Deacon Silouan presents the greatest use of beer in dessert ever!
Deacon Silouan also presents this:
Is There Nothing Beer Can’t Do?
11 Responses to Is There Nothing Beer Can’t Do?
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Roland de Chanson says:
Thanks, Roger, for the link. I emailed it to a boyhood friend who loves the Clancys. And beer.
Oddly enough, it was Hildegard von Bingen who first introduced the use of hops into beer. Hops are a soporific and that accounts for people passing out after drinking too much beer. Errr, no wait … I’ll have to revise that theory.
Hildegard was also the discoverer of the female orgasm. I’m not sure how she discovered it without committing one of the deadly sins, but in the pursuit of science, vice is evidently a virtue. I can imagine that her convent parties on the eve of the Sabbath were quite the uproarious get-togethers. Beer and orgasms remind me of my college years. I had no idea they were the gateway to mystical truth.
Of course, she was also a universal genius and a saint of the Roman Catholic Church. She missed being a saint of the Orthodox Church by a mere hundred years or so. When I am elected EP, I will canonize her retroactively.
All this explains why Catholic men are happier drinkers than Orthodox men and Catholic women have better sex than Orthodox women.
Wait …. maybe that theory is subject to revision too. Are there no absolute certitudes anymore? Damn.
I like this Deacon Silouan fellow. Nothing better than the clergy promoting “spiritual” recipes. I’ll bet he won’t be drinking stout without thinking of Hildegard smiling on him.
From memory from the pre-Vatican II Rituale Romanum: Benedicat Deus hanc cerevisiam. Et insuper hanc landicam.
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M_Young says:
As Huxley is meant to have said after hearing of Darwin’s theory, “How stupid of me not to have thought of that.”
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EngineerScotty says:
No.
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Sands says:
“Hildegard was also the discoverer of the female orgasm.”
The other day M_Young, after learning on this blog that donkeys have the ability to procreate year-round, declared he comes here to Rod’s blog because he gets a unique kind of learnin’. I got to agree.
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Jake Lukas says:
@Roland,
For a living (more or less) I read medieval Latin texts and write about them. I am embarrassed to say, therefore, that I had to look up a word from your prayer. I won’t say which word, except to say that I’ve never seen it in the kind of texts I read. Since I mostly read about theology, I’ll just assume the theology of the body has gotten more detailed over the past millennium. Thank you for teaching me a new word. I’m sure it’ll come in handy.
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Uncle Vanya says:
“Is There Nothing Beer Can’t Do?”
Another fine quote from Homer J. Simpson, but I believe your graphic shows Homey with the other great love (and obsession) of his life: the doughnut.
I was about to type that someone should make beer-flavored doughnuts, but googled first and discovered that not only are therenow beer-flavored doughnuts, there is now, also, doughnut-flavored beer.
Is this a great country or what?
Cheers,
*hic*
Uncle Vanya
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Jake,
Great comment on the theology of the body. Oddly, incorrigible sensualist that I am, it was that and similar, errr, images that I thought of when JP2′s book came out. I haven’t read it so I don’t know whether he was as perceptive an anatomist as St. Hildegard.
A good (i.e. scholarly) reference is The Latin Sexual Vocabulary by J. N. Adams. I had it from a university library years ago. I took copious notes.
I just noticed that it is available at Amazon. It is around 823,000 on the Amazon best sellers list. Alas, how the classics have declined!
There are a couple of priapic texts that cite the word. A google search of The Latin Library will turn them up. I recall from Adams’ work that there were instances of Pompeian epigraphy where it appeared as well. Quod haud admirandum est.
Also, I just discovered that wiktionary defines it. Including its full declension. Very helpful. Except the locative case is missing, which seems crucial to its proper usufruct. Amazingly, it appears to mean “censer” as well. Someday I will do the Camino de Santiago and as I stand before the Butafumeiro, I will exclaim “Landica maxima totius mundi” just to see who bursts out laughing. Probably only a clutch of traditional nuns. I will practice my most cherubic smile for the occasion.
In contrition, I can only cite, Lasciva est nobis pagina, vita proba. (Martial, Epigrams 1.4) or Video meliora proboque — deteriora sequor. (Ovid, Metamorphoses 7.2).
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Mark in LA says:
Might be a good time to post your favorites so we can try them if we haven’t:
Get it in the can with the widget!
http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/664/73
Youngs Double Chocolate Stout
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EliteCommInc. says:
I haven’t a clue. I use rubbing alcohol for everything from cat baths to carpet cleaning.
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Maybe I should try beer . . .
on that cats and the carpet
I think this calls for The Clancy Brothers: http://youtu.be/Yfy_bi6K7ig