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TheAlchemist

TheAlchemist

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Making mead gives me a pair.

I find myself peeking in the pantry and wondering "could I make mead with that?"

Anybody out there ever take time lapse photos of yeasties at bubblework?
 
No, but I wish now that I'd taken a video of a stawberry mead that I did a few years back. Large chunks of fruit (in secondary, mind you) were riding the "CO2 Express" elevator to the top of my carboy, discharging their gas bubbles, and then dropping back down. The whole effect made the carboy contents look like it was being constantly stirred up from the bottom. What a cool thing to watch!
 
I like to ferment in glass whenever possible any time I'm using fruit with big seeds like raspberry, just so that I can watch this very effect! It ends up looking like they're being shot out of cannons from the bottom with big plumes of sediment following them, loads of fun! ;D
 
AToE said:
I like to ferment in glass whenever possible any time I'm using fruit with big seeds like raspberry, just so that I can watch this very effect! It ends up looking like they're being shot out of cannons from the bottom with big plumes of sediment following them, loads of fun! ;D
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Oh, you crazy canuk.
 
Hey, that's spelled Canuck! We like our redundant letters and are sticking with em!

(Any one else frustrated by the existance of the letter C? I'm sure it does stuff in other languages, but in English all it does is sound like S or K, or be combined into CH (which could be replaced by KH easily)... bah, I'm a bit of a goof with linguistics!)
 
I sure notice honey varieties more than I used to!

I don't ever primary in a carboy for one important reason: terminal laziness. A bunch of secondary reasons as well, but the primary reason (har har har) is that I don't want to wash the things. :)
 
AToE said:
or be combined into CH (which could be replaced by KH easily)... bah, I'm a bit of a goof with linguistics!)
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Uh..."Chuck Chose Cheeseburger" -> "Khuk Khose Kheeseburger"? Damn...Canadians are worse than Newzealanders :p
 
Tiwas said:
Uh..."Chuck Chose Cheeseburger" -> "Khuk Khose Kheeseburger"? Damn...Canadians are worse than Newzealanders :p
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Oh it's not a Canadian thing, I just have a personal vendetta against the letter C for it's being useless. Of course, it does look nice when written down... ;)
 
Score!

I've been watching a thread for an ancient recipe that uses birch sap.

Usually, around me, birch don't make the 10" diameter cut that would make tapping the tree safe for the tree.

BUT! Now, with my New Eyes, I see there's a huge birch across the street!

God Bless the Mead Maker's eyes...
Oh, and "Blessed are the cheese makers..."
 
AToE said:
Oh it's not a Canadian thing, I just have a personal vendetta against the letter C for it's being useless. Of course, it does look nice when written down... ;)
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AToE's opinion of the letter C is not necessarily the opinion of the whole country... Brought to you by the other redundant letters X and Q...


... why do I suddenly feel like watching Sesame Street...
 
AToE said:
Oh it's not a Canadian thing, I just have a personal vendetta against the letter C for it's being useless. Of course, it does look nice when written down...
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You should switch to Croatian we have three C letters and none are a K sound!

There's C which sounds like the TS in caTS, then there's Č which sounds like the first CH in CHurch, and then there's Ć which sounds like the last CH in churCH, and is what most people mispronounce as a 'K' when they see a last name like Bakulić.


 
TheAlchemist said:
I've been watching a thread for an ancient recipe that uses birch sap.

Usually, around me, birch don't make the 10" diameter cut that would make tapping the tree safe for the tree.

BUT! Now, with my New Eyes, I see there's a huge birch across the street!

God Bless the Mead Maker's eyes...
Oh, and "Blessed are the cheese makers..."
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TA,

I'm finding the same thing....Lookin for new sources of trees :o
Sadly I have a 14" birch that is behind my neighbors house and
the Ice storm got it a few years back...:( Never thought I would be sad
to see a dead tree like that! Dam, that sucker could have been a gold mine.

TB
 
Oskaar said:
You should switch to Croatian we have three C letters and none are a K sound!

There's C which sounds like the TS in caTS, then there's [FONT=&quot]Č which sounds like the first CH in CHurch, and then there's [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Ć which sounds like the last CH in churCH, and is what most people mispronounce as a 'K' when they see a last name like Bakuli[/FONT][FONT=&quot]ć.


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Ha, good point, my buddy is Croatian and I kept pronouncing the C at the beginning of his name as K, even though it's TS (it's hard to put that tiny bit of T before the S sound, very Cantonese sounding almost). Also, he has that CH at the end of his name that's pronounced as SH.
 
On the other hand be glad you don't play a txistu where the txi is pronounced the same as the che in cheese.
 
AToE said:
Ha, good point, my buddy is Croatian and I kept pronouncing the C at the beginning of his name as K, even though it's TS (it's hard to put that tiny bit of T before the S sound, very Cantonese sounding almost). Also, he has that CH at the end of his name that's pronounced as SH.
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My husband's half Slovenian so my new last name has a C in it that nobody ever gets right... How do YOU think "Ermenc" should be pronounced? I'll give you a clue, it sure ain't a K-like sound...
 
Slavic languages are simply phonetically richer than the romance languages; there's no way around it! ;D

For example, when the Poles decided to adopt the Roman alphabet they tried really hard not to add a bunch of diacritical marks to letters. They couldn't resist a few, but for the most part they indicated different consonant sounds by combinations of letters, which is why for example my surname (in the proper Polish spelling) is Bonczyk. My grandfather was forced to drop the z when he went through Ellis Island, because the immigration guard there couldn't understand what he was trying to say, so he "simplified" our name for us. :mad:

Anyway, you can have lots of diacritic variations as are found in Czech and Croatian, or you can simply expect it to be understood in context (as in Slovenian, and for the most part, Slovak) or you can end up with things like szcz, szw, ncz, etc, as you find in Polish.
 
I am paying more attention now to the seasons, to what is in season when, to what I can ferment... Can't wait for the CSA boxes to start coming.
 
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