GNU Beer, version 1.0 ?

[martin griffith]

A splendid idea

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4718719.stm


martin

 

[Joerg]

Hello Martin,

A splendid idea

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4718719.stm

Creating software is mess-free, except for the occasional beer spill
onto the keyboard. Making beer is not. We have done it back in the
college days and had to stop when neighbors complained about the stench.
Oh, and we had a few crates of bottle fermenting stuff explode in
somebody's dorm room.

Regards, Joerg

 

[Tim Wescott]

Hello Martin,



Creating software is mess-free, except for the occasional beer spill
onto the keyboard. Making beer is not. We have done it back in the
college days and had to stop when neighbors complained about the stench.
Oh, and we had a few crates of bottle fermenting stuff explode in
somebody's dorm room.

Regards, Joerg

I didn't have too much problems with that sort of thing, although I did
have some bottles that wanted to keep fermenting ever so slowly. I had
a couple of batches with exploding bottles, including one bottle that
simply disappeared, leaving it's cap behind in the space from which it
left the world. I never even found the pieces.

 

[The Real Andy]

I didn't have too much problems with that sort of thing, although I did
have some bottles that wanted to keep fermenting ever so slowly. I had
a couple of batches with exploding bottles, including one bottle that
simply disappeared, leaving it's cap behind in the space from which it
left the world. I never even found the pieces.

I had a beer self destruct one time at around 2 in the morning. I have
never got out of bed so quick, i thought someone was trying to steal
my stash. When this one went it took out a few around it too. I
remember finding peices of that bottle in the most obscure places for
years to com.

 

[James T. White]

Hello Martin,

Creating software is mess-free, except for the occasional beer spill
onto the keyboard. Making beer is not. We have done it back in the
college days and had to stop when neighbors complained about the stench.
Oh, and we had a few crates of bottle fermenting stuff explode in
somebody's dorm room.

Reminds me of one my old college roommates that decided to make some wine in his
closet. He took a 5 gallon water bottle and added grape juice, sugar and some
yeast. Someone had told him that the fermentation would create carbon dioxide
so he knew better than to cap the bottle tightly. Unfortunately, he hadn't
heard of using a rubber stopper with a hole in it and a tube into a cup of
water. His solution was to just put a balloon over the neck of the bottle.

About 2:30 one morning we awoke to a mighty boom and a rather foul smell when
the balloon burst.

In the end, the wine was some of the foulest tasting stuff we ever tasted, but
since it had alcohol it we were obliged to drink it anyway.

 

[Keith Williams]

I had a beer self destruct one time at around 2 in the morning. I have
never got out of bed so quick, i thought someone was trying to steal
my stash. When this one went it took out a few around it too. I
remember finding peices of that bottle in the most obscure places for
years to com.

Not a fermentation story, but I had a twelve-pack go off at 9:00AM (I
was on the computer) on a Sunday morning. My wife forgot the 12pk in
the garage the day before and it was -25F that night.

<<<<BOOM!>>>> then amazing little fizzy solid things dancing all
around the garage. Only half the cans went off, so playing bomb-squad
I snuck up on the rest and covered them in a heavy blanket before
carrying them into the house where they could be disposed of. A couple
more went off while I was planning the bomb removal. They looked like
mortars coming out of the carton.

 

[Mike]

....

In the end, the wine was some of the foulest tasting stuff we ever tasted,
but
since it had alcohol it we were obliged to drink it anyway.

Sounds like Pruno. You sure you were in college?

http://www.blacktable.com/gillin030901.htm

-- Mike --