Where does beer come from?

Well, as my brewmaster friend would explain, water, malt, hops, and yeast. The Reinheitsgebot laid down the standard a long time ago. Today our focus is on malt. Chris mentioned Briess in Chilton and how he used their stuff. Sure enough, the JS had an article about the malt. Enough said.

Our son, the OneNote user

OK, so we had this project for Jackson’s science class. Find an animal, research and get info from three different sources, and write the facts along with a picture to make the back of a cereal box. Interesting way to spin a research project, but I could do without the cereal box. The project took us four hours, but there is a story…

Once I found out we could do it on the computer, I opened my laptop and turned Jackson loose on the EBSCO Database system through the MPL. We picked the golden eagle (no self-respecting Marquette student/alum lets their son report on badgers). I taught Jackson how to use OneNote to compile information. I gave him his own notebook section on my laptop and he copied and pasted the relevant info into OneNote. Then he highlighted the entries in yellow and red. Finally, using Publisher, we laid out the cereal box. He was even using keyboard shortcuts like [Windows + tab] and [Ctrl+C/V]. Like father, like son. It was amazing to watch him stare intently at the computer and get the same facial expressions as his dad. Well, I learned quite a bit, including…

• Golden eagles are kleptoparasites. It took Jackson a few tries to learn kleptoparasiticism.
• Golden eagles are prevalent in Denali National Park. Here’s the factsheet.

Here’s the cereal box in PDF.