Comments on: Drink A Beer in His Memory http://www.pagunblog.com/2007/09/01/drink-a-beer-in-his-memory/ The right of the citizens to bear arms in defense of themselves and the State ... Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:30:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: countertop http://www.pagunblog.com/2007/09/01/drink-a-beer-in-his-memory/#comment-10624 countertop Sun, 02 Sep 2007 20:42:47 +0000 http://www.snowflakesinhell.com/?p=1444#comment-10624 1. Water 2. Barley 3. Yeast 4. Hops Never violate those four sacred rules and your beer will always be fine. Major commercial brewers (Budweiser) for instance, violate rule 2 routinely by switching out barley for rice or corn - and the result is always disastrous. I'd also say many microbrewers violate these as well, by iunsisting on adding fruit and other contaminants - such as Magic Hat's Apricot Flavored #9 - yech! When I worked in the microbrewery back in law school, I once had the honor of giving Jackson an after hours tour. He'd been through before (and found our Porter to be the best in the country) but hadn't stopped in since we had made a couple of changes and wanted to just hang out and look around and drink. It was great. I should do a blog post about it. 1. Water
2. Barley
3. Yeast
4. Hops

Never violate those four sacred rules and your beer will always be fine.

Major commercial brewers (Budweiser) for instance, violate rule 2 routinely by switching out barley for rice or corn – and the result is always disastrous. I’d also say many microbrewers violate these as well, by iunsisting on adding fruit and other contaminants – such as Magic Hat’s Apricot Flavored #9 – yech!

When I worked in the microbrewery back in law school, I once had the honor of giving Jackson an after hours tour. He’d been through before (and found our Porter to be the best in the country) but hadn’t stopped in since we had made a couple of changes and wanted to just hang out and look around and drink.

It was great. I should do a blog post about it.

]]> By: triticale http://www.pagunblog.com/2007/09/01/drink-a-beer-in-his-memory/#comment-10573 triticale Sat, 01 Sep 2007 11:27:04 +0000 http://www.snowflakesinhell.com/?p=1444#comment-10573 <i>This is to the beer community like losing Jeff Cooper was to us gunnies.</i> Are there perhaps four absolute rules of proper beer handling I need to have ingrained before I pick up a bottle? This is to the beer community like losing Jeff Cooper was to us gunnies.

Are there perhaps four absolute rules of proper beer handling I need to have ingrained before I pick up a bottle?

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