Priest Brews in Washing Machine 660
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Priest Brews in Washing Machine
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"If it ain't broke, don't fix it." - Bert Lantz
Changes the meaning of the saying... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Changes the meaning of the saying... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Changes the meaning of the saying... (Score:3, Funny)
Oh no, not again... (Score:5, Funny)
Another counter-productive idea. I mean, I have enough trouble trying to convince myself to do my laundry...
Well (Score:2)
Clennanliness is next to drunkneness (Score:5, Funny)
I'll have mine... (Score:5, Funny)
My Sig. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:My Sig. (Score:4, Interesting)
Of course, there is a very important balance to this teaching [searchgodsword.org] of drinking the fruit of the vine. Drinking to merriment is not drinking to intoxication. Wine was often watered down (1 part wine, 2-3 parts water) back in those days, which was encouraged in the Rabbinic literature. In that light, one could "drink freely" without necessarily being drunk.
Re:My Sig. (Score:3, Insightful)
I disagree. I suspect there wasn't a huge distinction. I'm not a student of history, so I may be all wet here. But it seems logical that when you don't have automobiles or other dangerous machinery that there might not be the same social stigma with drinking.
I know there is a new testament teaching about drunkenness.
But back to this wedding. Hey's it's a party, a wedding. Be happy. People drink. In fact, one of the points about bringing out the best wine first and the really cheap stuff later is that the guests are too drunk to notice. But the "water to wine" was the "good stuff" and raised the question of why the good stuff was being saved to last. (because they had run out of wine, and Jesus turned water to wine.)
Just my opinion, but I think the 20th century church is way too uptight.
Turning the water to wine being the first miracle, and it had a good result. The chief result: his disciples put their faith in him. (At end of the story.) Everyone gets so hung up about the fact that alcohol was involved. He seemed reluctant to do it at first, but his mother said "do whatever he tells you", sort of persuading him, and he did it.
beer in washing machine (Score:2, Funny)
I'm running low on the hootch.
A priest? (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:A priest? (Score:3, Interesting)
Does this work.... (Score:2, Funny)
Is it just me? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Is it just me? (Score:3, Insightful)
It's also important to note that beer taken in moderation is actually good for you and so are several other alcoholic drinks such as red wine.
One can also enjoy beer for it's flavour although that is hard to do when all you can find on the store shelves is wattered down crap like Molsons or Labatts. Yes I realise your average American finds those to be strong, and it is compared to say Budwieser, but my German heritage demands I drink *good* beer and that means microbrewed with ingrediants in compliance with the German purity laws.
My priest used to make Wheat wine (Score:2)
The parish kids even went out picking buckets of dandelion heads once, so he could make wine from them too.
funny title (Score:5, Funny)
Well... (Score:3, Funny)
Priest Pale Ale (Score:2)
It's a lager! (Score:4, Funny)
The quizzes were given orally.
Question #9: "What is a lager" (most people, myself included, thought he meant "logger" and were confused)
Question #10: "What is a beer brewed in the bottom of the barrel?
It was pretty clear to even non-beer-drinkers like myself (I'm probably more ignorant of beer terminology than most nuns) what was meant by the two questions at this point, and those of us with minimal reasoning skills got the two questions right. It was funny to listen to the whiners that said the questions were unfair.
Sudsy (Score:2)
Finally - Domestic Appliances for Men (Score:4, Funny)
They make bread machines, food processors, even pasta machines. Why not a beer machine?
Re:Finally - Domestic Appliances for Men (Score:4, Informative)
I'm skeptical, though...
S
Re:Finally - Domestic Appliances for Men (Score:3, Informative)
The beer machine will make beer but if you want high quality beer for just a little more of an investment go to the homebrew supply store. Instead of plastic bottles, you can reuse your other beer bottles. It's fun to do and really isn't that hard. The hardest part is the wait.
I got started brewing my freshman year of college. Mainly because I couldn't bring beer into the dorm room so I decided to bring the ingredients in and make it. Now that I'm out of the dorms, I'm still brewing because I like the taste of homebrew and it's not that expensive.
-Chris
ps. I've got 10 gallons (2 batches ~4 cases) fermenting right now for st. patty's day. (I'm gonna dye it green)
Mixing loads (Score:2)
What the article didn't say (Score:2)
The only problem is that his beer tastes like laundry detergent.
And why not? (Score:2, Informative)
Hiding Beer? (Score:2)
Don't know if my parents will fall for it though...
This beer tastes funny... (Score:2)
He must drink a lot... (Score:3, Funny)
"Bierbrauen" - WTF? What kind of English is that???
Of course... (Score:5, Funny)
Home Brew (Score:3, Interesting)
If you buy a kit (not Mr. Beer, but a real kit), do a little research, and commit about an hour of your time and two weeks of patience, you'll be rewarded with some of the best beer you've ever had, plus the pride of having made it yourself. Try it, you'll like it!
Re:Home Brew (Score:3, Interesting)
Or, join a club... learn a new skill. This is one hobby where the source code is free as in speech, even if the beer isn't.
I've been brewing for about 6 years now [northstatebrewers.org], have won some awards, made some friends, learned some chemistry, and drank a lot of really tasty beer.
Obligatory clustering reference (Score:5, Funny)
Hmmm (Score:2)
There's suds then there's suds (Score:2)
Blindness? (Score:2)
Re:Blindness? (Score:3, Informative)
Now, there's a good probability bleach was in that washing machine at some point, and that is a poison, so it's possible he'll go blind from the bleach, but not from the alcohol component; i.e., what he's trying to make.
slashdot is broken still (Score:2)
graspee
Der linkenposten. (Score:2)
First post?
Religious figures and beer (Score:2)
Also, I noticed the guy doing the washing machine brewing has an amateur radio webpage. Apparently in Germany it is called "amateurfunk".
Reinheitsgebot, copyright, whatever (Score:2)
Another example of legislation failing to keep up with technology. I'm sure that whoever wrote the Reinheitsgebot would have prohibited using computer-driven washing machines if only they'd anticipated their existence.
Better than... (Score:2)
yumm...beeer (Score:2)
And it takes care of that pesky... (Score:2)
I wonder if it can (Score:2)
Hmm..... (Score:2)
Perhaps "These are the kind of suds that can make your clothes MORE dirty!"
Well (Score:2)
Source code is available on his website (Score:3, Funny)
I guess this is a case where open source really *is* free as in beer.
a miracle? (Score:2)
A better trick than turning water into wine, IMHO.
blog-O-rama [annmariabell.com]
red green (Score:3, Funny)
Red Green did this on his show about 3-4 years ago. It was hilarious, one of those DIY things that only gets accomplished with an axe.
...and hey, it the ladies don't find you handsome, they might as well find you handy.
test (Score:2)
Washing Machine (Score:2)
Can you get these in the US? (Score:5, Interesting)
This must be a wonderful story. It's been up for several minutes now, with nary a First Post to be seen. I guess even the trolls love a good beer story.
He means they both hot 'n cold lines attached (Score:3, Informative)
But many machines, such as quite a few European frontloaders, also have their own instantaneous line heating elements in them (the opposite of a draught beer cooler). These are often 3 phase & consist OF 3 rods in a tube in which the water runs past. So if you only a cold water tap in the laundry you can still do a warm or hot water wash. Some also have heating elements for the tub, so if you're soaking stuff overnight in a outhouse laundry in rural Bavaria, you washing won't end up frozen.
Is it just me??? (Score:2)
So if he gets drunk does that mean... (Score:2)
But only if (Score:2)
Alcohol makes a good organic solvent.. (Score:2)
Jason
ProfQuotes [profquotes.com]
wow (Score:2)
putting 2 + 2 together (Score:2)
The best thing about this... (Score:2)
Saves a ton on electricity.
a priest's website (Score:2)
Ok (Score:2)
Its beer.
No its holy blessed beer!
Its clean too.
Straight from the washing machine to the priest for his blessing and on to you the consumer...
Its clean, its washed and holy too.
Washing machine beer made by a priest.
You can't beat that with a stick.
A better hobby... (Score:2)
But I won't be impressed under he can brew Holy Water and the sacramental wine. Throw in the consecrated host, and you've got Jesus in the Whirlpool. (If you believe in Transubstantiation [newadvent.org], that is.)
and so... (Score:2)
Mmmmmm... Beeeer.... (Score:2, Informative)
For those of you who read German-English machine translations better than I do,
I've pasted one below. Maybe it's just that I'm too lazy to read
closely... but can anyone figure out how the heck this guy cranks enough heat
out of the machine to achieve a rolling boil?
Beer brow with PC and washing machine - we came a report through Jean Pütz and the "Hobbythek" on the idea to brew even once beer. The first attempt took place as INDUSTRIAL TRADE UNION in a vacations warehouse: the groups leaders got given a bottle apiece of "Hankenberger-Lager-Bier of the participants to the end of the warehouse". Did after the Verkostung the question stand: "and when we brew the next time?"
In the following 3 years, there was a row of brow trial with different persons circle. Again and again the problem stood to find a suitable brow container and a suitable Heizquelle.
Three years ago, we had the idea, an old washing machine (Toplader) for brewing umzubauen. Following reasons spoke for that:
Large Edelstahlgefäß with incorporated Heizquelle motor to the stirring and pump to the Umfüllen incorporated are easy and wassersparende cleaning possibility accidentally saw I some days later a suitable washing machine in a colleague stand. It was defective (like itself later laid out, must only the condenser renewed become), and I was able to take it directly with home. So that the geschrotene malt did not fix itself on the Heizstäben and the pump did not clog, a type of giant tea bag was sewed out of material diaper. So the drum in the machine was able to remain and used become the motor stirring.
In a sample conduit - the machine naturally before was cleaned and the flow tube replaced become - was tested, theoretically reasoned functioned should be washed out whether that principle, for the contents materials yes out of the malt into the brow water. When this attempt was arrive, I went at the reconstruction of the machine.
Certainly it would be also possible to serve motor and heating per hand, but I searched for an automatic solution: the brow process should be driven over time sections to be selected freely and temperatures, and also the drum rotations should be freely eligible.
Therefore I removed the electromechanical control and replaced it through a row of relay, that individually can be addressed and drive water and flow, heating as well as motor to the left and/or to the right. The temperature measurement takes place via an electronic building block, that changes the temperature into digital impulses, that delivers water level measurement over a building block, that according to water pressure (=Füllstandshöhe) a corresponding tension, that is changed into digital signals.
The parallel interface of the PC gives the relatively simple possibility to address single tax directions and data directions. Through a C program, the beer brow washing machine is driven now.
A brow process looks now so:
The machine is connected to the water direction, that flow tubes hung out of security reason into the Spülbecken. The computer is connected and the program started. If the temperature is reached to the Einmaischen, the computer gives a signal and holds the machine on. Now the well locked bag with the malt on abundance and the cover is closed. The machine heats now up to the different Rastzeiten, the drum revolves in the intervals determined before. If the purification phase is terminated, bag and drum can be removed. For a better Ergiebigkeit, it is however meaningful let run the Sud in an external Läutergefäß once again through the Maische.
The Sud is heated now on 100 degrees and the hops in a little bag admitted. After an hour, the Sud is finished and can become into the Gärgefäß umgefüllt. If he cooled off himself on 20 degrees, the beer yeast in addition gift prepared before becomes.
The beer later is drawn-off some days of the yeast and in bottles umgefüllt where now the remainder fermentation worries for the necessary carbon dioxide pressure. Some weeks the beer is later finished.
Continuing literature:
Wolfgang left, fairs - taxes - rules over the parallel interface of the PC, Franzis publishing house Munich 1994
Ah, the mods are endless (Score:2)
4LL j00R PC B33R M0D R B3L0nG T0 U$
But (not a troll) (Score:2)
Drinking not proscribed by the Church (Score:3, Informative)
Anyway, Catholics are imbibers. They are typically not contaminated by American Calvinistic teotalitarianism. (This is equally true for Lutherans)
The key is moderation, which can be a huge problem for many people, priests or not.
the mods are endless (Score:2)
4ll j00r pc b33r m0d$ r b3l0ng to u$!
Wow (Score:2)
Time to go watch some Disney cartoons or something.
One problem--- (Score:2)
The beer tastes like old socks...
Heh (Score:2)
Well, we all now know... (Score:4, Funny)
The whole thing (shameless whoring...) (Score:5, Informative)
Ja ja wir trinken hier
Und wann wer sind nicht hier
Unsere freundinen trinken alles bier
or
In heaven there is no beer
That's why we drink it here
And when we are gone from here
All our friends will be drinking all the beer
And even more important... (Score:2, Funny)
Well... (Score:2)
heh (Score:2)
Amen, brother.
huh? (Score:2)
You have got to be kidding me. That has to be the oddest, most random sentence I've ever seen (including my .sig).
First Post! (Score:2)
It's like college, only with religion too! (Score:5, Funny)
However, it might be nice to drink and leave my breath with that Mountain-Fresh straight off the line feeling
This is a test post... (Score:2)
Considering that Priests/Clergy have been making alcohol for centuries, this doesn't seem all that odd. Replace the traditional tun [vat/cask] with a washing machine.
Pretty straightforward, really
First post, baby! (Score:3, Funny)
screw this! (Score:3, Funny)
You don't have to speak German (Score:2)
Imagine... (Score:2)
No comments? (Score:2)
Sweet! (Score:2)
-Sean (fp?)
technical details (Score:2, Informative)
In India.. (Score:3, Interesting)
I do not know what they do in Soviet russia though
Heh... (Score:2)
SealBeater
ahhh.... (Score:2)
Washing Machine (Score:5, Insightful)
During fermentation of lagers (which he is probably brewing if he is German, and if he is brewing the beers linked on his page) you need to keep a constant LOW temperature (around 40F?) for weeks. Again, I don't understand how a washing machine could help accomplish this...(unless he has a 2nd container inside the wash tub, and circulates consistently cold water around it?)
The great thing about brewing beer is you don't really need any mechanical machines. Its more about temperature control and keeping everything sanitary.
Re:Washing Machine (Score:3, Informative)
This will help keep the temperature more or less constant throughout the grain instead of having hot and cold spots.
German lagers often use a complicated temperature cycle, starting at cool temperatures and having a rest at various different temperatures on the way up, to allow different enzymes to do their work.
This is very difficult to do using some other home brewing methods, and require adding measured amounts of hot water and restirring at various times, or mashing in a mash tun with a thermostatic heater control.
The washing machine would also have the benefit of the drum acting as a grain filter, so just run a controlled rinse cycle to do a good sparge.
Re:Washing Machine (Score:3, Insightful)
Such washing machines heat their own water, unlike American machines, which take hot water from the house. With his computer control, he can keep the temperature elevated for several hours.
And I thought my computer-controlled beer fridge (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Slashdot baked??? (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:But what about his dryer? (Score:3, Funny)
Very satisfying and complex tasting stuff, but sometimes it suffers from an odd aftertaste of static cling.