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Only 6 (or 8 for the West Coast) more hours to the start of the weekend, people!
Did you know that Dom Pérignon was once asked to remove the bubbles from his champagne?
From Wikipedia:
Dom Pérignon [the monk behind a number of champagne-making innovations after which the cuvée of champagne was named] was originally charged by his superiors at the Abbey of Hautvillers to get rid of the bubbles since the pressure in the bottles caused many of them to burst in the cellar. As sparkling wine production increased in the early 1700s, cellar workers would have to wear heavy iron mask that resembled a baseball catcher's mask to prevent injury from spontaneously bursting bottles. The disturbance caused by one bottle's disintegration could cause a chain reaction, with it being routine for cellars to lose 20-90% of their bottles to instability. The mysterious circumstance surrounding the then unknown process of fermentation and carbonic gas caused some critics to call the sparkling creations "The Devil's Wine".
I'll drink to that...
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