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02-14-2003, 07:57 AM
#21
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Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Houston Texas
Posts: 1,142
I've been legally drinking since 18
So have I.....Once I became certified my mom went out and bought about $500 worth of alcohol. As long as I tell her I am going to drink it is legal. Funny little loop hole... It only illegal if your parents don't know.
02-14-2003, 08:48 AM
#22
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Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: London, Ontario
Posts: 2,871
Mmmm, :yum: German beer is the best. Not imported stuff, but what you get when you go there. Lots (most?) real pubs make thier own. I don't like beer all that much, but that stuff was good. Kinda wierd, some of it wasn't clear and you couldn't see through the glass very well :yum:
02-14-2003, 08:53 AM
#24
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Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: transylvania
Posts: 3,620
American Light – This type of beer encompasses the most popular beers sold in the United States. Very light in color, this variety of beer will usually have little to no malt or hop characteristics. This type of beer is also very light-bodied.
Bock – A bock is usually full-bodied, with a strong, malty flavor. The color is most often a very dark brown.
Doppelbock – A full-bodied beer, a doppelbock is a stronger variety of a bock. With a very dark brown color, it will usually also possess an intense malt flavor.
Oktoberfest – Medium-bodied and malty, an Oktoberfest will be dark in color and very flavorful.
Pilsner – A pale, light-bodied lager, with a hoppy, dry flavor.
Top-fermenting beer styles – ales
Alt – Derived from the German word for old, an Alt (or Altbier) is medium-bodied and slightly fruity. With a medium copper hue, Alts generally drink lighter than they appear.
Barley Wine – Barley wine is very strong, very full-bodied, and possesses a strong flavor. Generally, barley wine has a distinct hop presence.
Bitter – A British-style ale, a bitter is usually reddish-copper in color, and similar to a pale ale.
Cream Ale – This variety of beer is usually light in color and body, with high carbonation. Cream ales usually have very little hop flavor.
Hefeweizen – An unfiltered wheat beer. Light in color, hefeweizen is fruity and light in body.
India Pale Ale – Often referred to as an IPA, an India pale ale will be very hoppy, medium-bodied, and amber in color.
Lambic – A Belgian-style wheat beer, a lambic is not malted and very fruity in flavor.
Porter – Very dark in color, but medium-bodied, porter is usually dry and fruity with a discernable malt character.
Scottish Ale – Full-bodied, dark, and strong, Scottish ales have a strong malt aroma and flavor.
Stout – A very dark, full-bodied roasted-flavored beer.
Trappist Ale – A very special beer, the only beers that can be called Trappist ales are produced at monasteries. Generally medium in body and in color, these beers and usually strong in fruity, and are often served in a wine glass or goblet.
White – Also known as a witbier, white beers are pale and cloudy in color, with a medium body and apparent fruit, malt and hops flavors.
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I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.
--Frank Sinatra
Sometimes when I reflect back on all the beer I drink I feel ashamed - Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the brewery and all of their hopes and dreams. If I didn't drink this beer, they might be out of work and their dreams would be shattered. Then I say to myself, "It is better that I drink this beer and let their dreams come true than be selfish and worry about my liver."
--Deep Thought, Jack Handy
Brewers enjoy working to make beer as much as drinking beer instead of working.
--Harold Rudolph
You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.
--Frank Zappa
Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
--Ernest Hemmingway
The easiest way to spot a ****** in a pub is to look around and find who's drinking a Corona with a slice of lemon in the neck.
--Warwick Franks
Always remember that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
--Winston Churchill
God made pot. Man made beer. Who do you trust?
--Restroom in The Irish Times, Washington DC
He was a wise man who invented beer.
--Plato
Time is never wasted when you're wasted all the time.
--Catherine Zandonella
A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her.
--W.C. Fields
Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink.
--Lady Astor to Winston Churchill
Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it.
--His reply
If God had intended us to drink beer, He would have given us stomachs.
--David Daye
Work is the curse of the drinking class.
--Oscar Wilde
When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.
--Henny Youngman
Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
--Benjamin Franklin
If you ever reach total enlightenment while drinking beer, I bet it makes beer shoot out your nose.
--Deep Thought, Jack Handy
Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.
--Dave Barry
The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.
--Humphrey Bogart
Why is American beer served cold? So you can tell it from urine.
--David Moulton
People who drink light "beer" don't like the taste of beer; they just like to pee alot.
--Capital Brewery, Middleton, WI
Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world.
--Kaiser Welhelm
I would kill everyone in this room for a drop of sweet beer.
--Homer Simpson
Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer.
--Dave Barry
I drink to make other people interesting.
--George Jean Nathan
They who drink beer will think beer.
--Washington Irving
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
--For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemmingway
You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.
--Dean Martin
Everybody has to believe in something.....I believe I'll have another drink.
--W.C. Fields
All right, brain, I don't like you and you don't like me - so let's just do this and I'll get back to killing you with beer.
--Homer Simpson
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On October 17 of 1814, a rupture in a brewery tank containing 3,500 barrels of beer caused a flood of fatal proportions in the London parish of St. Giles. The wave of beer swept victims off their feet, dashed them against walls, and buried them under debris. Two houses were demolished in the sea of beer suddenly loosed upon town, and nine people lost their lives in the flood of suds.
It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer, and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the "honey month", or what we know today as the "honeymoon".
There are 19 different versions of Guinness.
According to a diary entry from a passenger on the Mayflower, the pilgrims made their landing at Plymouth Rock, rather than continue to their destination in Virginia, due to lack of beer.
A barrel contains 31 gallons of beer.
The first beer cans were produced in 1935.
Before thermometers were invented, brewers would dip a thumb or finger into the mix to find the right temperature for adding yeast. Too cold, and the yeast wouldn't grow. Too hot, and the yeast would die. This thumb in the beer is where "rule of thumb" comes from. (Actually, a reader pointed out to us that "rule of thumb" actually comes from some Irish saying regarding beating your wife. However, since this is a beer page and not a wifebeating page, the temperature fact stands.)
In 1788, Ale was proclaimed "the proper drink for Americans" at a parade in New York City.
In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. So in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them to mind their own pints and quarts and settle down. It's where we get the phrase "mind your P's and Q's".
The original text of the Reinheitsgebot only had three ingredients: Barley, hops, and water. Yeast wasn't mentioned for another 35 years.
George Washington had his own brewhouse on the grounds of Mount Vernon.
After consuming a bucket or two of vibrant brew they called aul, or ale, the Vikings would head fearlessly into battle, often without armor or even shirts. In fact, "berserk" means "bare shirt" in Norse, and eventually took on the meaning of their wild battles.
The Budweiser Clydesdales weight up to 2,300 pounds and stand nearly 6 feet at the shoulder.
12 oz of a typical American pale lager actually has fewer calories than 2 percent milk or apple juice.
A beer is NOT just a beer. All told, there are 27 different styles of beer, with a further breakdown of 49 substyles.
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It was the accepted practice in Babylonia 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer, and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the "honey month" or what we know today as the "honeymoon."
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Before thermometers were invented, brewers would dip a thumb or finger into the mix to find the right temperature for adding yeast. Too cold, and the yeast wouldn't grow. Too hot, and the yeast would die. This thumb in the beer is where we get the phrase "rule of thumb."
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and in days gone by, quarts. So, in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them to mind their own pints and quarts and settle down. It's where we get the phrase "mind your P's and Q's."
but... here's an offering from Alan Skrepnek, in Canada,
"A tour guide in London explained to us that the clientele was being warned, not so much to "settle down," but that the beer or ale being served was particularly strong. Apparently at 'freehouses' where entrpreneurs were allowed to make and sell their own beer, there was less [ableness, willingness or legality] to have control on the alcoholic content."
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
In 1740, Admiral Vernon of the British fleet decided to water down the navy's rum. Needless to say, the sailors weren't too pleased and called Admiral Vernon, "Old Grog," after the stiff wool grogram coats he wore. The term "grog" soon began to mean the watered down drink itself. When you were drunk on this grog, you were "groggy," a word still in use today.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Many years ago in England, pub frequenters had a whistle baked into the rim or handle of their ceramic cups. When they needed a refill, they used the whistle to get some service. "Wet your whistle", is the phrase inspired by this practice.
Bock – A bock is usually full-bodied, with a strong, malty flavor. The color is most often a very dark brown.
Doppelbock – A full-bodied beer, a doppelbock is a stronger variety of a bock. With a very dark brown color, it will usually also possess an intense malt flavor.
Oktoberfest – Medium-bodied and malty, an Oktoberfest will be dark in color and very flavorful.
Pilsner – A pale, light-bodied lager, with a hoppy, dry flavor.
Top-fermenting beer styles – ales
Alt – Derived from the German word for old, an Alt (or Altbier) is medium-bodied and slightly fruity. With a medium copper hue, Alts generally drink lighter than they appear.
Barley Wine – Barley wine is very strong, very full-bodied, and possesses a strong flavor. Generally, barley wine has a distinct hop presence.
Bitter – A British-style ale, a bitter is usually reddish-copper in color, and similar to a pale ale.
Cream Ale – This variety of beer is usually light in color and body, with high carbonation. Cream ales usually have very little hop flavor.
Hefeweizen – An unfiltered wheat beer. Light in color, hefeweizen is fruity and light in body.
India Pale Ale – Often referred to as an IPA, an India pale ale will be very hoppy, medium-bodied, and amber in color.
Lambic – A Belgian-style wheat beer, a lambic is not malted and very fruity in flavor.
Porter – Very dark in color, but medium-bodied, porter is usually dry and fruity with a discernable malt character.
Scottish Ale – Full-bodied, dark, and strong, Scottish ales have a strong malt aroma and flavor.
Stout – A very dark, full-bodied roasted-flavored beer.
Trappist Ale – A very special beer, the only beers that can be called Trappist ales are produced at monasteries. Generally medium in body and in color, these beers and usually strong in fruity, and are often served in a wine glass or goblet.
White – Also known as a witbier, white beers are pale and cloudy in color, with a medium body and apparent fruit, malt and hops flavors.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.
--Frank Sinatra
Sometimes when I reflect back on all the beer I drink I feel ashamed - Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the brewery and all of their hopes and dreams. If I didn't drink this beer, they might be out of work and their dreams would be shattered. Then I say to myself, "It is better that I drink this beer and let their dreams come true than be selfish and worry about my liver."
--Deep Thought, Jack Handy
Brewers enjoy working to make beer as much as drinking beer instead of working.
--Harold Rudolph
You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.
--Frank Zappa
Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
--Ernest Hemmingway
The easiest way to spot a ****** in a pub is to look around and find who's drinking a Corona with a slice of lemon in the neck.
--Warwick Franks
Always remember that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
--Winston Churchill
God made pot. Man made beer. Who do you trust?
--Restroom in The Irish Times, Washington DC
He was a wise man who invented beer.
--Plato
Time is never wasted when you're wasted all the time.
--Catherine Zandonella
A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her.
--W.C. Fields
Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink.
--Lady Astor to Winston Churchill
Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it.
--His reply
If God had intended us to drink beer, He would have given us stomachs.
--David Daye
Work is the curse of the drinking class.
--Oscar Wilde
When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.
--Henny Youngman
Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
--Benjamin Franklin
If you ever reach total enlightenment while drinking beer, I bet it makes beer shoot out your nose.
--Deep Thought, Jack Handy
Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.
--Dave Barry
The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.
--Humphrey Bogart
Why is American beer served cold? So you can tell it from urine.
--David Moulton
People who drink light "beer" don't like the taste of beer; they just like to pee alot.
--Capital Brewery, Middleton, WI
Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world.
--Kaiser Welhelm
I would kill everyone in this room for a drop of sweet beer.
--Homer Simpson
Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer.
--Dave Barry
I drink to make other people interesting.
--George Jean Nathan
They who drink beer will think beer.
--Washington Irving
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
--For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemmingway
You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.
--Dean Martin
Everybody has to believe in something.....I believe I'll have another drink.
--W.C. Fields
All right, brain, I don't like you and you don't like me - so let's just do this and I'll get back to killing you with beer.
--Homer Simpson
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
On October 17 of 1814, a rupture in a brewery tank containing 3,500 barrels of beer caused a flood of fatal proportions in the London parish of St. Giles. The wave of beer swept victims off their feet, dashed them against walls, and buried them under debris. Two houses were demolished in the sea of beer suddenly loosed upon town, and nine people lost their lives in the flood of suds.
It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer, and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the "honey month", or what we know today as the "honeymoon".
There are 19 different versions of Guinness.
According to a diary entry from a passenger on the Mayflower, the pilgrims made their landing at Plymouth Rock, rather than continue to their destination in Virginia, due to lack of beer.
A barrel contains 31 gallons of beer.
The first beer cans were produced in 1935.
Before thermometers were invented, brewers would dip a thumb or finger into the mix to find the right temperature for adding yeast. Too cold, and the yeast wouldn't grow. Too hot, and the yeast would die. This thumb in the beer is where "rule of thumb" comes from. (Actually, a reader pointed out to us that "rule of thumb" actually comes from some Irish saying regarding beating your wife. However, since this is a beer page and not a wifebeating page, the temperature fact stands.)
In 1788, Ale was proclaimed "the proper drink for Americans" at a parade in New York City.
In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. So in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them to mind their own pints and quarts and settle down. It's where we get the phrase "mind your P's and Q's".
The original text of the Reinheitsgebot only had three ingredients: Barley, hops, and water. Yeast wasn't mentioned for another 35 years.
George Washington had his own brewhouse on the grounds of Mount Vernon.
After consuming a bucket or two of vibrant brew they called aul, or ale, the Vikings would head fearlessly into battle, often without armor or even shirts. In fact, "berserk" means "bare shirt" in Norse, and eventually took on the meaning of their wild battles.
The Budweiser Clydesdales weight up to 2,300 pounds and stand nearly 6 feet at the shoulder.
12 oz of a typical American pale lager actually has fewer calories than 2 percent milk or apple juice.
A beer is NOT just a beer. All told, there are 27 different styles of beer, with a further breakdown of 49 substyles.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
It was the accepted practice in Babylonia 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer, and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the "honey month" or what we know today as the "honeymoon."
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Before thermometers were invented, brewers would dip a thumb or finger into the mix to find the right temperature for adding yeast. Too cold, and the yeast wouldn't grow. Too hot, and the yeast would die. This thumb in the beer is where we get the phrase "rule of thumb."
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and in days gone by, quarts. So, in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them to mind their own pints and quarts and settle down. It's where we get the phrase "mind your P's and Q's."
but... here's an offering from Alan Skrepnek, in Canada,
"A tour guide in London explained to us that the clientele was being warned, not so much to "settle down," but that the beer or ale being served was particularly strong. Apparently at 'freehouses' where entrpreneurs were allowed to make and sell their own beer, there was less [ableness, willingness or legality] to have control on the alcoholic content."
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
In 1740, Admiral Vernon of the British fleet decided to water down the navy's rum. Needless to say, the sailors weren't too pleased and called Admiral Vernon, "Old Grog," after the stiff wool grogram coats he wore. The term "grog" soon began to mean the watered down drink itself. When you were drunk on this grog, you were "groggy," a word still in use today.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Many years ago in England, pub frequenters had a whistle baked into the rim or handle of their ceramic cups. When they needed a refill, they used the whistle to get some service. "Wet your whistle", is the phrase inspired by this practice.
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