#congener

Avoid drinks with congeners. It will make your life a living hell for days. It won't matter if you had a greasy burger or pizza the night of. YOU. WILL. SUFFER.

Drink water in-between each alcoholic drink. Drink water/electrolytes before bed. You can make an electrolyte mix and drink that when you come home.

Don't mix alcohols. Wine with bourbon whiskey and a side of tequila? Throw in a little cognac for fun? Do it only if you hate yourself and want to SUFFER.

Sleep. Just sleep most of the shitty minutes, hours, days away.

Hydrate. HYDRATE. Before, during, after. Water and electrolytes are your friends.

"After you drink alcohol, methanol is converted into formaldehyde, a toxic compound that could be the cause of some hangover symptoms" Yeah I didn't plan on introducing formaldehyde into my body until body preservation after death but poisoning myself because I'm able to buy alcohol now was a rookie move.

Drinking alcohol can prevent the conversion of methanol to formaldehyde, which could reduce some hangover symptoms." I did not try this method. I said fuck it and had some Powerade.

"Some supplements, including red ginseng, prickly pear, ginger, borage oil and eleuthero, have been studied for their ability to decrease hangover symptoms." I didn't have any of these so fml.

"Through the process of ethanol fermentation, sugars are converted into carbon dioxide and ethanol, also known as alcohol." Just say I poisoned myself AND GO.

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#RSWFW: C: Grassy, 1. Fresh, Green Banana

In the Revised Scottish Whisky Flavour Wheel the congener of “banana” is mentioned twice. Ones in the “Grassy, Fresh” section and ones in the “Fruity, Tropical” section. I decided to combine the two congeners into two blog entries with the same texts. (for now)

The Congener of Banana not as simple as you may expect. Banana’s come in unripe, ripe, overripe, rotten and cooked / baked varieties. All…

Below are photo’s of wash back of the Bruichladdich Distillery.

On my Bruichladdich and Ardbeg Tour I had the opportunity to taste and smell the Wort.

On the Bruichladdich tour I blogged these notes:

“I cannot remember if I had the same reaction to the beer like smell that I got at Ardbeg. I’m sure it had. I’m sure it had fruity malty cereal banana beer-like notes. I just can’t remember as I am writing this weeks later (November 10th). Now I need to redo the tour and make notes! Darn!!”

On the Ardbeg tour I blogged these notes:

We were allowed to “smell” different stages of this process by putting out arms in the wash back and spooning the air. The smell sticks to your arm and this can be smelled better than just sticking your head in the wash back. It felt weird, but it worked.

It smelled fruity, peaty and malty. It also had a beer-like smell to it in a way. It’s great to experience this and let your nose do its job. I spooned the wash back as often as I could in an attempt to get as much smell in my brain as I could. Unfortunately you cannot bottle this. You have to be there. The wash backs are steam cleaned after use in preparation for the next batch.

To explain what the yeast is doing to the Wort I could explain in text alone, but honestly that would be a huge bore to have to read. Instead you can look at these video’s below that explain how sugars are converted to ethanol by yeast.

A second video explains the Krebs Cycle.

And a third video to wrap things up.

All video’s are part of a playlist : https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTve54sz-eh-I4N1VmmskFrW9CS65iUiM part of an online coarse given by the University of Oklahoma.

To complete this blog about what Wort taste and smells like.

It tastes and smells like beer.

Without the hops.

That is about as useful as I can describe it. So if you smell something that reminds you of your favourite beer. Then describe it as such, or call it “Wort”.

I will naturally remind you that “Beer” or “Wort” is as non-descriptive as it gets. May as well say it tastes like “Wine” or “Cheese” of some other general descriptor like “Chocolate” or “Sherry” …..

Oh wait those are on the Flavour wheel too.

Guess thats ok then 😉