Beer School
Summary: We're here to help you and your friends learn to like more than one kind of beer. There's lots of different beers to like. Some are made right down the street from where you live and others have to travel half way around the world to get to you. Learn why beer tastes like it does, how other styles came about, and all the verbs you might use to describe what you are tasting. The best part is the home work is beer! Beer School topics include: beer, culture, brewing, stories, guides to styles and much, much, more. You don't have to like every beer but don't drink the same beer day after day.
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some of the big stouts like Abyss, XXIII or Serpents and even 15 from Stone all have flavors that will get masked by cold. but even every day Black Butte Porter benefits from warming. in the USofA Guinness is almost always served too cold as most beer bars don't have a choice or way of controlling temperature just for one keg. call the Beer School Robot! 424-242-3375 Beer School everywhere: http://www.facebook.com/beerschool http://youtube.com/beerschool the other guys on the show: http://www.alloverbeer.com/ http://www.norcalbeerguide.com/ Follow JohnFoster and BeerSchool on Twitter.com Be sure to visit City Beer Store, 21st Amendment, and Toronado in San Francisco, CA Email us at info@beerschool.com Good noon! Recorded in San Francisco on 9/11/2011. Beer School and "The Homework is Beer" are a trademarks of Ayer Media, Inc. © 2011 Ayer Media, Inc.
you've heard it before that "all beer tastes the same" when referring to "factory beer". the best think of these beers as the lowest common denominator with regards to taste, smell and expectations. they were designed with a precarious balancing act in mind which makes a beer that tastes like something, has a buzz inducing quality and is cost effective to make while maximizing profits. add in a little advertising to tell people what they want (and expect) and wha-laa fizzy yellow beer that is consumed by zillions of people. what we found echos our previous findings: you can taste the difference between all four of these beers. they aren't very good when you compare this beers to craft beer. in the right context any of these beers could be refreshing. if you do your homework you may come to a similar conclusion. homework: get four factory beers and try them side-by-side-by-side-by-side. you don't have to drink the whole beer. be sure to talk about the things that you are tasting: sweet, bitter, crispness, mouth feel and the carbonation. bonus homework is to compare the same beer in bottles and cans because there is a difference sometimes. the cans are better. beer on the show: Budweiser, Bud Light, Coors and Coors Light Dogfish Head Festina Peche call the Beer School Robot! 424-242-3375 Beer School everywhere: http://www.facebook.com/beerschool http://youtube.com/beerschool Follow JohnFoster and BeerSchool on Twitter.com Be sure to visit City Beer Store, Toronado and 21st Amendment in San Francisco, CA Email us at info@beerschool.com Good noon! Recorded in San Francisco on 8/14/2011. Beer School and "The Homework is Beer" are a trademarks of Ayer Media, Inc. © 2011 Ayer Media, Inc.
IPA day is August 4th 2011. take your dumbass friends to the pub to celebrate this specific beer style. or if they just can't take the big boldness of IPA order them something else tasty. there are a few things that continuously bug us about IPA. 1) none of it is going to India. so there's no reason to call it this anymore. 2) if you look up the recipe for IPA from the books publish 150 years ago you will find something not that much more then the Pale ale of the time. 3) these beers were aged in barrels of unknown conditions for at least 120 before they were consumed. this is very different from the out of the fermenter and into the serving tank in 14 days repeat that the local breweries have to maintain. 4) lots of people order IPA because it's the simplest thing to order on the beer list. having clever names doesn't help the knob buying beer. 5) or they are ordering the beer because its the highest ABV on the list. they aren't drinking it for the hops, balance or aroma. it might as well be Colt 45. beer on the show: Pliney the Elder from Russian River IPA from Bison Brewing call the Beer School Robot! 424-242-3375 Beer School everywhere: http://www.facebook.com/beerschool http://youtube.com/beerschool Follow JohnFoster and BeerSchool on Twitter.com Be sure to visit City Beer Store, 21st Amendment, and Toronado in San Francisco, CA Email us at info@beerschool.com Good noon! Recorded in San Francisco on 7/10/2011. Beer School and "The Homework is Beer" are a trademarks of Ayer Media, Inc. © 2011 Ayer Media, Inc.
