Reminder :

Today, release of the new Mike Ladd's album : Father Divine.

Open Source Beer

A group of students from Copenhagen has created a beer named "Vores Øl" (Our Beer), to fight against the violence of capitalism.
The recipe is open, licensed under a Creative Commons License.
You can copy it, or doing your own version and even selling it. You can use as well all the graphics wich exist for this beer or create your own.
The only things you have to do is to credit the creators and precise on your creation that everybody is free to reproduce it in the same conditions.
You can visit the site on the originators of "Vores Øl" with a clic on the bottles. (this one is in Danish)

Here is the recipe for approx. 85ltr.

(Note that brewing for the first time is a bit tricky, so a reference book is recommended. For instance the free web book How To Brew).

Malt extract
For Vores Øl we use four types malted barley:

• 6 kg pilsner malt
• 4 kg münsner malt
• 1 kg caramel malt
• 1 kg lager malt

The malt is crushed and put in 55-60°C hot water for 1-2 hours.
The mixture is filtered and the liquid now contains about 10 kg malt extract.

Taste and sugar
Besides malt we use:

• 60 g Tetnang bitter hops
• 50 g Hallertaver aroma hops
• 300 g Guarana beans
• 4 kg sugar

(Guarana beans can typically be bought at health food stores).
The malt extact is brought to a boil in a large pot with the hops and approx. 70 ltr. of water.
After half an hour, the Guarana beans and sugar is added.
The mixture simmers for about an hour, and is then filtered and cooled in a sealed container.

Fermentation
Yeast is added and the beer is fermented at room temperature for approx. 2 weeks.
We use Safbrew T-58 yeast, available in 10g packeting, ideal for homebrewing (details).
When the beer is fully fermentet it is transferred to bottles. First 4 g sugar is added per liter and some yeast from the bottom of the fermentation tanks for priming.

Vores Øl is then left in the bottles at room temperature for 8-10 days for carbonation. Then the beer is ready to enjoy; cold and refreshing.

Changes

Video Days

I told you about this in the "How They Get There" post. Mark Gonzales by Spike Jonze in the Blind video : "Video Days".
Here is an extract of this legendary video.
As usual, just click on the image.

Father Divine

That's the title of the new Mike Ladd's album, in collaboratory with Mr Gymkhana/Soulmento (I introduced his album to you in a previous post of May).
This album will be release on november 15th 2005, but you can already listen to it. Just click on the album cover below, again on next page and then find the link : Listen to the entire album.

You can leave your impressions about the album on the Maraudeur.blog, I will send it to the authors.

"Why We Fight"

Few weeks ago, while I was zapping between Danish and Swedish TV, I saw a really interesting documentary movie. Hopefully, Swedish people doesn't have this bad habit of dubbing movies on TV, wich helps me a lot to watch a lot of things, because my Swedish is pretty limited.
The movie : "Why We Fight", a documentary movie from Eugene Jarecki about the USA and their tendancy to create conflicts.
I encourage you to see it.
And if you want to know more, clic on the image below.

La Cité…

A small drawing just like that.
This one was made this summer at la cité des enfants, where I spent all my week-ends this summer, with rather nice people.

How They Get There?

A little video wich I wanted to put online for a little while.
This time it's working!
And if you already seen it, I'm sure that you will enjoy to see it once again and again…
A little sweet from Spike Jonze.
Maybe some of you will recognize Mark Gonzales wich has already been shoot by Jonze in the Blind video, a long time ago…
Enjoy!



PS : Tusind tak Yours Truly for the link.

Wake up, wake up, wake up

Just few words to wake up, because it's been a long time now that there's nothing new on the Maraudeur.blog. Why? A shaky move from Paris to Copenhagen. And to spice it up, I had to go to the police because someone stoll me cheques. And my move to Copenhagen happened earlier than I expected.
Then it took some time to recieve my computer by the post and to get an internet line at home.
Of course, now that I'm living in Copenhagen, I'm going to give you a kind of guide tour of my own.
So see you soon.