Beer Bailout
June 17, 2009
This is important stuff. More important than our fly-killing president, if you can believe it. I’m talking about beer, and this new book “Tasting Beer: An Insider’s Guide to the World’s Greatest Drink.” I wish I could have read it before I drank two Busch beers and a High Life, all in cans, last night. Yes, three little beers and my head is aching. Another unjust hangover in my world. Obama can kill a fly but what can he do about this serious problem? Tell me to drink better beer? That’s the easy bailout. I want justice!
Along the way, he shares little gems, such as debunking advertising claims (Rocky Mountain water? Lies.) and how to pour a beer (directly in the middle of a glass produces a rich, creamy head; “trickling down the side … will result in a too-gassy beer with little aroma and a poor, quickly dissipating head”).
June 19th, 2009 on 1:38 am
If I remember correctly, Coors removes all the water from its beer and just ships the ??flavor?? – adding the water in at canning/bottling plants where sold locally. Saves a lot on shipping costs since I do not remember much flavor in Coors – its only cache was that we could not get it in MT when I was growing up and we had to go to WY to buy it.
I went on the Rainier Beer tour (years ago when they still had a plant here in Seattle); after brewing, they removed all the CO2 to pump it to the bottling area and then added it back (it crossed a street called Airport Way).
Go figure.
June 19th, 2009 on 9:38 am
Grumpy, i went on the Coors tour in CO a few years ago but i don’t really remember anything but the free beers at the end of it. man, i just have to stop drinking shitty beer is really what it comes down to.