What's your favorite beer?

Originally Posted by James Bruce Gil

Fred,

We speak and spell Manglish down this way. Sort of similar to English, but succinctly different.

Kind regrds,

Originally Posted by Ssushi

(Trying not to take the piss of anyone who said Budwieser)

Lived in Dublin for two years and loved the guiness, but my fav??? A good pint of John Smiths...

Originally Posted by limerickman

1759 they started brewing Guinness, in my home town of Dublin.
They still do make Guinness there, but most of the stuff consumed these days
is manufactured elsewhere (Britain and Nigeria).
Guinness is owned by Diageo (a British multinational) - the connections with Ireland are almost gone now.

Originally Posted by Ssushi

Sorry to disappoint but it was invented by an Englishman in covent garden. He owned a brewery there, occasionally he would burn the hops and end up making this very dark beer - nicknamed Porter because he sold it on cheap to the porters. Mr guiness who had a brewery in Dublin came over to London, liked and took the recipe back.. the rest as they say is history...

Story is confirmed by the use of the word 'porter' in Ireland instead of 'beer'...

Originally Posted by Weisse Luft

Technically speaking, any fermented beverage made from any malted grain and using either saccaromyces cervisiae or s. uvarium as the yeast is a beer.

The beer commonly found in stores is typically fermented with the latter, sometimes called s. carlsburggenesis. This yeast produces a lager, so named because it must be stored or aged cold to drop the yeast out of suspension. It also ferments at cooler temperatures.

Homebrews can be much closer to traditional beers because the malt is usually from one type of grain. A single malt in other words. Most commercial beer uses a different type of barley which allows use of cheaper grains due to higher enzyme levels in this six row barley. Traditional malts are made from two row and have only enough enzymes to convert the starchy endosperm into a fermentable mix of sugars.

Yes, one can brew lagers at home. A spare refrigerator, set up for higher temperatures (50 F), are commonly used to keep the brewing process at the right temperature.

I brew my own from scratch. Well, I buy malted barley for $28 per hundred pounds. That makes about 40 gallons. Total cost with hops and yeast is still under $1 per gallon and its far better than what you can buy in the store.

My favorite is a coffee stout which I developed long before Drew Carey and Buzz beer. I crystalize a portion of the malt with cracked coffee beans...

Originally Posted by jhuskey

Up to my generation my ancestors mostly made their own (homebrew,moonshine.corn-liqour, but it is a dying art but more alive here in the mountains than most anywhere else in the states.
I never learned the trade but have sampled a lot of the offerings of those than still keep the tradition alive.

Originally Posted by limerickman

Dulwich - is that not in Kent ?
I am sure it was an ale called Watneys.
maybe I'm wrong.

The Oirish clubs would be well stocked with the Black Stuff.

Originally Posted by FredC

You must know the Clampetts then.

Originally Posted by jhuskey

I wish!!!!!!!!!

Originally Posted by FredC

Keep whittling Jethro, It'll come to you. " Gee Uncle Ged 2+2, A tough one"

Originally Posted by James Bruce Gil

Ssus,

Have you tried the original Budwieser that is the Czech beer. There's not too much to grumble about with that.

Kind regards,

Originally Posted by Ruedy

Haven't tried the original "Czech Budweiser" but American Bud SUCKS!
Don't know why it's so popular here.

Originally Posted by James Bruce Gil

Is there any bad beer? Most of us can remember a bad meal, but a bad beer?