Ryan Dunn

Feb 21, 2016 at 2:39PM

Just a silly question from a German dude: Why the heck do you want to freeze beer? O.o

Eisbock my fine German friend.  Eisbock.

I guess I should clarify a bit more - Reinheitsgebot prevents Germans from adding simple adjuncts like sugar into beer.  As such, it is very difficult to get an all malt beer up much past 10% alcohol.  As an aside, this is why Belgian beers have a much higher ABV - they use simple sugars to boost the alcohol content.

Eisbocks are beers that are fortified by freezing and leaving behind the ice.  The resulting beer complies with Reinheitsgebot.  You would never drink it at freezing.  That would be a terrible crime against any good beer (looking at you ryancrawcour).  Eisbock is simply made this way and then processed like normal.

Being German, you have an excellent selection at your disposal.  Some of them are well over 14%.  Try one or two!

Nigel is money.  That is all.

Good luck smarx.  I wonder if anyone will understand David with his Scottish Brogue talking Windows Azure.  

2 hours ago,s0ftimage wrote

ahhhhhh, the plot thickens and it all makes sense now!  David and James are RYAN!

Hehe.  I can confirm I am neither James nor David.  I seem to recall Steve and I taking some flak for the infamous SQL Azure episode.  Good times... good times.

Awesome!!  I love the cameo by MICHAEL!!! @2:41

Michael, can you quickly unplug and re-plug a few wires on the camera for us or reboot the encoder?  j/k

Good luck guys - can I cameo on the show sometime?

@HeavensRevenge: I think you might have confused AppFabric with the Fabric Controller.  AppFabric is a brand that includes a Caching service (see Cloud Cover Show Ep 32).  The Fabric Controller is an integral part of Windows Azure that does all the things that Corey mentioned.  Two completely different things, but confusingly named.

@aL_:  If you happened to have a bunch of extra blade servers, redundant network addressable power supplies, hardware load balancers, top of rack switches, etc., you probably could install and use Windows Azure.  However, you can't throw a bunch of random hardware together and achieve the reliability, scalability, and availability that is a core tenet of Windows Azure.  It is not the same thing.  The reason we have the Windows Azure Appliance is because that is the only hardware configuration that we can have that will achieve the same goals that are so important in the public cloud (or hosted/private as the case may be).

@hansol: our datacenters are sourced with multiple internet providers for redundancy.  It would be a catastrophic disaster in order to lose all connectivity.  In that case, you would need to move your services to another datacenter while it was recovered.

@Wely, @SyntaxC4 - Fixed the links.  Thanks!

You can find a blog post with a link to the Hammer source here.

@hansol: SQL Azure will be the focus of later shows.  However, it won't be the focus on the next one.  We can bring back David and ask him your questions after PDC.

2 days ago, hansol wrote

Darn.. I was going for a "Hey homey, what's with the glum face? You glum or somethin, eh glummy?"-kind of joke above... Hopefully my Zoidberg-image next to it will compensate

I have a habit of not knowing what I am going to say until I say it.  Hence, the emphasis on whatever words I feel like at the time.  Nothing to read between the lines there...

Looks like I missed a couple important links:

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