Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site hoptoad.uucp Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!petrus!bellcore!decvax!decwrl!amdcad!lll-crg!hoptoad!laura From: laura@hoptoad.uucp (Laura Creighton) Newsgroups: net.wines Subject: Re: beer Message-ID: <455@hoptoad.uucp> Date: Thu, 30-Jan-86 00:23:43 EST Article-I.D.: hoptoad.455 Posted: Thu Jan 30 00:23:43 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 1-Feb-86 03:47:35 EST References: <327@cisden.UUCP> <34100001@hpfcmp.UUCP> Reply-To: laura@hoptoad.UUCP (Laura Creighton) Organization: Nebula Consultants in San Francisco Lines: 26 In article <433@ur-helheim.UUCP> dave@helheim.UUCP (David F. Carlson) writes: > >My hassle with defining a beer as a bottom brewed malted beverage is that the >yeast (Carlsbergensis, for the Danish brewery) was not isolated until the 1870's >(as my fractured memory remembers). That means that no one drank any beer but >rather ale for all time before that date. Think of how the history books would >have to be changed! No folks, I don't buy the top/bottom argument. That date >is the advent of LAGER beer but what of other types of beer? > If you are in the US you have a worse problem. The government, with infinite wisdom, has decided that the only difference between a beer and an ale is *Alcohol Content*. If it has more than then it is an Ale. Period. No exceptions for American made beers/ales and very few loopholes for imported stuff. So the label means nothing. Of course, if you are in the US you have an even worse problem -- most Americans really do want to drink carbonated dish water. This makes the brewing process rather interesting -- you have to get the mash out *fast* or you might get some real beer by mistake...so some places add extra alcohol later to make up for it. Really revolting... -- Laura Creighton sun!hoptoad!laura (note new address! l5 will still ihnp4!hoptoad!laura work for a while....) hoptoad!laura@lll-crg.arpa