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  1. Brazil is opening up it’s beer market … yeah!
    http://epoca.globo.com/ideias/noticia/2014/06/revolucao-bda-cervejab.html
    Google translation
    Water, hops, malt and yeast. These are the basic ingredients to produce beer and have permission to sell it in Brazil. Since brewing ourselves here, from the nineteenth century, this is the beer recipe, with a few variations, such as adding small amounts of fruit juice. Because of this loyalty to the traditional formula, the Brazilian legislation on beer is only less restrictive than in Germany. “Brazilian law is very old and has hardly changed,” says Alfredo Ferreira, director of the Institute of Brewing. In Germany, brewer country par excellence, Law of Purity of Beer (Reinheitsgebot in German). Enacted in 1516 by Duke Wilhelm IV of Bavaria, she stated that the only beer ingredients should be water, hops and malt beer (then not yet know the brewer’s yeast).
    In Brazil, this tradition is about to undergo major changes. Earlier this year, the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply has opened a public consultation the Brazilian proposal for the new Identity and Quality Standards (PIQ) products brewery in Mercosur. Adopted the new standards, consumers can go to purchase new beers with ingredients such as fruit pieces, seasoning, spices and animal products such as milk, honey or bacon. Behind the scenes, the proposal has been tied with the other Mercosur countries and should be adopted without delay or major adjustments by 2015.
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    The entry into force of the new standards will mean for Brazil, the possibility of embarking on brewing revolution, a movement that has changed in the last ten years, the beer market in the world. The Brazilian is used to lager with a light color and low alcohol content – between 3% and 5%. Alone mode represents 98% of national consumption. Brewmasters say that Brazil has the potential feedstock to vary this menu and take a prominent position in the brewing revolution. “We have things that no other country in the world has,” says Alexandre Bazzo, owner of the brewery Bamberg. “Our greatest treasure are the fruits and roots of the Amazon, Cerrado and Atlantic Forest.”
    The mass-produced beers are considered too simple, without bitterness, acidity or sweetness
    The brewing revolution began in the United States, with the emergence of micro-brews. From the 1980s, they began to market options to American beers, lagers those considered too simple to be mass-produced by large industries using inexpensive ingredients (such as corn and rice), replacing barley malt . The revolution later gained adherents even in countries with great brewing tradition, like Belgium. Today, microbreweries produce a huge variety of beers, with such exotic ingredients like smoked bacon, maple syrup, peppercorns, coriander seeds, chocolate and oysters.
    Beyond malt and barley (Reuters)
    (Photo: publicity)
    In Brazil, the wave of microbreweries in recent years has been driven by rising wages, which the sophisticated palate and opened the door for other beers with different flavors of lager. Because of restrictive legislation, the innovations introduced by microbreweries have been to so far in new combinations of malt, yeast and hops, so the end result remember other aromas and flavors (the exception is the Appia Colorado, Colorado brewery, which added honey with the authorization of the Ministry of Agriculture). The proposal submitted to consultation promises to take the beer market to previously unexplored frontiers in Brazil. One of the new proposals is the allowance for aging beer in barrels, like wine. “If the proposal is accepted, you can also make gluten-free beer to those who are intolerant” says Marlos Vicenzi, chief of the Division of Drinks Ministry of Agriculture.
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    The prospect of change moves the market. The Bamberg, which produces 50,000 liters monthly divided into 16 labels, claims to have plans for new recipes with honey and chocolate. The partners of Lamas Brew Shop in Sao Paulo, a store of articles for those who want to make beer at home, have developed unusual recipes, even forbidden by the current legislation. Among them, the beer panettone, which leads candied fruit, raisins and orange zest, and another that includes ants and black ants tucupi. “We want diversity and awareness of typical tanners wine, but without being ‘enochato'” says Elso Rigon, a partner at Lamas Brew Shop.
    This is the same ambition brewery Jupiter, whose coils out of today Per month 2500 liters of beer, with aromas of passion fruit, grapefruit and pineapple. “These beers can bring new consumer habits that go beyond the bar. May be present in prepared meals or celebratory moments, occupying the space of champagne and wine, “says David Michelsohn, owner of Jupiter. He calls the classic styles that can take honey or milk composition. Highlights the experiments craft brewers that use fresh milk or bacon.
    The creativity of new brewmasters is driven by recent movements in the Brazilian market. Last year, while the beer market as a whole, fell nearly 3%, demand for specialty beers produced by microbreweries, grew 18%. An estimated 6 million Brazilians have become accustomed to drinking specialty beers. While this number still represents less than 1% of the market, it is estimated that the specialty beers can in a short time, reaching a share of 2%.
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    It’s a trend that even the big breweries are attentive. Marcelo Trez, marketing director of Kirin Brazil, we see a migration to new and more expensive tastes. “It will be something natural and gradual,” he says. Heineken also includes researching new recipes. “People who are not so fond of beer may be covered with special”, says Sergio Giorgetti, director of innovations. Only AmBev, which owns nearly 70% of the Brazilian beer market seems refractory to embark on the bandwagon. She told TIME that the new revenue recendem the exoticism and your path will meet the demand of the market, if it appears.
    Although the initial numbers may seem shy, opening glimpsed with the new standards promise as a cold beer on a hot day, be refreshing for consumers, for the beverage industry and the country. The beer market is an important factor in the life and economy of Brazil. We are the third largest producer of beer in the world – 13.5 billion gallons per year – and the fourth largest consumer – an average of 64.4 liters per person per year. According to the Society of Brewing, 120 million Brazilians drink beer, and 60% of the population says drinking at least once a week. The innovation represented by chocolate beer or bacon can be beneficial to all. With it, earn the industry, it is encouraged to go on to compete with imported beers, and the consumer, whose universe of options and flavors will be expanded

  3. That is pretty awesome.
    This is the aircraft the Canadian Forces should look at purchasing…not some US built semi stealthy billion dollar pce of expensive tech (junk), designed to do it all which it will do in mediocrity. This is a combat proven aircraft and with its vectoring ability has the capability of outfoxing much anything of what it comes up against…
    runways not required.

  4. A skilled aviator.
    I’ve been fortunate enough to have only had 3 gear problems in my career. Once I couldn’t get an up lock on the nose gear of a twin. No biggie; gear down, 3 green, returned to land on a mile of asphalt. Another time I had a retractable wheel-ski lose its nitrogen charge in -35C and suddenly retract on landing while moving an exploration camp somewhere in the H-Bay lowlands. Another no biggie, managed to keep it straight *enough* on landing, pumped the other ski up and flew wheels off the lake (thank you deHavilland). The most recent occurred when I couldn’t get a down lock on my right main on an amphib Twin Otter I was flying…No biggie again; gear cycled up then landed on a lake that was 5 miles across.
    I would lie awake at night if I knew a gear problem would require me to land on a stool that someone left on the deck of a ship!

  6. Awesome is right. As you say, this aircraft might well be something the RCAF should be looking at.
    In the 1980s my brother once had to land a DC-3 with passengers at Thompson, MB. The landing gear failed to deploy and he managed to pancake it safely. No one was hurt and no fire.

  7. “….The McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing) AV-8B Harrier II is a single-engine ground-attack aircraft that constitutes the second generation of the Harrier Jump Jet family….” [by wiki]
    The AV-8B Harrier II is built solely in the U.S. and the first ‘Harrier jump jet’ was a design/built project of U.S./British cooperation. Of course the Brits fail to acknowledge any in-put by the dreaded ‘yanks’ on anything including the I and II world wars. It was Montgomery who actually won the battle of the bulge don’t you know.
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  8. Hey o/d;
    Did you ever take off or land on grass with floats with the Otter?
    (straight floats, not amphibs)
    (Guys at AirDale in the Soo did it a couple of times with the Beech 18 on floats, take off aided by the airport firetruck hosing down 50 yards of sod if I remember correctly)
    Re the “stool”
    It almost looks like you could land a Harrier with NO wheels down if you got it right.

  9. Hey, I landed that short with a nosewheel – mind you, it was a ploughed field and I didn’t have a nosewheel after I stopped…
    Nevertheless, the aircraft flew again so I count it as an equal number of take-offs and landings and therefore successful,

  10. G, I’ve never had the occasion to finish the float season with a sod landing. Cart take offs in the spring used to be a little more common than they are now, but haven’t had to do one of those either. Back when I flew the bush we used to haul the floatplanes in and out of the water with a tractor for changeover, then taxi them on wheels down the road and over a bridge to a gravel strip. Once freeze-up came we would taxi back down the road to the hangar, the engineers would put us on straight skis (the odd year wheel-skis for numerous reasons) and we’d taxi through the parking lot onto the lake to a groomed ice strip.
    Aviator, it’s a b#tch when you end up with more takeoffs than landings. Glad you found that field 😉
    Safe travels.

  13. The Harrier was the last brainchild of the great Sir Sidney Camm,
    best known for the Hurricane.

  14. On the contrary….the Harrier is totally unsuited to Canada’s needs…..except in a naval environment.
    The Harrier II is a marginal improvement on the Harrier I. Which is why the Brits didn’t finance it’s development…..leaving it to the US whose Marines had a requirement.
    The Harrier is not an air defence fighter….although it is unrivaled in maneuverability. It’s ability to operate VTOL/STOL is an asset……BUT lacks range, performance and adequate warload.
    The Brits swiftly based F4’s at Stanley once they recaptured the airfield.
    Canada has no need for a fighter, based at Barrie, that could only contest airspace as far as the GTA, Collingwood and Penetanguishene…..Windsor, Huntsville and Kingston would feel unloved.

  15. Oh please, if you don’t like F-35 fine, but suggesting AV-8B as replacement for CF-18? Seriously? How is an attack aircraft with marginal air-to-air capability, lower payload, lower range, much higher accident rate, and much more maintenance intensive than a CF-18 a viable replacement? BTW you do realize that marine AV-8Bs will be replaced by… that is right… F-35s?

  16. Interesting article Tom. During the touchdown, the pilot could not see where he was going, since the “stool” was out of his line of sight. Total confidence in the Landing Safety Office giving him the signals to land. Semper Fi!

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