Why Is Draft Beer Always Light?

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  1. Faye Fox

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    bbbb.jpg @Hal Pollner You must not have microbreweries where you live. Our Northwest ones seem to specialize in tap beer that is like asphalt with 8-12% alcohol. I used to love it, but anymore it is much to strong. My favorite is a 5-7% lager that has the hops bite that keeps my arches high. I have never liked light beer since turning 21. In Colorado where I grew up we could drink 3.2 beer at age 18. Drinking much of that low alcohol bitter flavored water caused more time in the restroom and less time on the dance floor. In Oregon they have a microbrewery called Hair on the Dog and they have a dark one on tap that might take hair off your chest.
     
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    A good beer will make you forget you're hot!

    Hal
     
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    Along with where you are and how you got there.
     
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    Especially a 20 oz mug of 11% that some microbreweries make.
     
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    (WXYZ) — Samuel Adams announced it is releasing the 11th batch of its highly sought after barrel-aged extreme beer, Samuel Adams Utopias.

    The beer is 28 percent ABV and is illegal in 15 states, but not in Michigan! Because of its high alcohol content, it is not shipped or sold in: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Missouri, Mississippi, Montana, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina, Utah, Vermont or West Virginia.
     
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    My brother-in-law is always bringing me gifts when he makes his annual visit from Arizona.

    He usually brings me Ammo for my guns or Knives or some exotic liquor.

    This year he brought a variety of Beers. Here's one very hearty brew!
    Hal

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    That is like a lot of the asphalt posing as beer we have in the NW. What is percent?
     
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    It's not on the bottle, Faye...I'll have to look it up.

    So you live in the Great Northwest Territory? Where away?

    Owlman
     
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    Owlman

    The Pacific Northwest too close to the Ring of Fire,
    in an undisclosed location and a nondescript house,
    in the land of liberals, a corrupt governor, a habitual liar.

    Foxwoman
     
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    And here I thought drinking beer was what made me THINK I was hot. :D
     
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    For years I have been counting on my Wife to use her superior understanding and judgement on how to vote on the various California Propositions.

    How she votes is how I vote, since the 1996 Presidential, State, County and Municipal elections.

    (That's her Zinfandel and my Beer, which I had to abandon to take this picture at Steer & Stein)
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    Looking at the size of that beer, I'm beginning to understand what may have stressed your back ;)
     
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    Isn't that the normal size? I never have a different one. 16 oz?
     
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    Yes, Thomas, the normal quaff is 16 oz, but I order the 32 oz (shown) when I have a large dinner.
    Now if only they had hearty German brews on draft!

    BTW, in an earlier post, you asked about my Musical tastes. Resubmit your post in the Music section and I'll be happy to answer it!

    Herr Hal, Oberleutnant.
     
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    I haven't forgotten that, Hal, but I was asking in which thread of the Music section I should place my question or whether you expect me to open a new thread there? What do you think?

    You're so right about the German draft beer.
    As for military ranks, I remember that the two of us are Corporals. So why Oberleutnant? Kidding? ;)
     
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