13 Facts Every Self-Respecting Beer Drinker Should Know
2. The four main ingredients of beer are grain, hops, yeast, and water
Just like baking bread, the ingredients that go into beer play huge parts in their own rights. Grains (usually malted barely, but sometimes a blend of rye, oats, or other grains) give beer the sugar needed for fermentation. Water (which, at 95% of the product, is often the unsung hero) has to be treated to make sure nothing affects flavor or fermentation, and allows for all of the chemical reactions to take place. Hops act as a preservative and provide the bitterness to counterbalance the sweetness of beer and give it beautiful aromas. Yeast is the actual worker behind it all, converting sugar into alcohol and actually creating beer.
The process is so tried and true it’s even been legislated: in Germany, purity laws called Reinheitsgebot have ensured the ingredients have stayed the same since the 1500s (although actually sticking to it these days is sort of considered to be optional).
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Thursday, September 10, 2015
My Car Scored 71 Points
Does Your Car Have Character?
The 21st Century Edition Here's to your car, and its character, and the stories to come.
Take the quiz here (Road&Track.com)
The 21st Century Edition Here's to your car, and its character, and the stories to come.
Take the quiz here (Road&Track.com)
There Are Some Good Points Made About TV Car Shows
Here's Why Car TV Shows Suck If You Love Cars
But here’s why shows like this exist - they appeal to the people who think of custom cars only as a rich person’s plaything, living vicariously through the big-money decisions of those that they don’t care to emulate, but wouldn’t mind living like, if only the universe smiled on them at the right time.
Those same people also would experience a guilty thrill in seeing the shop both metaphorically and literally crash and burn for missing a deadline or producing a sub-par automobile, so they stick around until the end because that’s when the big suspenseful reveal happens. While these sorts of cookie cutter shows do have entertainment value for people who don’t have 10w30 running through their veins, it comes at the cost of the coverage of the often very interesting vehicles that these shops do build from time to time.
According to NBCSN, nearly one million people tuned in to Mobsteel’s first episode, which is quite the validation that this model does indeed work even if it falls short of the Survivor standard by a fair margin.
Why, then, do I feel like there’s no room for me at the table as a car enthusiast and how can we solve this problem for good?
Top Gear works (worked?) because of the chemistry between the presenters, but it held the support of car enthusiasts like me because it maintained an emphasis on the love of the automobile. The cars chosen in each episode told a necessary story and were just as revered as their punch-happy drivers, which is what shows like Mobsteel and Fast N Loud are sorely missing.
I’ll be willing to wager that other die-hard car nuts would echo my sentiment. The shows - the truly good car shows that are few and far between - are about the interactions we as enthusiasts have with cars, and not the fact that they only serve as placeholders for the next Miller Lite spot.
There’s an underlying reason why shows like Wheeler Dealers have a modicum of success but a high repeat viewership rate, despite Edd China having the on-screen persona of that 3rd grade English teacher you sort of liked. It’s the reason why Jay Leno’s Garage pulls in a massive audience despite most, if not all of the videos being made on a shoestring budget relative to their network counterparts.
These shows focus solely on the passion of the automobile, with the rest of the fluff and filler being treated as such. There are no deadlines, no manufactured controversy, and most importantly, no needless in-fighting between the owner and the shop manager, even though I’d probably pay to see a slap fight between Jay and Bernard.
(Jalopnik.com)
But here’s why shows like this exist - they appeal to the people who think of custom cars only as a rich person’s plaything, living vicariously through the big-money decisions of those that they don’t care to emulate, but wouldn’t mind living like, if only the universe smiled on them at the right time.
Those same people also would experience a guilty thrill in seeing the shop both metaphorically and literally crash and burn for missing a deadline or producing a sub-par automobile, so they stick around until the end because that’s when the big suspenseful reveal happens. While these sorts of cookie cutter shows do have entertainment value for people who don’t have 10w30 running through their veins, it comes at the cost of the coverage of the often very interesting vehicles that these shops do build from time to time.
According to NBCSN, nearly one million people tuned in to Mobsteel’s first episode, which is quite the validation that this model does indeed work even if it falls short of the Survivor standard by a fair margin.
Why, then, do I feel like there’s no room for me at the table as a car enthusiast and how can we solve this problem for good?
Top Gear works (worked?) because of the chemistry between the presenters, but it held the support of car enthusiasts like me because it maintained an emphasis on the love of the automobile. The cars chosen in each episode told a necessary story and were just as revered as their punch-happy drivers, which is what shows like Mobsteel and Fast N Loud are sorely missing.
I’ll be willing to wager that other die-hard car nuts would echo my sentiment. The shows - the truly good car shows that are few and far between - are about the interactions we as enthusiasts have with cars, and not the fact that they only serve as placeholders for the next Miller Lite spot.
There’s an underlying reason why shows like Wheeler Dealers have a modicum of success but a high repeat viewership rate, despite Edd China having the on-screen persona of that 3rd grade English teacher you sort of liked. It’s the reason why Jay Leno’s Garage pulls in a massive audience despite most, if not all of the videos being made on a shoestring budget relative to their network counterparts.
These shows focus solely on the passion of the automobile, with the rest of the fluff and filler being treated as such. There are no deadlines, no manufactured controversy, and most importantly, no needless in-fighting between the owner and the shop manager, even though I’d probably pay to see a slap fight between Jay and Bernard.
(Jalopnik.com)
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