warm and it's just like soup. But two gallons per child?

The mouth of a perfectly contented man is filled with beer.

Inscription dating to 2200 BCE

 

Beer and Taxes been around for a while

Large scale beer production seems to have been a royal monopoly.

Ancient Egypt: Beverages

Good site. Info on

• Egyptian Beer
  
• Old and New Kingdom recipes for making Beer
  
• Explore the city of the hawk: Brewery
  
• Soldier drinking beer with the help of a drinking tube and strainer (MFA site)
  

Beer though a straw!!! Would not be tolerated in an Oz pub.

The A Egyptians used barley and eventually developed a fairly pure yeast strain.

I wonder what we are missing out on now, by ONE Company (Burns Phillip?) now producing just one highly developed strain of yeast for the planet?

 

Would the radish be religiously significant?

This sounds more like a description of the Asian Radish, not the little red balls I grew as a kid

A native of Europe, I’m over 3,000 years old and still planted and harvested mostly by hand.

A hardy perennial herb, I’m a member of the mustard family, spreading like a weed and growing 2 feet tall. My young leaves can be eaten in salad, but I’m most respected for my thick white root, which is nearly cylindrical and somewhat enlarged at the crown.

My name refers to my large size, coarseness and strength. I’m mild and unassuming until you break my skin; with age, I darken and lose my power. Pungent, with a hot, biting taste, I bring tears to the eyes, and clarity to the sinuses.

The Delphic oracle told Apollo:

“The radish is worth its weight in lead,

the beet its weight in silver,

[and I, my] weight in gold.”

One of the five bitter herbs Jews were told to eat at Passover Seder, I was used medicinally for ages before becoming a condiment.

A stimulant, aperient, rubefacient, diuretic, and antiseptic,

Food Quiz

Really getting weird now:-

If you want to serve an appetizer such as the old Romans served, try a tray of radishes with honey for the dip.

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Religion again?

It was customary in the 13th century to baptize children with beer.

L. M. Boyd Selections

This sounds like a reasonable scientific hypothesis.

It certainly works in Australia

At least one scholar contends that our distant ancestors stopped hunting to take up farming only after they figured out how to make beer.

During the pyramid building, workers were given enormous amounts of radish, garlic and onion. Herodotus has mentioned in his second book, Euterpe:

“There is an inscription in Egyptian characters on the pyramid which records the quantity of radishes, onions, and garlic consumed by the labourers who constructed it; and I perfectly well remember that the interpreter who read the writing to me said that the money expended in this way was 1600 talents of silver”.

 

Only during the 20th century AD when an antibiotic preparation (Raphanin) has been extracted from radish, and Allicin and Allistatin from garlic and onion did it become obvious that this was a wise precaution undertaken in such an overcrowded camp.

ThothWeb - Herbal Medicine and Prescriptions in Ancient Egypt

Anyone got anything to add on the 'radish' thing?

I am getting hungry and don't think I have got the full story here.

(A new thread??)

[Michaelangelica]

Australians have known this for along time

How do you get research jobs like this?

Study: Beer beats water for hydration

 

GRENADA, Spain, Nov. 2 (UPI) -- Researchers at Granada University in Spain said drinking beer after strenuous physical activity can be beneficial for the body.

 

The scientists said their study found beer can help dehydrated people retain liquid better than water alone, The Telegraph, a Biritsh newspaper, reported Friday.

 

Professor Manuel Garzon, who led the study, said the bubbles in beer can help quench thirst and the carbohydrates in the beverage can help make up for burned calories.

NewsDaily: Science -- Study: Beer beats water for hydration

[Jay-qu]

My favorite beer:

 

coopers extra strong vintage ale - you can lay this one down in cellar conditions and it is said to only improve the flavor :eek:

[Michaelangelica]

Beer in space: A short but frothy history

 

* 13:50 31 July 2007

* NewScientist.com news service

* Anna Davison

 

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Bubbles of carbon dioxide are not buoyant in space, producing foam throughout the liquid, as shown in this image of a drop of Coca-Cola taken on a space shuttle in 1985 (Image: NASA)

Bubbles of carbon dioxide are not buoyant in space, producing foam throughout the liquid, as shown in this image of a drop of Coca-Cola taken on a space shuttle in 1985 (Image: NASA)

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Kirsten Sterrett used a "Fluid Processing Apparatus" to ferment beer on a space shuttle (Image: NASA)

 

After allegations that astronauts flew drunk, NASA's rules on alcohol are under scrutiny. The agency currently doesn't allow its astronauts to imbibe in orbit, but over the years of crewed space travel, many astronauts have enjoyed a tipple.

 

In 1969, Buzz Aldrin took communion after landing on the Moon, sipping wine from a small chalice. In the Moon's feeble gravity, he later wrote, the wine swirled like syrup around the cup.

Beer in space: A short but frothy history - drugs-alcohol - 31 July 2007 - New Scientist

[Jet2]

I used to drink beer but no longer since it would cause my nasal allergic reaction. Still I like it very much...

 

AAAAI - Patients & Consumers Center: Allergy & Asthma Advocate: Winter 2006

[Michaelangelica]

I used to drink beer but no longer since it would cause my nasal allergic reaction. Still I like it very much...

 

AAAAI - Patients & Consumers Center: Allergy & Asthma Advocate: Winter 2006

I have a few allergy problems with yeast ( it triggers a painless migraine)

 

I wonder if part of the problem is that there is almost only ONE company producing ONE variety of yeast these days (Burns Phillip?)

 

Chinese too have the "red face flushing" with some/all alcohol?

[freeztar]

Chinese too have the "red face flushing" with some/all alcohol?

 

Doesn't everyone? (with the right amount of course)

[Michaelangelica]

Doesn't everyone? (with the right amount of course)

No.

I had a Chinse guy working for me in the PS.

If he had one beer at lunch-time he would light up like a red Christmas tree. meanwhile hiss Ozzie "mates" would down 3-4 schooners, without any apparent difference..

 

It is said this is the reason alcoholism is so low in China.

 

SACRED BEER

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[Michaelangelica]

So many thread on beer

This attachment is a review of a book called Sacred Herbal Healing Beers: the Secrets of Ancient Fermination by Steven Buhner which first appeared in the excellent "Herbalgram" magazine.

Sounds like a good Father's Day present?