Glory Be To Beer
Boiled flowers, fungi sex, dirty whirlpools and ant colony algorithms.
By Keith B. Hoffman
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re you aware that one of your favourite already tackled some of our other ingenious grain. The yeasts had a fine time of exhausting
things to drink is a waste product from a delivery systems to enjoy ethanol—scotch, wine, themselves in reproductive bliss. The lucky farmer
sexual orgy of fungi? I thought not. Yes, rum, grappa, etc. Today, we investigate one of enjoyed the resultant, low-alcohol and barely
ethanol, sweet ethanol, is to yeast as you are to the most worldly and ancient of all alcoholic flavoured beverage on the next sunny day. He
your morning constitutional, with, obviously, far drinks—beer. suddenly found his wife more attractive and
more pleasing results. We humans cannot seem Eight-thousand years ago, a farmer left some even hilarious. Beer was born.
to function without yeast’s precious excrement, barley outside in a shallow container. It rained That liquid bread changed human society
and we consume it in myriad forms, from pure that night. The next morning the farmer thought forever. Some historians claim it was the most
(vodka), to dilutions in carriers such as the side his harvest was ruined as it was steeped in important driving force behind ending our
ingredients which make a Sex on the Beach, rainwater. Over the next days of neglect the barley natural nomadic tendencies. In other words,
Vesper Martini, Fuzzy Navel, and the imposing germinated and wild yeasts in the air wafted onto some believe that we need to thank beer for
Kookie from Black Dog. Your GOMmelier has the sugary liquid leeching from the sprouted civilization itself.
È Where it all happens. In such unremarkable surrounds a process takes place to create mankind’s favourite tipple: beer. Where would we be without it?
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the basics of
beer brewing
È Homebrew ready for eager consumption. È Tourists visit the Heineken brewery, Amsterdam.
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