[Rhodes22-list] Beer!

[Andrew Collins]

John

You have made me sad, another illusion dashed. I bow to your obviously
better info.  I do not drink any regular American beers at all, but if
memory serves, even Japanese swill is better than the name brand domestic
beers.

What we do drink is
Stella Artois
Erdinger Hefeweizen
Spaten - all types
Heineken because the 1st mate likes it
Dorada - a tasty Spanish lager while in Tenerife, not available anywhere
else

and other ones I can't remember right now,since I am at work and don't want
to get distracted.

Andrew
s/v Carmen



On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 10:48 AM, John Lock <jlock at relevantarts.com> wrote:

> At 10:30 AM 10/3/2008 -0400, Andrew Collins wrote:
>
> >More beer trivia: all of the excellent Japanese beers like Sapporo are
> >wonderful clean German-style lagers brewed per German purity laws (water,
> >malt, hops and yeast are teh only permitted ingrediants) in beweries built
> >with German technology during the dark days before and during WW II.
>
> Unfortunately, that's no longer true.  While most of the Asian
> breweries did begin with German beer styles, brewing technology and
> ingredients, they have long since departed from the Reinheitsgebot's
> directives.  Japanese brewers in particular started adding rice malt,
> since it is cheaper to obtain locally and produces a much lighter and
> clearer product than all barley malt.  In addition, they pioneered
> the "Dry" beer craze of a decade ago with genetically engineered
> yeast that assimilated more sugars than standard yeast, leaving fewer
> by products (read "less flavor").  Less complex character and lower
> sweetness meant adding less hops as well to maintain the balance.  So
> the final result is a mere shadow of what a good German lager should
> be.  If you like crisp, light, beers with little body or aftertaste,
> you'll like Japanese beers.  Hell, you'll like most American
> (non-micro) beers too.
>
> Cheers!
>
> John Lock
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> s/v Pandion - '79 Rhodes 22
> Lake Sinclair, GA
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