Monday started off as usual with an essay test from Dr. Lewis. I didn't prepare for it and it wasn't fun. I should have prepared, too. It was an essay on foam. And we'd just had a full day of foam the previous week from the Pope of Foam. So I didn't do well. But that's ok. I learned what I needed to read to be ready for a future foam question. Ask me anything you want to about foam now. Really, go ahead. A little nucleation or maybe some coalescence. Maybe some hydrophobic proteins (that's right, I'm talking about you Protein Z and LTP 1). Or maybe you're thinking about lacing or surfactants. We can go there, too.
Tuesday was a full day of Haze. Again, you may have never thought about the haze in your beer. And you probably don't want to. Just be happy when it isn't there and know that a TON of research and effort goes into making sure it's not there... unless it's suppose to be (Hefeweizen). And then effort had to go into that, too. Oh, and when you go to a restaurant (won't say which one) and there are chunks floating in your beer and you send it back, and it comes back with the same chunks in it, and the manager comes out to tell you (speaking very loudly and very slowly so that you can understand) that those chunks are suppose to be there because this is UNFILTERED (again, very loudly, slowly and well enunciated), you can tell them that he's full of it, that that's not what unfiltered means and that he's got DIRTY TAP LINES (say it loudly, slowly and enunciate well). Or you can politely send it back and not go back to that restaurant. Whatever works for you.
Wednesday was a full day of flavor. I decided on that day that I wouldn't be answering a flavor question if it popped up on the IBD exam. Flavor is super complicated. There's not a single action taken during the brewing of beer that doesn't impact flavor. Flavor's also about as easy to define as, say, well flavor. Ask any two people to describe the taste of something and they will not do it the same way. So, I'm just staying away from that question, oh, and any color question, too. I mean, tristimulus chromaticity, no thanks. Though I would answer a color question over a flavor question, I think.
Thursday was engineering and packaging. It's a good thing I just started to get comfortable with engineering with only one more week to go. Would have been nice if that happened a lot sooner. This week was refrigeration and I totally got it. You know: evaporator (Heat energy in), compressor (work in), condenser (Heat energy out), expander, saturated and supersaturated vapor, saturated liquid, subcooled liquid, enthalpy, pressure, temperature, entropy, critical point, etc. Good stuff. I totally get it. Give me a refrigeration question on the IBD exam, PLEASE!
Friday: no Sensory Sue today... bummer. Instead a morning with the engineering TA and an afternoon of private study. I stayed home to do my own studying. Week 9 was in the books!
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