
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 [..]
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 [..]
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 [..]
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 [..]
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 [..]
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 [..]
Biomolecular archaeological evidence examining ancient Egyptian wine jars (circa 3150 BC) found that ancient beer may have had potent anti-cancer agents: “New biomolecular archaeological evidence backed up by increasingly sophisticated [..]
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 [..]
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 [..]
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 [..]
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 [..]
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 [..]
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 [..]