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For the same reason that drinking soda through a straw doesn't taste quite the same as straight from the glass. As well as fancier reasons...premium European beers are served in their own unique stemmed glasses when you go to nice bars/pubs. They're first chilled to the same temperature as the beer on tap with running water, and the stem helps prevent your hand from heating up the beer.
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Eugene is correct as usual. Certain styles of beer should be served at certain temperatures, especially if you order draft (which is, in all honesty, very difficult to do in a brewhouse. I had glycol lines run through my pipes to keep the lower alcohol beers crisp and fairly cold...and my porters and stouts went to shit. Thank FSM I'm not in that business anymore).
Has anyone here ever had a properly poured Guinness? It takes a fucking half hour. So it goes. |
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And worth every second.
I prefer most of my beers warm. Brings out the flavors. |
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You know, I'm in the midst of a mental battle right now. I usually have a couple of 6-packs of Sierra Nevada in the fridge, but today I look and I'm met with a couple 6-packs of Beck's. You know what? Not fucking bad. At all. For a nice crisp beer anyways.
An aside: When I bought in to my brewery I had high hopes of possibly being able to make beers myself in my basement (as homebrewers do). The fresh yeast would give me an advantage to be sure, and I wouldn't have to rely on the hop pellets that most homebrewers do. We do centercut mostly for the domestics (imagine...4'x3'x2' cardboard boxes coming in from the West Coast filled with fresh, lovely hops... opening them up is as close to heaven as you will ever get), and the import stuff was pelletized but done right. With all these things to my ultimate advantage....do you know what I eventually realized? I am not fucking patient. At all. I eventually came to this conclusion: I am a chef, not a baker. Truly, I will babysit a marinara from boil to serve, ever tasting and adding and stirring. I just can't leave my hands off the goddamn thing...but give me a homemade loaf of bread or something that needs to be left alone in the oven...I'm a goddamn mess. And God forbid your oven doesn't have an overhead light for me to peek in on. You might as well add an hour to the cooking time with all my peeking and letting the heat out. The only thing I've ever successfully baked was chocolate chip cookies. So it goes. |
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Yeah, beer making is all about the setup. Then waiting. A lot. There's no rushing it. |
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Now wait just a minute, I know for a fact she's got a seat on the bus.
*shakes fists in air* Curse you, bureaucratic cockups! |
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No. The big feller has definatley reserved a spot. Cloud 9, with a lovely view. |
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*sigh*
I'm gonna have to escalate this up to my manager. Maybe my boss can call your boss, do lunch, get together... No, wait, that's a VERY BAD IDEA(tm). |
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I meant theoldguy's boss.
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Hey! Talk about beers or get outta here!
Anyway, I've always been partial to fruity beer; I find them "fun". (Black Dog Honey Raspberry Ale, quite very yummy) |
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Red and amber beers for the win!
My two favorites: Casco Bay Riptide red: Gritty's Halloween Ale (seasonal ): Click for descriptions. Time to empty the rest of the fridge to make room for some more. Formerly known as cynical_rock censeo tentatio victum There is no snooze button on a cat. |
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DOH! Damn double-posts.
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Mmmm... Beeer wench.
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