#alcohol aging

[boissonsaumiel]

Sound is vibration. Any vibration, applied to an oak barrel, will cause the oak flavor from the barrel to diffuse more quickly into the beverage inside. Shaking a container mixes up the stuff in the container. You get a woodier tasting wine in a shorter period of time.

Potentially vibration might also speed up the formation of esters (molecules that impart a sweet smell/flavor) and make it age faster.

It's reported that alcohol ages faster at warmer temperatures. Of course, there's a limited temperature range in which you can play around with this without just cooking the alcohol and producing a totally unwanted chemical reaction. Applying sound vibration to a liquid should accomplish something similar to a moderate temperature increase -> it makes the molecules inside the liquid move faster and bump into each other more, accelerating the catalysis (catalysation?) of biochemical reactions therein.

So exposing a barrel of wine to constant sound vibrations could theoretically produce a better aged (smoother, oakier tasting) alcohol in a shorter amount of time.

The main factor at play here is the force of the vibration. Loud music will have a stronger effect.

The style/quality of the music is largely irrelevant.

I just found out the most hilariously amazing thing.

[asteroidtroglodyte]

5 years ago, I was in Rehab.

10 years ago, I was watching my Potential and Opportunities dissolve and evaporate in an ocean of cheap gin and expensive whiskey.

But 5 years ago, I was in Rehab.

One of the exercises they had us perform was to imagine ourselves happy, 5 years in the future.

Many of us in that room had forgotten how to imagine nice things happening to them. A few snorted (well, I snorted), finding the notion that we’d even still be around in 5 years grimly humorous.

For about half of us, it was the last stop on the way down.

But I indulged the therapist. I was there, after all, because I did not want to die. So, I imagined myself, 5 years hence.

Happy.

It came to me all at once; an artistic remix on Norman Rockwell’s Freedom From Want, reframed with myself placing food at the table.

Sunday Dinner At My Place, I answered, when it came my turn to share my fantasy. I was asked what food I imagined eating.

It’s not the meal itself, I said, it’s the implications framed around it. Sunday Dinner At My Place means that I have a Place. It means that I have Family that will actually speak to me and friends who actually want to see me. It means money enough not just to feed myself but others too. It means having the time to spare to take the time preparing the meal.

A lot of nodding heads all around me. A struck chord. Many people with no Place, in that place. Nowhere that would lament their leaving.

5 years hence, as I lay down to sleep in my Home, with my Wife and my Son, surrounded by my Art and my Flowers, I reflect.

It was a long road. It was hard. We lost people. So many people. There were long days and long nights and hospital stays. Angry arguments with ghosts. I changed, in ways I never hoped for, or expected. Good ways, finally, for once. Slowly, against the backdrop of a world in chaos, I found my mind.

Sometimes, My Wife wondered aloud, what she did to deserve me. After some stumbling with my feelings, I eventually settled on an answer.

I’m a Rescue.

She gave me a Home.

And, so, I gave her a Family.

It seemed fair

This Sunday, my folks, which whom I have not had a shouting match in years, will come over for dinner. We will cook and eat together. My Friend became My Wife, and she took a piece of me and with it she made Our Son. There will be many hugs, and no violence. Good Things Happened.

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but you don’t know what the future holds.

don’t give up yet, ok?

It could get good, even.

[mari-lair]

quick sketch cause i already have too many wips

[murmel-malt]

Have some bellarook for new year's <3

[felassan]

Dragon Age: The Veilguard | Official Reveal Trailer - from Xbox Showcase

[source]

Rally the Veilguard and defy the gods in Dragon Age™: The Veilguard, an immersive single player RPG where you become the leader others believe in. When corrupt gods break free from centuries of darkness, the odds will be stacked against you. You can't do this alone. Rally a team of seven companions, each with rich lives and deep backstories. These are characters to befriend, and even fall in love with. Among them, an assassin, a necromancer, and a detective will each bring their own expertise and unique abilities to the fight. You are never alone; decide who to take into battle and together face down demons, dragons and even ancient gods. You’ll fight alongside: Harding: The Scout Neve: The Detective Emmrich: The Necromancer Taash: The Dragon Hunter Davrin: The Warden Bellara: The Veil Jumper Lucanis: The Mage Killer Create memories with your team which will deepen your experiences and give you more to fight for. The world teeters on a knife's edge, but together you have the power to fight back.

[elodieunderglass]

Let’s talk about jockeys, jockeys are great. In his youth Sandy Hawley (Canadian, shown here in 1970s) was that unusual thing of being a good-looking male jockey who was also successful at horse racing. Most jockeys necessarily crackle with powerful short king energy, but young Hawley also understood about having interesting hair.

A nice thing is when famous jockeys are still alive and relatively uninjured. He is still alive and active in horse stuff, along with his current wife, Kaoru Tsuchiya, who was the first female jockey to race in Japan.

This is nice in a sport that is risky, tense and hard on jockeys.

[bunnelbaby]

To the regressors and dreamers who:

✨ Experience harmful, obsessive, hateful, sexual, religious or any sort of intrusive thoughts

✨ Have bursts of sadness, anger or self destructive tendencies

✨ Relive the most traumatic moments of their lives while in their headspace

✨ Are struggling to come to terms with their coping mechanism

✨ Have a negative relationship with their regression or dreaming

✨ Feel selfish for wanting to be cared for while regressed or dreaming

✨ Aren’t sure whether they regress, dream, or both or neither

✨ Have an aversion to touch

✨ Are touch starved

✨ Grieve the loss of their childhood or lack thereof

✨ Are afraid of having a caregiver/babysitter/etc due to trauma

✨ Prefer to be alone and/or offline when slipping into your headspace

✨ Have ‘unconventional’ or mature interests in your regressed/dreaming mindset

✨ Berate themselves for being ‘childish’

✨ Struggle to connect with or relate to other regressors and dreamers

✨ Rarely regress or dream

✨ Can’t regress or dream unless they are under very specific conditions

✨ Have religious, medical, sexual or any kind of trauma

✨ Frequently vent regress or vent dream

✨ Don’t enjoy what’s commonly associated with regression/dreaming either due to preference or personal reasons

✨ Experience mental health issues or have mental disorders of any kind

✨ Feel forced to regress or dream a certain way and often feel invalidated by others

✨ Worry about being seen as ‘impure’ for regressing or dreaming for mental health reasons

✨ Don’t want to be babied or called cutesy nicknames

✨ Tend to regress or dream when high or intoxicated

✨ Refrain from sharing your coping mechanism online in fear of being harassed or sexualized

✨ Don’t have a safe space to indulge in your regression or dreaming

✨ Feel ‘too old’ to regress or dream and excluded from the community because of their age

You are deserving of the same love, care, kindness and respect as any other regressor or dreamer receives. Your experience is equally as valid as anyone else’s and don’t need any approval except your own. We’re all just trying to heal our inner selves, have fun and do what makes us happiest. Please be kind to yourselves and others and I wish you the very best on your road to recovery.

[sun-marie]

Been replaying ME1 and I got slammed hard with Anderson/Shepard father/daughter feels 🥺

[the-font-bandit]

Master post of Veilguard Cocktails!

Click on the links below for full recipes.

Neve: The icy bite of sweet mint, smooth honey, and the cool, classy zing of juniper in a frosty blended cocktail in Neve’s signature hue.

Bellara: A non-alcoholic mocktail, bright and bubbly with the fizzy zing of the Veil and a hint of Arlathan’s wild herbs.

Davrin & Assan: A beer cocktail straight from Weisshaupt, featuring a liqueur whose name means “master hunter” and a touch of ginger for Assan’s favorite gingerwort truffles.

Harding: A comforting, earthy cocktail with a warm sweetness.

Emmrich: A drink as green as the fade, with the earthy vegetal flavor of Manfred’s tea and a splash of sophisticated sparkling wine.

Taash: A fiery tropical drink to enjoy on a beach in Rivain.

Lucanis: A twist on an espresso martini, featuring Antivan lemon thyme.

If you do make any of these, please post and tag me!

[zorosdimples]

middle-aged toji who just grumbles and rolls his eyes when you tease him in public. he’s too lazy to pull you off his lap right now, and he’s not in the mood to argue with you. he leans back and watches you wiggle your hips, not bothering to fight the growing hardness in his pants. it’s past his bedtime, the music is too loud, and the drinks are shit. he lets you have your way for a bit, then drags you away—mirthfully announcing that your “old man” is too tired to hang. but the glint in his eyes tells you that the fun won’t be over quite yet; he’s going to deal with you once you get home.

[ruporas]

drank too much

[ID: Digital Art of Vash and Wolfwood from Trigun Maximum. Vash’s body is turned slightly away from the viewer as he holds a staggering Wolfwood by his shoulder. He has one foot ahead of the other, the foot in the back used to stabilize himself from tipping over. Wolfwood is tethering into Vash, his weight pressed into him with his arms wrapped around Vash’s waist and his face is hidden away as he leans against Vash’s shoulder. Vash’s expression can be seen, his eyes wide and mouth tight-lipped, and his face is flushed red. A speech bubble comes out from Wolfwood, saying a drawled “Spikeyyy...”. The background are desaturated pastels of blue and green, showing night time, as they stand in the middle of an empty street that is also lit by the moon not depicted. Yellow light is seen coming from the inside of a saloon. End ID]

[chel-tiaz]

What betrayal does to a mf

Quick concept sketches because I have many thoughts. I wanna do a proper illustration with this later methinks

[turtledotjpeg]

[felassan]

New official screenshots of Dragon Age: The Veilguard from the Dragon Age website. [source]

[jakface]

Emmrich and Rook having a spooky cocktail!

Part of an art trade with knitebrite!