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Shauneyz
Joined: 26 May 2008
Location: The land of Nod
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 Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 2:51 pm Post subject: |
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| MollyBloom wrote: |
When I lived in Cambridge/Boston, I frequented a bar called Bukowski's. Anyone from that area knows of it. Hipster bar. They have a LOT of beers on their menu, definitely over 100. They have a thing called the Dead Writers Clubs, where you have to drink all the beers on the menu within a number of months, and you get a crystal mug with your favorite dead writer's name etched into it. The only perk from that accomplishment is that you can drink out of the large mug (maybe 24 oz?) for the price of whatever beer you drink. I never did it because it can get quite expensive; some beers on the menus are over $15. I had some friends that did it.
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There's a bar around here called Mahar's that does a beer tour like that. On any given day, the place will have 150 different beers available, and they get new drafts every week. At 50 beers, you get a t-shirt, at 200 you get a free case of beer of your choice...though the best is at 125, when you get a mug with anything you want engraved on it -- it also gets you half off all beers on tap. |
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Shauneyz
Joined: 26 May 2008
Location: The land of Nod
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| Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 3:02 pm Post subject: |
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| jajdude wrote: |
A curiosity to me is:
Why can't all countries make decent beer?
What's up? What's the secret?
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I've always seen it as a matter of geography, and the type of drinking culture that will develop from that. Grapes are great in Italy/Greece, not so much in England or Ireland where wheat thrives. That's why Ireland and England are known for beer, while Italian beer is basically crap..though the wine is amazing. American beer can be explained by the dutch/english that first settled here and the type of stuff that they brought with them -- there was also a quasi-ice age going on during that time, which meant all they really could bring was wheat/barley, basically making our culture a strong beer culture. Asia...well, I can't speak much about asia, though the fact that a variation of rice wine can be found in nearly every asian country explains alot.
I'm no nutritional anthropologist, but all this seems to make logical sense to me...so I believe it's probably the reason why thing are this way. |
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