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Stupid Budweiser lies on their site
General Beer Discussion by FLASHPRO
I was looking up info on their new B to the E product when I came across their beer FAQ. One of them is: Q: Does the taste of beer improve with age, similar to that of wine? A: No, beer is a food product: the fresher the better. Budweiser is guaranteed to be fresh for 110 days from the "Born On" date printed on the bottle label or bottom of the can. Always store beer in a cool, dark location. First of all, I'd be surprised if that's a question they frequently receive. Sounds more like a sneaky way to cram in more of their "fresh beer" marketing idea. Their only answer to the question is the first sentence, "No, beer is a food product: the fresher the better." What in the world kind of explaination is that? I guess the "food product" theory doesn't apply to wine! Thousands of beer drinkers will tell them that some kinds of beer do taste better aged, but taste isn't something that can be proven by fact, anyway. Oh well, I should avoid reading such brainwashing crap.
19 years ago
To help put this myth to rest, here are several dictionary entries: beer: noun an alcoholic drink made from yeast-fermented malt flavoured with hops. -Oxford English Dictionary A fermented alcoholic beverage brewed from malt and flavored with hops. -American Heritage Dictionary a general name for alcoholic beverages made by fermenting a cereal (or mixture of cereals) flavored with hops -WordNet 2.0, Princeton University an alcoholic beverage usually made from malted cereal grain (as barley), flavored with hops, and brewed by slow fermentation -Merriam-Webster None of these show anything that would deny an Ale as being a beer. Maybe someone could argue that the last one points towards a lager because it says "slow fermentation", but slow fermentation isn't defined as 3 days or 30 days so who knows.
In Reply To #10 I just bought a copy of Jackon's "Great Beer Guide". Badass book. As to the question, the kind of beer they're selling wasn't brewed for aging. Same with some qualtiy microbrews like Great Lakes, where the beer should be consumed somewhat fresh. Something like a Samuel Adams Triple Bock (barley wine) is good for storage.
In Reply To #10 Well, well, you pulled out the ole Webster on me. Sure all beer is a malt beverage of some sorts, and of course Ale is this as well. The analogy I have always gone by is:all prunes are plums, not all plums are prunes. Prunes are plums that can be dried with the pit in them. As such, there are what India Pale BEER? Sierra and many other Pale BEER? Maybe the English blood coming out, but to me there is damn sure a difference in taste and process between beers and ales. But from the dictionary stand point, I stand corrected.
In Reply To #13 India Pale BEER? India Pale Ale is the style of beer, just like a bock or pilsener is the style of beer. You wouldn't call Aass Bock something else like Aass Beer. I think it's the Germans that got everyone confused, thanks to the Reinheitsgebot. They couldn't make all the other funky beers so to a German they wouldn't think of them as beer.
In Reply To #14 The Reinheitsgebot was originally the law in Bayern, but was adopted by the rest of the states some time later on. I suspect there were several reasons for this law, one being the originators had the barley malt consession, and grandfathered in wheat biers to keep the peace. The other reason was folks could toss any ole substance into the brew kettle and call it bier. At the time the LIA (little ice age) was in full swing, and the summers were cooler and wetter then the current conditions, and that led to some interesting combinations of fungus on certain grain crops. The local lore was the Reinheitsgebot was a public health initative as well as a possible profitable situation as stated above. In those days, bier was more apart of the diet then today, if the local stories are true. Have you ever looked at a bottle of Salvator that is shipped into the US? What does it say on it? Check it out and get back to me. The reason the word is there is for taxation purposes. As for all the fruit brews, here the folks take the fruit and make schnaps . Look at them as Lambrics with the water taken out. Try what translates as hop drops some times. Bier with the water taken out, very nice indeed.
I just want to suck down a dozen bottles of beer, ale, stout and anything else with bubbles and booze and laugh. Hell, it's all beer...there are just many sub-sections contained within that all encompassing name. Further proof of this is the fact that over indulgence of said fizzy liquid with a lack of exercise is a sure way to get a "beer belly" or "beer gut" not an "ale belly". I believe that is universal vernacular...eh? So have a "brew" and put this one to bed. Foghorn
I've read all the back and forth and have to LMAO. The whole point (at least to me) of the original post was that Buttwiper acually called their rice/corn adjunct product beer and attempted to make a general statement which characterized itself with other beers. Which, in and of itself is laughable.
