May 8, 2009
Ale or lager?
It's Friday, the swine flu press conferences are over, and the local tavern is just a few turns of the hour hand away.
But what would we do if happy hour struck and we were stranded far from the bar on some boozeless ship at sea?
Well, if we were as smart as the grad students behind the blog Southern Fried Science, we would have turned Mr. Coffee into Mr. Brewery long ago.
Believe it or not, you can make passable beer with an electric drip coffee maker with a hot plate, a coffee filter, some sort of grain, a little malt — Vegemite works — and a few other common ingredients and tools.
You can find step-by-step instructions in the drolly titled post: "How to brew beer in a coffee maker, using only materials commonly found on a modestly sized oceanographic research vessel."
And as the Southern Fried Brewmaster/Biologist points out, the "methods can be adapted to any lab or field work that demands it. The modestly sized oceanographic research vessel is not mandatory."
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