For Chris in Merry Ole England
In the new October issue, Men'sJournal provides the 3rd of their beer ranking articles. This time it's back to American brews. Their top 25 choices starts out: 1. Firestone Walker Pale Ale (CA), 2. Dogfish Head 60 Minute IPA (DE), and 3. Stoudt's Pils (PA). You can access their site http://www.mensjournal.com/ for the 2004 (America)
http://www.mensjournal.com/feature/0407/bestBeer.html and 2005 (World)
http://www.mensjournal.com/feature/0507/bestBeer_world.html lists, but you'll have to spring for the current issue to see the '06 picks.
Others of the 25 include Avery Mephistopheles' Stoudt (CO
), Great Lakes Holy Moses White Ale (OH), and Victory St. Victorious Dopplebock (PA). It's got to be that the guys naming their new brews quaff generous samples in the brewery break room while brainstorming for a catchy label.Now it's time to sit back and wait for catchy "Comments" by Chris of Yatton, Ale Aficionado. TTT
5 comments:
OK, for a start, you have to drink 'REAL ALE' at room tempreture, none of that chuck it in the fridge and wait 'till it loses it's flavour! Then when you get used to that, you come to England, where we will take you on a 'real ale Hiking tour'
Having said that, you over there in the USA ARE getting there, slowly! Cheers!!
Sure, you can drink it warm if you're "pub-hiking." 'Round here we have tough DWI laws. Even 8oz of a 'warm' well-crafted IPA would probably bang .08 on a cop's Breathalyzer easy. Dude, you are a bad influence on we "responsible" cold beer drinkin' Yanks. Besides, cold, we get to drink more of 'em!
I never heard this before.... warmer beer has higher alcohol content? I began drinking "warm" beer when I was in Moscow, mostly because refrigeration was scarce. It's also where I had my first Guiness. Since then, I have found the best temperature to be "basement storage". However, I must confess I love a really cold Hefeweisen in the summer heat. BTW, I tasted a Budweiser specialty beer at a brew fest recently that was pretty good (it was called Hellfire, or something with "hell" in the name). I hope I didn't insult the guy when I told him I never drink Bud, because I consider it the "MacDonald's of Beer".
Well done ttt don't drink that mamby pandy Budweiser BTW do you know that thw USA and the UK use different measurments the strength of beer. it is not the tempreture that increases the strength but the altitude it is drunk at does make a difference, 'though nothing to do with strength.
Try a 'Black Sheep' Now that should cause a laugh or a comment!!!
I have just come back from Cornwal (the South West of the UK for those who don't know) and had a fine ale called 'Doom Bar' So called after a bank of sand, centuries old, known as the Doom Bar that protects the River Camel estuary. Legend links the birth of the Doom Bar, to the final curse of a dying mermaid who had rejected a sailors love, only to be shot with an arrow from the spurned sailor's bow
Well, one thing, it went down well! The beer not the Mermaid!!
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