Funny things you've overheard about beer

[unionrdr]

Wow ,, how do you come up with this stuff..Now that is downright funny... CAMRA says nothing at all about hops or no hops..

From CAMRA website..



All of these ales have hops in them....Also notice that it calls the ales, beer.




Again not mention of hops or no hops being the difference...And they do recognize ales and lagers, both of which are reffered to as beers....

Here is the CAMRA website. http://www.camra.org.uk/about-real-ale

Well, according to this site, my memory is in error so far as 18th & 19th centuries are concerned; http://www.europeanbeerguide.net/beerale.htm But there was a point where cask ales had no hops in them, but weren't gruits either. Anyway, under 18th century classifications, it says ales were lightly hopped compared to beers at that point.

 

[cyanmonkey]

Well, according to this site, my memory is in error so far as 18th & 19th centuries are concerned; http://www.europeanbeerguide.net/beerale.htm But there was a point where cask ales had no hops in them, but weren't gruits either. Anyway, under 18th century classifications, it says ales were lightly hopped compared to beers at that point.

Hops certainly didn't use to be as big of a deal as they are now. From what I've heard the most popular beers in the US use to be ginger beer until after the first world war when GIs had a taste of German beers.

How true that is I don't know, since Germans have been in the United States for hundreds of years, logic would tell me German style beer would have been very popular.

 

[unionrdr]

I haven't really read anything about American ginger beers. But in Cleveland, for example, they had a couple companies that also brewed " stock Ales", besides lagers & pilsners that tons of companies brewed in Cleveland, besides other cities as we expanded westward. But the beers did have more color/flavor & hops compared to now. Even Kenny King;s original recipe isn't exactly like the one I remember. It had red pepper, cardamom/coriander & a bit of cumin in it. It tasted nearly completely different from today's so-called original recipe. So it is with the beer, Thinned & cheapened to increase profits.
They had more hops, but not like the newer varieties of today. Nugget, cluster & other similar, older varieties.

 

[beergolf]

Hops certainly didn't use to be as big of a deal as they are now. From what I've heard the most popular beers in the US use to be ginger beer until after the first world war when GIs had a taste of German beers.

How true that is I don't know, since Germans have been in the United States for hundreds of years, logic would tell me German style beer would have been very popular.

HUH,


Hops were not used in the quantities that they are today but were a big part of brewing. For example the Yuengling brewery was started in 1829 and Budweiser was something like 1876. There were hundreds of breweries making beer using hops. British beers were imported to the US also.

1844 - Jacob Best starts a brewery in Milwaukee which later becomes the Pabst Brewing Co.

1849 - August Krug forms a brewery in Milwaukee which evolves into the Schlitz Brewery.

1852 - George Schneider starts a brewery in St. Louis, Missouri. This brewery is the seed of the Anheuser-Busch Brewery.

1856 - The Benedictine Society of Saint Vincent's Abbey opens a commercial brewery in their Monastery near Latrobe, Pa.

1860 - More than 1,269 breweries produce over one million barrels of beer for a population of 31 million. New York and Pennsylvania account for 85 percent of production.

All breweries that use hops in their recipes. All over a hundred years before WWII. Over a thousand breweries making beer. Ginger beer may have been somewhat popular but nothing compared to the regular beer that was brewed

 

[cyanmonkey]

HUH,





Hops were not used in the quantities that they are today but were a big part of brewing. For example the Yuengling brewery was started in 1829 and Budweiser was something like 1876. There were hundreds of breweries making beer using hops. British beers were imported to the US also.

Then who knows wtf dude was talking about. It was from an episode of Jamil Show with someone that wrote a book on herbal beers.

As for Wikipedia, though :

Brewed ginger beer originated in Yorkshire in England in the mid-18th century[2] and became popular throughout Britain, the United States, Ireland, and Canada, reaching a peak of popularity in the early 20th century.[3]

So at least part of what he said could be accurate.

 

[beergolf]

I doubt it. Do you really think that over a million barrels of ginger beer was sold?

Herbal beers were a niche market then,just as they are now. But defintiely not more popular than regualr beer before WWII.

 

[Floored]

Commence with the funny. This is bumming me out.

 

[cyanmonkey]

I doubt it. Do you really think that over a million barrels of ginger beer was sold?

Herbal beers were a niche market then,just as they are now. But defintiely not more popular than regualr beer before WWII.

I don't know. Wasn't there and am not knowledgeable in the subject. I'm not arguing either way. I'm sure you're right.

 

[joshesmusica]

Was reading the book Brew Like A Monk during some down time at work. Norwegians are very funny that they're always looking to seem interested in your life even if they don't understand it. After I helped them understand what the title meant, one of the ladies asked, "Oh, do you like beer?"

I started explaining that I brew at home, to which I was interrupted with, "Oh yeah my grandma she used to brew some things at home. She used to brew one thing with just hops and honey. And then she would always say, 'Just add a little bit yeast to it, but just a little.'" As if the yeast was the alcohol and she didn't want to add too much or else there would be too much alcohol.

 

[WilliamSlayer]

Was reading the book Brew Like A Monk during some down time at work. Norwegians are very funny that they're always looking to seem interested in your life even if they don't understand it. After I helped them understand what the title meant, one of the ladies asked, "Oh, do you like beer?"

I started explaining that I brew at home, to which I was interrupted with, "Oh yeah my grandma she used to brew some things at home. She used to brew one thing with just hops and honey. And then she would always say, 'Just add a little bit yeast to it, but just a little.'" As if the yeast was the alcohol and she didn't want to add too much or else there would be too much alcohol.

Lol, so THATS the secret to low ABV beers! Got to try that one.... ;-)

"No, no, it only TASTES like its a Barley wine! I only add a little bit of yeast, so it should be around 3%...."

 

[joshesmusica]

Lol, so THATS the secret to low ABV beers! Got to try that one.... ;-)

"No, no, it only TASTES like its a Barley wine! I only add a little bit of yeast, so it should be around 3%...."

I mean, yeah I guess in theory it could be a way to do it... Shock the hell out of the yeast so they stop working pretty quickly. But then I suppose you'd be left with lots of off flavors as well.

 

[cyanmonkey]

I mean, yeah I guess in theory it could be a way to do it... Shock the hell out of the yeast so they stop working pretty quickly. But then I suppose you'd be left with lots of off flavors as well.

That's that genuine homebrew taste!

 

[mcspanner]

Out on a stag with my colleagues. 1 St beer discussion of the afternoon, " yeah I only drink IPAs or ales now."
Could have overlooked it if he wasn't drinking a bud.

 

[Bosh]

It's been too long since I've posted any bits of my read through of Home Brewing Without Failures, a hilariously outdated homebrewing guide from 1965. My father used it for recipes but I couldn't get many clear memories about how these horrible recipes actually turned out, but he recalls making his stout dark by using lots of molasses instead of using the ungodly amounts of black patent malt that the recipes call for.

Anyway, let's hit Chapter 6: Mock Beers.

This the chapter in which the author decides to just go all the way and throw out the little bit of malt that he's been using to flavor his sugar hooch.

He says to not use baker's yeast and implies that in the bad old days when people were even worse at brewing than this book's author they did that all the time. He also says to use beer yeast, not "expensive" wine yeast. Did wine yeast use to cost more than beer yeast?

OK, on to the recipes!

First we have "spruce beer." It's a two gallon batch with "spruce essence," a pound of sugar and a pound of light DME with some citric acid or lemon juice for some reason. Strangely, unlike with the beer recipes, there is no call for salt, despite him saying earlier that salt is an important yeast nutrient.

Next is nettle beer that calls for a gallon of stinging nettle tops for a 2 gallon batch of "beer." Eek!

Then there's "hop beer" which is just a bit of hops and a whole lot of sugar.

Then there's treacle beer which calls for 2 oz hops, 1 pound black treacle, 1 pound white sugar and 7/8 oz citric acid for a 2 gallon recipe. The amount of citric acid calls for in each of these recipes bounces around randomly for no apparent reason.

Also you're supposed to boil the hops in a quart vessel before straining them and adding the hop tea to the sugars, which'll skill hop utilization. Let's try to calculate out this recipe:

Original Gravity: 1.041 Final Gravity: 1.009 ABV: 4.14% IBU: 3.49 SRM: 18.74

Note: do not boil your hops in a quart vessel.

For the next one Bran Ale is made with 12 oz of bran and a lot of sugar.

Baby awake now gotta run, but the next bit is him complaining about older and stranger homebrewing styles than his own and makes for an interesting window into history.

 

[flars]

Thomas Jefferson would have been thrilled with his advanced brewing techniques.

 

[n240sxguy]

Nettle beer would be great for allergy season. One dose and you're good for the whole year.

 

[Singletrack]

This post doesn't belong here, but...
I was at a magic/comedy act last week in a room full of colleagues, and somehow got selected to go up on stage to have magic done on me. The grand finale was when I sat down and he offered to get me a drink for my trouble. He asks what I want, then he makes it appear out of nowhere, and it is the very drink I ordered! Of course it's a scam (magic isn't real, you know), and he has already told me to order a... wait for it... bud light! I did it, but it hurt. (Beer snob I suppose.)

The guy was funny, and I didn't want to mess with his show. I do wonder what he would have done if I ordered something else. I'm sure he had a backup plan.

Then I got to have 30 conversations with people about how he knew I would order bud light.

 

[joshesmusica]

When exactly did he tell you to order it?

 

[Singletrack]

While I was on stage, during other tricks.

 

[uatuba]

This post doesn't belong here, but...
I was at a magic/comedy act last week in a room full of colleagues, and somehow got selected to go up on stage to have magic done on me. The grand finale was when I sat down and he offered to get me a drink for my trouble. He asks what I want, then he makes it appear out of nowhere, and it is the very drink I ordered! Of course it's a scam (magic isn't real, you know), and he has already told me to order a... wait for it... bud light! I did it, but it hurt. (Beer snob I suppose.)

The guy was funny, and I didn't want to mess with his show. I do wonder what he would have done if I ordered something else. I'm sure he had a backup plan.

Then I got to have 30 conversations with people about how he knew I would order bud light.

The exact same thing happened with me, except mine was Budweiser. Was it Mac King? And did he also "steal" your watch?

 

[GuldTuborg]

Hey all, there's a new beer hitting the market I think you ought to be trying. I hear it tastes a bit nutty.

 

[tennesseean_87]

http://i.imgur.com/agZ4ZyZ.webm

 

[WilliamSlayer]

Hey all, there's a new beer hitting the market I think you ought to be trying. I hear it tastes a bit nutty.

Wow..... just.... wow.

 

[WilliamSlayer]

Hey all, there's a new beer hitting the market I think you ought to be trying. I hear it tastes a bit nutty.

Wow..... just.... wow.

 

[GaBrewZoo]

I went to the local liquor store that has the best selection of craft beer in town and talked to the person in charge of the beer. I told him that the four bottles of Stone Ruination IIPA they had were TEN months past their drink by date, and he said, "That's okay, Stone beers are good for a while on the shelf, the date doesn't really mean they're bad." Three months later, those same bottles are still on the shelf. Time to start looking for a new beer store.

 

[drainbamage]

I went to the local liquor store that has the best selection of craft beer in town and talked to the person in charge of the beer. I told him that the four bottles of Stone Ruination IIPA they had were TEN months past their drink by date, and he said, "That's okay, Stone beers are good for a while on the shelf, the date doesn't really mean they're bad." Three months later, those same bottles are still on the shelf. Time to start looking for a new beer store.

One of my local stores (which actually does really well otherwise) leaves out a display of past-due Enjoy By IPAs on clearance with a tag "ENJOY ANYTIME!"

Shockingly enough, they never seem to sell any either.

 

[Cheesy_Goodness]

Hey all, there's a new beer hitting the market I think you ought to be trying. I hear it tastes a bit nutty.

So does that mean this is the biggest white whale beer in existence?

 

[SnakeRidge]

Hey all, there's a new beer hitting the market I think you ought to be trying. I hear it tastes a bit nutty.

Wow, that's nuts. What will they come up with next?

 

[Vamptrump]

Wow, that's nuts. What will they come up with next?

You just made me groan so loud at work that I got looks.

 

[DrunkleJon]

No Sh*t?