Make that "sell beer" and not "feel beer". (The latter only happens at the nearby Zen Brewery). I do my best to help keep them all in business.
On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Steven Desjardins <[email protected]> wrote: > I dont home brew, but two microbreweries (one a real start-up and the > other an outpost brewery of an ongoing business) have opened in > Lexington (Pop 7000) in the past two years. They can feel beer by the > pint on site, and I approve of this trend. The small one is still > pretty inconsistent but run by a biologist friend of mine. I've has > both, and even the lesser batches are better than Bud. I share Dan's > preference for Belgian ales, however. Chimay and Roquefort have > become commonly available here for the past few years. > > On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 4:58 PM, Bob W <[email protected]> wrote: >>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of >>> steve harley >>> >>> on 2012-09-02 2:47 Bob W wrote >>> > Any of you chaps in the US had a chance to try this yet? >>> > >>> > <http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2012/09/01/ale-chief-white-house- >>> beer- >>> > recipe >>> >> >>> > >>> > It looks like a nice beer, although I have my doubts about corn syrup >>> > and gypsum in the recipe. >>> >>> the corn sugar is for priming (giving the yeast something to eat to >>> carbonate the beer after bottling), and is pretty normal; gypsum is >>> usually something that depends on the water you are using, when you >>> want to match the original brewer's water; if you start with hard water >>> i'd skip the gypsum >>> >>> slightly worrying, but not a serious problem, are the malt extract and >>> the hop pellets; these are usually considered cheap shortcuts >>> >>> (i am at best a "homebrewer's helper", but i have typeset and proofread >>> many a homebrew recipe) >>> >> >> I've only tried home brewing once, when I was at school. We bought a kit, >> mixed the stuff, and put it into the loft of the boarding house. We didn't >> have proper stoppers, so we just wrapped the bottle tops in clingfilm. Of >> course we didn't plan this properly because before it was even theoretically >> ready the term would be at an end and we would all disperse to the different >> parts of the world that we came from. For fear of discovery, we went back up >> to the loft and brought it all down. The clingfilm had evolved into some >> unspeakable creature of the dark. Nevertheless, we still tried to drink the >> evidence. It was disgusting. >> >> On a recent tour of the Meantime Brewery they were pretty scathing about >> adding sugar. As for their water, they take it from the Thames, which >> horrified me at first, but they use reverse osmosis to clean it up, and can >> dial something into their machines to give it a particular character - maybe >> that involves gypsum. Maybe gypsum is why people talk about getting >> plastered. >> >> B >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > > > -- > Steve Desjardins -- Steve Desjardins -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
