On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, at around 17:25:52 local time, Jim Muller
<jimmuller@pop.mail.rcn.net> wrote:
>On 10 Jul 2003 at 11:57, TeriAnn Wakeman wrote:
>
>> I was told in a very chilled voice that they only serve beer and ale
>> was NOT beer.
>
>Wow. Ale is not a lager, and certainly not the Pilsener type. (Did
>I missspelll Pilsener? Should it be Pilsner?) But I always thought
>(and have read) that the term beer was generic, referring to
>fermented barley malt regardless of the fermentation style. Gack.
It all depends on what you are used to, I suppose. To me, "beer" means
real ale, and anything else is either lager or fizzy gnat's pee (or,
frequently, both). There are some flavourful lagers out there, but
none of them bear names like Heineken, Carlsberg, Kronenbourg, Foster's,
Castlemaine, Stella Artois or Harp, and you can only find them in
specialist outlets (often located in Belgium).
I like my beer thick, dark and chewy, and one of the brewing giants in
UK has started to produce a mass-market brew in imitation of this sort
of real ale. Scottish and Newcastle's "McEwan's No. 1 Champion Ale".
Very tasty, actually (but please don't tell any of my friends in Camra
that I drink it...). It is not recommended for those who are more
familiar with what is generally called beer in the United States. It
is nearly 8% alcohol, and anyone who tries to drink it as though it were
Bud Lite will soon be curled up in a little ball under the table.
ATB
--
Mike
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