Quotes About Fermentation

(Wine is) the nurse of old age.

Age can be wonderful for red wine, but not for spacecraft.

Religious fermentation is always a symptom of the intellectual vigor of a society; and it is only when they forget that they are hypotheses and put on rationalistic and authoritative pretensions, that our faiths do harm.

I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent.

If there was any magic in this world that was not magic, it was wine

People are always wine to me, never bread

Kogi changed what a generation eats, introducing people to fermentation and different vegetables and flavors.

After fifty, one ceases to digest. As someone once said, "I just ferment my food now."

The general drink was ale. Most households of any size made their own, every few days. The advantage of adding hops was that it produced a longer-lasting brew, but that was still in the future.

Somewhere along the way, their passion had become bottled anger. The anger had fermented into bitter hatred. Then the hatred had fed upon itself, gnawing away at them over years, even decades, until only a shell of cold iron and colder hate remained.

You have accused me of upsetting order by my free drinks, and I have showed you that there is a more dreadful fermentation in the Sermon on the Mount than in my beer-barrels. Christ thought it in the irresponsibility of His omnipotence.

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Craft beers are a gift from God.

I guess the difference is that dampness comes down but dankness rises up out of rot and fermentation.

Prohibition is to abstain from intoxicating liquor, as it makes us morbid and sometimes drunk. But we get drunk every day, nevertheless, not so much by the strength of what we sip from the cup, but that which we eat, the water we drink, and the air we inhale, which at fermentation conspire at eventide to make us so drunk and tired that we lose control of ourselves and fall asleep. Everybody is a drunkard, and if we were to enforce real prohibition we should all be dead.

from Indo-China— put in some wild yeast from the air, ferment it and voilà! you've now got Vodka for the Volga, beer for the Brits, Bourbon for Balboa's kids, Joy-juice for the Kickapoos. Pour this into an Inner City and create your Designated Criminal Class purely to blame for everything, or rub it on the Reservations and

Beer is an improvement on water itself.

Beer is made by men, wine by God.

I looked at the transprent yellow liquid in the glass. I tasted it and tasted fermentation. In other words I tasted life on Earth. For everything that lives here ferments, ages, becomes diseased. But as things made their decline from ripeness they could taste wonderful, I realised

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

This phenomenology, however, is always on the horizon, because it is the will to exhaust the things themselves, which are inexhaustible. What makes it already be there--never there--is its radicalism, which gives way to an impassioned fermentation.

cucumber-infused sake MAKES: 750 ML 2 English (hothouse) cucumbers 1 (750 ml) bottle sake Trim off and discard the ends of the cucumber. Slice the cucumber in half lengthwise, then roughly slice into pieces. Combine the sliced cucumber and sake in a 1-quart container. Let sit for 24 hours. Strain the infusion into an airtight container. Store the infusion in the refrigerator for 1 week.

Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.

An apt analogy for how the brain consolidates new learning may be the experience of composing an essay. The first draft is rangy, imprecise. You discover what you want to say by trying to write it. After a couple of revisions you have sharpened the piece and cut away some of the extraneous points. You put it aside to let it ferment. When you pick it up again a day or two later, what you want to say has become clearer in your mind.