I bought a fast fermenter setup last fall, hoping to brew some beer over the winter, just never got around to it yet. Too many irons in the fire. Usually when I pick up beer its a case of mass market (corona in summer, sleeman clear in winter, sometimes coors or bud light), and another dozen or so craft brews or a Guiness 8 pack if I don't feel like browsing the craft brews. A buddy got me onto the sour IPAs last year, and I usually pick up a couple of those. I like all beers. Except Molson Canadian. It's fucking terrible.
Long beer lines in fixed spaces require a lot of maintenance, particularly for low volume use. I go through a fair amount of product tubing just to keep lines super clean. Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
I'd forgotten about that stuff. The first time I ever came to the US was Christmas 1983 when my brother was working and living in Pittsburgh. That was was the beer he drank at home, I can't really remember what it tasted like now.
Oh, it was shit. Cheap ass beer we drank in high school and eventually, in college, we'd buy kegs by the pick up truck load. Got to the point they'd deliver it, give us an invoice and we had 48 hours to pay. A F@ckin' tab at a beer distributor for a bunch of lunkhead college dudes!
My favorite was the frats that would start out the year advertising an "8 keg party". Then the next one would be a "6 keg party". Then a "4 keg party". Hm... I think I am catching on to a pattern of leftover beer kegs.
The hipster dufase's in the DC area thought it was kewl when they released the aluminum bottle. They bought that stuff up like is was legal crack. By that time, I had a job and started purchasing actual beer.
I briefly considered using kegs until I realized that system seems that you need to clean/sanitize more than bottles. I’ll stay with the bottles for now.
Are you insinuating that Rolling Rock is cool? On my aforementioned first visit to the US it was regarded as a joke beer amongst the Pittsburghers that I met. Fast forward twenty years and I saw it sold as a "premium" beer at stupidly inflated prices in some pubs and bars in the UK. Man did I laugh when I saw that.
No it sucks as well. It’s only redeeming quality was it came in the pony bottles, so it was 5 ounces of less suck.
Rolling Rock is often used as a diagnostic for dimethyl sufide (DMS) -- a nominally common constituent in beers, particularly lagers, which at low levels adds a beer-y malt savory-sweetness, often associated with a corn, or cooked corn aroma. being a Sulfur compound, it has strong odors, and at higher levels (>70-90 ppb where sensory threshold is ~30-50 ppb) is considered a beer fault. When AB assumed production of Rolling Rock, they had to work to get the DMS up and in the right zone for those that expected it.
