Dying to Taste a Wonderful Beer Try German

Written by aiwis on April 2, 2008 – 2:35 am -

Dying to Taste a Wonderful Beer? Try German!

One of the various things the German people are famous for is beer. With over thirteen-hundred various breweries spanning the country, beer is an essential piece of their culture and heritage. As far as per capita beer drinking, the Germans are only behind the Czechs and the Irish. The monks started to experiment with brewing about 1000 A.D. back in the origin of the Germanic history The nation’s leaders eventually started to regulate the manufacturing of beer as brewing became more and more lucrative. The most important and influential component to influence German brewing happened in fifteen-sixteen with the Bavarian Reinheitsgebot, or the purity requirement.

The Bavarian Reinheitsgebot was authorized by Duke Wilhelm IV of Bavaria to guarantee Bavarian beers were only of high quality. Water, hops, and barley are the only ingredients allowed in beer according to the standard. The Reinheitsgebot is the oldest legislation put on food in the world and has not been changed in almost five-hundred years. Yeast is the only extension to the list of vital ingredients in the proclamation. Brewers in the past before that had simply used the yeast found naturally in the air. Because of the stern code of quality following the purity standard, Bavarian breweries were soon known as the superior makers of beer. Other breweries started to follow the proclamation as the reputation of the Bavarian breweries continued to rise.

As a result of the Reinheitsgebot, German brews have a long-standing notoriety of producing quality beers made out of the purest ingredients. A lot of towns became famed brewing locations as time went on and Germany began to ship out beer. By 1500, Scandinavia, Holland, England, and even as far as India principally recieved their beer from one of the six-hundred breweries in the city of Bremen. A couple of other famed brewing cities were Einbeck and Braunschweig. In modern-day Germany, the majority of the country’s beer-drinking people still choose fabbier, or draft beer, over bottled beer because of it’s hardy taste and perfect amount of foam. In an effort to curtail further outbreaks of the black plague German beer steins came into use about the time the purity requirement came about and are still used today.

During the era of the black plague, Germany began several laws to stop its citizens from becoming ill. Massive amounts of diseased flies would land in citizen’s food and spread the infection. This led to the stein, a drink holder with a hinged top that is operated with the thumb so a person could prevent disease and still be able to drink with one hand. As citizens began to learn the plague spread in dirty conditions with stale water, beer drinking went up exponentially. Originally crafted from stoneware with pewter lids, steins rose in popularity. As the pewter guild grew, German beer steins began to be manufactured entirely of pewter and stayed that way for over three-hundred years. Still manufactured today, silver and porcelain German beer steins were eventually introduced.

Nowadays there are over thirteen-hundred and fifty breweries within Germany’s borders that manufacture more than five-thousand types of beer. The Benedictine abbey Weihenstephan, which has been producing beer since one-thousand and forty, is considered the oldest brewery in the world. The Franconia region of Bavaria near the city Bamberg is the highest concentrated area for breweries in Germany. The majority of beers can be categorized by ales and lagers but German beer makers make a wide variety of tastes. The majority of beers have an alcoholic content ranging from 4.7% to 5.4% but some types can be as high as 12%, making them more potent than most wines.

 Dying to taste a wonderful beer? try german! / Author : Michael Usry

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Want to Sample a Wonderful Beer Go German

Written by aiwis on April 2, 2008 – 2:34 am -

Want to Sample a Wonderful Beer? Go German!

The German people are renowned for a lot of things; one of them is beer. Beer is a crucial part of their culture and ancestry, with over 1300 varied breweries spanning the country. As far as per capita beer drinking, the Germans are only below the Czechs and the Irish. The monks began to experiment with brewing around one-thousand A.D. back in the beginning of German history Eventually, brewing started to become very profitable for the monks and the nation’s monarchy started to legislate the production of the beer. The most prominent and influential component to influence Germanic brewing came about in 1516 with the Bavarian Reinheitsgebot, or the purity requirement.

The Bavarian Reinheitsgebot was authorized by Duke Wilhelm IV of Bavaria to ensure Bavarian beers were only of the highest quality. The law says that beers should only be made of water, hops, and barley. The Reinheitsgebot is the oldest legislation placed on food in the world and has remain unchanged in nearly 500 years. The only addition to the proclamation is the addition of yeast to the list of vital ingredients. Manufacturers before had just used the yeast that was naturally in the air. Bavarian beer makers were quickly considered the superior makers of beer because of the stern code of quality followed by the purity standard. As the notoriety of the Bavarian breweries spread across the country more and more producers began to adhere to the act as well.

German beers have a long-standing notoriety of making quality brews made only from the purest ingredients as a result of the Reinheitsgebot. Some places became famed brewing locations as time went on and Germany started to export beer. The town of Bremen had over six-hundred breweries by fifteen-hundred and was the leading exporter of beer to Holland, Scandinavia, England, and as far as India. Two more famous brewing cities were Einbeck and Braunschweig. In modern Germany, most of the nation’s drinking people still prefer fabbier, or draught beer, over bottle beer because of it’s hardy flavor and right amount of head foam. Used still today, German beer steins became popular around the time the purity standard came along in an effort to prevent further outbreaks of the black plague.

Germany made a lot of laws to stop its citizens from becoming sick during the era of the bubonic plague. Massive amounts of infected flies would land in citizen’s food and spread the infection. This led to the German beer stein, a drink container with a closed lid that could be operated with the thumb so a person could stop infection and still be able to drink with one hand. Beer drinking went up exponentially as citizens began to realize the disease spread in unsanitary conditions with stale water. Steins were originally made of stoneware with pewter tops. Steins began to be crafted entirely of pewter for almost three-hundred years as the pewter guild grew. Still produced today, silver and porcelain German beer steins were eventually introduced.

Nowadays there are over 1350 breweries within Germany’s borders that make over five-thousand types of beer. The oldest beer maker in the world that continues operation today is the Benedictine abbey Weihenstephan, that has been making beer since 1040. The most concentrated area in Germany for beer makers is the Franconia region of Bavaria near the city Bamberg. Most beers can be categorized under ales and lagers but German breweries produce a large variety of flavors. The majority of beers have an alcoholic content ranging from 4.7% to 5.4% but some kinds can be as high as 12%, making them stronger than most wines.

Want to sample a wonderful beer? go german! / Author : Michael Usry

Michael Usry is a top affiliate with beertaps.com, a website for household draft beer accessories and a site that has authentic German imported beer steins.
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The History of the Beer Glass

Written by aiwis on April 2, 2008 – 2:27 am -

The History of the Beer Glass

It is well known that beer has been with mankind for a long time. As beer itself changed, expanded, and improved, so did the way in which we actually got the beer to our mouths. The earlier vessels man used for drinking included earthenware, pottery, carved out wood, and even sewn-together pieces of leather. As time went on, man saw small improvements in the quality of their beer glasses.

Early Europeans living during the time of the Bubonic plague saw the creation of beer steins, which had an enclosed top on the steins to keep flies from landing in the brew and getting the person sick.

The development of glass may have been the most important aspect of the way beer glasses are made today. As beer glasses became more and more popular, consumers could actually see what they were drinking and demanded a lighter and more appealing look as well as taste. This led to the filtration of beers; people no longer wanted the coarse chunks that were often found in the earlier beers of the breweries. With this new, more aesthetically pleasing wave of beer glasses, it seemed like beer steins were on the way out.

The development of glassware continued and produced a variety of beer glasses for all kinds of different beers. The most popular in the United States is the 16-ounce pint glass. It was originally used to fit the top of a Martini shaker, but bartenders soon found that as the brew flowed out of the beer taps the pint glass was the perfect vessel because it allowed for some of the carbonation to be released and allowed the aroma of the beer to be more pronounced. It is also favored for its storage capabilities; pint glasses can be stacked on top of each other and stored easily upright on shelves, quickly making them a favorite with the bartenders who ended up having to wash out each glass.

A drive to get people to buy their brand of beer by earlier breweries led to some unique and groundbreaking moves on the marketing and promotional front. Early breweries were often prohibited to give away beer or other rewards to their customers, but found that giving away beer glasses was a great way to reward customers and also to advertise for themselves. This led to the breweries producing beer glasses that were works of art unto themselves.

The first were ornate and expensive; they would often have gold or silver embossed on the sides. Eventually, artists for the breweries began doing detailed etchings on the sides of the glasses or steins and even developed a method of firing enamel paint onto the beer glasses. These enameled glasses remain some of the most rare beer collectibles, even though they were made more recently than the others. Today, some of the beer collectables and signs are worth thousands of dollars and sought out worldwide by eager collectors. Have you looked up in the top of Grandpa’s old drawer lately?

The history of the beer glass : Author : Michael Usry

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The great benefits of drinking beer

Written by aiwis on April 2, 2008 – 2:15 am -

The great benefits of drinking beer

I would like to start this post just by saying that I know that there are many horrors of alcohol abuse and that there are many reasons why drinking alcohol may lead to an early exit but at the same time I just bottled my fourth batch of home made beer, Barons Beer actually, and thought that it would be fun to come up with a great big list of why beer is good for you.

Cancer preventer - A compound found only in hops, which are used to make beer, have been discovered to prevent cancer. Of course we all know that hops are an ingredient in beer and therefore Xanthohumol has high hopes of making beer a new anti cancer drug. Xanthohumol flavinoids have been tested and its use is hoped to be a preventative treatment against prostate and colon cancer and even may be a form of hormone therapy for women.

Getting your vitamins - A friend of mine used to say there is a pork chop in every glass of beer but recent studies show that there is vitamin B6 in beer increases the level of vitamin B6 in a beer drinker’s blood which has been shown to decrease the level of homocysteine which increase the chances of heart disease.
Reducing chance of heart disease - alcohol drinkers had higher levels of high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, often called the “good” cholesterol, which is a protective form of blood fat. The alcohol drinkers also had lower levels of fibrinogen, a protein that promotes blood clots, as well as elevated levels of other molecules (platelets) that prevent the clotting and stickiness of blood cells.

Reduction in Kidney stones - A Finnish-U.S. study of beer-drinking, middle-aged men was published in the American Journal of Epidemiology in 1999. The report stated that an increase in beer consumption may reduce the risk of developing kidney stones. Results showed that there was a 40 percent lower risk of kidney stones in beer drinkers, but the researchers were stumped as to whether the results were due to water, alcohol or hops.

Defying the bad of X-Rays - Beer helps reduce chromosomal damage from radiation exposure thanks to beta-pseudouridine. According to a study by the Japanese researchers from the National Institute of Radiological Sciences, and the Tokyo University of Science Blood samples were taken from test subjects before and after they had drunk about 630ml of beer. Apparently, when the samples were exposed to X-rays and other types of radiation, after the subjects had drank the beer their samples showed at least 30% fewer aberrations in the blood cells.

Memory Booster - A Swedish team has shown that mice fed with moderate amounts of alcohol grew new nerve cells in the brain. The full implications of the Karolinska Institute research - which appears in the International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology - are unclear, but Stefan Brene told the BBC: “We believe that the increased production of new nerve cells during moderate alcohol consumption can be important for the development of alcohol addiction and other long-term effects of alcohol on the brain.”

Slow the Aging Process - In a study published in the March issue of International Immunopharmacology, scientists at Austria’s Innsbruck Medical University found that hops, a key ingredient in beer, affect the production of neopterin, a telltale sign of inflammation, and levels of the amino acid tryptophan (low levels are associated with more inflammation.)

Keeps you Awake - Although there is no caffeine in Beer, beer was found to reduce neopterin production and suppress degradation of tryptophan, according to a study. (Tryptophan is also commonly cited as the reason people feel tired after gorging on Thanksgiving turkey.) “This suppression might be connected with the calming effect of beer,” the researchers note, “since its normalizing effect on the tryptophan balance improves the availability of the ‘happiness hormone’ serotonin.” And who wouldn’t want happiness to be more available?

OK and now a few more from me.

Relaxation - This is a good one for almost anyone that has sat on a patio on a spring or summer afternoon. The relaxation and relief of stress is famous for those having a beer even if the conversation always seems to turn to those office politics that get everyone riled up.

Reduces inhibitions - As we all know there are times we wish that we had gotten up and said something, either to those at work or a pretty girl at a bar and for this the alcohol in beer is a very good lubricant to the mind and mouth and will help in those situations where shyness gets the better of us.

Excuse for bad behavior - although there is no link to bad behavior and beer, many people have been known to say or do bad and ridiculous things and in the case where someone had consumed to much beer before this-well there is a good excuse just waiting to be used.

So the next time someone looks down their nose at you for the stories that you tell about the night before and the beer that you drank. Come back here and point out that you were just doing the healthy thing and having a couple of beers.

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Wine As Gifts

Written by aiwis on March 27, 2008 – 11:29 am -

Wine As Gifts

Wine can be found in all shapes such as in boxes, bottles with screw-on caps as well as corked bottles. Thus, wine is always a call for wine gifts for holidays, birthdays or any special occasion. It also can be found in an expensive jug wine or wine gifts for the specialist that may cost thousand of dollars; there are wines that will make the recipient happy.

If you are looking for wine gifts for someone who has a small collection, storage racks for wine are very popular. Available for holding three to 100 bottles, depending on their collection and your budget, these storage racks may make appreciated wine gifts. If the recipient already makes their own wine, they will probably never have enough corks or bottles and sending them a small collection of these supplies will surely be appreciated.

However, if you are determined to give them a bottle of wine, nearly anything you choose in the way of wine gifts will be acceptable if you are taking it along for dinner party. However, if the gift is for a special occasion you will want to do some research into the types of wine they prefer before spending the money.

Many red wines are aged in barrels, giving them more of a hearty flavor, while white wanes are often lighter in flavor and taste. Before buying the expensive bottles as wine gifts, make sure it is the type they will drink and not make a part of their home collection.

So, if you happen to have a wine connoisseur on your shopping list this holidays time and you really want to give an impressive gift that they will continue to thank you for in the months to come, then you really should consider sending them a wine gift.

Author:  Rozita is freelance writer, she new blog at Wine blog here.

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