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#61 Post by JMcG » Fri Aug 03, 2012 10:21 am

Cool. Thanks, Steve.
Wonder if it was stow-away wasps that carried the lager yeast to Europe from Patagonia?
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#62 Post by Steve Brown » Sat Aug 04, 2012 1:25 am

Fun to wonder - you sent me to readin', Jim! That article mentioned oak, others (1, 2, 3) mentioned beech. Both trees have galls, abnormal growths that are high in sugars. Maybe they had to repair water/beer/other barrels and used oak from contemporary Argentina. Then since I had no idea, I asked myself what beech might be used for. First paragraph under "Uses" - "Beech logs are burned to dry the malts used in some German smoked beers, giving the beers their typical flavor." Still don't know specifically how the beech might have been useful to the travelers, but sometimes wood is just wood. (And a cigar is just a cigar....)

Somehow, wasps and/or wood, perhaps other materials and critters, carried an "invasive" species to Bavaria!

1) http://news.discovery.com/history/lager ... 10823.html
2) http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 151019.htm
3) http://brewpublic.com/beer-science/lage ... argentina/
4) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beech
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#63 Post by Joe Yoder » Thu Aug 09, 2012 2:44 pm

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/0 ... anvolution
Lots of interesting comments concerning BPA content in cans.
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#64 Post by JMcG » Fri Aug 10, 2012 9:08 am

Joe Yoder wrote:http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/0 ... anvolution
Lots of interesting comments concerning BPA content in cans.
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#65 Post by Steve Brown » Mon Aug 13, 2012 11:27 am

Life begins at 100. 100 IBUs, that is!

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#66 Post by Matt » Mon Aug 13, 2012 4:26 pm

Advertising agencies have known this for decades. :)

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#67 Post by Melonmon » Tue Aug 14, 2012 9:26 am

Makes sense to me! Maybe a beer or two would help my editing. :P

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#68 Post by Steve Brown » Wed Aug 15, 2012 2:21 am

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#69 Post by Steve Brown » Thu Sep 27, 2012 7:32 am

“It’s a terrifying sight for unwitting passers-by, many of whom are families or tourists completely unprepared for the sight of pints flying and naked men breakdancing in smashed glass.”
http://www.slate.com/articles/life/drin ... ingle.html
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#70 Post by Steve Brown » Sat Dec 08, 2012 3:24 pm

Just one more reason to enjoy an IPA! (Of course, with some of this group's IPAs, it's more like 3 small glasses....)

http://now.msn.com/study-shows-beer-can ... tory-virus
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#71 Post by Joe Yoder » Fri Jan 04, 2013 2:55 pm

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/0 ... pruce-beer

Pretty bad idea! Any flavor that you get from a dried up Christmas tree is probably from the paint or preservatives that it was treated with. It has a good link to a place to get fresh/frozen spruce tips from Colorado, though, with recipes worth checking out.
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#72 Post by Phoenix » Fri Jan 11, 2013 10:05 am

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#74 Post by Joe Yoder » Thu Jan 24, 2013 11:24 am

http://www.pitch.com/fatcity/archives/2 ... nd-mankind

Our friend Micah got a good write up in the Pitch about his Mankind Brewing project. He has a kickstarter campaign going on right now. I think it is a very worthy cause!
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