What follows is a collection of notes from various sources about this
day...
Sun, Dec 4,
2005 at 9:41 AM So Matt, barrier of the OpenCola box, as he was the one who
approached the lady who MADE opencola and offered up all her original
supplies, claimed up and down that he did NOT have the opencola box
containing
ingredients and our notes. The original box had a bottle of nutmeg oil
break
during shipping and was quite pungent I could smell it from a long ways
away. I
could not smell it in Matt's house, so concurred with him that it was
not at
his house either. So, Aaron(conchair), Mark(beergod and 3.0 opencola
carbonation
meister), Steve(consuite head), Shar(smoking consuite head), and I tore
our
houses apart looking for this box Matt claimed was not at his house.
Chuck(4.0
Master of Carbonated Chemistry), Matt, and myself, took EVERYTHING out
of the
storage cube(and sorted, inventoried, and restacked neatly) in an
attempt to
locate said box. After all this, we decided to simply rebuy all the
oils and
start from scratch on the formula. Yesterday, we did testing and
experimenting
on a Pepsi formula, but were missing one ingredient that we knew was in
the
box. I sent Matt on a search for a screwdriver, as Chuck and I lamented
for the
missing ingredient. Low and behold, Matt walks up from the basement
saying, "Maybe it's in this box" setting down a small box
containing all of the missing objects of the opencola box.
PHTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT. So Matt had had it the ENTIRE time as he
should
have had. The difference is it was in a new smaller box with out the
strong
smell of nutmeg, so I was unable to locate it by smell.
So thank you who helped in the search in vain. Also for those who know
Matt
like I do, you can rejoice for I have fixed his off body memory
retention(aka
his palm). No if only we can get a system that tags all items in Matt's
possession
and have them listed on a gps hand held for him.
On a good note, we made very good
progress and the
final batch was the closest thing to a cola
that we've gotten to date and
should have some very good samples at ConFusion.
--
Bill Putt
Blender, Scale, measuring cups, and other assorted items of cola
creation
Chuck mixes in flavor oils into the blender with gum aribic creating an
imulsion
Chuck adds oil into the blender
Arron Thul(conchair Penguicon 4.0) and chuck check out the flavor base
Bill Putt's(conchair Penguicon 3.0) job was to taste test regula cola's
and make flavor batchs. Here chuck checks the latest one mixed up.
Chuck, Aaron, and Bill watch as the syrup gets blended with carmel color
We used a selzer bottle to carbonate batches. Ended up being very
expensive way.
For some reason, our coloring created blue foam
We used bottled water as to not effect the taste
Here Matt, try this. "Here try this." The wonderful and dreaded words
of any good OpenCola session.
Matt Arnold(conchair Penguicon 7.0) experenices a "special kind of
bad." We put FAR to much acid in this batch.
---Notes: I can't really find more
information then this. We ended up with a very spicy(cause of to much
cininom) batch we called Ferndale(after the city we were making the
batch in). We learned a lot and ended up with something far better then
what we had a Penguicon 3.0.
