Human urine and beer are superficially similar...?
Human urine and beer are superficially similar...
Both are kinda yellow-colored. Both have bubbles, to the extent that if you shake up either you can get a good head of foam on them. Both are mostly water.
I'm convinced that there must be a scientific, logical, concrete, fundamental, causal explanation for this similarity, and one of you punks and/or eggheads is going to tell me what it is. He, she, or it, (i.e man, woman, or robot) who best answers this question for me, will be bestowed with the honor of *BEST ANSWER* for this question.
Both are kinda yellow-colored. Both have bubbles, to the extent that if you shake up either you can get a good head of foam on them. Both are mostly water.
I'm convinced that there must be a scientific, logical, concrete, fundamental, causal explanation for this similarity, and one of you punks and/or eggheads is going to tell me what it is. He, she, or it, (i.e man, woman, or robot) who best answers this question for me, will be bestowed with the honor of *BEST ANSWER* for this question.
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Foam on beer is often a complicated thing but it involves proteins, there you've got a similarity, but probably not the same proteins.
Mostly water, so mostly the same...
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The only difference between lager and urine is the alcohol content.
Anyway... mindful of these concerns, I will make a conscious effort to expand my beer horizons, starting here and here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_style
http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Make-Beer-Cheaply-Simply-Step-By-Step-G/
Not a fan of Lager beer, ah?
Answer: Most all american beer is piss.
Lager like the one pictured often resembles piss.
BEER is served warmer and nearly flat - often heavier, darker, and much more flavourful.
Bust out some import brew and start enjoying the beer experience!
Good advice, but even better, go pick up a few inexpensive supplies and brew your own. Homebrewed beer is a joyous thing, and you get to make exactly what you like. Just remember - lager yeast is evil, and all hops are not created equal.
Unfiltered and carbonated - good til just before the last drop, where the goo in the bottle makes you want to throw up :(
Filtered and flat :(
Filtered and recarbonated with relatively expensive/time consuming rig.
The other two options are not options at all, IMHO.
I think that this is further evidence that beer can be source of inspiration, erm, without any guarantees about the quality of the ideas it can inspire.
I decided to choose Lemonie's answer as best, as his answer provided a pretty convincing explanation of both the similarities I asked about: yellow-color, and foaminess.
On doing some further research on foaminess (if you can call reading Wikipedia, "research") I re-discovered the legend of the surface active agents, um here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfactant
Also Wiki has a pretty good article on foam too:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foam
Burried deep within the Foam article, I found this gem:
I mean I think the interesting thing here is that there is that there is a large class of substances which when added to water, will make it foamy. Maybe a good name for this class would be water foaming agents. This class includes:
- soap and detergents
- proteins or some organic something in beer
- proteins or some organic something in urine
- other stuff too, probably
All these things, added to water, will make it foamy. That's the hypothesis.I noticed a number of answerers who suggest the ubiquitous mass-produced American-style Lagers, like the one pictured in the mug on the left, basically are piss, er, metaphorically speaking. I'll admit, there are a lot of things wrong with the Former United States, and the stuff we Former Americans call "beer" may be one of them. Although kind of a minor one compared with the other problems of killing, torture, freedom-hypocrisy, etc.
Anyway... mindful of these concerns, I will make a conscious effort to expand my beer horizons, starting here and here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_style
http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Make-Beer-Cheaply-Simply-Step-By-Step-G/
Beer, to me, is anything from the lightest golden brown, through amber (possibly with a reddish tinge) to dark, dark, dark brown, and when a sip is taken it should overwhelm the senses with the aroma of hops and malt. It should conjure up visions of drying sheds, malt shovelling and barley fields rippling in the summer breeze.
Some breweries catering for the less discerning palate in the UK seem to have a problem realising this. In the US, this sort of drink appears to be a way of life.
I have not tasted urine, but as the common utterance goes when referring to a sub-standard brewed beverage of this nature goes, I will just say "This beer tastes like piss!"
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Like Lemonie says, its never served CHILLED.
Ice-cold suds on a hot day are not necessarily the same thing though.
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The only legitimate use for lager is to serve it ice-cold with a bit of lime juice added in, on a very very hot day, when you've been doing hard labor in the sun. Then, and only then, is lager a pleasant experience. Still, lager should never be mistaken for beer.
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This trick is also great for road trips, with the caveat that its usually easier for guys, than it is for girls, to pee in jar. Although I am convinced that such feats are possible for both genders, after all the great Former American tradition of randomly announced drug-testing relies on this ability to put ones urine into a small container.
Yes, superficially, urine and beer are similar. Why is that? Let's break the word “superfiaially” down into its constituent parts:
First there is the word “super”, meaning; great or way above average or really hot stuff (as in “she's really hot stuff”.) So you could use these meanings instead of saying super. You could say “great-ficially, or way above average-ficially or she's really hot stuff-ficially, but super is much shorter and we're lazy by nature, and its easier to type “superficially”.
And you can also preface many other words with the “super” prefix. For example, Superman, or super-duper, or supersalad. Can you imagine how cumbersome it would be to try and say, “Man that is way above average-califragilisticexpialidocious," instead of “supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.” Think about it, supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. Even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious, if you say it loud enough,you'll never sound precocious.
Now on to “ficially.” Ficially, is a word that hardly ever gets used alone. Consider, for example, “oficially.” There it is again, ficially with another word in front. Well, a letter in this case, but it can be a word if you want it to be, like, “O, look!”
So to sum it up, I will almost quote Douglas Adams here, “However, no one knows quite why ...but a cupful of urine ...is... almost, but not quite, entirely unlike ...beer.”