Feeding Yeast
Proper yeast nutrition means your brew ferments faster and cleaner, leaving fewer off-flavors that have to age out. We’ll call that a good thing. Yeast is a pretty complex little [..]
Month: March 2012
Starting Yeast
I’m getting to brew a recipe from last year’s American Homebrewer Association’s national competiton – the Underwood’s “Blasphemy at GobblersRoost” (you’ll need an AHA login to view their Homebrewopedia); it’s a [..]
Sometimes students really get it
I used to teach Anatomy and Physiology – a twelve-month long, three hour a week course, half anatomy, half physiology. A&P has a deadly reputation for difficulty and tedium that it [..]
Why Pooh loves honey, but Tigger doesn’t
There’s recent science on how tastebuds work, testing different species. Bears. as we all knew, can taste sweetness, but felines can’t – which explains why my cats leave my honey [..]
Thoughts on Gravity and pH
Specific gravity, that magic number that allows us to easily figure how alcoholic our brews are, or are likely to be; how sweet they may be, and something about their [..]
Anti-cancer properties…in ancient beer?!
I wouldn’t make this up. Biomolecular archaeological evidence examining ancient Egyptian wine jars (circa 3150 BC) find that ancient brews may have had potent anti-cancer agents: “New biomolecular archaeological evidence [..]
Dr. M. Carr Payne on Georgia Tech
My Uncle Carr is a retired professor emeritus from the School of Psychology at Georgia Tech. He was one of the original four professors when the School of Psychology was [..]
Education Matters
I think education, particularly higher ed, is the key to the American middle class dream, such as it still exists. Over lunch one day, I asked some of my aunts [..]
Mystery Afoot: Edinburgh paper sculptures
I have been enchanted following the mystery of the glorious paper scupltures that magically appear around Edinburgh centers of books and stories. Have you seen one? First of all, no one knows [..]
The Works of Bruce Ryburn Payne, first President of Peabody College (great-grandfather)
Quite by accident, I stumbled on a list of my great-grandfather’s published works. Some are still in print! This is the man who founded Peabody College, a teachers’ college in [..]
Southern Prose and Poetry for Schools
The year is 1910. The southeastern U.S. is still recovering from the Civil war, which devastated the region though it ended years before. Edwin Mims and my great-grandfather Bruce Payne [..]
Prepping for the Country Music Marathon, 2007
Blogpost, early 2007 I ran ten miles today. I love my cushy U. Wisconsin at Milwaukee socks, but they’r hotsocks – they bunch and chafe a bit over time. ow [..]