Among beer snobs, I think Lindeman's is usually sort of considered to be bottom rung (with the exception of their Cuvee Rene, which is fairly highly regarded). That said, Lindeman's isn't bad... I certainly would never turn down a glass.
My personal favorite is Cantillion Classic Gueze which is an unfruited blended lambic. It's very sour though... I often compare to drinking a glass of sharp cheese. Cantillion's fruited lambics are all really good as well.
If you like sours, Flanders Red Ales are also quite good... I would recommend Rodenbach, New Belgium's La Folie (seasonal release under their Lips of Faith label), or Duchesse De Bourgogne if you can find any of them.
There's no need to remove fusel alcohols or methanol because they aren't there to begin with.
While it's true that there shouldn't be any methanol, yeast can and do sometimes form fusel alcohols during the process of fermentation. It's usually caused by underpitching the yeast or fermenting your beer too hot.
It's noticeable as a "hot" alcohol flavor in beers (and especially in young meads) and can give some people a wicked headache. On the plus side, fusels in beer will eventually break down into shorter chain alcohols, which is why high gravity beers and meads often need to be aged for awhile to mellow out.
Maniac Mansion, an original graphical horror adventure game
I can let most of those inaccuracies slide but, um, what? Maniac Mansion is a comedy game. By Lucasfilm Games (who really only did comedies back in that era). I can think of only two reasons you would say it was a horror game:
(1) You're getting it confused with Hugo's House of Horrors or
(2) you're the guy who write movie descriptions for Netflix.
Ah... I didn't say it was a counter-argument at all, merely a possibly flawed example.
If much of the violence in the Brothers Grimm is "artificial", if you will - added in by some early-19th century Germans* who didn't want children reading about sex - and not actually part of the original folktales, it doesn't entirely mesh with the whole argument that violent media is a natural part of human culture. I'm not saying that that isn't the case, in fact it obviously is, I'm saying that the violence in Grimm could possibly be seen as more of a reflection of 19th century German mores than any universal truth and that his other examples (mythology, etc) were a bit better. I'm also saying that, as someone with a lit degree, it's not that often that I can come up with anything interesting to say on slashdot.:)
Oh, and the sisters chopping off their toes bit is brilliant, I have no idea why anyone would ever cut that out, authentic or not.
* The whole "children love violence" thing was seemingly big in 19th century Germany (for more fun, check out Der Struwwelpeter some time).
Go check out an original version of Grimm's Fairy Tales. I can guarantee you it won't be the Disneyfied stuff you're force feeding your kid. [...] Other cultures understood that violence was a part of being human.
Not necessarily the best of your examples... from what I remember out of my Folklore class, the Brothers Grimm actually added in a lot of that violence to replace all the sex they took out. Violence was deemed much more acceptable for children. Earlier versions of Kinder- und Hausmärchen are much racier.
Looks like you're not aware the "reporter", H.L. Mencken, was also a well-known satirist. From what little I know of the man, his ambiguous phrasing was most likely intentional.
If you continue reading the article, a little way down page 2 it says:
In 1945, Fuller attempted to mass-produce the Dymaxion House, entering into a joint effort with Beech Aircraft, which was based in Wichita. Two examples of the house were built before that project, too, collapsed. (The only surviving prototype, known as the Wichita House, looks like a cross between an onion dome and a flying saucer; it is now on display at the Henry Ford Museum, in Dearborn, Michigan.)
Eh? Where are you shopping? I bought 12.5 lbs of domestic 2-row (Briess I think it was...) last night for about $10 ($0.85/lb). In fact, I hear about people getting 50lb sacks of Rahr for under $30 fairly often (usually from brewpubs).
Ok ok, I did spend an additional $0.80 on a half pound of Crystal 10 (making a Blonde for summertime) so my grain actually cost me a little more than $11 total. But unless you're doing something with a ton of specialty grains, or something big, $10 is pretty standard for a batch and you can knock it way down if you buy in bulk and have your own mill (sigh, someday...).
That's interesting to know, thanks. I looked it up to see if I knew what I was talking about and I think the idea of possible tannin extraction with parti-gyle is that in the old days at least, they used to do a saccharification rest for each of the runnings. So with all that sitting in hot water, by the time you got down to the small beer it could get pretty tannic.
It's certainly not a problem with homebrew batch sparging (I batch sparge myself) but I could potentially see it happening with the large volumes involved at a major brewery, even without the extra saccharification rests. But then again, whether you like their beer or not, those guys know their stuff way better than I do.
Are you sure that light beers are a made from secondary runnings? That doesn't sound right.
Doing secondary and tertiary mashes on the same grain (sometimes called parti-gyle brewing) instead of sparging was popular in the past (as in, hundreds of years ago) but I was under the impression that almost no major breweries did it nowadays because you're more likely to extract tannins from the hulls that way.
If you've got any type of source concerning major breweries doing parti-gyle brewing for their lighter beers I'd love to see it. I've been minorly obsessed with the concept since it means two batches for only slightly more work/grain than one.
It's interesting that you brought up the OS-Tan article since it strikes me as a perfect, iconic even, example of the kind of article we're talking about. (In fact, it was the first thing that came to mind when I read the summary).
Sure, the information itself is almost entirely trivial, but the article is (or was last time I saw it) an incredibly well-written and comprehensive treatment of the subject at hand. And it's exactly the kind of thing that Wikipedia is useful for looking up. You see a reference to the OS-Tans, type it in to Wikipedia, and bam, there's everything you might want to know about them. You're now up to speed. Wikipedia has proven useful to you. It's exactly the kind of article there should be more of and yet the it's constantly tagged for deletion just because it's about a semi-obscure internet meme.
Where else are kids supposed to find out about semi-obscure internet memes? On the street? Google should only be the answer if Wikipedia has failed you.
I know quite a few people already responded to your beer methodology, but the beer nerd in me can't help but put in a few words along with them.
First of all, you're absolutely right that his beer is probably gonna taste like crap (or "sparkling pond water" as John Palmer puts it). That said, there's nothing wrong with using extract, or "beersyrup" as you call it (though admittedly the pre-hopped stuff is worthy of derision). A lot of award-winning beers have been made from extracts with steeping grains. Most people start out doing a few extract beers, then move on to all-grain. Some people never move on to all-grain because they're happy with the beer they get from extract and don't want to go through the extra work that all-grain takes. On the other hand, all-grain is cheaper and gives you a lot more variables to tweak to control how your beer will turn out. It really just amounts to how cheap you are and how much time you want to spend.
As far as your methodology... either you're not articulating it well, or you don't really have the method down (at least not the method most people tend to use). Straining for clarity? What? Are you actually boiling the wort or not? I'm not going to lay out the precise steps that need to be followed as some people seem to be trying to do, but I will add on another recommendation for John Palmer's How to Brew, as well as Denny Conn's batch sparging instructions, Basic Brewing Radio, and The Jamil Show. There are alsovariousforums that can be incredibly helpful as well.
Back on topic... the Bender statue is pretty much awesome, even if all it looks like all it really does beer-wise is hold a 5 gallon plastic bucket. Now, a temperature controlled stainless steel conical fermenter Bender, that would really be something...
Eventually, morning and evening will be on different days
You know, in the Anglo-Saxon world morning and evening actually were considered different days. The Anglo-Saxon day began at sundown, which is where we got the word "tonight" - it was originally a shortened version of "tomorrow night".
Anyway, it's probably entirely off topic, but I've always thought that was an interesting bit of trivia.
Wow, neat. I drove by that probably shortly before that picture was taken. It was on Saturday out at Santee Lakes (northeast of San Diego) and we were on our way to our beer club's Oktoberfest picnic. My friend and I had no idea why there would be an X-Wing there (though we thought it was cool/amusing), and now I find out on Slashdot of all places. I'm sure nobody else cares, but there's just something really cool about that.
(As a side note, I can't actually vouch for whether it was still there on the way back out of the park... our beer club throws one mean Oktoberfest picnic...)
You shouldn't be so hard on the poor editors... that's a common Lovecraftian slip. You're just typing like normal then all of a sudden Iä! Shub-Niggurath! The Goat with a Thousand Young! Ftaghn!
Just as a side note/nitpick, Photoshop isn't meant for print design. Photoshop is meant for photo editing, Illustrator and Indesign are for print, and Imageready is for web graphics. That's not necessarily how they're all used in real life, but that's what they're each mainly intended for (and in my experience, many print shops won't take.psd files).
Ask yourself why there are so many relatively high quality games for the X-Box platform (original and 360) and why there are relatively fewer games for the PS3
Um, the Xbox came out in November of 2001. The 360 came out in November of 2005. The PS3 has been out for 4 months. From what I've heard you're right about development being easier on the Xbox and the 360, but I should think that the one and five year leads have more to do with the number of games than the SDKs.
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Among beer snobs, I think Lindeman's is usually sort of considered to be bottom rung (with the exception of their Cuvee Rene, which is fairly highly regarded). That said, Lindeman's isn't bad... I certainly would never turn down a glass.
My personal favorite is Cantillion Classic Gueze which is an unfruited blended lambic. It's very sour though... I often compare to drinking a glass of sharp cheese. Cantillion's fruited lambics are all really good as well.
If you like sours, Flanders Red Ales are also quite good... I would recommend Rodenbach, New Belgium's La Folie (seasonal release under their Lips of Faith label), or Duchesse De Bourgogne if you can find any of them.
Agreed.
<pedant>(By the way, that doesn't actually count as alliteration. It has to be a repeating consonant sound.)</pedant>
While it's true that there shouldn't be any methanol, yeast can and do sometimes form fusel alcohols during the process of fermentation. It's usually caused by underpitching the yeast or fermenting your beer too hot.
It's noticeable as a "hot" alcohol flavor in beers (and especially in young meads) and can give some people a wicked headache. On the plus side, fusels in beer will eventually break down into shorter chain alcohols, which is why high gravity beers and meads often need to be aged for awhile to mellow out.
(Took the BJCP course, but never took the test).
I can let most of those inaccuracies slide but, um, what? Maniac Mansion is a comedy game. By Lucasfilm Games (who really only did comedies back in that era). I can think of only two reasons you would say it was a horror game:
(1) You're getting it confused with Hugo's House of Horrors or
(2) you're the guy who write movie descriptions for Netflix.
Ah... I didn't say it was a counter-argument at all, merely a possibly flawed example.
:)
If much of the violence in the Brothers Grimm is "artificial", if you will - added in by some early-19th century Germans* who didn't want children reading about sex - and not actually part of the original folktales, it doesn't entirely mesh with the whole argument that violent media is a natural part of human culture. I'm not saying that that isn't the case, in fact it obviously is, I'm saying that the violence in Grimm could possibly be seen as more of a reflection of 19th century German mores than any universal truth and that his other examples (mythology, etc) were a bit better. I'm also saying that, as someone with a lit degree, it's not that often that I can come up with anything interesting to say on slashdot.
Oh, and the sisters chopping off their toes bit is brilliant, I have no idea why anyone would ever cut that out, authentic or not.
* The whole "children love violence" thing was seemingly big in 19th century Germany (for more fun, check out Der Struwwelpeter some time).
Not necessarily the best of your examples... from what I remember out of my Folklore class, the Brothers Grimm actually added in a lot of that violence to replace all the sex they took out. Violence was deemed much more acceptable for children. Earlier versions of Kinder- und Hausmärchen are much racier.
Not as much depth as my Folklore prof. went into, but there's at least brief mention of it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grimm's_Fairy_Tales
Water or ice in 59 year old whisky? :)
People like you should be locked up for the good of society.
Looks like you're not aware the "reporter", H.L. Mencken, was also a well-known satirist. From what little I know of the man, his ambiguous phrasing was most likely intentional.
Eh? Where are you shopping? I bought 12.5 lbs of domestic 2-row (Briess I think it was...) last night for about $10 ($0.85/lb). In fact, I hear about people getting 50lb sacks of Rahr for under $30 fairly often (usually from brewpubs).
Ok ok, I did spend an additional $0.80 on a half pound of Crystal 10 (making a Blonde for summertime) so my grain actually cost me a little more than $11 total. But unless you're doing something with a ton of specialty grains, or something big, $10 is pretty standard for a batch and you can knock it way down if you buy in bulk and have your own mill (sigh, someday...).
That's interesting to know, thanks. I looked it up to see if I knew what I was talking about and I think the idea of possible tannin extraction with parti-gyle is that in the old days at least, they used to do a saccharification rest for each of the runnings. So with all that sitting in hot water, by the time you got down to the small beer it could get pretty tannic.
It's certainly not a problem with homebrew batch sparging (I batch sparge myself) but I could potentially see it happening with the large volumes involved at a major brewery, even without the extra saccharification rests. But then again, whether you like their beer or not, those guys know their stuff way better than I do.
Are you sure that light beers are a made from secondary runnings? That doesn't sound right.
Doing secondary and tertiary mashes on the same grain (sometimes called parti-gyle brewing) instead of sparging was popular in the past (as in, hundreds of years ago) but I was under the impression that almost no major breweries did it nowadays because you're more likely to extract tannins from the hulls that way.
If you've got any type of source concerning major breweries doing parti-gyle brewing for their lighter beers I'd love to see it. I've been minorly obsessed with the concept since it means two batches for only slightly more work/grain than one.
It's interesting that you brought up the OS-Tan article since it strikes me as a perfect, iconic even, example of the kind of article we're talking about. (In fact, it was the first thing that came to mind when I read the summary).
Sure, the information itself is almost entirely trivial, but the article is (or was last time I saw it) an incredibly well-written and comprehensive treatment of the subject at hand. And it's exactly the kind of thing that Wikipedia is useful for looking up. You see a reference to the OS-Tans, type it in to Wikipedia, and bam, there's everything you might want to know about them. You're now up to speed. Wikipedia has proven useful to you. It's exactly the kind of article there should be more of and yet the it's constantly tagged for deletion just because it's about a semi-obscure internet meme.
Where else are kids supposed to find out about semi-obscure internet memes? On the street? Google should only be the answer if Wikipedia has failed you.
Not to be pedantic, but that joke should properly be attributed to Emo Phillips.
I know quite a few people already responded to your beer methodology, but the beer nerd in me can't help but put in a few words along with them.
First of all, you're absolutely right that his beer is probably gonna taste like crap (or "sparkling pond water" as John Palmer puts it). That said, there's nothing wrong with using extract, or "beersyrup" as you call it (though admittedly the pre-hopped stuff is worthy of derision). A lot of award-winning beers have been made from extracts with steeping grains. Most people start out doing a few extract beers, then move on to all-grain. Some people never move on to all-grain because they're happy with the beer they get from extract and don't want to go through the extra work that all-grain takes. On the other hand, all-grain is cheaper and gives you a lot more variables to tweak to control how your beer will turn out. It really just amounts to how cheap you are and how much time you want to spend.
As far as your methodology... either you're not articulating it well, or you don't really have the method down (at least not the method most people tend to use). Straining for clarity? What? Are you actually boiling the wort or not? I'm not going to lay out the precise steps that need to be followed as some people seem to be trying to do, but I will add on another recommendation for John Palmer's How to Brew, as well as Denny Conn's batch sparging instructions, Basic Brewing Radio, and The Jamil Show. There are also various forums that can be incredibly helpful as well.
Back on topic... the Bender statue is pretty much awesome, even if all it looks like all it really does beer-wise is hold a 5 gallon plastic bucket. Now, a temperature controlled stainless steel conical fermenter Bender, that would really be something...
Anyway, it's probably entirely off topic, but I've always thought that was an interesting bit of trivia.
Don't forget Negroponte - "with the power of Heart!"
Wow, neat. I drove by that probably shortly before that picture was taken. It was on Saturday out at Santee Lakes (northeast of San Diego) and we were on our way to our beer club's Oktoberfest picnic. My friend and I had no idea why there would be an X-Wing there (though we thought it was cool/amusing), and now I find out on Slashdot of all places. I'm sure nobody else cares, but there's just something really cool about that.
(As a side note, I can't actually vouch for whether it was still there on the way back out of the park... our beer club throws one mean Oktoberfest picnic...)
You shouldn't be so hard on the poor editors... that's a common Lovecraftian slip. You're just typing like normal then all of a sudden Iä! Shub-Niggurath! The Goat with a Thousand Young! Ftaghn!
Normal typo, happens all the time.
That's odd, I seem to recall downloading and installing a GUI Windows version about a week or so ago...
Yep, according to the website, I did.
Just as a side note/nitpick, Photoshop isn't meant for print design. Photoshop is meant for photo editing, Illustrator and Indesign are for print, and Imageready is for web graphics. That's not necessarily how they're all used in real life, but that's what they're each mainly intended for (and in my experience, many print shops won't take .psd files).
As long as they have that GNU/Car smell...
You might remember the Carboniferous era as a "swampy time of giant dragonflies and tree ferns"...
That depends on if the school wants something to be undone. Of course, if they want too much undone then it may be an undue undo burden.
Ask yourself why there are so many relatively high quality games for the X-Box platform (original and 360) and why there are relatively fewer games for the PS3
Um, the Xbox came out in November of 2001. The 360 came out in November of 2005. The PS3 has been out for 4 months. From what I've heard you're right about development being easier on the Xbox and the 360, but I should think that the one and five year leads have more to do with the number of games than the SDKs.