National BEER Day!!!

[dlochner]

This just in from the local paper, Bland Beer is Here to Stay.

Who knew college professors actually studied beer, thought only the students did.

 

[Gunni]

Who knew college professors actually studied beer, thought only the students did.

"Unlike European countries with beer preferences and styles that have evolved over centuries, America lacks a homegrown brewing tradition," Dighe wrote in his essay at theconversation.com. "The classic American beer (Bud/Miller/Coors etc.) is an 'adjunct pilsner,' which means that some of the malted barley is replaced with corn or rice. The effect is a beer that's lighter, clearer and less hoppy than its counterparts in countries like England, Germany and Belgium."

An 'adjunct pilsner' professor is like 'adjunct faculty' - a cheap excuse for the real thing.

 

[pateco]

"Unlike European countries with beer preferences and styles that have evolved over centuries, America lacks a homegrown brewing tradition," Dighe wrote in his essay at theconversation.com. "The classic American beer (Bud/Miller/Coors etc.) is an 'adjunct pilsner,' which means that some of the malted barley is replaced with corn or rice. The effect is a beer that's lighter, clearer and less hoppy than its counterparts in countries like England, Germany and Belgium.".

Yes, but these are not the only American beers. There are others that never went the way of adjunct lagers.

Sierra Nevada Pale Ale
Anchor Liberty
Yuengling Traditional lager
Michelob

I am sure there are others.

 

[dlochner]

Must be the weather. Here's another article from the Syracuse paper on beer.

Beer made from milk? Cornell researcher finds a whey to brew it | syracuse.com

 

[Gunni]

Bad news Chip, Yuengling is brewed with corn and Michelob was a rice beer until about 10 years ago. I like them both.

 

[shemandr]

I, for one, will not take beer drinking advice from a man photographed with a cat sitting on his shoulder. That's just not right.
In the seventies beer pundits predicted that every small brewery would go out of business and we would only have three choices: Bland, more bland and even more bland. To an extend that is true. Then there was the Anchor Steam revolution. Someone bought a nearly bankrupt small brewery and turned it around and branded it. The Yuengling story is similar. There has been an explosion of craft breweries some of which are pretty damn big businesses, Sam Adams, Blue Moon, Fat Tire etc. which are brands and offer choice and creativity in brewing. You can't turn around in almost any city without running into a brew pub which are serving tasty versions and variety of beer. I say yea! Never take pundits word for anything. Now a writer at Linked In is saying the neighborhood pizzeria is doomed. Want to bet?

 

[Kermit]

I finally found beers I like. Some of my friends like what I like. Others laugh at me. I just know I didn’t understand why people liked beer so much until I discovered the styles I truly enjoy. Every dawg to his own bone. (But I have to say the quip about the moose having diabetes was pretty dang funny.)

 

[dlochner]

The Yuengling story is similar.

Yesterday, while touring the Prohibition Museum in Savannah we learned that Fredrick Yuengling was part of the opposition to the Prohibition, along with Augustus Busch, Joseph Schlitz and others. Yuengling was founded in 1829 (Yuengling - Wikipedia).

Some of the major breweries contract to make craft beers. At one point Blue Moon was brewed by Coors. The Genesee Brewery in Rochester and FX Matt were small regional breweries that have gone in to the contract brewing business. The larger more successful craft beers are often brewed by contract breweries.

Cheers!

 

[jssailem]

Fun place wasn’t it.

 

[dlochner]

Fun place wasn’t it.

Yes it was. We don't usually do the tourist trap attractions, but had to do this one. Interesting and fun. We went in the morning, it was too early to partake in the pleasures of the Speakeasy.

 

[shemandr]

...We went in the morning, it was too early to partake in the pleasures of the Speakeasy.

So it was before sunrise?