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August 01, 2005

Pasture Party Punch

Well tonight was another episode of the drunk class. Week Two was Tea and
Coffee. Week Three was spirits and you might have seen that post of everything I
had to drink that night. Tonight was Week Four and we were given the opportunity
to taste seven different kinds of Pasture Party Punch, oops I mean Beer. A.) The
first beer we tasted was Flying Dog Brewery In Heat Wheat. It was an unfiltered
German Hefeweizen. It was crisp, clean and didn't have as bad of the horrible
aftertaste that has always reinforced the fact that I hate beer. Of the seven
beers we tasted I gave this beer a #3 rating.
B.) The San Miguel Premium Lager was the second beer we tasted and according to
my tastebuds darn near the bottom of the barrel. If it wasn't for the Budweiser
it would have been the worst. Of the seven beers we tasted I gave this beer a #6
rating.
C.) The La Fin Du Monde, a Triple Golden Ale by the Unibroue Brewery of Canada.
This beer had a typical aftertaste but it was a little more complex in the
beginning which the spicyness gave it a boost from the title of "worst beer of
the night." Of the seven beers we tasted I gave this beer a #5 rating.
D.) Next was Chimay. This was a medium Brown Ale and it is made by Monks who
live in the all silent Scourmont Abbey in S.A. Bieres de Chimay, Belgium. One of
the high points of this beer is knowing that 90% of all the profits made from
the sale of this beer is donated to the orphanges that are maintained by the
Monastery. Of the seven beers we tasted I gave this beer a #4 rating.
E.) Coopers Brewery Best Extra Stout from Austrailia was our fifth tasting. This
had the color of coffee as it was a dark roasted stout. It had a good flavor and
the aftertaste wasn't too horrible. Of the seven beers we tasted I gave this
beer a #2 rating.
F.) The next beer was another product from the Canadian Unibroue Brewery. It was
the Apple Éphémère and was very sweet, crisp, and good. Of the seven beers we
tasted this was by FAR the best.
G.) The last beer we had was good ole' small town Texas Pasture Party Punch, the
one and only King of Stupid... Budweiser Select. This was not really part of our
"tasting" but was more the beer chosen to perform an experiment. The experiment
was designed to show just how important it is to correctly pour a beer.
*THE EXPERIMENT*
If you take two glasses, hold one glass at about a 45 degree angle and slowly
pour in about 2 ounces of beer. Taste it. Flat? Yep. Now take the second glass
and pour the beer straight into the middle of the glass, which should create a
good head on the top of the brew. Now taste this. Better? Well, only if you like
beer to begin with. For the last part of the experiment, combine the beer in
both glasses and start pouring them back and forth between the two glasses EIGHT
times. Now taste. Taste the difference? Apparently, according to "scientific"
studies... this is essentially what happens to your beer when you drink it out
of the bottle. You pick it up and drink some, put it down, pick it up, put it
down, pick it up, put it down, pick it up, put it down, pick it up, put it down,
pick it up, put it down, pick it up, put it down. They say this is why you
should always drink beer from a glass.
Did you learn anything? I did. I learned why I never had fun at Pasture
Parties... my tastebuds just do not know how to fully appreciate the bitter hops
in the Punch.

Posted by FutureFoodTVStar at August 1, 2005 08:36 PM

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