You just have to eat it, I have a teaspoon full a day for a couple of weeks before going to Scotland.I like Marmite* too but I'm not going to smear it over me to keep bloody midges off!
*Other brands of yeast extract paste are available (Vegemite doesn't count - Yuk)
Only eight? You weren't trying hard enough.When I was a kid we used to live just down the street from a big old fashioned sweetshop run by an old couple, the entire back wall behind the counter was jars of sweets with a ladder to get up to the top shelf where the real hardcore was kept, the Pontefract cakes, the real licorice root and the Creamline toffees, they had the old school scales, toffee hammers and 2oz and 4 oz paper bags. I knew every kind of boiled sweet , toffee, choc bar and the merits of flying saucers over pink prawns.
I had eight fillings while I was at school age.
You just have to eat it, I have a teaspoon full a day for a couple of weeks before going to Scotland.
I think it's got vitamin D in it and the midges don't like it.
Hmmmm, might make a salad suit.Eating a diet high in fresh fruit and veg will have the same effect. The midgies are jock, remember.
Personally, I've reluctantly converted to Vegemite (pron. vedge'emity) following Marmite's stupid decision to reduce the viscosity of their product when they introduced the squirty version. I have no desire to spend longer removing Marmite from my shirt or the floor than I do eating the stuff.
When I was a kid we used to live just down the street from a big old fashioned sweetshop run by an old couple, the entire back wall behind the counter was jars of sweets with a ladder to get up to the top shelf where the real hardcore was kept, the Pontefract cakes, the real licorice root and the Creamline toffees, they had the old school scales, toffee hammers and 2oz and 4 oz paper bags. I knew every kind of boiled sweet , toffee, choc bar and the merits of flying saucers over pink prawns.
I had eight fillings while I was at school age.
That's a useful tip and worth a try. I doubt it's vit D though. Yeast extract has vit B, B12 etc. Beer supposedly has B vitamins too but you would have to drink so much of it to get the same amount in a serving of Marmite that you wouldn't be interested in walking around much.You just have to eat it, I have a teaspoon full a day for a couple of weeks before going to Scotland.
I think it's got vitamin D in it and the midges don't like it.
It doesn't stop them completely but it certainly seems to help, I've stood round at campsites hardly being affected while non Marmite lovers get chewed to bits.
That's a useful tip and worth a try. I doubt it's vit D though. Yeast extract has vit B, B12 etc. Beer supposedly has B vitamins too but you would have to drink so much of it to get the same amount in a serving of Marmite that you wouldn't be interested in walking around much.
That's a useful tip and worth a try. I doubt it's vit D though. Yeast extract has vit B, B12 etc. Beer supposedly has B vitamins too but you would have to drink so much of it to get the same amount in a serving of Marmite that you wouldn't be interested in walking around much.
Like you I think I'll wait until some chocolate head tries it and gives some feedback before I waste any hard earned on it.
As I understand it, Guinness yeast was much favoured by home brewers for it's tendency to pack down at the bottom of the bottle, whereas others tended to linger in suspension. That gave the home brewer a cleaner tasting and clearer looking brew. You can imagine how useful that would be to the many microbreweries that started from the 80's onwards. Guinness are basically protecting their assets. Worthington's White Shield was another popular source of yeast for home brewing but I think they put a stop to that too. Happy to be corrected.I volunteer to be the guinea (Guinness, perhaps?) pig in such an experiment.
Whatever happened to live culture, bottle conditioned Guinness? The guv'nor at my local some years ago (big ex-RUC sergeant) guarded his stock of "Mey bast Guinness" jealously and it was an indication of being seriously in his good books if one were ever allowed to partake of such.
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You're probably right, B rather than D which now I think about it mostly comes from sunlight something you don't get a lot of in Scotland.That's a useful tip and worth a try. I doubt it's vit D though. Yeast extract has vit B, B12 etc. Beer supposedly has B vitamins too but you would have to drink so much of it to get the same amount in a serving of Marmite that you wouldn't be interested in walking around much.
6 months ago you say so you haven't rushed out and bought more.I’ve had some about 6 months ago. I quite liked it.
My only attempt at homebrew was the recipe told to me by a bloke that worked in a brewery, which involved a small bottle of Guineas and double the normal amount of sugar added to a Boots homebrew bitter kit, it exploded half the bottles, and when you opened the cap it poured itself , it tasted like fizzy creosote , after drinking that at work my mate put both legs down one trouser leg trying to change to go home, fell over and smashed his head .As I understand it, Guinness yeast was much favoured by home brewers for it's tendency to pack down at the bottom of the bottle, whereas others tended to linger in suspension. That gave the home brewer a cleaner tasting and clearer looking brew. You can imagine how useful that would be to the many microbreweries that started from the 80's onwards. Guinness are basically protecting their assets. Worthington's White Shield was another popular source of yeast for home brewing but I think they put a stop to that too. Happy to be corrected.