HOW TO DRINK BEER.
Jul 04 '00
Most people do not know how to drink beer. This is one explanation for the huge sales of very bad beers the world over. Please take my advice, and I guarantee that you will enjoy your beer more.
1. Drink beer at the correct temperature. Beer is not supposed to be near freezing. This merely anasthetizes your taste buds so you can't taste anything. Cool your beer to 55-60 degrees Fahrenheit--cool, not cold. This just ensures that you will taste what you are drinking. If you don't like the taste at this temperature, you simply don't like what you are drinking, and I'm not sure why you're drinking it.
2. Decant. If it is a bottle-conditioned beer, it will have a layer of yeast at the bottom of the bottle, and shaking the bottle will mix that yeast with the beer, and neutralize the flavor. (Weizens are the only exception to this rule. They taste good with yeast in them. Mix away!) Therfore, carefully pour your beer into a glass, rather than drinking it out of the bottle. Heinekins and lesser beers can be drank out of the bottle. They are filtered and this does not apply to them. But the best beers are still on the yeast, and are living, growing substances.
3. Try all kinds of beer. Would you drive a Yugo, and then decide that you don't like to drive cars based on that experience? That's what it's like to decide that you don't like beer after trying an American Light Lager! Try scottish ales, stouts, bocks, bitter, polish porters, pilsners. (Bud is NOT a pilsner.)
4. Give it a chance. Make iot through a 6-pack before you give up on a beer. Some tastes are worth acquiring.
That's all for now; let me know how it goes!
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