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David Lewinnek
Intermediate Member
Username: Davelew
Post Number: 269
Registered: 02-2005
Posted From: 209.6.23.54
| | Posted on Sunday, October 08, 2006 - 03:29 pm: | 
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I just got this article forwarded to me from my mother:
http://www.powells.com/review/2006_10_07.html
At first, I thought it was going to be a praise of the Classic American Pilsener article, but then I realized it was actually saying "CAPs are good so drink Bud Light." Anyone else care to count the factual errors? I get nine. |
Mike G.
Junior Member
Username: Mikeg
Post Number: 63
Registered: 04-2005
Posted From: 64.68.174.243
| | Posted on Sunday, October 08, 2006 - 06:19 pm: |
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Interesting. Sounds like the children's story- " emperor Adolphus's new clothes".
My favorite quote from the review: "The big breweries got big by caring about consistency, and using more expensive ingredients than the cheap malts and hops used by failed brewers."
Random thoughts:
Did the German immigrants bring doppelbock brewing with them? I always thought they brought pilsner brewing with them.
Did the original Bohemian Pilseners made in Budweis include Rice? I am no expert, but I would think otherwise.
Did Budweiser always use rice in the recipe? Or did they use corn at one time? I read recently that Michelob used an all-malt formula at one time, and now is a rice-adjunct brew. |
Vance Barnes
Senior Member
Username: Vancebarnes
Post Number: 2466
Registered: 03-2003
Posted From: 208.49.148.10
| | Posted on Monday, October 09, 2006 - 03:11 pm: |
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One - The first brewers in America were German,
Two - You can't make pilsener with American six-row barley, because it's too protein rich. You end up with unprecipitated blobs of protein, sort of like drinking a lava lamp.
Never heard chill haze described as a lava lamp before  |
Denny Conn
Senior Member
Username: Denny
Post Number: 5918
Registered: 01-2001
Posted From: 140.211.82.4
| | Posted on Monday, October 09, 2006 - 06:17 pm: |
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"The first brewers in America were German"...weren't they British? Ya know, the Plymouth Rock/beer story. How about Washington/Jefferson/Franklin?
LIfe begins at 60...1.060, that is.
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Chumley
Senior Member
Username: Chumley
Post Number: 4373
Registered: 02-2003
Posted From: 63.118.227.254
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 10, 2006 - 08:10 pm: |
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"In the late 1800s a temperance movement started gaining momentum. Interestingly, lager was previously not considered alcoholic, as it only had a 3.2 percent alcohol content."
Ummmmm....all the CAP data (with historical references) I've seen published in various homebrewing articles do not agree with this. |
Paul Erbe
Advanced Member
Username: Perbe
Post Number: 699
Registered: 05-2001
Posted From: 12.27.22.67
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 10, 2006 - 08:29 pm: |
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Not to mention that there was probably some form of chicha brewed in at least Mexico if not the southern united states for thousands of years. |
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