[Sca-cooks] Canoe Beer

[Micheal]

 If you ever get to Halifax try the Granite Brewery on lower Barrington. 
Very good brew and the special of the house is Peculiar also known as 
lunatic broth.
 Da
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Fisher" <liamfisher at gmail.com>
To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 25, 2004 6:41 PM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Canoe Beer


> On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 12:30:43 -0500, Phlip <phlip at 99main.com> wrote:
>
>> Influence from Our Friends in Australia, Who Stand on their 
>> Heads."American
>> beer is like making love in a canoe- fucking next to water." We've picked 
>> up
>> the term, and tend to use it here on Cook's List and in SCA..
>
> Yeah, our amazing yellow beer is a result of the World War II grain 
> rationing.
> The breweries had to use less grain as a result of it, found that people 
> drank
> the beer anyway, and it cost less money to make.  When they grain 
> rationing
> was lifted, they didn't go back to using the full grain formulas.
>
> I never understood this at all as I grew up with Yuengling and Troegs
> around my entire life.
>
> But as these are regional beers, I can understand why the rest of the
> country was
> drinkin the swill it had been.  Every area I have been to has good
> regional beers
> so far, but most of these seem to be a recent development.
>
>> That said, I genuinely like beer, both canoe beer and good beer. Each, 
>> for
>> me, serves a different purpose. The canoe beer, given my druthers, is
>> something to sip on, keeping hydrated, when I can afford it. I will 
>> often,
>> on a hot day, put beer on the rocks- it's not the alcohol I'm craving, 
>> but
>> the taste. When I can't, or when circumstances dictate absolute sobriety,
>> which in this Puritan inspired nation, they usually do, I drink decaf 
>> coffee
>> the same way. Both, for me, fill a niche that most Americans fill with 
>> pop.
>> I used to be perfectly thrilled to drink 3.2 beer- had the mildly bitter
>> flavor I like, with less alcohol.
>
> What depresses me more is these canoe beers are now processed much the 
> same
> way as soda.  They are shipped as a concentrate from a central "brewery" 
> to a
> canning station in a local area and then "rehydrated" into the fizzy
> stuff in the can.
>
> "If I wanted soda, I'd ask for soda"
>
>> OTOH, I thoroughly enjoy drinking a good beer as well, but in far more
>> limited circumstances- at the end of a good day, or as an adjunct to a 
>> good
>> and appropriate meal, where I'm not in the mood for a good wine. It's 
>> like
>> any other preference- some days I want chicken, or maybe hamburger, other
>> days nothing but duck or filet mignon will do ;-)
>
> I have a real Irish pub (owned and run by an irish family) down the road 
> from
> me that has the Guiness line of beers.  They had Smithwick's Ale 
> (pronounced
> Smith'ick) long before it was offically released in the States.   Good pub
> food and an Irish style beer are a match for filet any day.
>
>> And, Adamantius, there really is a place for rice beers. Granted the
>> American styles aren't the best, but I've found myself enjoying ones like
>> Ichiban, from Japan.
>
> I have had some good Japanese rice beers, there was a "beers of the
> world" place in Omaha, somewhere. We drank our way around Asia when
> I was imprisoned there for two months this past Jan-Feb.  I don't
> remember the name of the place either.
>
>>
>> Saint Phlip,
>> CoD
>
>
> Cadoc
>
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>
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