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Shared: CraftBeer.com-Am Craft Beer Week May 14-20

CraftBeer.com-Am Craft Beer Week May 14-20 by BrewersAssociation:

Considered The Mother of All Beer Weeks, American Craft Beer Week (May 14-20, 2012) recognizes one of America’s true culinary arts and provides a platform for small and independent craft brewers to salute supporters and connect with their local communities. Tens of thousands of today’s beer enthusiasts, beer beginners and hard core beer geeks will toast the week with brewery celebrations predicted to take place in all 50 states.

Visit http://CraftBeer.com/acbw to learn more.

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Shared: NASA | Evolution of the Moon

NASA | Evolution of the Moon by NASAexplorer:

From year to year, the moon never seems to change. Craters and other formations appear to be permanent now, but the moon didn’t always look like this. Thanks to NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, we now have a better look at some of the moon’s history. Learn more in this video!

This video is public domain and can be downloaded at:
http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?10930

Like our videos? Subscribe to NASA’s Goddard Shorts HD podcast:
http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/iTunes/f0004_index.html

Or find NASA Goddard Space Flight Center on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/NASA.GSFC

Or find us on Twitter:
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Shared: TALKING YEAST WITH WYEAST LABORATORIES (2012)

TALKING YEAST WITH WYEAST LABORATORIES (2012) by NorthernBrewerTV:

Yeast junkies – you’ve hit the jackpot! Owen Lingley from Wyeast Laboratories visited our Northern Brewer Minneapolis store in early 2012. Here he discusses the following (in loose order): Wyeast’s history, new yeast strains for 2012, Activator “smack” packs, yeast starter recommendations, pitch rates, temperature and flavor/ester influence, harvesting and reusing yeast, approximating yeast count by percent solid by volume, aeration, attenuation, force-ferment test, VDK testing, yeast strain selection, flocculation, and collaborations with Northern Brewer Homebrew Supply.

Link to pitch rates and harvesting:
http://www.wyeastlab.com/hb_pitchrates.cfm

Yeast strain info:
http://www.wyeastlab.com/hb_yeaststrain.cfm

http://www.northernbrewer.com/

http://www.wyeastlab.com/

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Shared: (A Biologist’s) St. Patrick’s Day Song

(A Biologist’s) St. Patrick’s Day Song by cadamole:

I’m resurrecting this nerdy drinking song from last year… As many of you perceptive viewers noticed there were a couple alcohol-induced scientific errors in my last version of this song (gold star, perceptive viewers!) — so I thought this St. Patrick’s day would be a perfect time to correct them.

Lyrics:
In the year of our lord eighteen hundred and eleven
On March the seventeenth day
I will raise up a beer and I’ll raise up a cheer
For Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Here’s to brewers yeast, that humblest of all beasts
Producing carbon gas reducing acetaldehyde
But my friends that isn’t all — it makes ethyl alcohol
That is what the yeast excretes and that’s what we imbibe

Anaerobic isolation
Alcoholic fermentation
NADH oxidation
Give me a beer

[CHORUS]

My intestinal wall absorbs that ethanol
And soon it passes through my blood-brain barrier
There’s a girl in the next seat who I didn’t think that sweet
But after a few drinks I want to marry her
I guess it’s not surprising, my dopamine is rising
And my glutamate receptors are all shot
I’d surely be bemoaning all the extra serotonin
But my judgment is impaired and my confidence is not

Allosteric modulation
No Long Term Potentiation
Hastens my inebriation
Give me a beer

[CHORUS]

When ethanol is in me, some shows up in my kidneys
And inhibits vasopressin by degrees
A decrease in aquaporins hinders water re-absorption
And pretty soon I really have to pee
Well my liver breaks it down so my body can rebound
By my store of glycogen is soon depleted
And tomorrow when I’m sober I will also be hungover
Cause I flushed electrolytes that my nerves and muscles needed

Diuretic activation
Urination urination
Urination dehydration
Give me a beer

[CHORUS]

CHORDS

Intro:
D DAG / bm A
D D A G / bm A G D
G D A G / G D G A
G D A bm / G D A D

Pre – chorus:
G D A bm / G D A

Chorus (Li-Diddly-I):
G D A bm A
G D A D

Verse:
D DAG / Bm A
D D A G / Bm A G D
G D A G / bm A
G D A bm / G D A D

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Shared: Better Beer Society and Brewing TV Present: Pouring a Proper Pint

Better Beer Society and Brewing TV Present: Pouring a Proper Pint by BetterBeerSociety:

We know that you appreciate good beer. Your tap selection is exceptional, and you truly want your customers to receive the highest quality experience when enjoying their beer.

The Better Beer Society and our friends at Brewing TV have teamed up to provide this short video on how to pour a proper pint and achieve “beer clean” glassware.

Our goal is to help educate those seeking to improve upon their service standards, help prevent against profit loss, and maximize the quality of the beer being served.

We feel that there is a need for this; moreover, we feel the beer community deserves this. People have a choice of where to spend their hard earned dollars and nothing can ruin a beer faster than with dirty glassware or an improper pour.

Working together to raise the bar can only be a good thing for the Minnesota beer community, and as we strive to become one of the next destination craft beer states, it will be the little details like this that will truly matter.

For more information on staff training, menu consultations, or other ways that BBS can help your bar or restaurant, please contact rob@betterbeersociety.com or visit our website at http://www.betterbeersociety.com/

Cheers,

~Rob Shellman

Founder/Certified Cicerone®
Better Beer Society, LLC

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Shared: Somewhere Over the Rainbow/Simple Gifts (Piano/Cello Cover) – The Piano Guys

Somewhere Over the Rainbow/Simple Gifts (Piano/Cello Cover) – The Piano Guys by ThePianoGuys:

Become a Piano Guys Founder and get our Limited Edition Piano Guys Album (YouTube Hits Vol. 1) here: http://www.thepianoguys.com/music

Support us by downloading this song at one of the following links:
Our site: http://thepianoguys.com/newstore/somewhere-over-the-rainbow.html
iTunes – http://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/the-piano-guys/id498030399
Amazon.com – http://www.amazon.com/Somewhere-Over-Rainbow-Simple-Gifts/dp/B007EK1RWY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1330456192&sr=8-1

SUBSCRIBE to our YOUTUBE Channel here: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=thepianoguys

Follow ThePianoGuys here:
http://www.thepianoguys.com
Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/pianoguys
Twitter:
http://twitter.com/pianoguys

Story behind the song:
Jon Schmidt and Steven Sharp Nelson were booked for a Piano Guys show in Hawaii. How could we resist filming our next video in the land of Aloha — beautiful beaches, green mountains, and fresh pineapple?? We went to our Founders and Facebook fans to ask what song they wanted us to play there. “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” was the nearly-unanimous response. But you know how we are … we couldn’t “just” do this tune by itself…so in the studio we found a made-in-heaven matchup in the timeless melody from the Shaker Hymn “Simple Gifts” written in the 1800’s (also used by Aaron Copland in his Ballet “Appalachian Spring”). We feel it’s an especially appropriate mash-up because of our profound love and respect for the Hawaiian culture — a people who are so good at finding happiness in simplicity. As you probably could hear we borrowed a lot of ideas from Iz’s version which has become the stuff of legend. This arrangement is, in part, a tribute to him.

Getting a piano onto a sandy beach and then onto a big hill in a famous ranch within the SAME day (we only had 8 hours to film) was no small feat. The only thing harder would be to be predict Hawaiian weather, which ended up being our biggest challenge.

“We had a little extra help on this one. My mother, Lynne Sanders Nelson — a main source of my inspiration for pursuing music — passed away early in life from the effects of a brain tumor. She was an incredibly-gifted musician and taught me to play music passionately rather than just playing ‘notes’ on a page. ‘Somewhere Over the Rainbow’ was one of her favorite songs. We finished this arrangement on what would have been her 70th birthday. Somehow she helped. I miss her so very much, but when I play songs like this I feel like I get to be with her again. This song is dedicated to her.”
-Steven Sharp Nelson

Thank you so much to the Kualoa Ranch who bent over backwards last-minute for us and provided us such a beautiful place to shoot. Visit their site at http://www.kualoa.com — when you visit Hawaii be sure to stop by and take a tour — its where dozens of huge blockbluster movies/tv shows have been filmed.

This song is dedicated to
Lynne Sanders Nelson, The Hill Family, J. Mueller, & the people of Hawaii

Filming locations:
Beach Scene:
Pounders Beach, North Shore, Oahu Hawaii
Finale:
Kualoa Ranch, North Shore, Oahu Hawaii (This is the place to go for sightseeing on Oahu!)
Toll Free: (800) 231-7321
Tour Desk: (808) 237-7321
http://www.kualoa.com

Credits:
Over the Rainbow music written by Harold E. Arlen in 1939 for the movie “Wizard of Oz” — originally performed by Judy Garland
Published by EMI Feist Catalog, Inc.
Inspired, in part, by Israel Kamakawiwo’ole’s cover
Simple Gifts written by Joseph Brackett in 1848
Arrangement produced by Al van der Beek & Steven Sharp Nelson
Arrangement written by Jon Schmidt, Al van der Beek & Steven Sharp Nelson
Video produced by Paul Anderson and Tel Stewart
Piano: Jon Schmidt
Electric/Acoustic Cellos: Steven Sharp Nelson
Vocals: Al van der Beek
Percussion: Steven Sharp Nelson & Al van der Beek
Recorded, mixed & mastered by Al van der Beek at TPG Studio

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Shared: “Oh, Internet” – A love song.

“Oh, Internet” – A love song. by MyHarto:

This began as my Anti-SOPA song…but turned into so much more…
AVAILABLE ON ITUNES: http://ow.ly/8YeVc and http://harto.bandcamp.com/

“Oh, Internet”
Written by: Hannah Hart and Creator&Distractor (http://creatoranddistractor.com/)
Directed by: Dan Dobi (http://youtube.com/dandobi)

Follow your @harto (on twittah! http://twitter.com/harto)

Like on Facebook! http://facebook.com/my.drunk.kitchen

Buy HARTO SWAG: http://mydrunkkitchen.spreadshirt.com

LYRICS:

It’s a love song from my harto to yours.
lyrics
OOOH INTERNET
OOOH INTERNET

this constant refresh well they say it’s the death of us, baby
but I like what you do and the way that you change on the daily
when I walk down the street only strangers I meet
but I can shake loneliness in just a tweet

internet
i don’t want to lose you

oh internet
if you were a pokemon I’d choose you

oh internet
keep me on your feed
I synch to you pretty much constantly

OOOH INTERNET
OOOH INTERNET

every now and then I go and check on the mail
cause when there are physical letters consistency fails

oh these bills everyday,
lest they be autopay
are easy to ignore
….anyway

internet
i don’t want to lose you

OOO INTERNET

oh internet
you’re the only love that’s true

oh internet
i’d make out with your face
later tonight let’s meet in cyberspace

oh but I can’t get by unless there’s wifi
is this a drug that I need
there is no other way
I am at home all day
so that my torrents can seed
you just don’t get it
cause you’re not on reddit
and if you want me to go out
just make sure that there’s

internet
i don’t want to lose you

OOH INTERNET

oh internet
boo boo be boo boo-boop

OOH INTERNET

oh internet
I wrote you this song
and if you like it then you all can sing along