Quotes About Brewing

I've been brewing my own beer with this ex-army bloke.

Figure 9.2 Common Hop Varieties and Their Typical Alpha Acid Levels

Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer.

typically a cup of brewed coffee is 1.3–1.5 per cent dissolved coffee and the rest is water. With espresso, the ratio may be closer to 8–12 per cent dissolved coffee.

There is a very simple principle to the making of tea, and it's this—to get the proper flavour of tea, the water has to be boilING (not boilED) when it hits the tea leaves. If it's merely hot, then the tea will be insipid.

Worse, because brewing could only take place in utterly corrupt locales such as Chicago,

Civilization as well as civility thrive where there is a pot of beer.

Almost all keg beer sold in the United States is unpasteurized, which is the reason it should always be kept below 38°F (3°C).

Although it too was imported, coffee did not carry the same social or political stigma as tea. Americans started brewing beans instead of leaves during the Revolution and never looked back.

Mead Dissolve four pounds of honey in a gallon of water, and add an ounce of hops, half an ounce of root ginger, and the pared rind of two lemons. Boil this for threequarters of an hour, pour it into a cask to the brim, and when it is still lukewarm add an ounce of yeast. Leave the mead to ferment, and when this has ended, put in a quarter of an ounce of isinglass and bung the cask tightly. In six months it should be bottled.

I've been told I make a very good brew.

Relax, don't worry, have a home brew.

I'm a big coffee drinker, and I like the ritual of using a French press - plus it makes great coffee.

I'm obsessed with coffee.

I'm obsessed by coffee.

The bookcases are full of previous resolutions, taken up and shelved. No-Sweat Indian Cooking. A Hundred Hikes in the Greater Yellowstone. A Field Guide to Eastern Songbirds. To Eastern Wildflowers. Off the Beaten Path in Europe. Unknown Thailand. Manuals of beer brewing and wine making. Untouched foreign language texts. All those scattered explorations theirs to sample and squander. They have lived like flighty and forgetful gods.

Eye of newt, and toe of frog,Wool of bat, and tongue of dog.

He thought to himself now that if ever he went into the brewing business his posters would have written across the top Bowen's Beer, and then underneath that in the middle a picture of Mrs. Knowles driniking a lot of it and falling about, and then across the bottom in bold or salient lettering the words Makes You Drunk.

freshly picked hops heat up the way a compost pile does and have been known to catch fire.

archeologist Patrick McGovern found evidence of an eight-thousand-year-old brew of rice, fruit, and honey at the Jiahu site in Henan Province. (He worked with Dogfish Head brewery to re-create the brew, which they named Chateau Jiahu.) It

White teas required only one to two minutes, and black teas between two and three minutes, while herbal teas could steep for three to six minutes.

If you think about brewing, it is biotechnology. And I would say that I was a technologist at heart. So whether I... fermented beer or whether I fermented enzymes, the base technology was the same.

It was fun and something I could do together with my wife and kids. We were all hand-washing bottles, cleaning and bottling together. It was like families that cook together - we just happened to brew together.

Coffee requires that we treat it as a prized commodity, storing and brewing it with loving care. . . . Each coffee bean acquires a distinctive taste, depending on how it is roasted."13