A beverage that puts a hex on you as you get drunk

[Bandit1]

Have many of you seen this? Or is it a local phenomenon?




And what the hell is a "High Gravity Lager?
Beer from Jupiter?

 

[Guest]

Nope...but then i'm allergic to drinking any type of beer from a can
i love flying dog ale...
see below

 

[fifty5]

And what the hell is a "High Gravity Lager?
Beer from Jupiter?

The eventual strength of fermented beverages is measured by their density - specific gravity. 'High gravity' means it's gonna be strong.

Eff (pissing on your party by giving straight info - sorry.)

 

[Guest]

Re: Re: A beverage that puts a hex on you as you get drunk

The eventual strength of fermented beverages is measured by their density - specific gravity. 'High gravity' means it's gonna be strong.

Eff (pissing on your party by giving straight info - sorry.)

damnit...i so love it when you talk like that
*feeling faint*


i love love love my beer

 

[Bandit1]

Re: Re: A beverage that puts a hex on you as you get drunk

The eventual strength of fermented beverages is measured by their density - specific gravity. 'High gravity' means it's gonna be strong.

Eff (pissing on your party by giving straight info - sorry.)

No problem Eff.
I was genuinely curious as to what High Gravity lager was.
Thanks for the info!

 

[rgraham666]

Thanks, but I have enough problems with alcohol without the beer cursing me on top of it.

 

[china-doll]

[slightly off topic] I still get a kick out of this label:

http://wine.about.com/library/graphics/bottles/fatbast.jpg

It's actually surprisingly good. [/slightly off topic]

 

[fifty5]

Re: Re: Re: A beverage that puts a hex on you as you get drunk

damnit...i so love it when you talk like that
*feeling faint*


i love love love my beer

Come here and I'll tell you all about brewing (while removing all your clothes - and mine - and... well you know the rest)

 

[fifty5]

Re: Re: Re: A beverage that puts a hex on you as you get drunk

No problem Eff.
I was genuinely curious as to what High Gravity lager was.
Thanks for the info!

It's the sugar that turns into alcohol. Sugar's denser than water, so wort (the term for the stuff that ferments) has a higher specific gravity in proportion to how strong the final product will be.

A good phrase is: "strong enough so that it doesn't need a stick to get out of the bottle/barrel"

Heavy, man!

Eff

 

[cantdog]

My programmer friend made wine in school. Hey, it was California!

They began with Petri dishes, and cultured the yeasts. They eliminated the weaker ones and bred a wine yeast which could tolerate high alcohol content in the environment before succumbing.

The resultant wine was 12 1/2% alcohol without having to be fortified. They dubbed it Mad Monk. Version three was quite drinkable, and almost 14%.

 

[TheWriter]

I once saw a bottle label that declaimed a product called "Pure Old Panther Piss"

Any ideas? Then again, I'd rather not know.

 

[cantdog]

Twasn't Bundaberg, then?

 

[R. Richard]

Way back when, per the history books, many little towns had their own brewery. The towns people drank the local beer because the beer meant jobs for some of their fellow citizens. Some of the beers had very unusual names, in part bacuse many of them were brewed by recent immigrants and they often used foreign names that were often comical or bawdy for US beer drinkers.

After WW II, the big breweries drove the uneconomic little guys out of business and there were only a relatively few major brands.

Now there are a lot of micro-breweries producing beer to compete with the very few surviving big brands. Many of the micro-breweries seem to try for the wierdest names possible, I suppose to attract attention.

One of my favorites was "Olde Frothingslosh Pale Stale Ale - the beer with the foam on the bottom." Of course Olde Frothingslosh was advertised by Hester Schvester in Mad magazine!

 

[Raine D8]

[slightly off topic] I still get a kick out of this label:

http://wine.about.com/library/graphics/bottles/fatbast.jpg

It's actually surprisingly good. [/slightly off topic]

Funny!

 

[BigAndTall]

Way back when, per the history books, many little towns had their own brewery. The towns people drank the local beer because the beer meant jobs for some of their fellow citizens. Some of the beers had very unusual names, in part bacuse many of them were brewed by recent immigrants and they often used foreign names that were often comical or bawdy for US beer drinkers.

After WW II, the big breweries drove the uneconomic little guys out of business and there were only a relatively few major brands.

Now there are a lot of micro-breweries producing beer to compete with the very few surviving big brands. Many of the micro-breweries seem to try for the wierdest names possible, I suppose to attract attention.

One of my favorites was "Olde Frothingslosh Pale Stale Ale - the beer with the foam on the bottom." Of course Olde Frothingslosh was advertised by Hester Schvester in Mad magazine!

A sad secret about a lot of those micro brews is that they are owned by large companies.

I think (for example) Ice House which is marketed as a micro is owned by Miller.

 

[fifty5]

Way back when, per the history books, many little towns had their own brewery. ....

A nice story is about the Theakston's brewery. They were independent, but got bought out by Matthew Brown, who, in turn were bought out by Scottish and Newcastle (now Scottish Courage). Visit http://www.theakstons.co.uk/ they aren't too shy about the takeover.

What they don't tell you is that one of the Theakston family set up anew - and now brews under a different name: Black Sheep - http://www.blacksheepbrewery.com/ - still in Masham. The sale means they can't use any of the Theakston trade names, but that's the true - and still independent - successor.

Plus ça change...

Eff

PS That one's exceptional - most of the smaller local breweries that I remember from my youth have indeed gone.

F

 

[BigAndTall]

A nice story is about the Theakston's brewery. They were independent, but got bought out by Matthew Brown, who, in turn were bought out by Scottish and Newcastle (now Scottish Courage). Visit http://www.theakstons.co.uk/ they aren't too shy about the takeover.

What they don't tell you is that one of the Theakston family set up anew - and now brews under a different name: Black Sheep - http://www.blacksheepbrewery.com/ - still in Masham. The sale means they can't use any of the Theakston trade names, but that's the true - and still independent - successor.

Plus ça change...

Eff

PS That one's exceptional - most of the smaller local breweries that I remember from my youth have indeed gone.

F

Really? Any better? I love one of Theakstons brands (i can only get old pecuilar).

 

[thør]

some small brewers sell thru brewpubs....such as http://www.moosestooth.net/index2.htm , where one can order a pizza to go and enjoy a wonderful brew while it's cooking.......then there's http://wildales.com/ just down the street from work were tastings are every friday and it's cheap to have the growler filled to take home......

when there's the opportunity for good beer, there's no reason to buy the "no-body" corporate beers......