Posts Tagged: Beer and Science
A Perfect Day Makes Me Wonder About Perfect Beer
Posted by on Sunday, July 4, 2010 in - 1 comment
Had a glorious fourth across the border. Bought sauces you can't find over here. Saw an 1812 cannon firing demonstration. Ate a pizza at the best place in the world to have a good pizza at a good price while watching international container ship traffic. And I got a US haircut along with my son …
Beer Also Makes You Taste Better
Posted by on Sunday, May 2, 2010 in - 2 comments
Not only does it make you funnier, more attractive and a better dancer but it also tastier to insects in the family Culicidae: • The tents used a complex system of tubing to direct the volunteers' body odour into boxes in such a way that the mosquitoes could choose which scent to go after. Half …
Healthy Hop Bombs For Big Bone Wannabees?
Posted by on Monday, February 8, 2010 in - 2 comments
I suppose everything will be... then won't be... good for you - and then they will be good for you later. So, I was not too excited by the news that beer seems to be an excellent source of dietary silicon by contributing to bone mineral density... until I noticed this tid bit: • "We have … read more »
CAMWA: Beer's Most Important Ingredient Tracked
Posted by on Tuesday, August 18, 2009 in - 7 comments
Finally, the suits are noticing that beer is made of water and water is, well, important as they join the tree huggers to make water the next big thing in eco-trendy marketing: • Water footprinting is being increasingly used to understand the total amount of water that supports our lifestyles …
Mmmmm... I Love Material In My Beer
Posted by on Tuesday, August 4, 2009 in - 5 comments
It's not so much a material I get to taste as a material that removes other material to make a material difference to beer. Makes sense? Me neither - here's the story: • A material that could lead to beer with significantly longer shelf life has been designed by researchers. The approach works … read more »
That Persnickty Barley Carbon Absorption Rate Thing
Posted by on Monday, May 25, 2009 in - 7 comments
I spent the whole day thinking about this barley and carbon thing. Mainly because I am bad at science but it didn't distract me from the challenge. It just seems weird to me that someone can say that "the growing and processing of hops and malt into beer and whisky producing 1.5 per cent of …
I Knew I Couldn't Bear The Future For Some Reason
Posted by on Sunday, May 24, 2009 in - 1 comment
I caught most of the movie Brazil the other day. While I am hardly anywhere near the libertarian fringes politically once in a while I do find my betters somewhat lacking, their words foreshadowing a world like that in the movie, a world with committees of well suited people creating rules and …
A Brainiac At Guinness Helped Create Quality Control
Posted by on Monday, March 16, 2009 in - leave a comment
This article in the well-named "KalamaBrew" column of the Kalamazoo Gazette indicates that on this St. Patrick's Day eve we may want to pause to remember William Sealy Gosset, a chemist at Guinness who began his career a little more than a century ago. He created a couple of statistical theories …
Scientific Discovery Leave Us Asking Same Questions
Posted by on Saturday, December 27, 2008 in - 3 comments
I recall a George Carlin news item joke that I may have posted somewhere here somewhere before: "scientists have discovered that saliva causes cancer but, fortunately, only when taken over a long period of time in small amounts." That is the sort of reaction I had when I read today's beer and …
Yuck! That Yeast Is Flocculating Itself Again!!!
Posted by on Thursday, November 20, 2008 in - 2 comments
When I was a home brewer - as opposed to a person who has home brewing supplies and equipment in the house but never does anything with it all - I used to be concerned about flocculation. Flocculation is the word that describes the capacity of a yeast (or other stuff for all I know) to clump. It … read more »
