[Rhodes22-list] Beer!

[TN Rhodey]

Beer, a subject I enjoy! Forget the big boys....American Micro Brewsers are
turning out some great products. Cheers!   - Wally



On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 12:57 PM, Andrew Collins <
sailingvesselcarmen at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > s/v Pandion - '79 Rhodes 22
> > Lake Sinclair, GA
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >
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