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Posts: 1599 (05/04/09 12:05 AM) Regulator |
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Posts: 1600 (05/04/09 12:07 AM) Regulator |
Has anyone done any home brewing?
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spectroid |
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Posts: 336 (05/04/09 12:11 AM) |
A whole bunch of years ago, a fellow down the road bottled his own brew...some of it was really quite good, but other batches had a tendancy to explode,
sending glass shrapnel around his basement, and scaring the bejeezus out of his dog and wife...I have wanted to, but am still afraid.
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Posts: 7150 (05/04/09 06:49 AM) Forum Founder |
No home brewing here, but I always wanted to try and make some wine.
Beer is an occasional thing for me. I go months and it doesn't cross my mind, but once in a while, a cold beer is mighty good. Harp is good. Smythwick is good. I like most wheat beer. I generally don't care for dark beer or cheap domestics. |
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Posts: 3829 (05/04/09 08:10 AM) Flatpick Patrol |
My family made home brew for years and years, and like Spec. said, it has a tendency to explode, blowing the bottom of the bottle off. I'm not sure why,
and they haven't made it in awhile. There may still be some down in the cave, along w/ all the home made wine, but I haven't looked for a while. I do
know that it was quite strong, taste and alcohol percentage~wise. Right now my favorite it Stella Artois on tap at Ruby Tuesday. Somehow their beer always
tastes like they just tapped it. Crisp, clean, delicious.
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Posts: 1601 (05/04/09 11:16 AM) Regulator |
I have a question which is showing my huge amount of beer ignorance - why is almost all the beer that I see in convenience stores and the like
"light"? Is it just a type of beer, or is it "light" like low fat food is supposed to be light?
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spectroid |
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Posts: 338 (05/04/09 11:23 AM) |
Any of you Vietnam Veterans remember Bau Mi Ba (33) beer from Southeast Asia...for you who have never heard of it, we called it Bomb Me Bad...about seven steps
below cat urine. There was also a sort of frog pee beer from Libya, Birra Oea, but I doubt that Murry the K has allowed it to stay. At the opposite end of the
spectrum , there is the REAL San Miguel from the Phillipines, not the export crap; the ones with the painted on the bottle label, or, better yet, on tap. That
was darn good. One of my alltime favorites was a Dutch beer, Oranjeboom. If I have to drink a domestic beer, if the darn Docs ever let me have any again, it
would be MGD. Since we don't have a basement here, I guess I'll forgo the home brewing.
To answer your question, which jumped in there before I could enter this, "Light" or as Madison Avenue says, "Lite" means that there are supposed ly fewer calories in it. Also a lot less taste. Don't know how they do it, and really don't care. I'm sticking with what I think I meant to say.
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Posts: 1673 (05/04/09 12:21 PM) moderator |
spectroid wrote: The facts is that calories are reduced primarily by lowering the alcohol content. I don't drink, but when I did, my favorite beer was Negra Modelo, a dark Mexican beer.
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Posts: 3833 (05/04/09 01:31 PM) Flatpick Patrol |
Not too many ingredients have zero calories, so the key to lowering the caloric content of a beverage is to add water. You can drink a whole lot more light
beer than you can high test if you prefer quantity over quality.
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Posts: 683 (05/04/09 10:40 PM) |
spectroid wrote:I remember that stuff. Also remember a rumor that it contained formaldehyde. Only tried some once...don't remember how many I had, but I do remember getting a wicked bad headache from it...and no other effects. Ron |
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Posts: 339 (05/04/09 11:18 PM) |
I'm sticking with what I think I meant to say. |
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Posts: 2 (05/05/09 04:42 AM) |
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This motley crew was a sickening sight
Well we hadn't been there but an hour or two
Now Steeleye Stan was a frightening man
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Posts: 3 (05/05/09 04:48 AM) |
Sam Adams Imperial series is real good.
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Posts: 3839 (05/05/09 07:09 AM) Flatpick Patrol |
Twodogs, where can a body hear the melody to that song?
I'll try the Sam Adams Imperial line when I run across it for sure. I try most everything I come across, but my favorites so far are Stella, Yuengling traditional lager, Sierra Nevada Pale Ale, and Magic Hat Circus Boy (a hefeweizen), all preferably on tap.
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Posts: 427 (05/05/09 08:10 AM) |
I'll second the vote for Yuengling lager especially on tap... It is a staple of the watering holes in these here parts...
I'd like to find their Porter on tap some where. There is Half - Half on tap in some places. IMHO it ruins the taste of 2 excellent beers to mix them...
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Posts: 341 (05/05/09 10:19 AM) |
On Malta, there are a lot of British style pubs, owned and operated by retired Royal Navy men. All with Bass Ale on tap. At first I wasn't too impressed
with a room temperature pint, but after a few, they were pretty good...This thread also reminded me of what the Limey's call "Tops". A draft beer
(San Miguel...this was in Hong Kong and Singapore) topped off with Lemon Squash ( concentrated lemon flavored drink base which is hopefully banned in this
country). They go down well, except when you try to stand up, the sudden change in altitude will get you.
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Posts: 38 (05/05/09 01:29 PM) |
I think most of the "light" (or "near") beers one finds in convenience stores and the like have a lighter alcohol content because most
local or state ordinances restrict sale of the "heavier" stuff to liquor stores. At least that's been my experience in the places I've lived.
I just remember I always avoided buying booze at convenience stores because it never did anything for me.
That'd be a great line for a song: "She was as light as convenience store beer...." When I drank, I preferred Blue Moon, Shiner Bock or, my favorite, Schell's Pilsner. That was the only beer I could drink to excess without getting a headache. Not that I ever drank to excess, mind you. I'm speaking hypothetically. That said, drinking is something I gave up a few years ago. I don't recall it ever got me anywhere anyway. |
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Posts: 1016 (05/05/09 03:44 PM) |
To my tongue, most lite beers taste like beer-flavored seltzer water.
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Posts: 342 (05/05/09 05:44 PM) |
I just remembered something that, if not as bad as Vietnamese beer, is darn close to it....the 3.2% beer(?) sold in the beer halls on post when I was stationed
at Fort Hood in the early 60's. All that stuff did was to cause fights, give you a terrible headache, and make you pee a lot. I think it was called
"Pearl" or "Lone Star" or something...it was vile, but as a buck private back then, it was the cheapest stuff available.
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Posts: 3845 (05/05/09 07:00 PM) Flatpick Patrol |
Ole Ben Franklin said, "Beer is proof God loves us and wants us to be happy".
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"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." "The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it." "The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers." "When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty" "The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground. " ~Courtesy of Thomas Jefferson |
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Posts: 139 (05/05/09 10:25 PM) |
flatpickingfiend wrote: I really liked Yuengling when I was down around NY, NJ, MD etc. I've never found it up here. My favorite beer without a doubt is Samuel Smith's Celebrated Oatmeal Stout. Sierra Nevada is good, but just thinking about it is making my head pound.... In my old age I have to be really careful not to drink much "good" beer or I'll feel like I got schmammered the night before (even after only drinking a few). That on top of the calories, the cost and the fact that even a few beers hinders my guitar practice has made me pretty much stop drinking at this point. I'll still start off the day with a bloody mary at the festivals sometimes though..... Oh yeah! As far as building your own brew..... Think SANITARY! It's very easy to mess up the whole thing with something as simple as putting the stirring spoon down on an unsanitized counter. |
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