Fellow Morganeers (and it seems fellow imbibers of the hops)
I just got off the phone with my local brewery, Sierra Nevada.
Being
one of the more popular and now barely a microbrew company I felt
they could advise us on the state of American "quality" consumption
habits.
The brews served in their brewpub are served at approx 39 degrees.
They acknowledged that European and British tastes were for a beer at
about 50 degrees but stated Americans seemed to prefer even their
good beer at a colder temp.
And let me quote a German lady friend of mine when asked about
Budweiser; "its much like sex in a canoe, f-----g to close to water.
GARY MARQUIS / FAT BASSET GARAGE
chico
california usa
By the way - Budweiser has even gotten to Microsoft, my spellchecker
corrected Budwieser.
> Fellow Morganist Gary K. writes:
>
> >
> >PS: And the British drink warm beer too,
> >
>
> Now, it seems that whenever discussion of the electrics in our dearly
> beloved british cars flares up, and the vicissitudes of the Lucas
> electrical systems are cast into question, we are reminded that the Brits
> drink warm beer, hinting that they can't wire a refrigerator correctly,
> either.
>
> Well, two things (sorry, but I just have to speak up here):
> (1)Its never been my impression that they drink "warm" beer (i.e. beer
> that
> is warmer than room temperature (which in England is no better than 65F,
> most of the time, if any of the scenes in the Alistair Simm version of "A
> Christmas Carol" are to be taken as accurate)). I'm prepared to admit
> that
> the Brits have a number of odd habits (like boiling their vegetables to a
> state of mush, and now-and-again going over to France to beat up on soccer
> fans), but I cannot believe that they drink WARM beer. The thought of
> imbibing 'warm' beer (beer from which steam is rising) is revolting, in
> the
> extremus!
> (2)And even if they did, who the heck are we yanks to cast the first
> stone?
> The American habits of drinking freezing ice cold beer has NEVER made
> sense to me (even as a sodden college student). Not only do we Americans
> brew the most flavorless of beers (whose idea was "lite" beer, anyway?),
> but we numb our tongues further by serving the stuff just shy of frozen,
> in
> glasses coated with frost. What little taste there might have been is
> made
> fully inaccessible by such cold temperatures. It is my 'umble opinion
> that
> beer is best served at a temp roughly equidistant between refrigerator and
> room temps (i.e. approx. 50F). That is, I would say, 'lightly chilled.'
> Having said that, I'm more than willing to allow that those list members
> who live in Texas, where it is well recognized to never drop below 90F,
> may
> have a hankering for an icy draught now and again. We may forgive them
> for
> this tendency, living as they do in the trackless Great American Desert.
>
> thirsty (as usual), I am
> yours, etc.,
> Will Zehring
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