Actually, bear arms don't hurt people, bears hurt people!
I totally agree that when you incorporate better ingredients, better equipments and better techniques your results will be significantly improved.
And yes I should have mentioned that DO NOT USE ANY JUICE WITH PRESERVATIVES!! Thanks for pointing that out.
Also want to clarify that my point here is not about making great mead, but about a no-budget-on-equipmentds alternative to produce basically the same result as described in the original Giz article.
Also, we are talking about prehistorical berserker juice here. Somehow I suspect that when compared with any seriously made modern mead, my/Giz's versions are more true to that piss-of-diabetic-gods thing the ancient viking drink :p
Actually you need none of the listed equipments to make some basic (but good) mead.
1 gallon glass jug ($6) --> 1 gallon plastic milk bottle. Seriously. Plastic milk bottles are made from HDPE, which is the same material for the container you can find in most of the entry level brewing kit.
1 rubber stopper (with a hole, $.85) --> drill a hole on the cap of the milk bottle.
1 plastic air lock ($1.50) --> a plastic tube, one end tightly fitted into the hole on the milk bottle cap. Not touching the mead itself. The other end of the tube should be kept in another small container filled with water.
1 pack Dry Mead Yeast ($7) --> Baking yeast ($0.55) is perfectly fine. However as described in the article, if you want alcohol percentage higher than 6-8%, you need to get some wine yeast from your local brewing shop or online. Still dry yeast is fine. You really don't need the fancy self activation pack.
Activating dry yeat for dummy:
1. Get a cup of apple juice. Freshed pressed cider is better but any supermarket bought apple juice from concentrate shall work too. You can actually use any juice you want. Apple juice is the most basic one which will add almost no extra flavor to your mead.
2. Warm the juice up to about your body temp. wash your hand, stick a finger into the juice.
feel almost nothing = good.
3. Add 1/2 tea spoon of the dry yeast (for the quick activation baking yeast. see the package of you wine yeast to determ how much you want for a gallon) into the juice.
4. Loosely cover the juice + yeast. For baking yeast it won't take more than a couple of hours. wine yeast may need a day. Keep it in someplace warm, but don't cook it.
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some tips:
Adding some fresh fruit/dry fruit/raisin when making mead will not only add some flavor, your yeasts will also thank you and happy yeast = good brewing.
Adding some mulling spice (from your local supermarket) is also a good idea.
Sparkling mead = win, but you really have to know what you are doing. You or someone else could be seriously injured or killed if it is not done correctly!
Funny you put a Japanese exo-suit on the top of this article about US military tech.
Too long. didn't read.
Seriously, why reposted the whole article from Stanford Law Review Online to Giz? Tell us what the article said, why it is important and what you think. If we readers are interested we will go read the original. This is what that stupid hyperlink thing is for, no?
It kind of looks like a shrimp. Wondering if it tastes like a shrimp too.
As if Italians felt OK about American calling their... ting "pizza"...
Exactly what I thought. Actually I kind of think this whole "Neo-Geo portable" thing looks like an A320 clone.
Want +1
Although I may not be able to afford it... :(
Brave New World.
I don't really know why, I just never really read the whole book; while I got enough information about the book from my friends and the Internet for me to talk about is as if I had read.
Sometimes I even thought I had read it.
The numbers are confusing here. There are at least 100b of planets in our galaxy. There are more small planets than large ones.
Then why the estimation of terrestrial planets is 10b, instead of more 50b? Not all small planets are terrestrial?
It sounds sort of like the so called "wine whey", with vodka instead of wine.
"A sperm whale washed up in Thailand"
Thailand =! Taiwan.
Thailand =! Taiwan.
My understanding is that they didn't "splice" any gene into the virus or manipulate the virus genome with any molecular cloning technology. All they did is the good old breeding, which can happen maturely. And this is exactly why their research is important and SHOULD, even NEED be done: assuming their claim is accurate, the research proves that such lethal virus can be evolved naturally. We made it happens a little faster in the lab, but with or without this project, IT WILL HAPPEN. Not studying it won't prevent it from happening, not studying it will only lead to us being surprised when it happens.
And the study should be published. The only piece of really dangerous information about this research is "it can be done". Unfortunately, publishing it or not, now we have heard about it. I don't believe the know-how in this research will be valuable for anyone who only wish to make the same virus or anything similarly dangerous, for comparing with the modern molecular biology technique, breeding is a really inefficient approach.
In the other hand it is important for the science community to examine their conclusion. One big scientific concern I immediately have after seeing the news is: "can we be sure the researchers didn't introduce so much artificial selection that it is actually impossible for their result to happen outside of the lab"? We need to read the full paper to decide.
And the study should be published. The only piece of really dangerous information about this research is "it can be done". Unfortunately, publishing it or not, now we have heard about it. I don't believe the know-how in this research will be valuable for anyone who only wish to make the same virus or anything similarly dangerous, for comparing with the modern molecular biology technique, breeding is a really inefficient approach.
In the other hand it is important for the science community to examine their conclusion. One big scientific concern I immediately have after seeing the news is: "can we be sure the researchers didn't introduce so much artificial selection that it is actually impossible for their result to happen outside of the lab"? We need to read the full paper to decide.
As a foreigner who have been in US for five years, I feel US interstate system is pretty awesome when you take the size into consideration.
I'm guessing the "americanized totoro" images are from Samurai Jack. The style looks right and I think I'm seeing Jack in the lower left corner?
DO WANT to know how. plz plz plz
I suppose you mean le lazar, not the guns and knives?
Why not shoot it at the star? I know it will be a pretty a-hole behavior but is it illegal?
actually, they are pretty tasty. European and Japanese love them.
