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Drink up! 12 Most common beer myths exploded
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Funny thing they started the piece with one of the greatest myths of all...
From Maureen Ogle's Book, Ambitious Brew, the story of American Brewing.
From Maureen Ogle's Book, Ambitious Brew, the story of American Brewing.
Borisbbadd
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If beer did'nt kill my brain cells, I wonder where they went..........
If beer did'nt kill my brain cells, I wonder where they went..........
What they said
FireBrewer
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Good catch, Revvy!
Good article, fairly accurate otherwise. Not sure about the American beers using abw instead of abv though.
Good article, fairly accurate otherwise. Not sure about the American beers using abw instead of abv though.
Skins_Brew
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Hmm, I thought it was urine. I guess the stuff that comes out of my peehole just tastes like corona then. Well, now I know and knowing is half the battle.
Yeah, that kinda threw me as well, it seems every micro or small brewery website I visit looking for beer info is in ABV...I wonder if it's the other way around, and the europeans use ABW, and no editor or fact checker caught it.
DubbelDach
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God bless Myth #6. Biggest pet peeve ever is the lengths places go to chill beer.
Kilgore_Trout
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If beer did'nt kill my brain cells, I wonder where they went..........
From Wikipedia:
Of course moderation probably negates this, but just FYI.
farmbrewernw
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I just wasted a lot of time reading the comments, man I think I feel dumber for it.
Kilgore_Trout
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"the youtube effect"
HOOTER
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It's sterile and I like the taste. :cross:
ohiobrewtus
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#6 drives me freaking nuts.
I beer thought killed crain dells. 
HOOTER
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I guess mass produced piss really should be served ice cold. I personally like my beer around cellar temps. I can't think of anything I'd prefer at room temp.
BTW, don't the Guinness bottles say to serve ice cold?
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It all makes sense now. Dendritous. I thought the doc said I had gingivitous. I couldn't make sense of it, I hadn't had teeth in years from all the crack.
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mawa
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They got it wrong, the myth (is it really myth?) at least here in Mexico, is that Corona is Horse piss,
I don't know how horse piss tastes, but isure know i don't like Corona!
onejdn
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A: I am still not convinced that corona is not piss. and B: What is Homer Simpson's excuse now if #12 is Correct?
The only one I don't fully agree with is the Guinness Arguement. As a non-brewer I spent 3 months in Ireland playing soccer (football). And the Guinness was better. Maybe it's the freshness.. But now becoming a brewer myself, I think that water profiles would probably lead to the biggest difference.
You can try to take a German water a match that of Ireland, but can you really get the water profile's to match exactly?
But I 100% agree with the proper way to pour a Guinness. It makes a HUGE difference.
You can try to take a German water a match that of Ireland, but can you really get the water profile's to match exactly?
But I 100% agree with the proper way to pour a Guinness. It makes a HUGE difference.
jkarp
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Here's your old thread award!
noggins
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HAH! :rockin:
I've gotten weird looks when I ask for a non-chilled glass several times in restaurants. One Applebee's in San Diego actually gave me a glass that was probably rinsed & set in the freezer not 15-20 minutes prior, seeing as it had a visible layer of ice inside that I could break off with a finger.
Inodoro_Pereyra
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Old thread or not, myth #8 is not true. Drinking hard liquor before beer does make a difference.
jspence1
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Mythbusters busted that one sorry.
Inodoro_Pereyra
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I don't remember the mythbusters' results, but if you go to their forum, that myth caused a big stink there. The testing method was flawed.
Other than that, any doctor can tell you:
1. Hard liquor irritates the lining of your esophagus and stomach, delaying the absorption of alcohol.
2. if you start drinking hard alcohol, you will tend to drink less overall (which is what caused the forum members' reactions, among other things).
I have myth I tried to start. Drinking soya milk before alcohol partially blocks alcohol uptake. Drink a couple of glasses of choc flavor before and at end of drinking. Guinea pigs please. I read article about it somewhere. Tried it a few times, seemed to work a bit. A question might be why bother.
iijakii
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#2 is exactly why the myth is whack. It's quantity related, nothing to do with the difference in alcohol.
I really hate when people use that saying in #8.
Inodoro_Pereyra
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Nope. It's about how you will feel after drinking. You don't go out thinking "ok, tonight I will drink until I get 100g of pure alcohol in my bloodstream". You go out, and drink until you're satisfied. If you drink the hard stuff first, you'll get satisfied earlier.
iijakii
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You're basically proving my point. That's still strictly quantity related, not some weird effect that happens when you have beer first.
Inodoro_Pereyra
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Oh, I didn't get you... Sorry.
It's twofold: It's partially due to the fact that you will drink less, and partially because hard liquor will delay alcohol absorption in the body. Either way, it's no myth, it's a medical fact.
Sorry.It's twofold: It's partially due to the fact that you will drink less, and partially because hard liquor will delay alcohol absorption in the body. Either way, it's no myth, it's a medical fact.
Maybe less VOLUME overall but I am not sure about less alcohol. At least in my experience whenever the night starts out with drinking liquor, everyone gets WAY more drunk than when it starts out with beer.
Inodoro_Pereyra
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Personal experiences will always vary. That's why they say you "tend" to drink less, instead of you "will" drink less.
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if you drink enough 60min u can piss miller light
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I've not tried but I can attest, with absolute certainty, that drinking a couple glasses of chocolate flavored soya milk will completely block uptake of any alcoholic beverages after that.
Who the bless drinks soy milk and then beer? Blech.
Cromwell
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If you drink 1 gallon of milk before you have alcohol, you can drink beer or hard liquor either one and you won't get a hangover.
Erroneous
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I thought there is a guinness plant in the u.s. Now. And from what I remember, going just by the abv numbers, neither the guinness extra stout, drought, it foreign extra are what they serve in Ireland.
Guiness is brewed under licence all over the world, the worst I have ever had was in Malaysia it was barely drinkable,( but I had Carlsburg Royal stout which was fine) One thing not to do when drinking Stella Actatwat is do a forward roll down an embankment like that youg guy in Wales, went into a coma and woke up a "Horses Hoof"!
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I can attest to this. Guiness Malaysia is horrid. And the FES is more akin to an island stout.
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