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an orange and suffered the bitter categorizing your beer. You don't

consequences of chewing the have to be an acolyte, a beer

remnants of said peel. However, the connoisseur, or even a master-beer

sweet citrus taste initially offsets the craftsman to discuss with fluency

bitterness by leaving you with the why you prefer one beer over

aftertaste you get when you eat a sour another. Take a sip, take mental notes

grapefruit. Oddly, there is a mild of its effect on your senses, and

toffee, almost caramel flavor within categorize the experience

each sip. Still, it's more like someone accordingly. But I'd recommend

decided to further compound the taste trying this experiment at home first

by stuffing a Werther's Original (the with a beer sampler pack and a

chewing kind) inside a slice of the notebook. You do, after all, want to

sourest grapefruit they could find. avoid the distraction of a pesky

Then, after all of this, you realize holiday party filled with assholes

how much this beer mimics The who would be delighted to lord over

Asshole Personality. It boasts a you their claims that they know the

whopping 9.4% alcohol per volume exact taste of a well-balanced

that is guaranteed to turn any well- beverage of malt and hops. Because,

intentioned person into an asshole you know, everyone can go to the

should said person decides to have produce section of their grocery store

another round. I, for one, never want and buy hops (whatever that is), so

to put anything even remotely that they can sprinkle it on their

resembling this to my lips and salad, toss it into their smoothie, or

therefore say, "Hell no!" eat it raw. But malt, in all

So from one novice to another, the seriousness, can easily be picked up.

preceding is a simple way of Go down the Ethnic aisle of your

grocery store and pick up a few

bottles labeled "malt beverage," and

you will know the precise taste of

malt. But, as for everything else,

stick to food associations that are

familiar to you. Even if some

eccentric looks at you like you have a

head filled with barley, the nice guy

or gal and the life of the party will

smile with appreciation that you even

dared to describe the taste of beer in

simple, everyday language.
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