tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445569787371915337.post2340557375100875380..comments2024-03-28T13:20:29.156-07:00Comments on Shut up about Barclay Perkins: Adulterated Lager BeerRon Pattinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03095189986589865751noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445569787371915337.post-50463478645310020052010-08-16T07:44:47.917-07:002010-08-16T07:44:47.917-07:00Talk about getting painless!
14 grains = ~910 mg,...Talk about getting painless!<br /><br />14 grains = ~910 mg, so about 1 gram per gallon. For comparison, a typical tablet of aspirin contains about 5 grains. Not exactly the cup of death, but not something you'd want at lot of in your beer.<br /><br />The salicylic acid sure would have "impeded digestion", though, since it can cause upset stomach and prolonged usage can cause gastrointestinal bleeding.Thomas Barnesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445569787371915337.post-7332235263243095992010-08-16T07:32:05.335-07:002010-08-16T07:32:05.335-07:00@Martin: Salicylic acid is also found in willow ba...@Martin: Salicylic acid is also found in willow bark (hence the conventional origin of the name, Latin Salix = willow). <br /><br />Given all the damnable things used for bittering beer before hops were invented, it wouldn't surprise me if willow bark wasn't used in gruit, just like meadowsweet was. <br /><br />Anyhow, people knew what salicylic acid was (by about 1855), before Bayer trademarked the name Aspirin (1899). Bayer's big contribution was identifying acetylsalicylic acid as a less irritating form of salicylate and aggressively marketing their product as aspirin.Thomas Barnesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445569787371915337.post-77689884887249156412010-08-01T15:10:10.851-07:002010-08-01T15:10:10.851-07:00It's even weirder that that, Ed: salicylic aci...It's even weirder that that, Ed: salicylic acid was originally extracted from meadowsweet, a herb used for flavouring mead (though not, as far as I have ever been able to discover, ale), and the name aspirin, according to <a href="http://www.purplesage.org.uk/profiles/meadowsweet.htm" rel="nofollow">this site</a>, is derived from the old botanical name for meadowsweet, Spiraea ulmaria. So in mead = good, in lager = bad …Martyn Cornellhttp://zythophile.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445569787371915337.post-4218477047615479142010-07-31T15:33:18.736-07:002010-07-31T15:33:18.736-07:00These gentlemen were fined for putting aspirin(bef...These gentlemen were fined for putting aspirin(before it was invented by Herr Bayer) in beer? A substance that was used, at the same time, here in the US as a preservative in Lager Beer.Ed Carsonnoreply@blogger.com