Posts by Bart Janssen
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until the mormons went away
Not sure letting my bathrobe slip open would have achieved anything other than getting a visit from the constabulary. Our solution was
We used to invite them in and make them tell us about the magic glasses
I don't know why but they really hate it when you ask lots of detailed questions :).
I think we got blacklisted because after a couple of times they skipped our flat
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No, it's nothing personal. I'm from New Zealand, we all swear like that.
While I was working in a lab in CA I used to say "bugger" when I stuffed up - again.
One day two of the students commented that they really liked the sound of the word and my accent - what did the word mean?
I explained, and had to stop using it from then on :(
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Ha! what is going on with the italics? I took extra special care at checking that I'd left a space after the second dash, of the word I was attempting to italic.
Just put two spaces after the italics.
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Just before I head home to drink some wine with alcohol, probably a nice Sav blanc on this hot evening.
The LA times with a story on alcohol free wine.
this quote fits with my experienceAfter swirling, sniffing and spitting, the testers concluded that the primary thing these wines lack is what is known as “mouth-feel” – a certain thickness and the rich sensation of flavors bursting in the mouth. “Alcohol knits a wine together and gives it weight,” Brown says. Without it, the wine tastes thin and watery.
And if anyone wants to try some there is an importer in NZ.
cheers
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It isa funny thing to have such a long argument about though
Nah it was too hot to do real work and it's a light-hearted subject to ran.. er discuss.
You did head the blog up as conversation starters and like many conversations it wandered a little :).
I just hope Emma isn't too upset.
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Alcohol is in fact, a solvent
So is water. Your point is?
Are solvents a new target of chemicalism - if it dissolves stuff it must be bad. (Almost all liquids are solvents for something, either polar or non-polar).My points are.
Ethanol extracts flavour compounds from grape skins, hops etc that are not extracted by water. So by fermenting and producing alcohol you extract more flavour into the liquid. Also true in cooking BTW.When you remove alcohol from a fermented liquid it is nearly impossible to avoid removing flavour compounds at the same time.
So the point is alcohol free wine/beer whatever has less flavour.
Alcohol in wine/beer is more volatile than water. When placed in the mouth fluids with alcohol are warmed and alcohol vapour is formed (as is water vapour just less so). That vapour is carried up to receptors in your nose where you actually perceive most of the taste of anything you ingest. Fluids without alcohol produce less vapour in the mouth and without alcohol some compounds in the fluid are not carried to the nose.
So the point is a non-alcoholic wine/beer is not perceived as having as much flavour.
All to explain why alcohol free wine is not present on your supermarket shelves in large quantities. It just does not taste as good.
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Oh Bart, you romantic dawg you. I bet they just swoon in your arms, don't they?
Only one :)
And that is plenty :)
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Nothing to do with getting their women drunk, then?
Or making them look/smell nicer?
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I did pretty well in chemistry in my day too :-)
Sorry Graeme, that came out sounding much more arrogant than intended.
Both are polar solvents. Ethanol does extract a whole lot more compounds from the grape skins than water. And when you remove ethanol from the wine you tend to remove a huge number of the flavour compounds, changing the flavour of the alcohol free "wine".
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had my sexuality called 'disordered'
What?
You didn't make the bed afterwards??