5/28/2008 - How do they make it? - Dutch beer

6/9/2008 - Beer

I wanted to show my kid the opening of an old show called 'Wide World of Sports', so I found it on Youtube. Ironically, the host died two days later, but I digress. There was an ad for a beer that said it was the beer of Danish kings. Interesting. Why when I hear 'Danish' do I think 'Dutch'? I just can't get it straight. It sounds gross from the process. The Danish kings probably wouldn't like it. I sympathize with your national plight of icky tomatoes. I guess it's the soil because you could plant whatever kind of variety you want. Maybe you could water them with beer and see what happens.

6/9/2008 - Untitled Comment

Oh yeah, the old Dutch/Danish mix up. It affects a lot of you Americans. Last week I overheard an elderly couple from the US suggesting to one another that they could go on a day trip to Copenhagen for the next day, as if they could drive it in two hours.

Copenhagen, being the capital of Denmark takes the better part of the day to drive to from my town. I hope they got back to their hotel in time.

As for the tomatos, the problem does not lie with the soil, but the fact that their grown in greenhouses. It takes no more than two weeks to grow them to a size that people would buy, while in the south of Europe they're grown much slower, in real sunlight. They get much more time to develop a flavor.