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  1. Re:...and half the comments make the same dumb jok by commandermonkey · · Score: 2 · on Beer Is Cheaper In the US Than Anywhere Else In the World

    But Standard American Lager is a recognized type of Beer, like IPA or Pilsner Although not the only type of beer produced in the US (and one I prefer not to drink), it is the style most commonly associated with US beer. Do all American beers suck? Defintally not. Does the beer type closely associated with the US, bears the name America, and the top 3 brands, BudLite, Budwiser, and CoorLite, which account for 50.1% of the US market, suck? Depends on your taste.

    But like it or not, and I am guessing you do not, this popular(in the US) style of beer is what is meant by American beer.

    BJCP Standards for judging American Standard Lagers
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_lager
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_in_the_United_States#Economy

  2. Re:What the hell? by ncc74656 · · Score: 2, Insightful · on High Fructose Corn Syrup To Get a Makeover

    A quick read of the wikipedia article describing the industrial process used to make HFCS describes such lovely terms as:

    "Cornstarch is treated with alpha-amylase..."

    If that bothers you, I hope you don't drink beer (or other alcoholic beverages produced from grain). Alpha amylase is an enzyme present in barley (and in some other grains, but the concentration is highest in barley) that breaks down starch into sugar. It's formed during germination, which happens either when the seed is planted in the ground or when it's malted for brewing or other alcohol production. Read this for more details...look under "Starch Conversion."

    Another place you'll find alpha amylase is in your mouth. Chew on a piece of bread for a bit. After a few seconds, it picks up a somewhat sweet taste. Alpha amylase in saliva is responsible for that effect.

  3. Re:intresting by ncc74656 · · Score: 1 · on Cloning the Smell of the Sea
    Odd that they came up with the idea that dimethyl sulfide (DMS, for short) smells like the sea. In homebrewing, DMS is one of several undesirable compounds that get driven off by the boil. If you boil the wort with the lid on the kettle, it remains in the wort. It tends to produce a disagreeable cooked-vegetable (especially cooked-corn) aroma and flavor (see this beer-judging scoresheet for a list of things that can go wrong with beer, and their causes).

    Not once have I thought that my home smelled like the seashore after brew day. Instead, it smelled like a brewery, and I'm OK with that. :-)

  4. Re:Bzzzzzzzzzt! by japhmi · · Score: 1 · on iPod More Popular Than Beer?

    Apple: iPod more popular than flavourless brown fizzy drinks.

    Why are you calling Standard American Lager brown? It's yellow.

  5. Re:Somewhat Lacking? by raddan · · Score: 1 · on Free Beer That's Free as in Speech
    Stouts are most definitely beers. See Stout BJCP Style Guidelines.

    Unless you mean that take issue with some of the non-Reinheitsgebot ingredients in Guiness, in which case you are just an elitist ass.

  6. Re:Beer Brewing == Great Science Hobby by Just+Brew+It! · · Score: 1 · on Is the Seeking of Lost Skills/Arts a Hacking Analog?
    Hey, someone else who actually knows what Lambics are... and likes them! :D

    I haven't gotten brave enough to try brewing my own Lambics yet, but I'll get around to it eventually. My goal is to attempt brewing every style of beer (well, at least all the ones recognized by the BJCP, plus a few other oddball ones like Sahti) at least once!