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Chemistry
A mighty subject to discuss, especially if your only training was a gas burner in school. I teach three of my kids home schooling, one of their favourites is chemistry. The good thing is, that chemistry is around in a lot of subjects. All chemistry is done in the kitchen. You tell a woman she is performing chemistry in the kitchen and she will give you one of those looks, like "dont teach me how to suck eggs". The chemistry of cooking gives one a bit more lee-way than brewing chemistry. I have discovered over the years, no matter how I try to take a short cut, it wont work. I have wasted a lot of time and precious "tongue hanging" hours, by not following exact instructions. Any one in the same boat?
Dave.
"dont teach me how to suck eggs".
I'm not sure I'm familiar with that look. I know the "Are you freaking kidding me?" and "You're a complete idiot" looks though.
I have two little ones and I have frequently thought that brewing would provide all sorts of lessons in chemistry. You even can get some pretty good measurements to crank through some formulas with and show about empirical formulas and everything else. Get yourself a good set of scales to go with that hydrometer and you're a go. Really cool stuff.
I wish my parents had tought me everything about beer, and how to make beer when I was in school.
initially my kids were curious about what i was doing and thought the bubbling during the fermentation was neat, but now a few batches later they have lost interest. but my kids are still young, i suppose that if there were a stage in brewing that was applicable to what the student is learning it may be helpful. otherwise what kid is gonna wanna hang around with their dad or mom on their time off make beer that they cant drink and do chemistry equations.
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