SKUNKY BEER

Wired magazine had a short article today giving a basic overview about how beer gets lightstruck, entitled What’s Up With That: My Beer Tastes Like a Skunk’s Bathwater.

It’s a fairly basic explanation of the process of a beer becoming lightstruck — often called skunky — written after interviewing Roger Barth, author of the textbook, the Chemistry of Beer. The author even takes a little thinly-veiled swipe at Corona. “This could explain why certain clear-bottled brands suggest you squeeze a lime into their beer to mask the skunk before taking a swig.” But it was the final sentence that had me in stitches. “But if you must, for reasons I will never understand, drink a Heineken, I suggest you get it on tap and hide your shame in a dark corner of the bar.”

(With thanks to BrookstonBeerBulletin)

FRITZ MAYTAG ON BEER

“We brewers don’t make beer, we just get all the ingredients together and the beer makes itself.”

(Past President of Anchor Brewing)

DAVE BARRY ON BEER

“When I heated my home with oil, I used an average of 800 gallons a year. I have found that I can keep comfortably warm for an entire winter with slightly over half that quantity of beer.”

SAINT ARNOLD OF SOISSONS ON BEER

“From man’s sweat and God’s love, beer came into the world.”

(And apparently he has his own brewery.)

DAVID MUSTAINE (MEGADEATH) ON BEER

“If you guys are going to be throwing beer bottles at us, at least make sure they’re full.”

FROM THE LOG OF THE MAYFLOWER

"For we could not now take time for further search (to land our ship), our victuals being much spent, especially our beer."

Happy Thanksgiving!

MR BURNS ON BEER

“Smithers, this beer isn’t working, I don’t feel any younger or funkier.”

BEER QUOTE

“I’VE ALWAYS BELIEVED THAT PARADISE WILL HAVE MY FAVORITE BEER ON TAP”

-Rudyard Wheatley, Author

Well, it’s definitely a great quote, but…

A)  I would need more than 1 beer on tap

B)   Not sure if this person exists, when you Google him he only seems to appear tied to this quote. Sounds more like a nom de plume made from Rudyard Kipling & Dennis Wheatley…

BILLY CARTER ON BEER

“Paintings are like beer, only beer tastes good and it’s hard to stop drinking beer.”

Yeah, he was a funny guy, especially for the President's brother! And the beer sucked; I actually bought a 6 pack when the beer first came out, drank one (ptui!)
and still have the other 5 cans, still full.

ERNEST HEMINGWAY ON BEER

“I would not have thought of       eating a meal without drinking a beer”

BEER QUOTE

“If my mother was tied up and held for ransom,

I might think about making a light beer.”

George Koch

CEO of Stone Brewing

ANONYMOUS ON BEER

“Oh lager beer!

It makes good cheer,

and proves the poor man’s worth;

it cools the body through and through,

and regulates the health.”

DAVE BARRY ON BEER

“What may seem depressing or even tragic to one person may seem like an absolute scream to another person, especially if he has had between four and seven beers.”

KAISER WILHELM II ON BEER

“Give me a woman who loves beer,

and I will conquer the world.”

ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER ON BEER

“Milk is for babies. When you grow up, you have to

drink beer.”

BEER POEM

Beer and Women

While I’m at the tavern quaffing,

  Well disposed for t’other quart,

Come’s my wife to spoil my laughing,

  Telling me ’tis time to part:

Words I knew, were unavailing,

  Yet I sternly answered, No!

‘Till from motives more prevailing,

  Sitting down she treads my toe:

Such kind tokens to my thinking,

  Most emphatically prove

That the joys that flow from drinking,

  Are averse to those of love.

Farewell friends and t’other bottle,

  Since I can no longer stay,

Love more learn’d than Aristotle,

  Has, to move me, found the way.

17^th Century, Anonymous

DAVID DAYE ON BEER

“If God had intended us to drink beer, he would have given us stomachs.”

(David Daye is a maker of Irish bagpipes - so he ought to know!)

DAVE BARRY ON BEER

“I like beer. On occasion, I will even drink beer to celebrate a major event such as the fall of Communism or the fact that the refrigerator is still working”

BEER CAN: BY JOHN UPDIKE 1964

‘This seems to be an era of gratuitous inventions and negative improvements. Consider the beer can. It was beautiful — as beautiful as the clothespin, as inevitable as the wine bottle, as dignified and reassuring as the fire hydrant. A tranquil cylinder of delightfully resonant metal, it could be opened in an instant, requiring only the application of a handy gadget freely dispensed by every grocer. Who can forget the small, symmetrical thrill of those two triangular punctures, the dainty pfff, the little crest of suds that foamed eagerly in the exultation of release? Now we are given, instead, a top beetling with an ugly, shmoo-shaped tab, which, after fiercely resisting the tugging, bleeding fingers of the thirsty man, threatens his lips with a dangerous and hideous hole. However, we have discovered a way to thwart Progress, usually so unthwartable.Turn the beer can upside down and open the bottom. The bottom is still the way the top used to be. True, this operation gives the beer an unsettling jolt, and the sight of a consistently inverted beer can might make people edgy, not to say queasy. But the latter difficulty could be eliminated if manufacturers would design cans that looked the same whichever end was up, like playing cards. What we need is Progress with an escape hatch.’

BILLY CARTER ON BEER

“Yes, sir. I’m a real southern boy. I got a red neck, white socks, and Blue Ribbon beer”

 Well, at least until he had a beer named after him. Which was as crappy as it sounds.

When it came out, I bought a 6 pack to try; 36 years later, still have 5 full cans left!