Low and no alcohol beer microbiological activity and risk vs low temperature pasteurisation. (Open access article) From JASBC. #bluesky.beer

"A helles the color of a late-summer hay field is no doubt a tasty-looking beer. But there’s a reason the golden lager of Czechia and Vienna transfixed drinkers across the planet when they were released in the 1840s. Gold is gorgeous."

Cheers, Big Ears

The kids in America are caskin’! Loved writing about the blossoming US cask beer scene for @insidehook.bsky.social - so much great British-style beer to enjoy stateside now 👌🏽🍻🌟 And big thanks to all who participated 😊 www.insidehook.com/beer/young-a...

What is Carbonic Maceration? www.wineenthusiast.com/basics/carbo...

Inserts floss, retracts floss... something white flies across the room. Oh yeah, that's a filling gone.

Nice profile of Naotaka Miyasaka of Masumi Sake.

Well, I might have killed that reciprocating saw after a mere 4 months, but they replaced it with a new one. Here's to finishing off that shed demolition without losing a finger :P

A few years back, I used to hear Americans argue that there was a stylistic difference between beers called “tmavý and černý in Czechia. There is a big difference among these beers, but if you try to use the names to sort them, you’ll only get confused. The names don’t point to style.

Note to tourists... kangaroos are cunts, especially the males, so stay in your car.

Showblock Rosie's Blend McLaren Vale Cabernet Shiraz 2019

Once again listing excess brewing kettles... 95 litre with new tap, etc... 36 litre with incomplete tap. Nobody wants this stuff, especially 1/2 inch fittings that aren't tri-clamp. But I'll miss the option of that large kettle... she's done some mighty big beers in her over the years :P

It's nearly time to start thinking about those two carboys of mixed fermentation sour porter in the basement. Who would possibly think they want to drink around 50 long necks of it, though? That is a LOT of mixed fermentation for one drinker.

Today is #WorldPulsesDay and kidney beans feature in this edition of #PeriodicGraphics in @cenmag.bsky.social on toxins in common fruits and vegetables - did you know that uncooked kidney beans contain a toxin that can cause nausea and diarrhoea? cen.acs.org/biological-c... #WorldPulsesDay#PeriodicGraphics#ChemSky 🧪

It's release day for Final Gravity Issue 11! Final Gravity is a quarterly print beer zine telling personal, human-centered stories about beer. (short 🧵) www.beantobarstool.com/shop/p/final...

A cold stout from the kegerator for finishing the lawns and whipper snippering and then a nice cool shower downstairs. There's more to life than suffering at the hands of the Gods of Summer.

Old man yells at clouds... get geriatrics out of politics

You hear a lot about the role of government and what they should or should not be doing in their role. I'd suggest that beating up citizens in the streets is not a role of a democratic government. It's perfectly OK to say you do not support a genocide.

I should have a new post up this week but here's a reboost of the last one and how the Bass pale ale label wasn't the UK's 'first registered trade mark' ...

Come to the Nobel Prize Museum in Stockholm this Friday if you want to hear a story that starts in Patagonia and ends in a beer bottle!

John Hatch describes more of Young's brewing processes, including mashing and sparging. He also talks about life after Youngs closure and the scrap brewery he built to continue brewing on the site. youtu.be/F5K5dCbEqHQ

"Luckily the police seemed more than excited to step in and get as violent as needed to make sure he doesn't feel homesick" - Premier Minns chaser.com.au/national/nsw...

Ernest Hemingway kicks a can of beer down the road in Ketchum - Idaho in 1959

Nice review here, open access, looking at the impact of lipids on beer quality 🍻

Paulie Walnuts... the loveable rogue

Historic Beer Birthday: Susannah Oland tinyurl.com/364wztp6

I just need all this AI shit to fuck thee right off. This is getting tedious, and I fear the very near future where it looks real, tastes real... but still smells like utter gobshite rubbish. What the fuck is wrong with these people?

Chateau Yaldara Premier Cuvèe Shiraz 2020

Beer. Solar saves beer. apnews.com/article/clim...

”One ancient runic inscription spells out 'tasty beer'”

#FrogFriday: Musterschutz figural beer stein in the form of a #frog 🐸🍺 Germany, late 19th c. Porcelain w/ pewter handle & mount, 6.5" H x 6.5" W x 6" D www.liveauctioneers.com/item/2126096...

But if it doesn't taste of the bear poop why put the fucking poop in there? Why?

Hey, I've met this gatekeeper before

Daimon Drink: Ancient Greek and Roman Explanations of Drunkenness www.academia.edu/4170928/Daim...

Lecture and tasting at Dublin Castle - Brewing the Past: Recreating Sixteenth-Century Beer with Marc Meltonville and Dr Susan Flavin Saturday, 14 February | 7.00pm Booking on Eventbrite.ie via 🔗 https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/1980813550652 Department of History, Trinity College Dublin

My ex was a fine art printmaker... I often went for the wine and the second wine and then someone would start looking at me like I was robbing starving artists by drinking more and more wine. But fuck them... the art wasn't that great I could do it sober.

My cartoon in The Oldie