Blessing over beer

**Galician** · 14th April 11, 11:32 AM

Originally Posted by CDNSushi

Well, if I DID, you know I'D be qualified... At least in one sense, anyway.

Errr, actually I wouldn't know. Not without someone checking.

Originally Posted by EagleJCS

Looks like something Friar Tuck would have said...

Catholics will bless anything if they think it would do any good for the item/person/action being blessed. (Before anyone gets upset about that statement, I was raised Catholic - now lapsed - and my aunt's a nun. And I'm loosely quoting a priest I know.)

You can add me to that list.

I never knew that there was a blessing for fire extinguishers before I looked at that website!

**Bugbear** · 15th April 11, 11:25 AM

Thanks.
I've heard beer referred to as being liquid bread.

**Lallans** · 15th April 11, 11:31 AM

Originally Posted by Bugbear

Thanks.
I've heard beer referred to as being liquid bread.

Liquid fun bread?

**Bugbear** · 15th April 11, 11:40 AM

I don't drink anymore, but I used to like spicy, peppered tomato juice in beer. It reminded me of chips and salsa.

**AFS1970** · 15th April 11, 09:17 PM

Well it is at least from the time when Franklin was alive but I do not know if it is his or not, but here is an old punch recipe I found.

One part sour
Two part sweet
Three part strong
Four part weak

Sour is some sort of citrus, often lemon or lime. Sweet would be sugar, strong would be the Rum, and weak I had originally heard was water but then I saw an episode of Good Eats where Alton Brown said that weak was really black tea.

**Bugbear** · 15th April 11, 09:39 PM

Originally Posted by AFS1970

Well it is at least from the time when Franklin was alive but I do not know if it is his or not, but here is an old punch recipe I found.

One part sour
Two part sweet
Three part strong
Four part weak

Sour is some sort of citrus, often lemon or lime. Sweet would be sugar, strong would be the Rum, and weak I had originally heard was water but then I saw an episode of Good Eats where Alton Brown said that weak was really black tea.

Interesting, but I think it was more detailed than that. I recall the history professor explaining the process of making sugar and molasses, and that the sugar was in some kind of hard, cone shape that was cut into chunks with a pair of pinchers or something like that.

It was about seventeen or eighteen years ago, so hard to remember.