Beer And Enlightenment-era Thinkers - An Observation...

[jyo]

No we aren't!

Yes, we all have an embarrassing post...or two. This was one of my over zealous efforts in the insemination of knowledge:

I'm a knob.

Great post BTW and welcome aboard. :icon_cheers:

 

[bignath]

No we aren't!

Yes i am!

 

[bum]

Prove it.

 

[JonnyAnchovy]

You left out the Derridian brewers - those of us who feel like we can't call our beers "Imperial" or without suspending them in quotation marks.


postcolonal-IPA anyone?

 

[JonnyAnchovy]

Mentioning Derrida, Odell has just released its 'deconstruction golden ale', aparently based on his philosophy.

 

[white.grant]

Prove it.

As Deleuze say's , "if you're trapped in the dream of the other, you're f_^ked"

 

[Silo Ted]

I'm the thinker and the fisherman,

and I'm trying to remember when,

but it makes me dizzy.......

 

[Lecterfan]

Thanks for the encouragement. In the sober light of day my otherwise rampant ego has been contained (although I think it was actually my Id to blame). I neglected the Derridian brewers as I thought that their take would be maybe too obtuse for my feeble brain to make a good brewing analogy.

My hat is off to anyone that can develop (and then understand) a Lacanian take on brewing.

Anyway, I am popping my 1056 today and doing a basic American Pale Ale tomorrow...can't be bothered opening Beersmith but it has heaps of Amarillo, a twist of Saaz, about 250 gms crystal, 30gms roast (depending on my mood), 2.5kg pale ale malt (I am restricted with my LHBS), and 1kg of LDME. I have tried it with some wheat in it previously and while it was nice, I just don't enjoy the lingering taste that wheat provides...even when it is a tiny part of the overall grain bill (he says hoping he has used the jargon correctly).

Due to the size of my...ahem...equipment I am still resticted to partials or very small (15L) AG.

I am picking up a 36L Rubbermaid (!!! - why does everything sound like a carry-on joke to me this morning?) tomorrow as my other esky proves to be a bit big, old and generally crappy to hold a consistent mash temp - especially as I am only ever doing a max of 4-5kgs at a time at the moment. Also I have found a 50L pot in a disposals store, but it is quite light weight. The supplier sold it to the shop as being SS but the shopowner thinks it might be SS plated (if such a thing exists). SO, things might change slowly and by the end of the year I hope to be doing adult sized AG batches.

 

[Bribie G]

:icon_offtopic:
Well off topic for beer - and I think I have posted this already somewhere but it's good for a laugh on election day:

WHY DID THE CHICKEN CROSS THE ROAD?


Plato: For the greater good.

Karl Marx: It was a historical inevitability.

Machiavelli: So that its subjects will view it with admiration,
as a chicken which has the daring and courage to
boldly cross the road, but also with fear, for whom
among them has the strength to contend with such a
paragon of avian virtue? In such a manner is the
princely chicken's dominion maintained.

Hippocrates: Because of an excess of light pink gooey stuff in its
pancreas.

Jacques Derrida: Any number of contending discourses may be discovered
within the act of the chicken crossing the road, and
each interpretation is equally valid as the authorial
intent can never be discerned, because structuralism
is DEAD, DAMMIT, DEAD!

Thomas de Torquemada: Give me ten minutes with the chicken and I'll find out.

Timothy Leary: Because that's the only kind of trip the Establishment
would let it take.

Douglas Adams: Forty-two.

Nietzsche: Because if you gaze too long across the Road, the Road
gazes also across you.

Oliver North: National Security was at stake.

B.F. Skinner: Because the external influences which had pervaded its
sensorium from birth had caused it to develop in such a
fashion that it would tend to cross roads, even while
believing these actions to be of its own free will.

Carl Jung: The confluence of events in the cultural gestalt
necessitated that individual chickens cross roads at
this historical juncture, and therefore
synchronicitously brought such occurrences into being.

Jean-Paul Sartre: In order to act in good faith and be true to itself,
the chicken found it necessary to cross the road.

Ludwig Wittgenstein: The possibility of "crossing" was encoded into the
objects "chicken" and "road", and circumstances came
into being which caused the actualization of this
potential occurrence.

Albert Einstein: Whether the chicken crossed the road or the road crossed
the chicken depends upon your frame of reference.

Aristotle: To actualize its potential.

Buddha: If you ask this question, you deny your own chicken-
nature.

Howard Cosell: It may very well have been one of the most astonishing
events to grace the annals of history. An historic,
unprecedented avian biped with the temerity to attempt
such an herculean achievement formerly relegated to
**** sapien pedestrians is truly a remarkable occurence.

Salvador Dali: The Fish.

Darwin: It was the logical next step after coming down from
the trees.

Emily Dickinson: Because it could not stop for death.

Epicurus: For fun.

Ralph Waldo Emerson: It didn't cross the road; it transcended it.

Johann von Goethe: The eternal hen-principle made it do it.

Ernest Hemingway: To die. In the rain.

Werner Heisenberg: We are not sure which side of the road the chicken
was on, but it was moving very fast.

David Hume: Out of custom and habit.

Jack Nicholson: 'Cause it (censored) wanted to. That's the (censored)
reason.

Pyrrho the Skeptic: What road?

Ronald Reagan: I forget.

John Sununu: The Air Force was only too happy to provide the
transportation, so quite understandably the chicken
availed himself of the opportunity.

The Sphinx: You tell me.

Mr. T: If you saw me coming you'd cross the road too!

Henry David Thoreau: To live deliberately ... and suck all the marrow
out of life.

Mark Twain: The news of its crossing has been greatly exaggerated.

Molly Yard: It was a hen!

Zeno of Elea: To prove it could never reach the other side.

Chaucer: So priketh hem nature in hir corages.

Wordsworth: To wander lonely as a cloud.

The Godfather: I didn't want its mother to see it like that.

Keats: Philosophy will clip a chicken's wings.

Blake: To see heaven in a wild fowl.

Othello: Jealousy.

Dr Johnson: Sir, had you known the Chicken for as long as I have,
you would not so readily enquire, but feel rather the
Need to resist such a public Display of your own
lamentable and incorrigible Ignorance.

Mrs Thatcher: This chicken's not for turning.

Supreme Soviet: There has never been a chicken in this photograph.

Oscar Wilde: Why, indeed? One's social engagements whilst in
town ought never expose one to such barbarous
inconvenience - although, perhaps, if one must cross a
road, one may do far worse than to cross it as the
chicken in question.

Kafka: Hardly the most urgent enquiry to make of a low-grade
insurance clerk who woke up that morning as a hen.

Swift: It is, of course, inevitable that such a loathsome,
filth-ridden and degraded creature as Man should assume
to question the actions of one in all respects his
superior.

Macbeth: To have turned back were as tedious as to go o'er.

Whitehead: Clearly, having fallen victim to the fallacy of
misplaced concreteness.

Freud: An die andere Seite zu kommen. (Much laughter)

Hamlet: That is not the question.

Donne: It crosseth for thee.

Pope: It was mimicking my Lord Hervey.

Constable: To get a better view.

 

[Steve]

For ***** sake.....philosophy and guitars for sale in the latest threads section........think I'll go and do something else

 

[Bribie G]

You think therefore you do.

Reminds me of a famous quote:


To be is to do - Descartes
To do is to be - Jean Paul Sartre
Do be do be do - Frank Sinatra



:icon_cheers:

 

[Lecterfan]

fantastic stuff...although given the swirling wu-wei-ness (?) of the pic next to your name BribieG I would have thought you might have postulated the Tao of Brewing. Be as the unmashed grain and so on...

 

[TasChris]

Some Plagiarism...................but still

Screwy

ordinary comment Screwy, not your finest moment.

To cast the Plagiarism stone is a big call. You should qualify your comment or.........

Cheers Chris

 

[fawnroux]

What about the Cartesian brewers?

I drink, therefore I am :beer:

 

[WarmBeer]

You think therefore you do.

Reminds me of a famous quote:


To be is to do - Descartes
To do is to be - Jean Paul Sartre
Do be do be do - Frank Sinatra

God is dead - Nietzsche
Nietzsche is dead - God

 

[Lecterfan]

haha - I often tend to look to Douglas Adams for advice in this realm...

 

[Newbiebrewer]

What about the Cartesian brewers?

I drink, therefore I am :beer:

Wouldn't it be I brew, therefore I drink?

 

[RobH]

You think therefore you do.

Reminds me of a famous quote:


To be is to do - Descartes
To do is to be - Jean Paul Sartre
Do be do be do - Frank Sinatra



:icon_cheers:

You forgot:
De do do do, de da da da - The Police

 

[Bribie G]

Yup, I had a police record in the 80s

 

[Hefty]

You forgot:
De do do do, de da da da - The Police

Yup, I had a police record in the 80s

I don't actually agree with my own statement here, but the smart arse in me just has to say:
"Yeah, I'd want to forget The Police too!" :lol:

HABAHAGD! :icon_cheers:
Jono.