little known brew facts -
- The best beer is sold in green or clear bottles rather than "plain brown" ones. In the years following World War II, in part because there was a
shortage of brown glass, European brewers shipped beers in green bottles. It became a status symbol for imports. The color of the bottle no longer says
anything about the quality of beer inside.
- Ales are served at room temperature in the United Kingdom. This story also goes back to World War II.
Cask-conditioned (or "real") ale is served at cellar temperature, which is in the low- to mid-50s.
- Light beers are much less likely to give you a beer belly.
A bottle of Miller Lite has 96 calories, while a bottle of Samuel Adams Boston has 160. A brisk 20-minute walk is all that separates those two.
- Lager is better because it's lighter. The term "lager" just means that the brew was fermented and matured at cool temperatures.
- Dark beer is stronger. There is no connection whatever between colour and strength. The colour in beer comes from the toasting of the malts,
and that does not contribute alcohol
- Beer tastes best out of a frozen mug. Actually, beer tastes least the colder it gets, just like any food. A frozen glass tends to dissipate most of the
CO2 in your beer, leaving it flat and tasteless.
- Bottled Guinness tastes so different than the draught or canned "draught-flow" product because the bottle conditioned, meaning the presence of live yeast.
The yeast gives it a very different character.
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a collection of brew quotes -
- Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. --Benjamin Franklin
- Remember "I" before "E",except in Budweiser. --Anonymous
- There can't be good living where there is not good drinking. --Benjamin Franklin
- Work is the curse of the drinking class. --Oscar Wilde
- Without question, the greatest invention in the history of
mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a
fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with
pizza.--Dave Barry
- "Make sure that the beer - four pints a week - goes to the troops under fire before any of the parties in the rear get a drop."
-Winston Churchill to his Secretary of War, 1944
- "I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts, and beer."
-Abraham Lincoln
- "May your glass be ever full. May the roof over your head be always strong. And may you be in heaven half an hour before the devil knows you're dead."
-Old Irish Toast
- "He was a wise man who invented beer."
-Plato
- "[I recommend]… bread, meat, vegetables and beer."
-Sophocles' philosophy of a moderate diet
- "An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger, or a beer."
-Confucius
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