"nice fresh off the carcass steak"? Ah, you must be of the "wipe its a**e,
cut off its horns and slap it in the pan" school of culinary practice.
-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Ray <danray@bluegrass.net>
To: mgs@autox.team.net <mgs@autox.team.net>
Date: 07 December 1998 00:36
Subject: Fw: OT and longish Re: Old Speckled Hen (BEER) longish
>Beer is best when fresh and no yucky industrial shortcuts are taken, bottom
>line.
>Your average mass-produced American beer (like the Bud Ice sitting here in
>front of me) is nasty by any standard, but is still "beer", barely. (it's
>wet, cheap and has alcohol in it, but relatively tasteless)
>The Germans legislated purity in the production and deliverance of this
>nectar, and the Brits do so simply because they have good taste and would
>lose customers if they did it wrongly.
>The reason "imports" taste different is because they usually kill
>(pasteurize) the wonderful bugs that keep eating and are are freshly
>engorged and expired on the sugars that are introduced in the process, then
>those dead bugs sit in the bottle for a while.
>Not to be sick or morbid, but if you ate a steak that had been laying out
>for a while after being boiled or frozen for purification of the nasties,
it
>wouldn't taste quite the same as a nice fresh off the carcass steak, would
>it? Weak analogy, but that's about it.
>You can find some good "micro-brews" here in the states that are natural.
>You'll pay for them, of course, but no more than you would for a beer in
the
>Old World. It's just that most Americans have gotten used to cheap, nasty
>beer. Having spent 4 years of my young life stationed in Germany, I can
tell
>you...there's beer and then there's American mass-produced beer.
>Dan
>73 B
>
>>I'm not a beer drinker and don't like lager. I do like British Beer in
>>Britain. Since I know so little, I've been told that the reason Pub Beer
in
>>England is so good, is that it is not pasteurized, and like anything that
>>is not fuddled with, like real squeezed orange juice or fresh bread that
>>will go stale in a day, the fresh Pub beer can't be shipped to the States
>>without pasteurizing it or adding something to it...thus the difference
and
>>loss of flavor. Am I all wet ? or is this true?
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