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Free Beer That's Free as in Speech
darkonc writes "The CBC has notes and an interview with Dane Rasmus Nielsen who decided to reduce the confusion between 'free as in speech' and 'free as in beer' by making a beer free -- in speech. The result is Vores Oel, an open source beer. The CBC site includes the recipe for the beer which is made with Guarana beans, and gives it a bit of a caffeine-like hit. The danish site downloads include the label for the beer (which is also Open Source)."
But will he send it to me free like a Ubuntu CD?
Marky Mark Killed Jason Bourne!
It's already version 1.0.
If this were in the true open-source spirit it'd be 0.99_rc3_beta1.1 at most.
I guess today is a passable day to die.
Trusting the Danish for your free beer is quite another.
*ducks*
There is truth in humor.
Recipe for approx. 5*17 ltr. Vores Øl (Our Beer) (approx. 3/(2*5*5) alchohol by volume).
Malt extract
For Vores Øl we use four types malted barley:
2*3 kg pilsner malt
2*2 kg münsner malt
1 kg caramel malt
1 kg lager malt
The malt is crushed and put in 5*11-2*2*3*5C hot water for 1-2 hours.
The mixture is filtered and the liquid now contains about 2*5 kg malt extract.
Taste and sugar
Besides malt we use:
2*2*3*5 g Tetnang bitter hops
2*5*5 g Hallertaver aroma hops
2*2*3*5*5 g Guarana beans
2*2 kg sugar
(Guarana beans can typically be bought at health food stores).
The malt extact is brought to a boil in a large pot with the hops and approx. 2*5*7 ltr. of water.
After half an hour, the Guarana beans and sugar is added.
The mixture simmers for about an hour, and is then filtered and cooled in a sealed container.
Fermentation
Yeast is added and the beer is fermented at room temperature for approx. 2 weeks.
When the beer is fully fermentet it is transferred to bottles. First 2*2 g sugar is added per liter and some yeast from the bottom of the fermentation tanks for priming.
Vores Øl is then left in the bottles at room temperature for 2*2*2-2*5 days for carbonation. Then the beer is ready to enjoy; cold and refreshing.
As everyone knows free beer will make you drink more and get drunk. When you get drunk you will speak more freely. So it will be free speach by free beer. How does this help anyone?
;D
Except that it helps us get drunk, and that's not a bad thing, is it?
If pro and con are opposites, what is the opposite of progress?
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, however, there is.
> umm... guarana HAS caffeine. in fact it is one of the richest
> natural sources of our beloved caffeine!
The important thing is that guarana is better for you as it is a natural source of caffeine. so that's something to remember
Where's the .torrent?
Until I'm drinking it, there is no buzz.
Did you know that it is legal to beat the crap of anyone who tries to explain something to you with free as in beer/free as in speech?
Hopefully someday the ass kicking won't just be legal, but compulsory.
As a Heineken representative, I'd just like to remind you all that THERE ARE NO ADVANTAGES to open source beer.
See our website for zillions of usless statistics and reports (compiled by and independent organisation (funded by us)), that disprove the so called benefits of open source beer.
As well as conveniently digging up all those old patents we also plan to file numourous lawsuits against the open source beer community - if you are a user of open source beer, watch out - you may be prosecuted.
"Who says nothing is impossible? Some people do it every day!" - Alfred E. Neuman
can a person under the legal drinking age purchase these ingrediants without anyone asking for ID?
I know that malt can be used for other things (although I doubt lager malt has other uses), and hops have properties that stop bacterial reaction (although I have never heard of their use for anything else). Yeast, of course, is used for bread. So for thoes with experience in home bewing, what's the verdict?
Vol~
Its free as in Free beer, but not as in free beer.
Shame. *hic*.
Don't forget - all drivers are incompatible with this open source release, DO NOT DRINK AND DRIVE
#hostfile 0.0.0.0 primidi.com 0.0.0.0 www.primidi.com 0.0.0.0 radio.weblogs.com
Now I just need debian support to fulfill my dreams:
apt-get pour beer
or
apt-get drink --to-death beer
Long live to open source!
This beer has a viral license.
After you drink it you are running embedded beer and you will have to open all your internals for free
(small fee for sending your intestines is acceptable)
Sounds like it's already the Linux of beers, then.
Hard to set up, isn't that good, and you can add something to something more mainstream to make it do the same thing!
(just kidding!)
I certainly hope so, since after you drink it you'll have a hard time not producing derivative works...
Everything in moderation, including moderation itself
But what good is an open source recipe when it is written in Shakespear-ish measurements like "lbs", "gallons", "sachet", "F" and "pint"? This kind of anglosaxican prejudice is exactly the problem with open source!
Roses are #FF0000, violets are #0000FF, all my base are belong to you
Great, now all the toilets will be plugged up with copies of the GPL... which has to be distributed with said derrivitive works.
MadCow.
I used to have a sig, but I set it free and it never came back.
But what good is an open source recipe when it is written in Shakespear-ish measurements like "lbs", "gallons", "sachet", "F" and "pint"?
Says the guy with RGB colors in his sig. In my country, we only use HSV, you insensitive clod!
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Beta testing must be really fun. :-)
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if you change it you have to publish your modyfied version as well
Most of the modifications I make to beer involve kidneys, liver and bladder. There have been a few occasions where I have made their products freely available, but most people seemed more annoyed than grateful.
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For those unfamiliar with Mead, it is a honey-wine that dates back something like 6,000 years to either Greece or Cyprus.
Judging from your user ID you were one of the inventors, right? :-p
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No, that usually happens by about Beer 9.0.
Bitter and proud of it.
Rich.
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I propose the name "Open Sauce" for this beer.
It already is...in Boston.
The laws of probability forbid it!
BEER 1.0
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(ok, I know, that's not a bug, that's a feature. workaround: non-alcoholic hack)
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