3E & 4E Love and Hate Polls - What does it mean?

[TheAuldGrump]

Aww, that's too bad. I was kinda hoping you'd share your experiences on this... or at least let us know how you roll on the "Mishaps" table

"Auld Grump, what happened to your eyebrows??"

Heh - I can do that anyway, this won't be my first time making ginger beer. And it wasn't my first batch that exploded! Homemade ginger beer is lightly fermented, and I wanted a gassier version, so I sealed it more tightly, and left it for later. On day 4 (out of the normal 3) it went *Pow! Crash! Tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, drip, drip, drip....* as it caused the bottle to explode.

Let me see if the recipe I use (or something similar) is around online....
Several Somethings That Are Close - I would use Brewer's yeast instead of Baker's yeast, or, if by some miracle you can get it, Ginger Beer Plant. I tried getting some about a decade ago, and had no luck - I could find some in Great Britain, I could find some in Mexico, I could even find some in Africa! But the U.S. of A.? Nooooo!

So I used cider yeast - a light brewer's yeast, most often used for, well... cider. (But not scrumpy!) Any brewer's yeast will do, and even baker's yeast, if that is all that you can find.

I would also recommend using bottled water - chlorine can kill off enough of the yeast that it can muck up the process. (Not a mistake I ever made, though.)

Real ginger beer is mildly alcoholic - a bit lower than half your average shandy. (My drink of choice - cider shandy, drink of the true wimp! Half the alcohol of beer....) And like a shandy was considered a children's drink back in the 1800s.

The 'hardest' part is making sure everything is sparkling clean. If you already have a beer making kit (or in my case a mead making kit) then it gets easier.

It takes between three and four days, but I do not recommend letting it ferment too much longer than the times given in the recipe.

The Auld Grump

*EDIT* Like sourdough starter Ginger Beer Plant is not just yeast, but a bunch of things - a certain type of bacteria, a certain type of fungus, and the yeast itself.

*EDIT 2* If anyone knows of a place to buy GBP in the U.S. let me know.... I suspect that it is no longer to be found here.

*EDIT 3* I just Googled Ginger Beer Plant.... Wow! Suddenly it is all over the place! I guess that there has been a resurgance in ginger beer brewing!

 

[Theo R Cwithin]

Blast! Now I'm all riled up to break out the old brewing stuff! Well, hopefully I'll be settled somewhere in the next year or so to get back to it.

Never tried ginger beer, though. It sounds like a really nice summer drink....

 

[TheAuldGrump]

Blast! Now I'm all riled up to break out the old brewing stuff! Well, hopefully I'll be settled somewhere in the next year or so to get back to it.

Never tried ginger beer, though. It sounds like a really nice summer drink....

It is - and made properly it is very spicy as well. I have had folks who thought that it was similar to ginger ale be very surprised when it 'burned' them.

Works well in floats and shandies too.

The Auld Grump - but use plastic brewing containers, not glass like I did - it makes a mess when it explodes. (Not as big a mess as my grandmother had when her sauerkraut barrel exploded though.... )

 

[Theo R Cwithin]

but use plastic brewing containers, not glass like I did - it makes a mess when it explodes. (Not as big a mess as my grandmother had when her sauerkraut barrel exploded though.... )

Blowing up food fermentation receptacles... What an interesting family tradition! It's always good to hear of people keeping the old ways alive

 

[TheAuldGrump]

I have also been present when a friend's (not family, this time) had his turkey explode in the oven....

He was using a brandy glaze, with extra brandy, in a gas range....

*WHOOMP! Thump, thump thump!* as the oven door blew open!

The turkey itself was unharmed, not even singed - but the big puddle of extra glazing the turkey had been sitting in was nothing but a sticky, syrupy residue. The turkey was very, very good. Oddly enough he was a game designer, but as far as I know never used exploding turkeys as an encounter.

Doesn't everybody have food explode around them?

The Auld Grump

 

[megamania]

My wife had a similiar experience but with using honey which caught on fire within a gas stove. Crazy things we talk about at X-mas dinner with the outlaws.


Now about this thread- I popped into here to see what the answers were for 3vs 4 and the craziness there. Both happy and "eh?" by it being about soda and cooking.

Without reading everything before- Change. People hate change especially if it wasn't needed. Kinda the ol' Don't fix things unless it's broke saying. Then there is the generation factor and game world and so much to mill over.

On about the food.

 

[megamania]

... what? Oh, sorry. That was a reflexive action. I always post that when someone is speaking about soda.

I just noticed it was a German that has taken interest in US soda consumption. I'm not what that means but must have some sort of hidden meaning....

 

[haakon1]

*Shudder* Mountain Dew.... One of the few sodas to contain brominated vegetable shortening....

In AD&D days, I noticed at the gaming table that Mandarin Orange Slice contains glycerol ester of wood resin. Ummm, tasty wood resin . . .

 

[TheAuldGrump]

In AD&D days, I noticed at the gaming table that Mandarin Orange Slice contains glycerol ester of wood resin. Ummm, tasty wood resin . . .

Wood resin? Yumm! (And by Yumm! I mean Ick! )

The Auld Grump, I drink Dr. Pepper and I'm loud....

 

[BryonD]

In AD&D days, I noticed at the gaming table that Mandarin Orange Slice contains glycerol ester of wood resin. Ummm, tasty wood resin . . .

Yep. That is the part that tastes like orange. Really.
Look at just about any orange soda and you will see the same thing (as well as some other citrus flavor sodas)