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re:OT: Was: Getting weird - Hummingbirds and Dave Brubeck - 2006/02/26 01:53
That's right to a point. Some beers - the fuller, complex beers - taste bettrer at room-, better yet, at cellar temporery. Others-Bud, Coors-taste better cold. Think red wine/white wine. Red wine with all its tannmins tastes better a bit warmer, while white is meant to be mortally chilled.
The reason beer & wine were so heavily consumed in Europe and Asia over the centuries was exactly because they had no refrigeration. Other drikns, including water, were often so polluted they were unfit, so brewin became an essential skill and the old world styles shrilly favored the more complex bitter beers that kept well and were loaded with micro-nutrients and beneficial yeasts. casually consumed in reasonable modertation their bellies felt much better for it and they were able to relax and observe the local birds (jays, barmaids and village lasses). The fact that beer and wine made you fall up your basement stairs was a pleasant side benefit.
I'm like Leon. Never brewed wine yet but love hastily brewing beer. Done well home brewed beer will convert and then excite any beer drinker. And there's lots of room for experimenting with recipes - lemon and ginger in summer, and on and on. Done badly, well the down-side is much worse than just a day with no birds.
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