Posted on 04/07/2021 3:32:19 PM PDT by Libloather
April 7 is National Beer Day in the U.S.
To celebrate, here's a list of the 35 best beers and beer styles on the market today, according to BeerAdvocates' database. And if that's not enough, scroll further for advice on how to pair food and beer and a ranking of the best domestic beers.
IPAs to Pilsners: The best beer of every type
In 1956, archaeologists working in northern Israel’s Raqefet Cave - once home to the Natufian people (13,050–7,550 B.C.) - stumbled upon an astonishing discovery: 13,000-year-old fermented gruel. Archaeologists had found prehistoric evidence of beer before in the remnants of ancient brewing that have surfaced in China, Mesopotamia, and North Africa. But this was the oldest - and it was the oldest to a great extent. The beer residue - a thin gruel-type beer - found in Raqefet Cave precedes other archaeological evidence by at least 5,000 years.
For as long as humans have farmed cereals like wheat, barley, and rice, humans have fermented at least some of it into beer. The Mesopotamians produced beer from bread and documented its ritual consumption on stone tablets. Ancient Egyptians, who recorded the world’s first beer recipe on papyrus scrolls, drank it during religious ceremonies. The Nubian culture in the central Nile River Valley used beer as an antibiotic. In 2,100 B.C., Babylonian King Hammurabi enshrined regulations for tavern keepers and brewers in his famous Code of Hammurabi. Beer became so inextricably linked to the ancient grain-growing civilizations of Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa that the Greek writer Sophocles (450 B.C.) considered beer, alongside vegetables, meat, and bread, to be a vital component of a healthy diet. (In an era when the average Greek lived about 35 years, Sophocles lived to the ripe age of 90.)
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Just made a great Rye Ale today.
Refreshing to hear about a day that doesn’t celebrate perversity or phony racial grievances.
That’s gay. Pairing beers with food like you might with wine?
That’s that same overachieving mentality that leads to fishing celebrities in bass boats wearing matching under armor athletic clothes and setting the hook like they are trying to rip its lower jaw off.
Just enjoy whatever beer you want, with whatever you wanna eat... see?
Food?
I’ve always thought beer pairs best with salty rather than sweet.
Guinness is food.
Finally, a national celebration day that we can support. :)
“Lite Beer” is not beer, it’s colored water. If you drink Lite Beer, why?
Alaskan Amber. Not available nationwide, though.
Try a few kosher dill pickle spears in a glass of Miller Lite. Unique.
https://www.simplemost.com/putting-pickle-cheap-light-beer-taste-better/
My husband just recently got back into brewing. Got all kinds of stuff going, and so far everything tastes great! He made a garlic beer that unfortunately didn’t carbonate (misread the amount of sugar, doh!) but it tastes wonderful! I’m going to use it for beer batters and pressure cooking liquid. He’s also got a blood-orange flavored hefe just for me, and also made a batch with our own hops that is a great IPA. I love beer!
Harp Lager, Paulaner Hefeweizen and Warsteiner Pilsener for me lately.
They don't need "pairing"!
Cheers! I’m celebrating with a boiler maker.
Everyday is National Beer Day in my house, a good local IPA or two, (or three).
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