Posted on 02/15/2014 6:21:32 PM PST by nickcarraway
Next time you and your friends are our for a pint, maybe hold off on the dark stout. As tempting as it might be in this wintry weather, scientists have recently released a study suggesting that stout beer, Guinness in particular, might make you bitter. The study links tart and bitter tastes with, you guessed it, a tart and bitter mind.
When consumed in “delicate situations,” bitter drinks might lead people to “voicing thoughts they’ll later regret.” The study asked people to rate certain scenarios on how morally questionable they were. Those with bitter drinks were much harsher on the subject of each scenario.
Other drinks that might have this effect are gin and tonics, which means I need to find replacements for two of my favorite drinks. I’m pretty bitter about it.
Here’s two of my recent favorites: Samuel Adam’s Chocolate Bock and O’Fallon’s Brewery Cherry Chocolate. I’ve always been a big fan of the oatmeal stouts and triple stouts. Some may taste a little strong or funny till you’re about three or four deep then they flow like wine, lol. Scientist, what are you going to do with them. There’s a reason PhD stands for post hole digger in my neck of the woods.
Laphroaig 10 yo? Great value dollar-wise. The Triple Wood is very nice, but I never compared either to Lagavulin side-by-side. But I think I’ll make it a point to do so.
Maybe not, but my mother raised me to have manners. Thank-you. I’ve scheduled your colonoscopy for Tuesday at 8am. Just drink a gallon of whiskey on Monday night to clean yourself out. That way, if you don’t make it to the bathroom, you won’t care. My fraternity brothers used this method.
We need to reschedule, I’m donating blood that day.
I love tonic water, and I am one of the most forgiving and gentle ladies you’ll ever meet. Guinness is gotaste od, but I find it a little too sweet, so when I go into a pub I order “a half of bitter, please,” and get a taste for grownups.
Lousy phone.
I thought you’d dropped into Gaelic!
Well 254 years of brewing speaks for itself
I love a freshly tapped keg!
I drank a glass of Guinness in the Guinness factory observation tower in Dublin last July with scores of others. Nobody appeared bitter there.
Guinness is more sour than bitter.....
If you want a good beer and you like stouts, try a Murphy’s Irish Stout.
If you want a bitter beer, try a strong IPA.
If you want the best beer, try a Russian Imperial Stout that has been aged for a year or more in a whiskey barrel.
Guinness draft on nitrogen is so much better than the cans or bottles, even if they have the nitrogen widgets inside.
I have found that if I use rice as an adjunct grain in making beer it creates a phenolic compound in the finished beer that gives me a headache. I mentioned this to my sister who used to tend bar and she commented that Budweiser drinkers (Bud uses a lot of rice)tend to get more angry as they drink more, while other beer drinkers get more relaxed. I cannot drink sake at all!
Sounds like Guinness might be a truth serum.
The real problem with modern America: “Light” beer and 85 proof whiskey.
“Light Beer” is an oxymoron.
Light beer is pathetic
Killjoys...the left..
Try this...better than Guinness...especially on tap.
Edmund Fitzgerald Porter - Great Lakes Brewing Co.
http://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/73/226/
Not always with protein. Glutamate is an amino acid, and the taste buds are uniquely responsive to it. While it is a major component of many proteins, not all proteins have a lot of it, so would not be as sensed by those taste buds.
Edmund Fitzgerald Porter - Great Lakes Brewing Co.
Have had it many times... Yes, it is excellent.
Some would consider me a beer snob, but actually my philosophy is kind of like my taste in women... A good one is one you like... period.
My favorites are actually the Belgian Farmhouse Ales... And the Belgian Blondes.... I’m overdue for a trip there.
Which means that basic coffee does as well...
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