Brewing & Beer Trivia

[GuingesRock]

Did you know .....

Ale yeasts produce fruity aromas and flavours in order to attract fruit flies. The fruit flies then carry the yeast to ripe fruit, and so the yeast species is propagated.

[GuingesRock]

Which US president legalized home brewing and started the craft beer revolution?

...What year was that?

[mcgster]

Haha that is about the only US history fact i know - Jimmy Carter!

[GAM]

Which US president legalized home brewing and started the craft beer revolution?
Jefferson

...What year was that?
Don't know

S

[GuingesRock]

He was defiantly a boozer Sandy, but Mark wins this one with Carter, and the year was 1979.

Thomas Jefferson
It is true that Thomas Jefferson wrote the original draft of the Declaration of Independence over only a few hectic days. What is not generally known is that he did it while seated at his usual table in the Indian Queen Tavern in Philadelphia while downing glass after brimming glass of Madeira.

As America’s first (well, only, actually) scientist-president, Jefferson educated himself on all aspects of viniculture, including the cross-breeding of grapes and experimentation with all sorts of flavorful additives. He corresponded with wine makers in France and Germany, trading information and recipes. When Jefferson left the White House, he was stuck with an enormous $11,000 wine tab (about $200,000 is today’s dollars.)

His estate at Monticello housed both a winery and a brewery, and his wine cellar was second to none. Jefferson was fond of dinner parties and his guests knew that his table would be set with gourmet food and large quantities of delicious wine. He hated to see a guest’s glass run dry, but he also had a soft spot for his household servants, the people who made all those trips downstairs to the wine cellar and back up again. In order to make life easier on everyone, Jefferson had a dumbwaiter installed between the dining room and the wine cellar. It spared his staff’s knees and shortened the time between refills upstairs.

Dinner at Monticello was a tipsy good time.

Who's got the next trivia question or fact?

[GAM]

Damn, I was hopping there would be a prize.

S

[GuingesRock]

Damn, I was hopping there would be a prize.

S

I have a bottle of beer for you Sandy. First runner up prize.

[GuingesRock]

Who came up with the catchphrase "Relax. Don't worry. Have a homebrew" ?

[Jimmy]

Who came up with the catchphrase "Relax. Don't worry. Have a homebrew" ?

A homebrewer

[GuingesRock]

Close, but not close enough Jimmy.

[mcgster]

Charlie P

[GuingesRock]

Yes, Charlie Papazian! We have another winner! Wait! it's the same one! You and Jared

Edited to correct name spelling.

[Jimmy]

Charlie P

I was right!

[Celiacbrew]

Charlie P

I was right!

Who are people who have never been in my kitchen.

[Jimmy]

Charlie P

I was right!

Who are people who have never been in my kitchen.

People?

[GAM]

Charlie P

I was right!

Who are people who have never been in my kitchen.

Jimmy has been in my kitchen. But not CP. RDWHAHB

[GuingesRock]

Still reading my new book "Mastering Homebrew" by Randy Mosher.

From page 36 ....

What taste sensations are detected by the tongue?

[Woody]

Sweet, Savory, Sour, Salty and my favorite bitterness.

[GuingesRock]

Sweet, Savory, Sour, Salty and my favorite bitterness.

Well done! 1 point each for sweet, sour, salty and bitter. 1/2 a point for savory because they call that umami now.

There's a few more that have been recently discovered.

[jeffsmith]

I thought umami and savoury were two different tastes/sensations?

[Woody]

I thought umami was the Japanese word for savory?

[jeffsmith]

I thought umami was the Japanese word for savory?

Quite likely.

[GuingesRock]

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[GuingesRock]

The more recently discovered ones are “fat, carbonation, some forms of calcium like the flavour enhancing kokumi, and metals such as iron and copper.”

The rest of flavour comes from our sense of smell and is converted to flavour in our brain, so for example we enjoy the taste of strawberries, yet there are no strawberry sensors on the tongue.

Flavour = taste + aroma.

A lot of the olifactory receptors are in the post nasal space, which is why beer judges drink and swallow the beer rather than spitting out.

Of the taste senses, some are processed rapidly and fire rapidly to the brain. That would be sour and salty. Woody’s favorite; bitterness, together with sweet and umami are processed through intermediate proteins they take longer to register with the brain and longer to leave. Mosher says the result is taste is not just a single instant, but a little movie that plays as different flavours come and go.