MikeFlynn74
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Followed byHim: "hmmm this beer is thicker than I like" *turns to sink and pours a bunch of water in the beer.
Me: "Gah!"
You- *stab*
Him- Mybad
Followed byHim: "hmmm this beer is thicker than I like" *turns to sink and pours a bunch of water in the beer.
Me: "Gah!"
olllllo said:Them: "I don't like beer but I like your beer."
Me: "Thanks!"
In my head: "WTF? Then you like beer, genius."
IrregularPulse said:Them:"This is pretty good"!!
ME: "NO IT"S NOT!"
It tastes like granny smith apples. Give me an honest opinion
IrregularPulse said:I know the people who have tried my first batch all said, wow This is really good. But I wish someone would give me an honest opinion. I even took a bottle of my newly bottled Brown ale at the time. Probably bottled 3 days. Poured a small sample for all and told them it's comparable to a Newcastle.
Them:"This is pretty good"!!
ME: "NO IT"S NOT!"
It tastes like granny smith apples. Give me an honest opinion
It depends. I'm guessing that freeze distillation was more common, and that type does not remove bad alcohols (methanol and fusel alcohols).
Using fractional distillation you can get rid of all six of them (sources: Methanol - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Fusel alcohol - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia). Although freeze distillation would dangerously concentrate all of these (ESPECIALLY methanol) as they all freeze between -36 and -97 C.
And my favorite:
"Beer yeast only gets you up to 4 or 5% alcohol. See, when you ferment wine you use wine yeast and it gets it up to 14 or 15%. Well, that's what we accidentally used on this batch we made up over in Iraq. My wife sent me the packets, and we boiled it up with a few gallons of near-beer and had a huge party. Everyone was drunk off their ass."
That's awesome. Did you comment or just smile and nod?
I've perfected a look that I now use in these situations. I kind of scrunch up my face a little like I'm interested in what the person is saying and thinking real hard about that and not how closely related their parents are.
Then I sort of do a slow little nod, like I see the wisdom in what they're saying and not wondering how they manage to get dressed by themselves every morning without their underwear ending up on the outside like a retarded superhero.
Thank god for alcohol.
The thing I love is that almost every detail in the story is wrong. You could have gone on for an hour.
The thing I love is that almost every detail in the story is wrong. You could have gone on for an hour.
Not tasting related, but an otherwise stupid comment. My conversation with some girl at our summer BBQ in Ithaca.
me - "here, would you like to try my wheat beer? It has a nice citrus taste"
her - "oh, sorry, but I can't drink beer. I am a vegetarian.
me - "whaat??!!"
She looks at me like I have two heads, than says: "Ya, don't you know? Beer is made from fish!"
I hate Ithaca.
Beer for vegetarians and vegans? What? But beer only has water, malt, hops and yeast in it?" Wrong. Beer (and cider & wine) has everything from:
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# albumin: derived from eggs or dried blood
# casein/caseinate: derived from milk
# charcoal: sometimes derived from bone
# colourings: sometimes derived from insects
# glyceryl monostearate: an anti-foaming agent that sometimes is an animal derivative
# isinglass: swim bladders from fish
# lactose and lactobacillus (lactic acid)
# gelatin: made from bones, skins and tendons
# pepsin: a heading agent sometimes derived from pork
# sugar: white sugar is often whitened using bone charcoal
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