So. Is The Caribbean Dangerous?

[StevOz]

Actually beer is the best solution, snails and slugs love it, so much so they will drown in it. Just a few saucers full in the garden will do the deed.

 

[sleepy]

I like that idea. It's pricey though.

Here's a related article. "6 Uninhabited And Mysterious Islands With Bizarre Pasts".
Lost souls with no exit. Commonly known as Ghosts.

https://www.yahoo.com/travel/6-uninhabited-and-mysterious-islands-with-1282342162571318.html

 

[LeeVanCleef]

Actually beer is the best solution, snails and slugs love it, so much so they will drown in it.

Same with me in my 20s!

I hadn't read the last handful of posts in this thread so I clicked on the latest one and read them all backwards. I don't suggest doing this, because now my brain is hanging upside-down. I know there were some Klingons in a tree...

 

[sleepy]

When you did this, did you become aware of any "secret messages"?

 

[StevOz]

Still Luv this One..

AH ha!

 

[LeeVanCleef]

When you did this, did you become aware of any "secret messages"?

Oh, you know, the usual... "Paul is dead, mourn him mourn him"... then there's some studio chatter about how much it's going to cost to get Billy Shears to replace him, the lawyers get involved, someone lets Alan Klein into the room and then it becomes kind of hard to follow.

@Steve: that's the second-weirdest Gumby episode I've seen this week! Here's the first: https://www.ovguide.com/tv_season/the-gumby-show-season-1957-76217
There's a part where the Blockheads try to entomb Gumby in the same fashion that the Roman soldiers did to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, with much the same result. Just like in the Bible, Gumby transubstantiates into a race car and drives out of the tomb.

Hail Gumby's Mother, full of grace
Help Gumby win the stock-car race

 

[Isaac Sauvage]

so, like... they're a bunch a idiots without a CLUE?

 

[GSGregg]

Here's a related article. "6 Uninhabited And Mysterious Islands With Bizarre Pasts".
Lost souls with no exit. Commonly known as Ghosts.

https://www.yahoo.com/travel/6-uninhabited-and-mysterious-islands-with-1282342162571318.html

Was Clipperton Island photographed at high tide.....or low? istoles:

Also...do Klingons eat coconuts?

 

[sleepy]

That Clipperton Island was probably alright since there were inhabitants there for many years a century or more ago. The odd thing is that the island was mined for Guano (sea and bird shit), probably for fertilizer. And yet they ran out of food?
Unless of course they didn't trust the product themselves.

I suspect the modern epidemics of diabetes and other health issues are caused by fertilizer in our plant-sourced foods and drinks, and the lack of raw starches in our diet. I think the cooked or oxidized starches are to blame, and this is because I suspect the raw starches along with electrolytes and vitamins are what actually support and maintain the pancreas. Raw starches by nature are not oxidized. They are reducing agents that break down oxides instead. And that would be handy in protecting other reduction nutrients.

As an example, raw starches are converted to sugars by saliva. This behavior is normal and expected. But processed flours, bleached flours, cooked or baked starch products, crackers, rice, pasta, etc., never turn sweet in the mouth. Or only slightly.

 

[GSGregg]

...crackers, rice, pasta, etc., never turn sweet in the mouth. Or only slightly.

Saltines come to mind as doing just that; I like whole-wheat Ritz, too, although they begin sweeter than they wind up.

Clipperton was rejected as a setting for the unmade low-budget version of Doctor No.

Do Klingons eat bird shit?

 

[sleepy]

If Klingons do, then they're going to need the salt water.

 

[Coil_Smoke]

disclaimer: i'm not responsibobble for any particular room full of babbling airheads.

if i had my particular way, i wouldn't be careful with that axe, eugene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h32_wNcjLZA

"One Of These Days I'm Gona Cut You Into Little Pieces"...Just Sayin'

 

[Isaac Sauvage]

"One Of These Days I'm Gona Cut You Into Little Pieces"...Just Sayin'

*bingo*

also... "you see what i haff to verk viff, no?"

 

[elton]

Beer is by far the best solution .... but regrettably, I am off the nectar at the moment .... doctors short term orders until they get my issues resolved. Then I will hopefully resume on occasional days :)

 

[LeeVanCleef]

Beer is by far the best solution .... but regrettably, I am off the nectar at the moment .... doctors short term orders until they get my issues resolved. Then I will hopefully resume on occasional days :)

That would be awful! If you lived in America where they make real beer. (man, if those three emoticons aren't writing the story of every time I've had a beer, I don't know what emoticons could!) When I was working at a bar my friend owned, a distributor brought in an advertising banner for Guinness, always a tough sell in the "Hicksville, USA" states. My friend added his own tagline in Sharpie: "20,000,000 Limeys Can't Be Wrong!"

 

[sleepy]

So, why do you suppose the beer that comes with a twist of Lime is being marketed to Hispanics? Where's my ginger rum? I think Capt. Morgan uses spice cake!

 

[elton]

Captain Morgan rum .... urgh!

There are so many good rums Pussers etc. Rum is my spirit of choice and I have a considerable selection to taste at all times :) although I cannot have that either at the moment. All alcohol is banned boo hoo!

As for adding anything to beer .... dear God, will makers stoop any lower in their pursuit of more sales? They should make German and selected Belgium beers the de facto standard

 

[StevOz]

Ah Caribbean Rum, that which it was mayhap famous for?

Though I'm more of a real Ale man myself rather those same, same lager brews, if you've ever delved into the art of home brewing then you may know otherwise, though most have little to no appreciation of the vastly greater range and tastes of a real beer.

 

[elton]

On my last trip to Belgium I sampled a wide range of beers. Many were disgusting and with ABV's of 10% and up. But there were a number of very pleasant beers Palm for instance that were a sheer delight.

Tried the home brew route years ago. Started as a fan but grew weary of the inconsistent results. So 'real ale' beers are the same for me. They can taste good but invariably, I go off them.

Currently prefer German beers Perlenbacker and Graffenwalder .... lovely stuff .... have a fridge full but out of bounds :)

 

[StevOz]

Got to agree a beer anything over a ABV of 7.5% is most certainly not going to be a beer worth drinking and would have to be made using a wine yeast or some other method of brewing trickery.

Which brings me to mention the ICE beer, which when done correctly can indeed work, I believe the Canadians are to be credited with this style, though maybe the Japanese, both make some very nice ICE brews.

Water freezes at a higher temperature then alcohol thus the brew is bought to the freeze and some of the ice is removed to concentrate the beer whilst increasing the ABV, flavours and imparts a crisp clean finishing taste.

 

[LeeVanCleef]

When I want to play rummy, my choice is Sailor Jerry's. Add Coke and it tastes like a vanilla coke. Magic!

 

[elton]

Spiced bloody rum? ...... that just sucks big time.

Come on guys man up! The only thing that should go in a glass of rum .... is more rum!

I despair of the mere thought of bastardising beautiful rum with spices!!!!! Dear, oh deary me

 

[Shooby Doo]

Got to agree a beer anything over a ABV of 7.5% is most certainly not going to be a beer worth drinking and would have to be made using a wine yeast or some other method of brewing trickery.

There are some great imperial ales and stouts that hit 10% or more. I really like New Belgium's "Rampant" imperial IPA, which is around 9%, and is one of my favorite ales for the price. Founders Imperial Stout is amazing as well. http://foundersbrewing.com/our-beer/imperial-stout/?age-gate=verified

I've never attempted brewing my own beer, but there's a brewing supply store and growler bar a mile from my work I go to about once a week and fill 2 of my growlers. http://gravityhomebrew.com/whats-on-tap/ I'm actually about to go in few minutes... I'm thinking about filling one with the Breakout Stout or Breakfast Stout, and the other with the Blood Orange Blind Pirate. I love trying new stuff.

 

[StevOz]

There are no Ale or Lager yeasts which can ferment a beer much above an ABV of 7.5% without being killed from the alcohol.

So those "beers" with higher then 7.5% ABV can only be produced using a wine yeast or wild yeasts which can survive at much higher ABV concentrations maybe up to 14% or so.

A wine yeast will impart a completely different flavour to that of an Ale or Lager yeast, yes a wine like taste, so I don't really consider them to be beer, they are a carbonated malt based wine.

Yeasts are an interesting organism indeed and there are thousands of different strains, many exclusively used for a particular beer or style of beer. Lager and Ale yeast are completely different thus why a lager is a lager and and ale an ale.

Lager yeasts can only thrive and survive at very low temperatures 0C to 6C, whilst Ale yeast are far more robust able to thrive in the 12C to 28C range. The techniques to produce a lager are very different to those of producing an ale.