Funny things you've overheard about beer

[Sailingeric]

A Dark and Stormy made with Black Seal and Crabbies Ginger Beer, instead of regular ginger "beer," is mighty tasty.

 

[worlddivides]

How good a shandygaff tastes, I think, depends more on the ginger beer or ginger ale used than on the beer (which doesn't mean I'm suggesting people use crappy beer. I'm just saying that you should use some some pretty damn good ginger ale/beer).

 

[BBQB]

Coke + beer? No way. Since I've put on a few pounds over the past two years I no longer drink calories. Maybe coke zero + beer?

 

[worlddivides]

Coke + beer? No way. Since I've put on a few pounds over the past two years I no longer drink calories. Maybe coke zero + beer?

You no longer drink calories? But you drink beer?

 

[BBQB]

You no longer drink calories? But you drink beer?

Beer calories don't count...they contain alcohol

 

[masonsjax]

I spent a month in Germany this past summer and just about every restaurant and bar I went to had bier cola on the menu. One of my friends ordered a red wine once that was mixed with the lemon soda they use in radler. Nasty. At the opposite end of the spectrum, the smoked beers in Bamberg are some of my favorite beer experiences I've ever had.

 

[Kirkwooder]

I saw this today at a restaurant. I've never heard of this but it sounds vile.

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I bet it's better than budweiser, the great american lager!

 

[dkwolf]

You no longer drink calories? But you drink beer?

The logic is a little lacking there, isn't it?

 

[n240sxguy]

Beer calories don't count...they contain alcohol

Exactly. Cut out the lazy calories. Only keep the ones that carry the alcohol.

 

[toddegg]

Ah yes, Utah...... the Mormon Promised Land (my sister is Mormon). Can't help you with the "tap room" but remember a chair shaped stack of Shafer cases back in college to sit on. Look, we all taste good beer the first time, we all taste good sushi the first time, and we all taste good poo-nanny the first time. Some people are happy with less. Let THEM have it.

 

[toddegg]

I bet it's better than budweiser, the great american lager!

I had many a "Radler" in Germany... not that much different.

 

[worlddivides]

Beer calories don't count...they contain alcohol

Then the solution is to just add alcohol to your cola.

 

[bleme]

Then the solution is to just add alcohol to your cola.

And THEN mix it with beer?

 

[worlddivides]

And THEN mix it with beer?

That is certainly one option.

 

[Billy-Klubb]

And THEN mix it with beer?

That is certainly one option.

how else are you gonna have a Bourbon Barrel Royal Crown Cola Grande Cru?

 

[lolznrofls]

Lmao!!!

 

[bleme]

how else are you gonna have a Bourbon Barrel Royal Crown Cola Grande Cru?

In my head I was thinking how good Pliny would be mixed with Coke but I like yours too!

 

[DGibb]

That reminds me - at the University of Wisconsin Union they used to serve this stuff called BB Lemon. It was this awful, sickly sweet 5ish ABV lemon stuff.

Funny, it sounds a lot like a Japanese soda called CC Lemon which was non-alcoholic and had 1,500mg of Vitamin C in it. I loved that stuff, but it was very sweet also.

 

[worlddivides]

Funny, it sounds a lot like a Japanese soda called CC Lemon which was non-alcoholic and had 1,500mg of Vitamin C in it. I loved that stuff, but it was very sweet also.

I was also a fan. It's pretty crazy carbonated too.

In Japan they have what's called "Lemon Sour" which is not a whiskey sour or anything similar. It's actually like a mixture of lemon soda (like CC lemon) and shochu (usually 21% ABV), which in the end comes out to around 5% or 6% ABV.

By extension "sour" in Japan means "carbonated soda beverage with alcohol in it" and you'll get stuff like "Grape Sour" and "Orange Sour" and so on which are not sour at all.

 

[DGibb]

I was also a fan. It's pretty crazy carbonated too.

In Japan they have what's called "Lemon Sour" which is not a whiskey sour or anything similar. It's actually like a mixture of lemon soda (like CC lemon) and shochu (usually 21% ABV), which in the end comes out to around 5% or 6% ABV.

By extension "sour" in Japan means "carbonated soda beverage with alcohol in it" and you'll get stuff like "Grape Sour" and "Orange Sour" and so on which are not sour at all.

I remember hearing these as a "Squash" also. I loved the Lemon Squash (Lemon Sukasshu).

 

[worlddivides]

I remember hearing these as a "Squash" also. I loved the Lemon Squash (Lemon Sukasshu).

Squash doesn't have alcohol in it though. It's basically just a type of carbonated lemon-flavored drink. Pretty damn good, though. I think the term is a distortion of the UK English term "squash."

Reminds me of "Cider" in Japan, which has nothing to do with apples, but is actually a pretty much unflavored (but sweetened) carbonated drink. Some "ciders" are flavored, though, such as Ramune (which is, yes, considered "cider" in Japan). For the alcoholic drink from apples, the Japanese use the French word "Cidre" (Shiidoru) instead of the English word "cider," which means "soda" (or they use the literal Japanese term "ringoshu").

 

[DGibb]

Squash doesn't have alcohol in it though. It's basically just a type of carbonated lemon-flavored drink. Pretty damn good, though. I think the term is a distortion of the UK English term "squash."

Agreed. Gets back to my mention of CC Lemon also. Non-alcoholic, sour lemon pop.

Reminds me of "Cider" in Japan, which has nothing to do with apples, but is actually a pretty much unflavored (but sweetened) carbonated drink. Some "ciders" are flavored, though, such as Ramune (which is, yes, considered "cider" in Japan). For the alcoholic drink from apples, the Japanese use the French word "Cidre" (Shiidoru) instead of the English word "cider," which means "soda."

So is Mitsuya Cider!

I drank quite a bit of the Cidre also. Also Chu-hai.

 

[worlddivides]

Interestingly, "chu-hi" and "sour" are the same thing. The differences in terms originated as a regional thing. Some will say that "chu-hi" is shochu-based, while "sour" is "vodka" based, but that's not always true and you'll find the terms are used interchangeably. The term "chu-hi" originated as an abbreviation of "Shochu Highball," but you'll find chu-his that use vodka and sours that use shochu. Etc.

I always enjoyed Hyouketsu and Kirin's other chu-his, but didn't care much for Takara's chu-his.

 

[Billy-Klubb]

berry punches!! all of you!!!!

 

[BBQB]

Then the solution is to just add alcohol to your cola.

I'm confused...I said I don't drink calories . Cola has calories, no matter how much alcohol you add to it

 

[Black Island Brewer]

I'm confused...I said I don't drink calories . Cola has calories, no matter how much alcohol you add to it

Maybe because by your reasoning, the calories will negated by the alcohol, the same as the calories in your beer? (and alcohol actually has 7 calories per gram, vs 4 calories per gram of sugar...)

 

[BBQB]

Maybe because by your reasoning, the calories will negated by the alcohol, the same as the calories in your beer? (and alcohol actually has 7 calories per gram, vs 4 calories per gram of sugar...)

Are you trying to tell me there are calories in beer?

Edit: I just googled this and it looks like you are correct. Sh*t the bed, I'm going to have rethink this whole thing!

 

[n240sxguy]

berry punches!! all of you!!!!

Thanks. Jeez. Not funny at all. Couple beers in and it's just killing my brain trying to decipher Japanese.

 

[n240sxguy]

Are you trying to tell me there are calories in beer?

Edit: I just googled this and it looks like you are correct. Sh*t the bed, I'm going to have rethink this whole thing!

Better go pure grain and not pay attention to the calories in alcohol.

 

[worlddivides]

Are you trying to tell me there are calories in beer?

Edit: I just googled this and it looks like you are correct. Sh*t the bed, I'm going to have rethink this whole thing!

Yes, there are lots and lots of calories in beer (how much really depends specifically on the beer). Haven't you ever heard people call beer "liquid bread"?

And alcohol (ethanol) is actually pretty dense with calories, just so you know.