Archive for April, 2009

April 30, 2009

Strawberries

by Josh at 3:28 pm

Here is the first of what might be several garden posts coming.  This one is about strawberries and I’ll let the pictures do most of the talking.  This first picture was taken on April 5.  It’s a strawberry plant in our garden:

This next picture I took just a couple of minutes ago.  It’s the same [...]

April 22, 2009

On Flocculation

by Josh at 7:26 pm

There’s an article in Technology Review called “Brewing with Synthetic Biology.”  In this case the “brewing” refers to fermenting beer, as the articles mentions making modifications to yeast to control the time of flocculation.  Flocculation is basically the process of yeast clumping together and settling out of beer.  I tweeted about this article a little [...]

April 11, 2009

Weekly Links (weekly)

by Josh at 7:33 pm

lupulin glands – morebeer
This picture was taken to show off the lupulin gland of a hop cone that I grew myself. The yellow at the base of the bract is the lupulin.
tags: hop

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