Beer sloshing around in the cargo hold of a ship?......
Actually, brewing companies are businesses, and they are not dumb. They
employ the same market survey bean counters as any other business. If they
determine that a particular market has a high demand for lighter beers,
(Budweiser?...ugh) they will adjust their recipe accordingly to have the
best chance to gain a market share foothold in that region.
The reason that Guiness tastes different in the UK than in the States is
that it is a completely different batch of brew.
All the hype in the adverts about hundreds of years old recipes is just
that.
When I lived in Bemidji Minnesota, just a stone's throw from the Canadian
border, I used to enjoy several of the Canadian brews. When I moved to
California, I was sorely disappointed the first time I bought a sixpack of
Molson at the local store. Completely different beer.
(LBC content) How close in character are a UK spec 75 MGB and a North
American spec 75 MGB...?
Scott Pontius
'78 MGB V8 (all British)
Brewer of Marine House Ale #5, the Finest Ale in Kuwait (well, almost the
only ale in Kuwait...)
-----Original Message-----
From: H4aardvrk@aol.com <H4aardvrk@aol.com>
To: Chris.Nevard@BSKYB.COM <Chris.Nevard@BSKYB.COM>; mgs@autox.team.net
<mgs@autox.team.net>
Date: Tuesday, December 08, 1998 8:56 PM
Subject: brief Guiness history lesson(was Beers of the world)...longish
>In a message dated 12/8/98 1:28:27 AM Mountain Standard Time,
>Chris.Nevard@BSKYB.COM writes:
>
><< Guinness in southern Ireland is not pasteurized, that's why it tastes
> better! >>
>Chris,
> I believe some clarification is in order here..Guinness is indeed
brewed
>in Ireland..and that beer, "brewed" in Ireland is one of the two or three
best
>beers brewed in the world(to my taste amongst others)..However...That very
>same Guinness beer that is exported to England is not the exact same great
>dark stout that is enjoyed in Ireland..AND that same Irish brew,exported to
>the USA is but a shadow of the same beer that was brewed and enjoyed in
>Ireland...
> WHY is this??We have to consider how this king of a brew gets to England
>and then to the rest of the world...
> There is a body of water known as the North Atlantic Ocean between
>Ireland and England..it is a tumultious body of water,wrought with storms
and
>hence waves..The beer is transported in tanker ships to England and then
put
>up in bottles or shipped in kegs..The ship, tossed from wave crest to wave
>crest does something to it's cargo..It froths the hell out of it..foam..air
>being introduced into the beer in the tanker hold..in short..the beer is
>physically and chemically changed from the time it leaves port in Dubelin.
It
>changes from the king of beer to a bastard prince,by comparisn,by the time
it
>get to England..
> If one projects the time and harsh travel conditions it endures on a
trip
>to say the USA...well..it is no wonder that the Guinness served in the USA
is
>not even recognisable to an Irishman who knows what it is supposed to taste
>like..
> If one cares to test my reasoning,all hor she has to do is hop a jet
to
>Ireland,stop at the first public house he comes across,toss the barkeep 65
>pense and say the words"a pint o Guinness please"..the beverage served to
the
>weary traveler will be one of the most satsifying brews served anywhere in
the
>world.
> Yours, H4(Howard).who prefers his beer served very near where it
is
>brewed.
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