I don't know if things have changed in the past ten years, but when I was in Germany, beers were typically served at just below room temp...cool at best. And they didn't taste "terrible" at all but quite tasty, as a matter of fact.
A joke among the Germans is that Americans drink their beers cold in order to hide the taste.
Personally, I believe there are no bad beers...just some are better than others.
My huge problem with e-books in general is that these books are the same or MORE expensive in downloadable format than the hardback version. Take a look at B&N and check out King's "Hearts In Atlantis"...it's under $20 for the hardback $23 for the downloadable version. I sure would like to be able to pull this into my pilot, but if I'm going to drop $20 bucks on a book, I'll take the hardback.
It reminds me of CD's and DVD's: new media that dramatically cuts production/distribution costs over what they replaced, but the price to the consumer actually goes up....beauty deal!
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I don't know if things have changed in the past ten years, but when I was in Germany, beers were typically served at just below room temp...cool at best. And they didn't taste "terrible" at all but quite tasty, as a matter of fact.
A joke among the Germans is that Americans drink their beers cold in order to hide the taste.
Personally, I believe there are no bad beers...just some are better than others.
-john
More like John Naisbitt (Megatrends, Global Paradox).
My huge problem with e-books in general is that these books are the same or MORE expensive in downloadable format than the hardback version. Take a look at B&N and check out King's "Hearts In Atlantis"...it's under $20 for the hardback $23 for the downloadable version. I sure would like to be able to pull this into my pilot, but if I'm going to drop $20 bucks on a book, I'll take the hardback.
It reminds me of CD's and DVD's: new media that dramatically cuts production/distribution costs over what they replaced, but the price to the consumer actually goes up....beauty deal!