Another Beer Thread

**Centurion1** · 04-28-2010, 01:04

do we have any corona fans here

that stuff tastes like cat piss.

and a serious question to europeans. how do you drink it....... warm. or please tell me its just a myth

yeah thats it hosa its the same beer that ice linked for me i believe. my dad only drinks it wen we go get thai ive always wondered if it was any good.

**A Nerd** · 04-28-2010, 01:14

No, Corona tastes like cat piss with a lime in it. I thought Europeans drank beer at room temperature too. I tried drinking Sam Adams at room temperature and actually kinda liked it that way. It also saved room in the refridgerator.

**Vladimir** · 04-28-2010, 01:19

Hate Sam Adams: It's good English beer; that's like Edit: Nevermind.

Anything with a fatal overdose of hops should be (relatively) good warm. The hops help preserve the beer.

**miotas** · 04-28-2010, 01:20

It's the British that you blokes are thinking of.

**A Nerd** · 04-28-2010, 01:28

Sam Adams isn't that bad. The honey porter is quite good.

Gotta love those Englishman!

**drone** · 04-28-2010, 03:47

It's cellar temperature, not room temp. And that's only for ales.

I've been drinking Murphy's Stout lately. Tasty.

**Fragony** · 04-28-2010, 05:35

Corona ain't that bad on a hot day, just don't really see it as beer

**Moros** · 04-30-2010, 23:49

Originally Posted by Vladimir

Hate Sam Adams: It's good English beer; that's like Edit: Nevermind.

Anything with a fatal overdose of hops should be (relatively) good warm. The hops help preserve the beer.

Hops are great for preserving beer as long as you keep it away from light, that is. It is often a misconception that it's the beer getting warm after being poured out which ruins the taste but it's mostly light destroying the hop, making the bad taste. (the darker the bottle, the better, though the high quality hop of bigger breweries are less vurnable against light nowadays Another great evil of course is air, there's a reason you need a 'kraag' (the whitish foam) a top of your beer of a decent size (though it depends on the brand and glass and it's tradition on how high it should be, a stella for example has a 'kraag' of ideally three fingerwidths high), is air. Beer should get into contact with air at all. Temperature is not something that necessarily ruins the beer, but not all beer should be drank at the same temperature. While a pils should be at the colder end of a spectrum, one shouldn't ruin a fine Delirium Tremens by serving it at 6°C (at least 9° but better go for something a little higher) and especially not a beer a like a Chimay Blue (min. 13°C). Pils should always be served cold, preferably from a top cooled tap. And rember kids the first and very last drops when opening and closing the tap shouldn't come in the glass at all! Actually it's quite pathetic how at some fancy places people pay a lot of money (especially abroad) for a quality beer, but get them poored in completely wrong from out filthy pipes.

**drone** · 05-01-2010, 00:10

Originally Posted by Moros

Hops are great for preserving beer as long as you keep it away from light, that is. It is often a misconception that it's the beer getting warm after being poured out which ruins the taste but it's mostly light destroying the hop, making the bad taste.

And you would think that most knowledgable brewers would know this. However, a majority of the Continental lagers are shipped to the US in green bottles, making them pretty much undrinkable. You have to search for a store that keeps them in the case boxes, picking up a six-pack just sitting on the shelves is a big mistake. Most British ales get shipped in brown bottles, and are generally free of teh skunk.

**Moros** · 05-01-2010, 01:07

Originally Posted by drone

And you would think that most knowledgable brewers would know this. However, a majority of the Continental lagers are shipped to the US in green bottles, making them pretty much undrinkable. You have to search for a store that keeps them in the case boxes, picking up a six-pack just sitting on the shelves is a big mistake. Most British ales get shipped in brown bottles, and are generally free of teh skunk.

Sadly and strangely some people have the misconception that green bottles mean better quality. Hence some brewers specifically chose them even though they are aware of it.

**Centurion1** · 05-01-2010, 01:39

any czech beer fans here?

**Ice** · 05-01-2010, 04:11

Originally Posted by Moros

Hops are great for preserving beer as long as you keep it away from light, that is. It is often a misconception that it's the beer getting warm after being poured out which ruins the taste but it's mostly light destroying the hop, making the bad taste. (the darker the bottle, the better, though the high quality hop of bigger breweries are less vurnable against light nowadays Another great evil of course is air, there's a reason you need a 'kraag' (the whitish foam) a top of your beer of a decent size (though it depends on the brand and glass and it's tradition on how high it should be, a stella for example has a 'kraag' of ideally three fingerwidths high), is air. Beer should get into contact with air at all. Temperature is not something that necessarily ruins the beer, but not all beer should be drank at the same temperature. While a pils should be at the colder end of a spectrum, one shouldn't ruin a fine Delirium Tremens by serving it at 6°C (at least 9° but better go for something a little higher) and especially not a beer a like a Chimay Blue (min. 13°C). Pils should always be served cold, preferably from a top cooled tap. And rember kids the first and very last drops when opening and closing the tap shouldn't come in the glass at all! Actually it's quite pathetic how at some fancy places people pay a lot of money (especially abroad) for a quality beer, but get them poored in completely wrong from out filthy pipes.

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