[Jellyfish]

Originally Posted by ReikoX

Like cannabis, it is best to make your own.

EXACTLY! And according to some friends, not any more difficult to accomplish than growing weed.

[stoned-trout]

Beer ain't hard to make at all....yeehaw..but it can start a brewing addiction....they made a beer once using cultures from a guys beard/ mustache once....lol...

[Jellyfish]

Anybody have a great canna-beer recipe?

[Dog Star]

Originally Posted by Jellyfish

Anybody have a great canna-beer recipe?

Yes... roll some good joint from quality weed and open Weise Beer
Paulaner in bottle and you will have best canna-beer ever...

all those canna-beers dont have great taste so i found mine own
combo that suits me best...

[NotYourSaviour]

Originally Posted by NotYourSaviour

As someone quite into health in general(no fanatic anymore though) this isn't anything new to me as this information was released a long time ago, no offence intended though so spread the word please indeed!

Agree with what's been said before in terms of live as autonomously as possible
whether it's about grow your own vegetables and weed, animal breeding, brewing beer/cultivate wine or what ever aspect of life ; that's the thing though as this approach sadly tends to be only limited to privilleged individual persons, not for the masses.

So what we need is indeed a non-commercial approach when it comes to those areas of life and an industry we can trust. Easier said and done and it doesn't take into account things like environment protection, public transport and lots of other crap but we need to start somewhere, don't we?

However, in regards of German Rheinheitsgebot:




If you think about the above you might come to the conclusion of others amongst myself thinking that this Rheinheitsgebot is one of the first anti-drug laws in history as beer is just so much more ; an interesting aspect me thinks.


Probably the same with wine. Don't get me wrong Rheinheitsgebot is a good start but indeed overrated as see the above(there would be much more to say about that, it's up to you of course)it's just a shame how institutions like church modified traditional approaches again. Again I'm for purity, labelling of ingredients and health protection but every style of 'real' tradtional beer should be allowed.

Sorry, my fault I forgot about an essential previous paragraph but I like to quote myself, too!


Voilà:

Beer was spread through Europe by Germanic and Celtic tribes as far back as 3000 BC,[32] and it was mainly brewed on a domestic scale.[33] The product that the early Europeans drank might not be recognised as beer by most people today. Alongside the basic starch source, the early European beers might contain fruits, honey, numerous types of plants, spices and other substances such as narcotic herbs.[34] What they did not contain was hops, as that was a later addition, first mentioned in Europe around 822 by a Carolingian Abbot[35] and again in 1067 by Abbess Hildegard of Bingen.[36] [from:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer ]

So what Wikipedia here describes so shy with 'narcotics' are psychoactive solanaceae among other 'evil' ingredients.

So hope this makes more sense then what I'm about.

[MJPassion]

Originally Posted by Dog Star

Yes... roll some good joint from quality weed and open Weise Beer
Paulaner in bottle and you will have best canna-beer ever...

all those canna-beers dont have great taste so i found mine own
combo that suits me best...

Excellent suggestion...
The Paulaner brewers...
Loves me some Dopple Bach but shit it's heavy the next morning when I have more than two.

FUCK yellow beer (except a good Heffweisen)...
I like pink beer too!

Always w a good meal or a joint/bowl.

[DocTim420]

LOL, the second I read Gypsy's post I immediately remembered this "sobering event" reported 10 years ago.

Builders find body in rum barrel

Builders at a house in Hungary drank a barrel of rum, only to find a pickled corpse at the bottom, a Hungarian police website has reported.

The man's body fell out when the workers tried to move the 300-litre (66-gallon) barrel at the end of their binge, the report on Zsaru.hu said.

The website said the man's wife had stored the body in the barrel after he died in Jamaica 20 years ago.

The workers said the rum had a "special taste" and had planned to bottle some.

The website said the builders made the grisly discovery six months after the woman, who was in her 80s, died.

It said the woman had shipped her husband's body back home to the city of Szeged in the rum barrel to avoid the cost and paperwork involved in sending it back by official means.

The report is the latest such account to emerge of bodies discovered preserved in liquor, some of which have been discounted as myths.

Source: news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4976754.stm


LOL, "special taste"...I bet it was more "earthy" than "savory".

[Snook]

Originally Posted by Douglas.Curtis

Indeed, this seems to be true for a large variety of things. A variety which would be even greater, had I a factory at my disposal. lol

only if there were no government interventional restrictions and regulations.

[Snook]

Originally Posted by billy_big_bud!

wtf? beaver anus? really? like... how did that even become a thing? who starts experimenting with beaver anus in the first place? i just feel....confused.

ya first have to be an asshole.

[Gypsy Nirvana]

Castoreum, a flavouring ingredient, comes from the two sacs between the anus and external genitals of male and female North American beavers. It's bitter, orange-brown, odiferous and oily.

Apart from its original purpose of marking territory (when mixed with urine), it's used in perfumes, in good company with another delightful animal product: ambergris, aka whale vomit.

Castoreum helps scent cigarettes and incense. And it's used to enhance the flavour of alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages, baked goods, gelatins, puddings, soft and hard candies, frozen dairy products and chewing gum. Jamie Oliver told David Letterman it's used in vanilla flavouring in ice cream, but this has been disputed.

So which food products is it used in, specifically? No manufacturer will say, for obvious reasons.

Don't we have a legal right to know? Most certainly. But castoreum has been safely included, by the US Food and Drug Administration, in the umbrella category "Natural Flavor." No need to list any ingredients more specific than that.

Chapter 5 of Fast Food Nation expounds on the bizarre and shadowy world of Natural Flavors. We tend to think that food tastes like it does because the ingredients taste like they taste. But it ain't necessarily so, raspberry soy ice creamif we're talking processed foods, which soak up 90 percent of Americans' food budget.

A chemical additive provides the flavour. The majority of these are provided by a number of factories in New Jersey, which are highly secretive about their processes and clients' names. Author Eric Schlosser was allowed to tour several of these factories, and couldn't disclose specific brands, but he witnessed products of these types being flavoured: potato chips, corn chips, bread, crackers, cereal, pet food, ice cream, cookies, candies, toothpaste, mouthwash, antacids, popular soft drinks, sport drinks, bottled tea, wine cooler, all-natural juice drinks, organic soy beverages, beer and malt liquor.

There's also no legal obligation to disclose the components of a colouring agent. One such ingredient is cochineal extract, also called carmine or carminic acid (quick linguistic side note: the word "carminative" refers to something that makes you fart). As Schlosser describes, it comes from "the desiccated bodies of female Dactlyopius coccus Costa, a small insect harvested mainly in Peru and the Canary Islands." Seventy thousand of these creatures get ground up to make a pound of carmine, which helps make foods look pink, red and purple. Schlosser disclosed that this is used in Dannon strawberry yogurt, as well as Ocean Spray pink-grapefruit juice drink, and various frozen fruit bars, candies and fruit fillings, and RASPBERRY BEER!

I wish I could give you a specific list of where you might find castoreum, but none of my internet digging gave me anything more specific than repeated references to raspberry candies, and raspberry flavoured foods in general.

To paraphrase a bit from George Carlin's book When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops, if what you're looking for is raspberry flavour, you really can't do much better than eating some raspberries.

And maybe we should politely request our regulating bodies to let us know when we're ingesting crushed red bugs and/or the extract of a beaver's anus.

https://beamsandstruts.com/bits-a-pi.../907-castoreum

Here is another good link about so-called 'Natural' food additives:

https://www.organics.org/11-disgusti...-in-your-food/