Owly055
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Please don't tell me I'm nuts.......... I hear that enough as it is ;-)
All living organisms respond to music. I've been experimenting with music and fermentation and finding some dramatic differences in flavor......... and mood while drinking, depending on the type of music played during fermentation. Unfortunately as fermentation is a 24 hour a day process. It looks like I'm going to have to build a fermentation shed to see to what extent I can modify the results of otherwise identical brews......... a soundproof shed. The same brew fermented with Richard Wagner (Ring Cycle), and Stevie Ray Vaughn (Voodo Child) for example were completely different products. I experimented with Paul Simon / Ladysmith Black Mombasa and got an entirely different result. I then played some indescribably offensive punk rock, and couldn't drink the product at all........ it was dumper! The music has MORE effect than the hops!!
Call me crazy if you will, but I'd love to hear other folks experiences with music and fermentation. My current pale ale I'm fermenting to Don Williams. I'm planning a pseudo lager fermented to Gypsy Kings next. Screamin Jay Hawkins ( I put a spell on you) is next, and I want to do an original Big Mamma Thornton Hound Dog brew next. The biggest problem I'm having is deciding what kind of brew to match with what kind of music. I think that's Important. You aren't going to get a well balance brew if the music doesn't work with the beer. I'm looking forward and planning an Irish Red fermented to Loreena McKennitt's Highwayman......... Perhaps it should be a porter, but I like Irish Red's.
H.W.
All living organisms respond to music. I've been experimenting with music and fermentation and finding some dramatic differences in flavor......... and mood while drinking, depending on the type of music played during fermentation. Unfortunately as fermentation is a 24 hour a day process. It looks like I'm going to have to build a fermentation shed to see to what extent I can modify the results of otherwise identical brews......... a soundproof shed. The same brew fermented with Richard Wagner (Ring Cycle), and Stevie Ray Vaughn (Voodo Child) for example were completely different products. I experimented with Paul Simon / Ladysmith Black Mombasa and got an entirely different result. I then played some indescribably offensive punk rock, and couldn't drink the product at all........ it was dumper! The music has MORE effect than the hops!!
Call me crazy if you will, but I'd love to hear other folks experiences with music and fermentation. My current pale ale I'm fermenting to Don Williams. I'm planning a pseudo lager fermented to Gypsy Kings next. Screamin Jay Hawkins ( I put a spell on you) is next, and I want to do an original Big Mamma Thornton Hound Dog brew next. The biggest problem I'm having is deciding what kind of brew to match with what kind of music. I think that's Important. You aren't going to get a well balance brew if the music doesn't work with the beer. I'm looking forward and planning an Irish Red fermented to Loreena McKennitt's Highwayman......... Perhaps it should be a porter, but I like Irish Red's.
H.W.