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Blessed are the cheese-makers, I say. They shall inherit the curd.

Barm is a bread roll, or at least a barm cake is. Balm is something soothing. Myrhh would probably be an example. Every time I look at Boak & Bailey's book "Balmy Nectar" I shake my head in despair. When you describe someone as barmy is because their head's fizzy.

A quick googling shows that Carolous do a beer they call an Imperial Blonde. Looks just like a tripel to me.

Sorry, Dunc, I dont get it. You've lost me. I must need the "parts" refreshing. A heinneken and pep.

I agree, too. I had forgotten. In retrospect, isn't barm what we pitch, ie yeast in general.

Not at all. Why, when there are perfectly good English words? Ive never heard of EVG in 50+ years of brewing and beer reading. Using "foreign" words just to be cool or trendy is a pain in the neck. The French language is disappearing because the French, for some reason, want to replace...

Quite by coincidence, The Wise One was telling me the story of a Greek guy she used to know whose uncle had moved to England and had to shorten his surname to the last two syllables as nobody seemed to be able to cope with the unabridged edition. When you see some of the names, I can't say I'm...

Not surprising if it came out of Saxony, no matter how long ago. Language is fascinating. What we don't study in school history is the migrating of peoples. It would serve us much better than listing the fates of the wives of Henry VIII! I think we've managed to derail this thread even more...

Found it. This is a beautiful poem and worth persevering with. Its easier to understand if you read it aloud. He wrote this under the influence of 20 pints of kölsch. (just to stay on topic). My Orcha'd in Linden Lea (1859) Ithin the woodlands, flow'ry gleaded, By the woak tree's mossy moot...

Even devout pagans like me know the Lord's Prayer in English and Latin. Here it is in Old English: Fæder ure ðu ðe eart on heofenum si ðin nama gehalgod to-becume ðin rice geweorþe ðin willa on eorðan swa swa on heofenum. Urne ge dæghwamlican hlaf syle us to-deag and forgyf us ure gyltas swa...

Shakespeare went missing shortly after,

Dont know if this is any help, but I always put my hops in fine-mesh, oversize bags about a foot square. Each addition goes in a separate bag. When chilled remove and squeeze the bags. I then let all the trub and fine hop debris settle before running off the clear wort into the fermenter and...

Are these adjunct lagers what you call "cream ale"? I've been meaning to try one for ages.

Are we talking about decent, tasty lager here or have you tried to brew all the goodness out of it by making a Bud clone? If the former, then why not, provided you enjoy it as well. If the latter then congratulations on the copy, but I should send the lads packing or invite them to bring their own.

Got as far as konichi wa and couldn't make out another word, let alone identify the key words. I'll have to listen again. In the meantime, could you find a speaker who isn't struggling with her dentures! 😭😭

I think you're right, but I have a vision of a cider barn with its press and vats that has been used for centuries for making cider and which is thoroughly impregnated with its own yeast, much like the rafters of the Lambic breweries of Belgium. Or the orchards harbour a local yeast which have...

No they can't. It's not English. ae is rare and and is pronounced as in pee. oe at the end of a word is usually pronounced as in owe or a mangling of the word it originated from as the "oo" in canoe. ue is all aver the place, but has no correspondence with german, most commonly you or oo. We...

While I agree with "give it your own name" the ö is meaningless in English. When the diactitical is used in loan words, it indicates that two sequential vowels are to be pronounced separately. The convention arose because ö didn't appear as a key on many typewriters. Bit kölsch isn't a proper...

Not sure we know what a "stanger" is, but we might stretch to a curlsh glass. 😂😂😂 Yec'hed mat (or mad, depending which dialect you drink in).

No they didn't misspell it, they rendered it as closely as they could using the sounds used in English and the character set used to write the English language. The worst misspellers are the Chinese. I'm sure Ecksie could render the sound of his name more closely using English characters than...