I think mead is worth a mention, although not really beer..it predates wine but can be brewed to be much like a light pilsner only way tastier. My favorite is ginger metheglin although I've only made 1 batch so far and I still have alot to learn from the old man.
oh, and "real ale" = has to mature in the cask, and isn't gassed up in any way.
i honestly believe CAMRA (the Campaign for Real Ale, been around in the UK for about 30 years now) should change their name - they've won, overwhelmingly so. Round here, you can't get much else in a pub.
by the way, when i was on holiday in New England a while back i was bowled over by the amount and quality of different beers you'd get in almost any bar, not just the supposed specialist ones. My favourite pub at home has about 12 beers on draught, 5 of them real ale and changing all the time, but i only fancy drinking maybe half a dozen of what they have. Standard in my experience of holiday was 15 different taps, and i could probably sit and drink most of them quite happily.
Generally, too bloody cold though. I found a pint of Taylors Landlord in boston, it was bloody freezing, could hardly taste it. Barman was talking about it and making the old assumptions about british "warm beer" (which is complete bollocks) but i assured him it'd be doubly tasty at cellar temperature. He said he'd try it his own bottled stuff, but there was no way the customers would go for it. Shame
As I understand it Americans prefer their beer freezing cold because many had experience with Bud and that is only tolerable if you freeze it so cold that it numbs your taste buds.
kdr - well yeah ... but that's the same with newcastle brown, and no-one can deny that's a fantastic drink (and if you do, that makes you a bummer). Stupidly, i also found a pint of Newky brown in Boston, and it was barely chilled. Dumb
What produces a beers color? What are the different tastes in beer as well, having never tasted hops or barley by itself I don't really know what I'm tasting.
The only flavor I do know is yeast from my soda brewing experiments and I'm not a big fan of yeasty tasting stuff like those beers with all the sediment floating around in them (plus the sediment just creeps me out)
You don't remember the straw cos you were on your third drink you BIG SOUTHERN NANCY
(he did have a 5 hour head start)
Mind you, it doesn't beat walking up to the bar at 10ish with 3 others and ordering 2 pints of tennents, a water and a coke. The look on the barmaids face was priceless.
JK: I'm still wondering why Flensburger isn't introducing "Treuepunkte" (sorry, can't find a useful translation). Finally you could collect points in Flensburg even without a driver's license!
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i honestly believe CAMRA (the Campaign for Real Ale, been around in the UK for about 30 years now) should change their name - they've won, overwhelmingly so. Round here, you can't get much else in a pub.
by the way, when i was on holiday in New England a while back i was bowled over by the amount and quality of different beers you'd get in almost any bar, not just the supposed specialist ones. My favourite pub at home has about 12 beers on draught, 5 of them real ale and changing all the time, but i only fancy drinking maybe half a dozen of what they have. Standard in my experience of holiday was 15 different taps, and i could probably sit and drink most of them quite happily.
Generally, too bloody cold though. I found a pint of Taylors Landlord in boston, it was bloody freezing, could hardly taste it. Barman was talking about it and making the old assumptions about british "warm beer" (which is complete bollocks) but i assured him it'd be doubly tasty at cellar temperature. He said he'd try it his own bottled stuff, but there was no way the customers would go for it. Shame
The only flavor I do know is yeast from my soda brewing experiments and I'm not a big fan of yeasty tasting stuff like those beers with all the sediment floating around in them (plus the sediment just creeps me out)
First real beer posted in this thread
I'm a massive fan of Brooklyn and Baltika. Tonight I bought some Spitfire, Circlemaster, Ferrets Furst and Speckled Hen. See rsart.co.uk for details.
DanR drinks red wine through a straw. FACT.
(he did have a 5 hour head start)
Mind you, it doesn't beat walking up to the bar at 10ish with 3 others and ordering 2 pints of tennents, a water and a coke. The look on the barmaids face was priceless.
Ryno: You should replace that glass of wine in your avatar.
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You wouldn't say that if you saw my wine cellar.