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No drunks need apply.

In what appears to be kind of the opposite of why someone would call an Uber to begin with (as opposed to, say, driving home drunk) Uber has filed a patent to develop technology that judges a user's behavior to gauge whether they’re under the influence.

Ostensibly to reduce incidents of Uber riders attacking or even sexually harassing or abusing drivers, it’s the latest extension of A.I. into what appears to be a normal transaction: ordering a ride, getting said ride, and then arriving at your destination.

The system will store information about Uber users, matching their behavior in the past to how they’re being now. If a user appears to be drunk, then Uber will match that user with a driver who has more experience or training with such individuals. In some cases, it could even refuse to accept the user.

http://bigthink.com/brandon-weber/s...ail&utm_term=0_45b26faecc-fb935d90a5-44221785
 
Ogdred_Weary said:
Meantime Brewery
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I always enjoyed their beers in the time Sainsbury's featured them a lot. They fell out or the brewery was taken over or something . . .

Never had a brew I did not like! From them, I mean . . . :nelly:
 
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JamesWhitehead said:
I always enjoyed their beers in the time Sainbury's featured them a lot. They fell out or the brewery was taken over or something . . .

Never had a brew I did not like! From them, I mean . . . :nelly:
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We stumbled across the Meantime brewery and pub just across the road from our hotel when we went to see Maiden at the 02 in August. Needless to say I was very jolly indeed by the time we hit the arena....

Trooper tastes pretty naff after a few pints of Meantime.
 
I've just finished (with a small amount of help from the Mrs) a bottle of red wine called 19 Crimes. It's an Australian wine, 13.5% but a bit perfumed and it didn't leave a hoped for aftertaste .. too flowery and watery we've decided.

The marketing gimmick seems to be including suggested vintage criminal mugshots, the bottle's more interesting than the wine it contains.

https://www.google.com/search?q=19+...7PXeAhUFJMAKHQDwB8wQ_AUIECgD&biw=1354&bih=641
 
Swifty said:
the bottle's more interesting than the wine it contains
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I have seen these and suspected as much!

I think the 19 may refer to a range of them. Maybe they are not all criminal but it does all reek of gimickry! :wacky:
 
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Not news, but it turns out that in parts of Norway superstition dictates that you have to yell into the fermenter when you make beer.

The yeast scream

A story is told about a farm where the trolls (she writes 'troll', but I'm pretty sure this really means the "subterraneans", and not the conventional giants) would always take the wort just as the yeast was added. They therefore asked a wise old man for advice, and he told them that just as the housewife pitched the yeast, someone else in the brewhouse should pretend to be frightened and scream "There's a fire on Killingeö" (Killinge island). When they later followed the wise man's advice, a troll woman ran out of the brewhouse, shouting in fear "Oh dear me! Then all my children will burn!" From that day on the trolls never took their Christmas beer.​

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Like caviar? Like gin? This is the drink for you! ...
Restaurant, distillery team to create caviar-infused gin
An upscale British restaurant teamed with a distillery to create a house gin infused with an unusual flavor -- caviar.

The Man Behind the Curtain, a Michelin-starred restaurant in Leeds, England, teamed with distillery Slingsby to create the gin, which shares the restaurant's name.

The creators said the gin was distilled with plankton and Exmoor Caviar to create a "savoury, unique and deliciously bold" flavor.

The gin is available as an ingredient in specialty cocktails at the eatery, and bottles of the seafood-infused spirit can be bought at the restaurant for $130.
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SOURCE: https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2019/0...m-to-create-caviar-infused-gin/6641549399178/
 
maximus otter said:
Fish-tainted paint stripper. Lush.
maximus otter
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:rofl2: M.O., just when I have you pegged as a "glass half empty" kinda guy, you go and tip the glass down the sink, saying it is undrinkable.:jtease:
 
Should be nicely settled by now.

Danish builders have found bottles of beer dating back over a century while carrying out renovation work on an old brewery in the Jutland city of Viborg.

They raised a set of floorboards to find seven 113-year-old bottles from the Odin Brewery, carefully stowed away in a wooden box, where they survived two world wars, the DR public broadcaster reports. The builders called in Viborg Museum's Dan Ersted Møller, who was delighted with the discovery. "This really is a unique find. The corks and labels are all in place. It looks like an entire selection of beers from back then," he told DR.

Sadly, two of the corks had dried out and the beer evaporated, but the remaining five bottles are intact, according to DR's Nyheder news programme. Among the bottles are examples of the most popular Odin offerings of the day - Prinsens Bryg, Odin Pilsner and Viborg Pilsner. Empty Odin bottles from that time are not unknown, but beer experts told Mr Møller that examples of the actual Odin product from 1906 are "very rare".

https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-47157642
 
Here's another vintage beer story. This one involves retrieval and resurrection of beer yeast (and resulting brew ... ) from the late 19th century.
Beer from 1886 shipwreck may yield new brew
Ahoy, beer lovers: A bottle from a 133-year-old shipwreck may yield yeast for a new brew in upstate New York.

Biotechnology students at the State University of New York at Cobleskill uncorked a bottle from the shipwrecked SS Oregon on Thursday. Serious Brewing Company of Howes Cave plans to develop a new brew if the students successfully extract yeast.

Bill Felter, of Serious Brewing, acquired the beer from a customer who owns an assortment of artifacts recovered from the Oregon.

The ship was en route from Liverpool, England, to New York City with 852 people aboard on March 14, 1886, when it collided with a schooner near Fire Island, New York, and sank. All but one person survived.

Last year, an Australian brewer produced beer from yeast recovered from a 220-year-old shipwreck.
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SOURCE: https://www.apnews.com/95b80e74134a4770a5f6fd30be117f23
 
EnolaGaia said:
Here's another vintage beer story. This one involves retrieval and resurrection of beer yeast (and resulting brew ... ) from the late 19th century.
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This sounds like a prequel to the Stephen King story Gray Matter:

"...one day his father drank a "bad" can of beer, implied to carry a mutagen, and since then has been slowly transforming into an inhuman blob-like abomination that detests light and craves warm beer. Spying on him one night, the boy saw his father eat a dead cat..."

maximus otter
 
ramonmercado said:
Should be nicely settled by now.

Danish builders have found bottles of beer dating back over a century while carrying out renovation work on an old brewery in the Jutland city of Viborg.

They raised a set of floorboards to find seven 113-year-old bottles from the Odin Brewery, carefully stowed away in a wooden box, where they survived two world wars, the DR public broadcaster reports. The builders called in Viborg Museum's Dan Ersted Møller, who was delighted with the discovery. "This really is a unique find. The corks and labels are all in place. It looks like an entire selection of beers from back then," he told DR.

Sadly, two of the corks had dried out and the beer evaporated, but the remaining five bottles are intact, according to DR's Nyheder news programme. Among the bottles are examples of the most popular Odin offerings of the day - Prinsens Bryg, Odin Pilsner and Viborg Pilsner. Empty Odin bottles from that time are not unknown, but beer experts told Mr Møller that examples of the actual Odin product from 1906 are "very rare".

https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-47157642
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Very interesting, I wonder what it tastes like. Most beer ages badly but I did see a video of some guys drinking a fifteen year old miller lite they find in a river and it was... Unchanged.

Edit: wrong details. It was a 30 year old can of Coors.


 
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I'd have cleaned the can first.
 
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Australian scientists find world's oldest brewing yeast, make some beer, get drunk

In 1797, a trading ship called Sydney Cove sank off the coast of Australia. It was travelling from Calcutta, India, to Sydney.
On board was beer, among other things, and researchers have just managed to recreate that very same brew - what 18th century sailors would've been drinking on the voyage. Before they got drunk and crashed (it was probably the weather).
Named Preservation Ale, it's described as surprisingly "light and fresh". At 220-years-old, it could be the oldest specimen in existence. Modern brewers should take note of the delightful blend.

The tipple was made possible thanks to scientists at Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery in Tasmania. They managed to cultivate a live yeast sample taken from a recovered beer bottle that was left intact in the shipwreck.
Sydney Cove had sat undisturbed at the bottom of the ocean for centuries. In the 1990s, divers salvaged various artifacts - one of them being booze.
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How about this, the Jurassic Park of beers? The article is from 2009, this guy has been resurrecting ancient micro-organisms (what could possibly go wrong?) since the '90s.

Amber Ale: Brewing Beer From 45-Million-Year-Old Yeast

The dish contains a variant of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, known in culinary circles as baker's or brewer's yeast. But Cano didn't get this from Whole Foods. Back in 1995, he extracted it from a 45 million-year-old fossil. The microorganisms had lain dormant since the Eocene epoch, a time when Australia split off from Antarctica and modern mammals first appeared. Then Cano brought the yeast back to life.

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In March 2006, chip Lambert happened to meet a guy named Peter Hackett at a ski resort in Lake Tahoe, California. Hackett is a Northern California pub owner and brewer. Before long, the conversation turned to ancient yeast. "It started as a very casual, noncommittal, you-must-be-out-of-your-mind conversation," Hackett recalls. "He told me the story of how Cano revived the yeast, how it resembled brewer's yeast. And then he said, 'Wouldn't it be interesting if we could make beer with it?'"
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Beware the grey- and black-market hooch ...
Bootleg Liquor Kills Scores In India's Latest Mass Outbreak Of Alcohol Poisoning

After long days picking leaves on tea plantations in India's remote northeast, some laborers like to relax with a glass of cheap, strong, locally-brewed liquor. Most can't afford the brand-name stuff.

But Indian authorities say at least 93 people have died and some 200 others are hospitalized after drinking tainted alcohol there in recent days. Some are in critical condition.

This is the second mass outbreak of alcohol poisoning in India within two weeks. As many as 100 people died from the same thing in Uttar Pradesh and neighboring states earlier this month. In that incident, survivors said the liquor was unusually milky in color, and smelled like diesel fuel.

What they all drank is illegally made, but widespread in India. It's called hooch, or country liquor – a type of bootleg booze you can buy in most villages: at a counter, by the glass, or in little plastic single-serving pouches. It's much cheaper than branded, regulated alcohol. Sometimes it's a brewed or fermented concoction similar to beer or wine; other times it's distilled into spirits.

Police said Saturday that they've traced the latest deaths, in Assam state's Golaghat and Jorhat districts, to batches of local hooch laced with methyl alcohol, sometimes also called methanol or wood alcohol. It can be used as a fuel or industrial solvent, and it's widely available in Indian markets. But if consumed, it attacks the central nervous system, and is often deadly. ...
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FULL STORY: https://www.npr.org/2019/02/23/6973...ol-poisoning?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=news

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After another 2 days (as of 25 February) the death toll has risen to 154 ...

https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/24/asia/india-alcohol-poisoning/index.html
 
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For a limited time* American adults can revert to their childhoods with a sip of a specialty beer brewed to taste like their favorite candied breakfast cereal.

* Seems like the end time, so it's probably a good thing it's limited ...

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Cereal-inspired beer brewed with marshmallows
A Virginia brewery's Lucky Charms-inspired beer evokes the breakfast cereal not only in its packaging, but in its use of marshmallows.

Smartmouth Brewing Company sad the beer, dubbed Saturday Morning, will debut Saturday at its tasting room in Norfolk.

The brewery describes the limited-edition IPA as "magically ridiculous," a play on Lucky Charms' "magically delicious" slogan. The design of the can is also evocative of the Lucky Charms box.

Chris Neikirk of the Smartmouth Brewing Company told USA Today the beer is "brewed with in-house toasted marshmallows and bulk dehydrated-marshmallow-bits."

Neikirk said Saturday Morning "has a soft pillowy body with a slight cereal taste."

Despite the Lucky Charms references, Neikirk stressed the brewery is "not marketing to children."

"It is just a beer evoking nostalgia in adults who remember days when Saturday mornings were a time that you sat around watching cartoons and playing games," Neikirk said. ...
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SOURCE: https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2019/02/26/Cereal-inspired-beer-brewed-with-marshmallows/3141551198010/
 
James_H said:
How about this, the Jurassic Park of beers? The article is from 2009, this guy has been resurrecting ancient micro-organisms (what could possibly go wrong?) since the '90s.
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I’ll see your velociraptor stout and raise you a fanny lager:

“...vagina beer is actually A THING.

Order of Yoni beer (‘yoni’ is sanskrit for, well, vagina), is brewed with bacteria swiped from a model’s vagina. I’ll just give you a moment to think about that.

"This sour ale is essentially full of femininity, sensuality, charm, passion and sexuality due to vaginal lactobacillus bacteria usage in the brewing process."

Sour ale? That makes me think of the poor model with all that swabbing.

Ingredients are listed as “water, barley malts (Pilsner, Munich, caramel, roasted), hops (American Cascade, Polish Iunga), cognac oak chips, yeasts, lactobacillus. Unfiltered, pasteurized. ABV 6,1%.

I don’t know about you, but I think I would rather have mine filtered.

So far, there are apparently two models (who clearly *aren’t* porn stars), called Monika and Paulina. Oh, and in case you can’t get the image of a woman having a smear test out of your mind, there’s a handy swab date on each and every bottle that tells you exactly when the lady had the cotton bud shoved up her front bottom while her legs were in stirrups with socks still (probably) on her feet. It's the vagina beer gift that just keeps on giving.”

maximus otter
 
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