Beer Drinkers Should Act Like Beer Drinkers

[Father Demon]

Actually, the lager/stout comparison is not a good question.

What makes a beer a lager is the temperature it is fermented.  You can ferment a stout at 42 degrees and call it a lager.  So, the term 'lager' has nothing to do with the color/taste/alcohol %.  Lager just means that the beer has been fermented cold.

Bud is a lager, Sam Adams is a lager.  And since people were talking about that "guiness swill", Guiness Draught is actually lighter than most of the ales that people drink.  It has about the same calories (110)  and the same alcohol by volume as Bud Light (both about 4.2%).  Another misconception is that people see a "dark" beer, and assume it's heavy.  In all actuality, it is a very small amount of roasted barley that gives it that color.

From the Guinness website:  GUINNESS® DRAUGHT - 196 CALORIES PER PINT
  Semi-skimmed milk - 260 CALORIES PER PINT
  Orange juice - 220 CALORIES PER PINT
  Pint-for-pint, GUINNESS® Draught actually has fewer calories than most other premium beers and lagers.

So now you know.

[ice grillin you]

guiness tastes darker heavier and grosser than most every beer ive ever had...i could care less about its calories guiness is a dark heavy nasty drink

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Guinness > Barksdale

[SD_Eagle5]

guiness tastes darker heavier and grosser than most every beer ive ever had...i could care less about its calories guiness is a dark heavy nasty drink

I find it light and frothy. Sounds like you've never had a black and tan of any sort.

[Father Demon]

I'm not trying to convince you to drink Guinness at all.  It's up to you if you want a pair of testicles.

But...

What  you are tasting is roasted barley.  It has a dryness to it that, not only gives stouts their color, also adds to the flavor.  For the most part, what you are tasting is the chocolate malt.  If you think it is heavy, that is either your mouth listening to your eyes or it is the head.  The head is thicker because it is carbonated with nitrogen instead of CO2.

I was trying to tell you that if you limit your growth by only picking Pilsners, you'll be missing a lot of good beer - some of which isn't even heavy, or gross.

[SD_Eagle5]

Actually, the lager/stout comparison is not a good question.

What makes a beer a lager is the temperature it is fermented.  You can ferment a stout at 42 degrees and call it a lager.  So, the term 'lager' has nothing to do with the color/taste/alcohol %.  Lager just means that the beer has been fermented cold.

Since you know your shtein, during beer day at bartending school one of the instructers told us Yuengling Lager was technically a Pilsner. Care to elaborate?

[mussa]

Demon is totally right. Guiness is a dark beer, yet it goes down quite easy and really doesn't fill you up like other dark beers.  Now like Yuengling Porter, that a dark beer and its a heavy beer. It is really a fine science and dark doesn't mean heavy or filling and light doesn't always mean light and refreshing either. Sort of like cigars, can't judge a cigar by its wrapper...

[mussa]

Actually, the lager/stout comparison is not a good question.

What makes a beer a lager is the temperature it is fermented.  You can ferment a stout at 42 degrees and call it a lager.  So, the term 'lager' has nothing to do with the color/taste/alcohol %.  Lager just means that the beer has been fermented cold.

Since you know your shtein, during beer day at bartending school one of the instructers told us Yuengling Lager was technically a Pilsner. Care to elaborate?

Just cause he's a bartender doesn't mean he knows anything about beer. I don't know how you could compare the two? One is an amber colored lager and a traditional pilsner is like rolling rock. you be the judge

[Father Demon]

Actually, the lager/stout comparison is not a good question.

What makes a beer a lager is the temperature it is fermented.  You can ferment a stout at 42 degrees and call it a lager.  So, the term 'lager' has nothing to do with the color/taste/alcohol %.  Lager just means that the beer has been fermented cold.

Since you know your shtein, during beer day at bartending school one of the instructers told us Yuengling Lager was technically a Pilsner. Care to elaborate?

Pilsners are made with bottom-feeding yeast, as opposed to top feeding yeasts.  Since it is marketed as a lager, then it was fermented cold.

In other words, a pilsner can be "lagered".  Lager is an action, not a type of beer.

[rjs246]

Guinness has less calories than skin milk and floats when poured on other beers. The idea that people think of it as heavy is ridiculous.

[ice grillin you]

Sounds like you've never had a black and tan of any sort.

im fishing with my boat and im fishing for trout.....mix the bass ale with the guiness stout


like that?

NO

[mussa]

there's a few different beers to choose from i think. im not exactly sure the kind i had, but its good!

[ice grillin you]

strongest beers....

http://www.beerinfo.com/index.php/pages/top10alcoholicbeers.html

[Seabiscuit36]

IGY, You're probably not a beach guy, but i would highly recommend to anyone to go to the Dogfish Head tour.  You get to taste the beers, and its a great time!

[ice grillin you]

i love going to the beach
but i hate the beach itself
like the sand and the ocean
and all that comes with it

in fact this year since we arent doing a real eagle road trip we instead are going to ocean city (md) and take over a bar for the giants game and gonna make a long party weekend of it


how far is dogfish from there