It Has Begun. . .

While checking out the homebrewing forums on BeerAdvocate.com, I ran across someone asking for advice on how to sanitize wood chips.  These comments caught my eye:

chefr0b: . . .From what I've read, the alcohol content will help to stave off infection. But I would boil them first in water, drain and then add the sanitized chips. Dogfish Head just did something similar with Cedar wood for their Grain 2 Glass beer. . . [and in response to another comment] . . .are you saying Dogfish Head is wrong? They clearly showed the process of preboiling the cedar in that episode to ward off infection.


We are seeing the first steps in the creation of the Gospel According to Sam.  I knew that damn show would do this. . .

Friar:  ...And Saint Sam raised the beer up on high, saying, "O LORD, bless this Thy beer that with it Thou mayest make Thine enemies very drunk, in Thy mercy." And the LORD did grin and the people did put into their fermenters the lambs and sloths and carp and anchovies and orangutans and breakfast cereals, and fruit bats and large chu...

Brother Maynard: Skip a bit, brother.

Friar: ... And the LORD spoke, saying, "First shalt thou take the Holy Wood, then shalt thou boil it for three minutes, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt boil, and the number of the boiling shall be three. Four shalt thou not boil, neither boil thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then strain thou thy Holy Wood into thine fermenter." Amen.