Good 44ยบ pouring rain morning. It rained all
night, wind blew, windows all got wet! Since yesterday we have gotten 1¾" of the
wet stuff. More coming...
Yesterday the rain started in again about
noon..
9am:
An hour later:
Noon:
The weather did this back and forth all
day..
Throw Back Thursday...
I was in the Sheriff's academy, 1979, and stopped
by Mom and Dad's on my way home...
For breakfast I made a bagel sandwich with
egg...
Normally I eat yogurt with something or
Egg-Tastic scrambled eggs. This was good, but OMGOSH, I was soooooo full. I
wished I had just had some yogurt!!! Didn't want any food the rest of the day.
Won't do this again!!! Dinner was a cup of soup!
Historically this date...
1817 – Mississippi becomes the
20th U.S.
state.
1965 – The Grateful
Dead's first concert performance
under this new name.
And births
this date include...
1914 – Dorothy
Lamour, American actress (d.
1996)
1928 – Dan
Blocker, American actor (d.
1972)
....drafted
into the Army during Korea but was fanatical against the Viet Nam war to the
point of leaving the country! A Texan, a Methodist, and a
Democrat. Odd.
1941
– Tommy
Kirk, American
actor
1941
– Tommy
Rettig, American actor (d.
1996)
1952
– Susan
Dey, American
actress
1964
– Bobby
Flay, American chef and
restaurateur
Tonight's football:
All I know. Nuff said. Happy TBT.
Ciao.
xo Sue Mom
Bobo
December 10th
National Lager Day
Enjoy a cold one as you read through these lager facts,
compiled by the brewers at Samuel Adams.
1. History. Alhough beer has been made for more than
seven millennia, the first lager wasn’t brewed until the 16th century. America’s
first lager was brewed in 1838, when Bavarian brewmaster John Wagner brought
lager yeast across the pond from Europe.
2. Science. Lager yeast, as opposed to ale yeast,
ferments (eats sugar to produce carbonation and alcohol) at cooler temperatures.
When the fermentation is finished, lager yeast settles to the bottom of the
fermentation tank while ale yeast remains on top. Lager yeast also takes a
longer time to condition the beer than ale yeast.
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3. Character. Due in part to their clean, crisp character,
lagers are labeled by some as plain or boring. That might be so with some
mass-marketed beers, but craft lagers are flavorful and complex. There are also
different styles of lager: Baltic Porter; Bock, Double Bock and Wheat Bock;
Oktoberfest; Rauchbier and Vienna Lager, among many others, as you’ll see
below.
4. Cold. Before modern refrigeration, brewers needed
a way to keep their lagers cool during the brewing process. Before the advent of
modern cooling tanks, German lager brewers often cooled their beer in Alpine
caves or in cellars dug deeply into hillsides (the latter technique used by
immigrants German-American beer makers).
5. Meaning. In German, Czech and Polish, to
lager means to store, keep, preserve or keep
safe.
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