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Forum Games - The Beer Cellar! / Re: Word Association
« on: July 13, 2020, 08:53:15 AM »
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In the distant future, I am told that barbarians beyond the upper sea began putting a plant called hops into ale, creating a drink called beer which could be stored for months or even years in wooden jars called barrels and tuns and shipped by boat rather than being made by any woman looking to earn some money and drunk immediately. But stories from distant lands are unreliable.Hmm. My structure is a bit different:
I thought Strongbow has hops in it, it is not sweet like Kootenay cider or Stibitzer or Somersby.I could be wrong, but I thought the spectrum with cider is sweet - dry, in the same way as wine, with sweet ciders having a lot of the original sugar left, and dry ciders having it mostly fermented out, or starting from less sweet apples. Hops produce bitterness and a distinctive flavour that I suspect would sit rather oddly with cider.
The Bavarians escape the chains of the Reinheitzgesetz by visiting Tirol and drinking craft beer.That's a bit disappointing: you ought to be able to do a lot of interesting things even within the constraints of the Reinheitsgebot - I'd have thought most British ales would qualify, for example, and there's an amazing variety there. And it's not like the Reinheitsgebot is actually a legal restriction any more - I suspect it's just that none of the breweries are willing to test the market by putting out something where they couldn't have the magic words on the label.
I don't drink beer or aleWhat's the distinction between "beer" and "ale" for you? For me, "ale" is a subcategory of "beer", implying some details about the fermentation process used, and hence probable characteristics of the resulting product.
I like unhopped cider.Is there such a thing as hopped cider?
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