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Late Night Open Thread: Oh No — Plant-Based Beer!

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Yeah, not a beer expert, but I wondered where *that* came from…

I like a well-grilled slider as well as the next carnivore, but lemme tell ya: Watch out for Rep. Boebert’s kitchen, she gives people people salmonella. (Or so the gubmint health inspectors want you to believe.)

ETA: Thank you, commentor Another Scott:

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  6. 6.

    HumboldtBlue

    So… umm… bears can smell lesbians?

    Holy hell I know some folk who should plan trail hiking better.

  9. 9.

    David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch

    Who’s gonna break it to Kudlow that cocaine is plant based

  15. 15.

    mrmoshpotato

    @burnspbesq: Don’t know, don’t care, but you stuff 64 oz of meat down your gullet in a day, and you probably won’t be bragging about it.

  18. 18.

    BeautifulPlumage

    GAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

    GAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!*

    (craft brewer in PNW for 20 years)

  20. 20.

    jl

    Nah, man. Kudlow’s a deep thinker, he’s on to something. No idea what it could be though. But maybe I found a clue.

    Your Beer Attracts Fruit Flies on Purpose

    ‘ … ‘wild fermentation’ that lets microbes spontaneously colonize the batch to achieve a more local flavor, and Verstrepen’s research helps explain how that happens. “You could catch a few flies in your vineyard, put it in your grape juice, and make a very unique wine,” said Verstrepen. ‘

    wired.com/2014/10/beer-yeast-attracts-fruit-flies/

  23. 23.

    jl

    @Jay: Biden tyranny will stop us regular guys from letting fruit flies fall into out beer at the vegan BBQs? I dunno. I’m still trying to figure it out.

  24. 24.

    BeautifulPlumage

    @jl: NOOOOOOOOO!

    STOP THAT!

    Variations in beer flavors are from the yeast, and in the case of certain styles (lambics are one) specific bacteria. Plus, beer is not wine. Yes, both are fermented, but beer fermentation these days are highly controlled. Even the classic “open fermentation” kind.

  25. 25.

    BeautifulPlumage

    @BeautifulPlumage: missed the edit window, but the variations in beer flavors, of course, are affected by the types of barley and other grains, the hops, and other plant-based additions.

  26. 26.

    Jay

    @jl:

    I come from Scottish blood, when any fly gets in my beer, I pick them up gently, and make them spit it back out.

  27. 27.

    BeautifulPlumage

    Unless Larry was referring to oyster stouts, which are not completely plant/yeast-based…

  28. 28.

    BeautifulPlumage

    @Jay: I do appreciate the lidded German steins as a solution to the fly problem. Would not appreciate fly spit in my beer, but maybe you’ve hit on a new trend? Similar to the coffee beans processed through a feline?

  30. 30.

    Jay

    @BeautifulPlumage:

    even the big ones, don’t drink that much,

    but it’s still MY beer,

    they can buy their own,

    Or if they are nice, I might buy them a pint.

    (offer not available to black flies, no-see-ums, deer flies, moose flies, horseflies or when the snow flies, which covers all Canadian Seasons.)

  32. 32.

    bjacques

    Since open thread and I missed out on a couple of great discussions:

    The Cold Equations, that inspired Stowaway, was haunting until I learned how that space missions always budget extra for fuel, air recycling and other consumables in case of off-nominal conditions not involving stowaways. Maybe space flights in the future will be zero-margin if the Musks, Bransons and Bezoi get their way.

     

    scott (the other one)’s comment about the 1% of the 1% saving time got a hilarious treatment in the 1960s Dutch or Belgian novel “Where Were You Last Pluterday?” whose main character learns the very rich save so much more time than hoi polloi they get an extra day between Saturday and Sunday.

     

    Reading way too much science fiction and fantasy back in the day prepared me well for these times.

  34. 34.

    LesGS

    @Jay:  An Englishman, an Irishman, and a Scot walk into a pub, and each order a pint. The barkeep sets their drinks before them, and ach, a fly lands in each of them. The Englishman grimaces, pushes the pint away and orders another. The Irishman sighs, plucks the fly from his ale, flicks it away, and starts drinking his pint. The Scot picks the fly from his order, and shakes it over his glass, barking “Spit it out, y’ wee bugger, spit it out!”

  36. 36.

    Jay

    @prostratedragon:

    hubris. Tumbler Ridge was built around a  brown Coal Deposit, for the Chinese Market, with massive subsidies.

    now, less than 30 years later, it survives off tourism, mostly the fossil beds discovered when they were blasting for coal.

    no surprise that the beavers are deliberately targeting their internet,

    Nature’s coming back, Bi-atch.

  37. 37.

    Ruckus

    @bjacques:

    Does seem to be a strange virus upon the land, that isn’t medical/scientific/physical health related, only mental, that bores into people’s heads and makes them exceedingly, fucking, stupid, in ways that should get them committed, except they long ago defunded a lot of the mental health concepts of assistance so that the disease of racism and blatant stupidity could run wild. Many have taken the vaccine, many have refused, thus proving that they are infected with the disease.

  38. 38.

    NotMax

    And then there’s… well, the name pretty much sums it up.

    “An abrupt transition to an obscure mouth feel” – uh huh. That’s the best that can be said?

  40. 40.

    Jay

    , @mrmoshpotato:

    in the deer fly family up here, we have deer flies, a bit over 1/4 in length, that rip a chunk of flesh off your bones, with which to get enough protein, to make eggs and carry on the species, they are mostly black,

    Horseflies, which are roughly a half inch, black and tan, tiger striped, same M/O, bigger bite,

    Elk Flies at 3/4 of an inch, same M/O,

    Moose flies, at an inch or over, same M/O

    No see ums, at 6 can dance on a pin head, same M/O,

    Blackflies, which are at least visible, same M/O,

    Then 19 domestic and 4 imported species of mosquitoes.

  41. 41.

    SixStringFanatic

    @Jay: Ladies and gentlemen, behold the Canadian version of Bubba’s shrimp monologue from “Forest Gump”.

  42. 42.

    Chetan Murthy

    @Jay: oh, nice!

    Several cases of human ophthalmomyiasis due to C. ulrichii have been reported in Sweden and Finland.[4] In one case in 2010, a woman was walking in the woods near Falun in Dalarna, Sweden, when a moose botfly squirted more than 30 larvae into her eye. The larvae were removed by a doctor before they attached to the cornea, which can cause serious damage.[4] Due to their barbs, it is difficult to wash the larvae out of the eye.[5] One physician has suggested that C. ulrichii mistakes a human eye for the nostril of a moose because human eyes face forward, as do moose nostrils.[5]

  44. 44.

    prostratedragon

    @Jay: Good lord, before there was Foxconn, surely the shit standard for bad deals for the public was Tumbler Ridge. Too much wrong with it to go into right now, but I do wonder: those trying to salvage the town have said that it attracts residents looking for lower rents; where are these people coming from?! The place is very easy to find on a road atlas map without using the indexes, which tells you how easily it stands out (Pop. est. 1, 987 in 2016).

  45. 45.

    OzarkHillbilly

    So… Grilled Brussels Sprouts with my veggie burgers and dogs on July 4th. Just because I can.

  49. 49.

    prostratedragon

    @Jay:  That’d have to be it. But that’s going to lead to some high infrastructure costs I would think. They’re still less than a quarter to the original planned population.

  51. 51.

    prostratedragon

    @prostratedragon: ​
      (Good night, that edit window vanishes right from underneath a person.)

    I see that there’s a rail link, but too far from comprehensive medical care for someone like me.

  53. 53.

    SFAW

    @NotMax:

    “An abrupt transition to an obscure mouth feel” – uh huh. That’s the best that can be said?

    “It’s a presumptuous little vintage with overtones of mud and manure, but with a delicate tire rims and anthrax finish.”

  54. 54.

    SFAW

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    Linky no workee on purposee?

    Yeah, it’s just his daily “Here’s this amusing link I found.

    .

    .

    No, wait, HERE’s the link! This time for sure, Rock!”

  56. 56.

    Ken

    @SFAW: Yeah, but actual wine reviews aren’t much different, and startlingly imply that there are people who have tasted shoe leather, humus, cedar, hay,…

  57. 57.

    Anya

    This is how the lie starts. I hope this doesn’t turn to what “death panels” were for ACA.

  58. 58.

    Uncle Cosmo

    @Jay: ​”I come from Scottish blood, when any fly gets in my beer, I pick them up gently, and make them spit it back out.”

    An Englishman, a Scotsman and an Irishman enter a pub during the high-summer apex of fly season. Each orders a pint. Before any of them can seize his drink, three of the flies circling overhead kamikaze into them, one into each.
    The Englishman pushes his glass away, snarling Pah! I can’t drink that, there’s a fly in it!
    The Scotsman says, Weeeel – reaches into the brew, seizes the offending insect by its wings, tosses it over his shoulder and takes a drink.
    The Irishman reaches into his libation, seizes the miscreant arthropod by its wings, and shakes it over the glass, muttering Spit it out! Spit it out! Spit it out!

    ETA: OK, I see LesGS got there foist (#36 supra?). Still one of my half-dozen most-beloved Oyrish jokes (from the daze when I frequented their establishments and, lacking a drop of Celtic blood, asserted with reason that I was a better Oyrishman than any of them, inasmuch as I participated lustily in both their musical traditions [ballads and “trad,” i.e., instrumental, and the associated dancing] whereas most of them only knew one)​.

  59. 59.

    SFAW

    @Ken: 

    and startlingly imply that there are people who have tasted shoe leather, humus, cedar, hay,…

    Are you trying to tell me/us that you haven’t? And you call yourself a BJ jackal?

  60. 60.

    S. Cerevisiae

    I approve of plant based beers ??

    although I have read a sixteenth century recipe with a chicken in the cask, I will pass on that.

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