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By Don VanPelt

Over the past few years, I’ve been asked many times about stairway bunk beds, or bunk beds that have stairs instead of a ladder to get to the top bunk. Having stairs instead of a ladder has one major advantage, safety. If you are worried about your kids actually climbing a ladder and whether or not they can handle it, especially when you can’t be with them every second, and believe me it only takes one second of not paying attention for a child to get hurt, then stairs is probably for you.

Having stairs lead to the top of the bunk is not only a crucial safety feature, but it can make going to bed on the top bunk fun, as if it weren’t fun enough, I guess what I meant was more fun. Remember how much fun it was for you as a kid when you got to sleep on the top bunk? It was almost a feeling of independence as a kid, freedom from the floor and the rest of the world.

Another great feature that stairs provide is the ability to have storage underneath these stairs. I’ve seen a few sets where drawers have been built to utilize this space nicely. In fact, it’s like having a dresser on the end of the bunk beds that will store all your clothes. Think of it, two beds and a dresser all built into one unit, now that’s extreme practicality.

Now that we’ve defined the benefits of having stairs lead to the top bed on your bunk beds, let’s discuss the downside. Can you think of any? Well, there is really only one drawback and if you can work around it, you will have no problems. Since the stairs are typically built on the end of the bunk beds, you will need more room to accommodate the bunk bed set, more room lengthwise that is, and this is where most bedroom floor plans fall short. You might be able to get the bed in against the longest wall and have it fit rather nicely, but then you find the drawer option that is going to house all your kids clothes doesn’t work. That is, there isn’t enough room to even open the drawers.

So as a good rule of thumb, make sure you know where you would like your new bed to fit in the room, take some measurements, find out the entire length of the bunk bed including the stairs, and then add twenty four inches on top of that if you expect to have drawers at the end. Remember, not only does the drawer have to open all the way up, but you have to be able to get in there at the same time.

One other thing to keep in mind when planning out space in the room for your bunk bed, remember that the stairs, and therefore, the drawers, will only be able to fit on one end. That is you won’t be able to reverse the stairs and put them at the other end of the bed.

Hopefully this article has given you a few tips about buying stairway bunk beds and some decisions that need to be made. Having a set of stairs instead of a ladder will give you much needed peace of mind, especially when it comes to kids.

About the Author: Don VanPelt is a writer for

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Decide if you want Beer Served for Your Wedding

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KAIS

Beer has been closely betrothed to the act of matrimony for centuries. Even the biggest beer festival in the world started out as a wedding celebration. In 1810, when Crown Prince Ludwig married Therese of Saxony-Hildburghausen, the citizens of Munich were invited to celebrate the occasion in fields on the outskirts of the city.

As well as beer, there was eating, horse racing and other jolly japes. The event was so successful, the party is repeated every year lasting 17 days and still to this day over two hundred years later, the Oktoberfest remains the biggest beer festival in the world. The festival attracts more than 7 million visitors drinking Bavarian beer annually.

For centuries, beer has been the choice of weddings and has helped to make the occasion grand. However beer was banned in from the wedding British Royal Wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton. Many British commoners think banning beer from the Royal Wedding is British heresy. The Royal Palace stated that it is inappropriate to serve beer in the Queen’s presence. It is the intention to give the British Royal wedding guests a sophisticated experience and so beer despite being Britain’s national drink was given the royal snub.

In America, beer drinking is commonplace at many weddings. A very formal affair may feature hard liquor but wine and beer are served in addition. Weddings in which the budget is very tight, especially many outdoor weddings may feature beer as the main drink, beer can provide substantial savings on alcohol costs. Other weddings may feature wine and beer, and offer just a couple of signature drinks to reduce the cost of the wedding. The signature drinks sometimes are hard liquor drinks maybe a whiskey, rum, and liqueur drink chosen to match the color scheme of the wedding, but a percentage of wedding reception revolves around the beer.

When selecting beer for your wedding, the green choice is to support the local economy and to promote the local brew. Beer basically falls into two categories, ale and lager beer, the type of beer created in the beer making process is dependent upon the type of yeast used in the brewery. Many local breweries and liquor stores can sell you kegs or bottles of beer for your wedding reception. They may sell you a half-barrel keg which contains 15.5 gallons of beer which serves 200 wedding guests with 10 ounce cups. A quarter-barrel keg contains 7.75 gallons of beer and serves about 100 wedding guests with 10 ounce cups.

The beer experts state that 60% of your wedding guests are beer drinkers, you can count on your beer drinkers to drink around 4 to 5 drinks, about one beer drink per hour. The most popular beers in the USA are Bud Light, Miller Light, Budweiser, and Coors Light. Most Americans have taken to like light beer, they are light in body and low bitter taste. These companies represent about 95% of beer sales in the United States. These popular brands can be purchased by the keg or by the can or bottle. Usually bottles are preferred at weddings over cans because cans leave a slight metallic taste.

There are 1500 microbreweries in the USA. A brewery is considered a microbrewery if they produce less than two million barrels of beer per year and are less than 10% ownership by one of the major breweries. Most of these breweries sell their beer in bottles. A keg is the more economical route to go when purchasing beer for your wedding that is assuming none is wasted.

Usually when you get a keg of beer, you need to rent or buy a beer tap kit to go along with it. You will need a beer tap, Co2 Canister ( 5 lb standard), hoses (usually a clear tube for beer and a copper tube for air), hose clamps, Co2 Regulator, possibly a beer tower and a faucet wrench (basically hooks into small holes around the collar and lets you unscrew and screw the faucet). The copper tube is used to recirculate a chilling fluid to help keep the tap cold.

You will want the keg in some type of refrigeration, either a special keg refrigerator, a regular refrigerator, a special refrigerator cut with a hole in top to place a keg, or for an outdoor wedding sometimes a bucket of ice or ice and cold water is used.

There is an art to filling up one’s glass with beer. The goal for the brewery is for the beer product to be in the same quality as when it leaves the brewery. For great draft beer, it must remain at a constant temperature of between 38-42 degrees Fahrenheit. If the keg gets too warm, it produces too much foam and creates a lot of waste. If the keg is too cold, there will be no foam and there will be too much beer poured into the glass.

A good bartender knows how to set and test the tap and knows the technique of pouring beer into a glass or stein. An inexperienced bartender can produce as much as 25-30% waste on a keg of beer at a busy wedding reception causing the owner’s profits to go down the drain. The important thing at a wedding is, for whoever is handling the beer tap, they have mastered the technique of tapping the beer keg. It is preferred to set the beer keg under the bar table protected from heat and out of view and is in a convenient location to change the keg when empty.

There is a new “quick-fill” system that is taking the nation by storm and is expected to be common place over the next few years. These improved beer taps fill the beer glasses from bottom to the top, utilizing a magnet on the bottom of the glass. These systems have appeared at a number of sports stadiums and deliver beer quickly to sports enthusiasts and generate more beer with less foam. Expect to see these beer taps at wedding receptions over the next several years.

Some wedding couples decide to have beer tasting at their wedding and is fun and a great ice breaker for wedding guests. Beer tasting gives you the pleasure of exposing friends, families, and acquaintances to the rewarding world of beer diversity. Most taste testings are recommended to be in the latter part of the wedding reception or works great at an outdoor wedding.

Many people may say “I am not a beer drinker, I don’t like the taste of beer”. Many of these non beer drinkers change their tune after attending a beer tasting. Many people find a really good tasting beer, and benefit tremendously from a beer tasting.

There are four type of beer tasting themes: horizontal, vertical, blind, and holiday. Horizontal tasting is selecting beers of different styles around the world and has distinct color, taste, and strength. After each person sample the beer you give them beer facts on the brand of brew, what brewery made the brew, from what country, the beer ingredients, and historical tidbits.

A vertical tasting compares beers from one style, region, or brewer. The goal is to help find the type of beer the guest likes the most. The blind tasting may have the most appeal, it is a little work to host and manage, the bottles need to be hidden you might pour all the beers into unmarked pitchers and then about four ounces poured into clear glasses marked from 1 to 8 or 10. The guests take a drink from each glass and write down their observations on the taste test.

You want 8 – 10 marked spots or marked glasses to begin the taste test for each guest. They taste and smell the beer and write down adjectives how their taste buds taste the beer. The glasses should be clear wide mouthed glasses, plastic cups, or shot glasses so you can smell the aroma, see the color, as well as the taste. A new taste test should be introduced about every five minutes. You don’t want the taste test to go rapidly or the guests will be too saturated with beer to do the taste test well. You want to have a glass of water and munchies such as crackers, mild cheese, pretzels, fresh fruits, pates, or trail mix in between tastings. You should need 2 12 ounce bottles of beer for every 8 people.

Holiday tasting are basically serving seasonal beer. The beer tasting is geared to holiday events such as Oktoberfest, Christmas, Valentine’s Day, May Day, or Independence Day.

There are many web sites that can help you collect information on beer. Research your beer at web sites like www.ratebeer.com. Another web site called www.kegworks.com can help you out with kegs and ordering keg equipment.

Have the wedding guests write down their thoughts after sampling each beer in the taste test. Some adjectives to use as a guide for a taste testing form are listed below.

Beer Taste Testing

Acetaldehyde – green apple, cidery or fresh pumpkin contamination from microorganisms

Acetic – aroma or flavor similar to vinegar usually contamination from microorganisms like Acetobacteria

Acidic – sharp sour flavor or aroma

Alcoholic – warming or hot and spicy flavor that can be prickly in your mouth high fermentation temperatures or excessive yeast in brewing

Astringent – drying, puckering, bitterness that is tannin like

Bacterial – moldy or musty

Banana – flavors and aroma somilar to the banana

Bitter – that sensation on the back of the tongue hops used in beer, malt used in beer, contamination from microorganisms, could be several different reasons that affect this component of flavor

Bland – beer taste with not much flavor

Burnt – having an overbrewed taste

Butterscotch – having a taste similar to butterscotch suckers

Chill Haze – no affect on flavor but makes the beer appear hazy proteins suspended in the beer

Clean – lacking in off and unpleasant flavors and aromas

Clove – herb like flavor of cloves unwanted yeast

Cloying – too sweet and or heavy without any balancing bitter or acidic qualities too much malt

Chocolaty – tastes like chocolate or cocoa mixed with water

Creamy – smooth mouth feel, soft and pleasant texture good carbonation

Crisp – acidic in a good way that is not over powering

Dank – moldy or fungus like

Diacetyl – butter, butterscotch, toffee flavors short fermentation, contamination from microorganisms

Dimethyl Sulfides (DMS) – cooked rancid vegetable flavor like broccoli or cabbage contamination from microorganisms

Dry – finish that is sharp and not sweet

Dull – not tasting any ingredients but may not tasting bad

Earthy – aromas similar to grass and soil, think farm like hops used in beer, usually related to hop aromas found in British beers

Estery – complex flavors ranging from fruity to spicy to flowery, these flavors are often linked to Belgian ales and wheat beers. caused by certain yeasts,high fermentation temperatures, fruit added to beer

Flat – stale, papery, or cardboard like flavors too much contact with air, high temperatures while the beer aged, old beer

Flowery – aroma like flowers hops used in the beer

Fruity – aromas like apples, pears, citrus, strawberries etc. caused by certain yeasts,high fermentation temperatures, fruit added to beer

Full-bodied – large and abundant flavors malt used in beer

Grainy – raw and grain flavor or cereal like malt used in beer

Grapefruit – just like grapefruit hops used in beer

Grassy – the flavor of chlorophyll, just like fresh cut grass, can be musty spoiled malt or hops, hops that were not dried correctly

Hazy – cloudy beer protein or yeast floating in suspension in the beer

Highly Carbonated – tastes similar to tonic water or carbonated soda

Honey – tastes similar to honey

Hoppy – is bitter from bittering hops including grassy, citrusy, earthy, tea like, etc.

Licorics – tastes something like licoric sticks

Malty – a full bodied sweet flavor to it

Medicinal – having one or many of these qualities: electrical fire, medicinal, plastic, listerine, band-aid, smoky, unwanted yeast or contamination from microorganisms

Metallic – aroma or flavor similar to licking a coin exposure to iron or aluminum or high iron in the brewing water

Musty – mildew and stale aroma

Nutty – flavors and aromas similar to various types of nuts

Oily – slick sensation on the tongue that feels like a coat on the mouth

Oxidized – flat, rotten, stale, papery, or cardboard like flavors too much contact with air or high aging temperatures, or old beer

Phenolic – having one or many of these qualities: electrical fire, medicinal, plastic, listerine, band-aid, smoky, unwanted yeast or contamination from microorganisms

Powdery – chalky or gritty in mouth feel

Roasty – has an aftertaste similar to coffee

Rose Like smell – flavor of roses from hops or as a product of some yeasts

Rotten – flat, rotten, stale, papery, or cardboard like flavors too much contact with air or high aging temperatures, or old beer

Salty – salt flavor on the sides of the tongue. use of too much salts during adjustment of the brewing water

Silky – smooth and soft texture on the palate often as a result of adjuncts such as oatmeal

Skunky – stale, skunk like flavor exposure to sunlight

Smoky – smoke taste in mouth feel

Solvent – like aroma like paint thinner, lacquer or acetone usually felt along the back of the mouth high fermentation temperatures,

Sour – acidic and/or vinegar like sensation on the sides of the tongue, can have several different characteristics, such as lemony, vinegar, or sharp contamination from microorganisms, intentional additional of lactobacillus as in lambics

Stale – flat, rotten, stale, papery, or cardboard like flavors too much contact with air or high aging temperatures, or old beer

Sting – sharp bite on the tongue carbonation, highly hopped beer

Sulphur – aroma of rotten eggs exposure to sunlight, contamination from microorganisms, random yeast infection, too much exposure to yeast

Sweet – sugary, noticed on the tip of the tongue a product of the malt ingredients, various adjuncts that are not fully fermented

Sweet Corn – has a sweet cornish taste and aroma

Syrupy – kind of a molasses texture and taste

Tangy – sharp impression on the sides of the tongue, not as intense as tart

Tart – intense acidic taste

Thin – watery or having little body

Toast – malt characteristic usually associated with dark ales and stouts

Toffeeish – has a hint tatse similar to toffee candy

Vegetal – flavors of cooked, canned or rotten vegetables such as cooked corn, cabbage or broccoli poor quality malt ingredients, contamination from microorganisms, or high or low levels of yeast

Vinous – an aroma or flavor suggestive of wine.

Winy – similar to wine with fruity aroma or flavor

Yeasty – yeast like flavor, think bread dough yeast still in suspension or beer sitting on sediment

Beer Color Test

Straw 2-3

Yellow 3-4

Gold 5-6

Amber 6-9

Deep amber/light copper 10-14

Copper 14-17

Deep copper/light brown 17-18

Brown 19-22

Dark Brown 22-30

Very Dark Brown 30-35

Black 30+

Black, opaque 40+

So if you want a Royal Wedding and be sophisticated remember to skip the beer. For an All American wedding you have got to include beer and if you decide on a keg of beer, make sure you have someone that knows how to tap and can pour the beer properly.

Author writes articles on weddings. Also provides brides contacts for wedding vendors in select cities.http://kwb1.blogspot.com/2011/05/step-70-decide-if-you-want-beer-served.html

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By Diwakar Vashist

Wheat grass juice furnishes the body with vital nourishment, providing extra energy to the body. This juice contains nearly 70 per cent of chlorophyll. It is a rich source of vitamins A, B, C and contains minerals like calcium, iron, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, sodium, sulphur, cobalt, and zinc. The chlorophyll contained in wheat grass juice is very beneficial for the body. It purifies the blood due to its high vitamin and mineral contents. This property is used by the body to cleanse and rebuild itself. By drinking this juice regularly, toxins can be neutralised. It thus helps to maintain good health.

The chlorophyll molecule bears close resemblance to haemoglobin, the red pigmentation in human blood, and differs only in the central element which in blood is iron and in chlorophyll, magnesium. Owing to their close molecular resemblance, Frans Miller, another scientist, believed that chlorophyll is the natural blood building element for all plant eaters and humans.

Digestive System Disorders

Wheat grass juice used as an enema helps detoxify the walls of the colon. The general procedure is to give an enema with lukewarm water. After waiting for 20 minutes, 100 to 125 ml. of wheat grass juice enema is given. This should be retained for 15 minutes.

Circulatory Disorders

The chlorophyll content present in wheat grass enhances heart and lung functions. Capillary activity also increases, while toxemia is reduced. By increasing iron content in the blood and thereby haemoglobin, lungs function better. Oxygeneration improves and the effect of carbon-dioxide is minimised.The chlorophyll content present in wheat grass enhances heart and lung functions. Capillary activity also increases, while toxemia is reduced. By increasing iron content in the blood and thereby haemoglobin, lungs function better. Oxygeneration improves and the effect of carbon-dioxide is minimised.

Several diseases can be treated successfully by regular drinking of wheat grass juice. These include: arthritis, psoriasis, premature greying and falling of hair, general weakness and debility, kidney stones, weak eyesight, abdominal pain, asthma, constipation and insomnia.

Many physicians at Hippocrates Health institute at Boston have tested the miraculous effectiveness of the wheat grass therapy. They have proved satisfactorily that wheat grass chlorophyll is a New Age food medicine capable of alleviating the problems of sick humanity.

An exclusive diet of wheat grass can be used beneficially in treating diseases. In adopting this mode of treatment, the patient should undertake fast on wheat grass for seven days. Such a fast can pleasantly cleanse and nourish at the same time. One can be confident of complete safety and real health-building results.

How to Grow and Use Wheat grass

Wheat grass can be grown in any sheltered place where the direct rays of the sun do not reach from about 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and where the temperature is mild. The direct rays of the sun have a tendency to sap the strength from the grass. The round stalks flatten out and become limp.

For growing wheat grass a good variety of wheat should be soaked for eight to 10 hours. The water should then be drained and those grains allowed to sprout for 15 hours. Earthern pots or wooden trays can be used to grow the wheat grass. They should be filled with compost manure and the wheat sprouts should be spared. They should be covered with a dark cloth or kept away from the sunlight in a room. They should be sprinkled with water once or twice a day and allowed to stay as such for six to seven days the grass grows five to seven inches high.

The grass can be cut with a scissor. It should be immediately washed and group. Thereafter, the juice of the ground pulp should be extracted through a fine piece of cloth. To derive maximum advantage, the pulp should be ground and the juice extracted for two or three times. The juice so extracted should be taken immediately, as its efficacy reduces every minute and the medicinal value is completely lost after three hours.

About the Author: Diwakar Vashist is the senior consultant of Institute of vedic science New Dehi, INDIA.He is working on indian vedic sciences for last twenty years.He is also the honrary consultant of

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