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Abel%20sharpened%20reduced%20150px.jpg Abel Pharmboy is the nom de plume of an academic researcher and educator who holds a PhD in Pharmacology. He writes on natural product drugs and dietary supplements, academic career development, medical journalism and, occasionally, making and listening to music and, with the help of his colleague, Erleichda, wine appreciation.

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The Friday Fermentable:

The Friday Fermentable: The Essence of Wine Appreciation by Seth Gross and Craig Heffley

Yes, I know it's Saturday - Listen to the NPR interview then go find wine merchants like these in your own community.

The Friday Fermentable: Mediterranean and Nearby Island Wines, by Erleichda

The flavors of Greece, Sicily, and even Croatia (don't tell Bora Zivkovic) - but who would've intended for their wine to smell of Vicks VapoRub? Some great values, great drinking, and great company!

The Friday Fermentable: Go forth and read scribbler50's, Behind the Stick

Reflections on knowledge as an opportunity for inclusion, not exclusion.

The Friday Fermentable: figuring out chords while drinking wine

An affordable Viognier and a half-decent 6-string guitar enables one to approximate a very complicated 40-year mystery.

The Friday Fermentable: Thanks to Mark Giordano at Robert Oatley Vineyards and Open Thread

Hey! Stop blogging or commenting for a moment and tell us what you are drinking right now.

The Friday Fermentable: Rosemount Estates, Robert Oatley, and Nugan Shiraz

If you're in Australia or North America, chances are your first experience with Shiraz was in the form widely-available from Rosemount Estates. Shiraz is derived from the same stock as Syrah that is grown in France's Rhone Valley. The Australian...

The Friday Fermentable: A romp thru northern Italy: the Piemonte

So, er, why don't I travel with Erleichda and Sweetpea???

The Friday Fermentable: Don't Harsh on Palin Syrah

Lots of press but have any of you actually tasted Palin Syrah? Please insert your own witty barbs and puns in the comment thread.

The Friday Fermentable: Happy Birthday Wine Authorities!

A local treasure with a national following is overwhelmed by their one-year celebration.

The Friday Fermentable: Wedding anniversary champagne and some bad juju in Denver

It's probably just confirmation bias. And I can't even remember the name of the champagne.

The Friday Fermentable: A Mentor Gets A Well-Deserved Break

This morning our dear friend and colleague whose wine escapades often fill this spot awoke to the rewards of retirement. My senior cancer research colleague, Erleichda, has just closed the book on 30 years with a single pharmaceutical company, unheard...

The Friday Fermentable: Real Old-Vine Wine?

Drinking history, sort of.

The Friday Fermentable: A Romp Through Northern Italy's Lake Country

Nothing extraordinary, just a white wine that matched well with great food on a balmy fall day along an Italian lakeshore, with friends nearby, all juxtaposed in an attempt to simulate heaven.

The Friday Fermentable: Syrahs from Europe and the US, by Erleichda

Two standout wines and a few "also ran" wines were discovered at our syrah wine dinner. Anyone having a favorite pure (non-"down under") syrah, let's hear from you.

The Friday Fermentable: North American Meritage by Erleichda

Meritage, America's brand of Bordeaux, makes a strong showing in notes from Erleichda's periodic wine-dinner tastings. So why didn't I do my postdoc with this guy???

The Friday Fermentable: Second Call for Favorite Local Wine (and Beer) Shops

C'mon, tell us where to go in your community for great wine and beer! (with a special shout-out to Alabama beer enthusiasts!)

The Friday Fermentable: What's Your Favorite Local Wine Shop?

The April 2008 issue of Food & Wine magazine features my favorite, blogger-friendly, wine shop. What's yours?

The Friday Fermentable: 2002 Red & White Burgundies, by Erleichda

A few gems among a surprisingly disappointing field - a great guide to spending your money wisely on Cote d'Or wines of Burgundy.

The Friday Fermentable: Spanish wines from Ribera del Duero and Rioja, by Erleichda

Yet another fabulous wine dinner documented by guest-blogger, Erleichda - and a sad goodbye to the namesake of Jim's Disciples: "He was a fine gentleman. We will certainly think fondly in our remembrance of him when we sip our favorite beverage."

The Friday Fermentable: Foiled and Frustrated

My wine co-blogger and dear scientific colleague, Erleichda, and I had hoped to bring you an account of the wines enjoyed at our recent meetup. Erleichda and I have recently had the good fortune of regaining support for our scientific...

About Erleichda, co-author of The Friday Fermentable

Erleichda is the nom de plume of a guest blogger who contributes regularly to The Friday Fermentable columns. The act of contributing a column periodically on the topic of wine is consistent with the philosophy embodied in his pseudonym, i.e.,...

More evidence Flying Dog is blog-friendly beer

The e-ink wasn't even dry last night on my Friday Fermentable post about the Flying Dog Open Source Beer project before I received a comment from Josh Mishell, Creative Manager for the brewery: Thanks for writing about our Open Source...

The Friday Fermentable: Open Source Blog Beer

What a concept! Why not? From Denver's Flying Dog Brewery. . .

The Friday Fermentable: Champagne and Sparkling Wines for New Year's

What will YOU be drinking this year? Let us know!

The Friday Fermentable: Samichlaus, Liquid Love

The world's most famous strong lager is worthy of a dedicated post of The Friday Fermentable. Bottom line: Liquid love.

The Friday Fermentable: New Zealand's Central Otago Region, by Erleichda

Our intrepid guest blogger, Erleichda, dispatches one of two missives on a trip to New Zealand wine country.

The Friday Fermentable: Beer Builds Community

Toys for Tots and dark beers for the big kids.

The Friday Fermentable: Beaujolais Nouveau, Wine of the Moment

Fun, Fall tradition or clever marketing strategy to unload tons of substandard grapes?

The Friday Fermentable: New Zealand's Marlborough Country, by Erleichda

Guest wine-blogger, Erleichda, tempts us with the fruits of his visit to New Zealand's legendary wine country.

The Friday Fermentable: Oktoberfest, the Festival and the Beer

What's your favorite Oktoberfest (Marzen) beer?

The Friday Fermentable: Michael Jackson Remembered

This week has seen an outpouring of sentiments in the wake of the death of famed beer and spirits writer, Michael Jackson. Therefore, we dedicate this edition of The Friday Fermentable to the memory of this remarkable gentleman and writer....

The Friday Fermentable: Chateauneuf du Pape

Wines from the "New House of the Pope"

The Friday Fermentable: Little-Known or Under-Publicized Grapes

Have you tried wines made from unusual or under-recognized grape varieties?

The Friday Fermentable: "Bee" Cautious With Some Wines

Bee venom in wine can cause allergic reactions in sensitive individuals.

The Friday Fermentable: South American Reds, by Erleichda

Guest wine-blogger Erleichda goes south for a tour of reds.

The Friday Fermentable: Some Old World vs. New

Erleichda returns with a challenge from old world wines with upstarts from the South American new world. You have to wait until the end of the post to learn the best of the tasting.

The Friday Fermentable: Do you know how much you pour?

As wine and beer glasses grow ever larger, are our habits of having one or two drinks a day for health benefits actually bordering on binge drinking?

The Friday Fermentable: The Woody Creek Tavern for sale

If you've been to Aspen, Colorado, for a scientific conference you have no doubt made the bike ride down valley to the venerable Woody Creek Tavern for margaritas and such. (The ride back to town is a wee bit more...

The Friday Fermentable: Wine Quips

The meaning of Merlot to Utahans, and who is Fran Liebowitz anyway???

The Friday Fermentable: A Pinot Noir Revelation with Erleichda

Guest-blogger Erleichda returns with a blind tasting of Pinot Noir, a column he wrote in November that I overlooked in my e-mail queue. Forty lashes with a grapevine!

The Friday Fermentable: Open That Bottle Night 8

Do you have some ancient bottle of wine someone gave as a gift and you are waiting for that "special night" to open it? Well, tomorrow night is "that" night. We all seem to accumulate bottles of wine as souvenirs...

The Friday Fermentable: Australian Shiraz recommendations from the WSJ

The Wall Street Journal recommendation: keep the 'critters' at bay.

Do wine and yoga mix?

This is too late for The Friday Fermentable, but the NYT has a great travel article yoga and wine retreats to be offered at DeLoach Vineyards in California's Sonoma Valley (one of my favorite zinfandel producers). Of course, this Americanization...

The Friday Fermentable: Mass-produced winners

Readers of this near-weekly feature have been the beneficiaries over the last few weeks of the wisdom from my scientific and wine colleague, Erleichda. Now with the feature back in my hands, I am now realizing that one difficulty in...

"Eating Fabulous" endorsement

Natural products is an interesting field of science since various parts of it appeal greatly to different segments of the general public. Hence, we are very excited and honored to be recognized by the culinary functional foods and nutraceuticals blog,...

The Friday Fermentable: France's Lot Valley, by Erleichda

Another Wine Escapade: Valle du Lot by Erleichda Sweetpea and I enjoy hiking as a platform for vacationing (when we're not partaking of some beach spot). We've managed to attract a few likeminded fellow hikers, and are now able to...

The Friday Fermentable: Beer me, y'all

This is kind of a homer version of The Friday Fermentable, but I think that it has enough international interest that I am putting it here and on the oft-neglected local blog, Bull City Bully Pulpit. Many themes will come...

Delay on The Friday Fermentable, Curcumin for Cancer, etc.

This other thing called the day job has interfered with my finishing the last bit of the curcumin series (on the piperine/Bioperine bioavailability enhancer) and a new post for The Friday Fermentable. I've also got some biz travel scheduled today,...

The Friday Fermentable addendum

Just clearing out the MSM that finds its way into Chez Pharmboy and was totally taken by a brief gadget alert on wine stuff written by Rebecca Hall in the Enterprise section of the 2 October issue of Newsweek: Toying...

The Friday Fermentable: Some Wines of Virginia, by Erleichda

In late August, our colleague and correspondent Erleichda conducted a winetasting of some offerings from Virginia, picked up on a tour with his beloved Sweetpea. The tasting fell on PharmPreKer's birthday, so we were unable to make it, but here...

The Friday Fermentable: ScienceBlogs.com Good, Cheap Wine

A back alley conversation among several ScienceBloggers is the impetus for this week's post. A couple of weeks ago, Dave Munger over at Cognitive Daily asked all of us about our favorite cheap wine deals. So, with the permission of...

The Friday Fermentable: Tuscan Wines, by Erleichda

Another Wine Escapade : The Tuscan Dinner by Erleichda, special guest correspondent to The Friday Fermentable (Note to readers: As mentioned in previous editions, guest-blogger Erleichda is a slightly more senior colleague with a much more experienced and seasoned palate....

The Friday Fermentable: on holiday

Dear Readers, Due to the combination of hot weather, a paucity of drinking and reading, and the intrusions of the day job and events in the reality-based community, I've decided not to post The Friday Fermentable for this week. Please...

The Friday Fermentable: The New Mexico edition, part 2

Before we embark on another edition of The Friday Fermentable, the Pharmboy and everyone at Terra Sig sends out their best wishes to actor, Robin Williams, and his family. Mr Williams' publicist announced earlier this week that the Academy Award-winning...

The Friday Fermentable: The New Mexico edition

This week's focus: What to do with all of that extra tequila lying about, especially during a nationwide heat wave. Well, I've been out of touch with PharmMom and PharmStiefvater as of late, so this edition of The Friday Fermentable...

The Friday Fermentable - with guest blogger, Erleichda

Welcome to our 2nd installment of The Friday Fermentable, Terra Sigillata's Friday fun-blogging feature. You can read our mission statement at the original post last week, but the goal, briefly, is to celebrate the particular class of natural products that...

I'll try that Nunavut Merlot, please...

This week's 'Ask A ScienceBlogger' focuses on reports such as those in National Geographic and DailyKos that global warming is having, and will progressively have great influence, on wine grape-growing. The idea is that grapes grown for premium wine production...

The Friday Fermentable

Welcome to the inaugural edition of The Friday Fermentable, the end-of-week fun feature of Terra Sigillata.

The Friday Fermentable, foiled

As alluded to on ScienceBlogs.com editors' Page 3.14 blog, many of us are formalizing our more light-hearted posts on Fridays to coincide with the inevitable dropoff in internet traffic and reality-based work. I had intended to launch today "The Friday...

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