Dortmunder's probably the better of these two but Crooked River brews special beers for the Browns and also owns Hudepohl/Little Kings in Cincinnati. Cleveland has Ohio Beer Hegemony...hehehe. >:)
-Eric
Posted on 07/05/2002 7:16:45 AM PDT by chance33_98
Dortmunder's probably the better of these two but Crooked River brews special beers for the Browns and also owns Hudepohl/Little Kings in Cincinnati. Cleveland has Ohio Beer Hegemony...hehehe. >:)
-Eric
Exactly! Homebrew is the best! I recently made a special bitter that I will put up against anything in the stores at 2 or 3 times the price. And I'm currently fermenting a batch of Old Smiling Jackass Celtic Ale. At approx. 9% alcohol, that should be an interesting brew.
My only regret is that I didn't start brewing at home years ago.
Homebrew also gives you lots of Vitamin B complex, more so than commercial beers.
Thanks for the bump. But I am so annoyed by the "politically correct" tone used in these type of articles. It seems that whenever the health benefits of beer is discussed in an article, the author always feels compelled to "qualify" his remarks with inane sentences like the one above.
Keep drinking that milk? I haven't drank a glass of milk since I was a teenage boy. If you are an adult, milk is simply awful for you and it should be avoided whenever possible. In fact, I don't even like my boys drinking milk but I tolerate it under the assumption that they will soon switch over to beer anyhow. My two sons were breastfed by my wife and as far as I'm concerned, that's all the milk they ever needed. They don't need to be getting it from some cow.
What is so wrong with simply stating that beer is good for you. End of story. No qualifiers. No silly cliches such as (in announcer's voice) "Excessive use of alcohol can be harmful to your health..." Excessive use of ANYTHING is harmful to your health!
I've been drinking at least two glasses of beer daily (or wine) for 20 years and I'm healthy as an ox. I strongly recommend it to everybody. Women too!
Getting back to milk for a moment, and I don't want to turn this thread into a milk discussion, but there is a very high incidence of heart disease in my family. My father and all his siblings have had heart attacks and bypasses, etc., so I am supposedly a very high risk for heart disease myself. Well one common denominator between all my relatives who have had heart problems is that they are heavy milk drinkers. I'm talking two or more glasses a day for decades. Another common denominator is high cholesterol. My father had a 320 cholesterol count when he had his heart attack. Well I haven't drank milk since I was 16 or 17 and my cholesterol is 185 at age 40. Which is about how old my father was when he had his heart attack. My doctor was stunned at the low reading and I had to get tested again just to make sure it wasn't a bad reading. It wasn't.
Now I'm not a doctor or anything so there may be other reasons why my cholesterol is so low when compared to other family members who all drink milk. But there you go for what it's worth. I personally think it's the fact that I drink beer instead of milk.
Cheers!
Yep. Beer just how you like it. I have a brown ale in the carboy that I'll be bottling tonight. My head is still swollen from that ultimate compliment, paid me by a co-worker's German wife: "you could sell ziss in Chermany!" Woohoo!
What higher praise? Congratulations!
Interesting, never thought of that...
Although Mrs. Dawgg has remarked on several occasions that the Dawgg's Bone becomes stronger after a few Sams (as in Adams.)
(Submitted for entry into the Most-Tasteless Double Entendre Posting of the Day Competition... Judges please take note I showed great restraint when composing this post I cold have gone much much further)
Interesting, never thought of that...
Well, it HAS had a similar effect on me midsection...
Here are some surefire tips to ensure that you get a good glass of Pilsner Urquell.
First of all, buy it by the case, not the six-pack. Pilsner Urquell comes in green bottles and when they are removed from the cases and stored as six-packs loose, they begin getting exposed to ultraviolet light. Especially if it is stored in those glass refrigerated shelves. Never buy beer bottled in clear or green bottles unless they are in a case, unopened. In fact, it is a good idea to buy all your beer by the case - so you can be assured they have never been exposed to light. As well, you save money buying it by the case and then you have the original box to put all your empties in.
Next way to ensure fresh Pilsner Urquell is to check the bottling date on the bottle (also stamped on the outside of the cases). As a general rule, you do not want to drink Pilsner Urquell (or any beer) that is over one year old.
Now Pilsner Urquell "codes" its dates so that the average consumer cannot make heads or tails out of it. This is because they want the retailer to make the decision when to pull the beer off the shelves. And many retailers don't want their customers knowing how old the beer is on their shelves.
I have deciphered the bottling date and have checked it out with the Pilsner Urquell people (in the Czech Republic) for verification. What you have on every bottle (and on every case) is a stamped four-character bottling code. The first two characters are for the day of the month. The third character is a letter that signifies the month itself (January=A, February=B, etc.). And the fourth letter reflects the year ("1" = 2001, "2" = 2002, etc.).
Hence, the code "25K1" tells you that the beer was bottled on November 25, 2001. And the code "11G1" tells you that the beer was bottled on July 11, 2001, and you should not be buying that beer if you see that date stamped on the beer at your local beer store. If you have it at home, you should drink it immediately!
That is not to say that the beer automatically goes bad exactly one year after it is bottled. If it is stored properly, away from light and temperature extremes, it will still be drinkable after one year. But it will not be all that it should be. In fact, my seasoned beer palate can discern a slight dropoff in taste as soon as six months after the bottling date. But you are probably not going to find Pilsner Urquell that fresh in very many U.S. stores. Usually it takes 4-6 months for Pilsner Urquell to get from bottling plant in Czech Republic to your local store shelf - much of that time is spent sitting at the distributor's warehouse in New Jersey.
My local retailer, who knows me very well as a good customer, tried passing old Pilsner Urquell off on me. When he noticed I started buying it last year, he ordered something like 20 cases. But I only go through maybe a case of this every two or three months. I stopped buying it from that particular store once it went over a year old and now I get my Pilsner Urquell elsewhere. This retailer is going to have to eat those cases of Pilsner because I ain't buying it.
Now the "one-year" rule in beer does not apply to beer that is still fermenting in the bottle (usually corked). Many fine Belgian Trappist ales are bottle-fermented and can be cellared like wine for several years. One of my favorite Trappist Ales is Duvel.
Here you go Mom-- Let me buy the first round.
For an American beer made by Coors of all people, this is damn good beer. (I prefer it from a bottle or a frosty mug rather than from a can, of course.
I only drank milk as a kid and I only drink beer now!!!
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