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Beer Pong Tables Let The Fun Begin

July 5th, 2008    Subscribe To Our Feed

Beer Pong is a beer game played mostly at North American Colleges and Universities but also on holiday camping sites and other places where young people come together to have fun. And although alcohol is illegal for persons under 21 it is also often played by high school students.

Beer pong is played on special Beer Pong Tables who are available in many different designs there are even some inflatable Beer Pong Tables that are designed to play in the pool. This little You Tube movie will tell you what you need and how to play Beer Pong.

Players throw a table tennis ball across Beer Pong tables with the intent of landing the ball in one of several cups of beer on the other end. The game typically consists of two by two-player teams, one on each side of the Beer Pong tables, and a number of cups set up on each side.

There are no official rules, so the game is played slightly different depending on where you play it and with whom. In general when a ball lands in a cup, the defending team must consume all of the beer inside that cup. The game is won by eliminating all the other team’s cups on the Beer Pong tables before one’s own cups are eliminated.

In our next recommended product review we will discuss some Beer Pong tables.

All You want to know about Mexican beer

June 29th, 2008    Subscribe To Our Feed

Mexican beer has become very popular all over the world the last 15 years and especially Corona the absolute top of the Mexican export beers. But Beer has a long history in Mexico. Long before the Spanish arrived Maya and Aztec people where brewing beer like beverages. Grain based (usually maize corn) were used to brew alcoholic “beer”

In the middle of the 19th century immigrants of German background and four years under the ruling of an Austrian emperor gave the Mexican beer brewing some new impulses. It was also a Swiss immigrant who started the first Mexican beer brewery who produced lager, this beer grew in popularity and at the end of the century the industrialization of the Mexican beer business was on. When in the 1920 the prohibition started in United States you can imagine Mexico became a popular country to travel, and it gave the next boost for some new Mexican beer breweries. Today Corona is the flagship beer of the Mexican beer industry. It is a very light lager (you can compare it with an American-style pale lager)

There is a funny little trick with Mexican beer we found on You Tube. For this trick you need to put a bottle of Mexican beer vertical standing inside a freezer for three hours. Take the beer out and tap it against a hard surface. Watch the magic happen before your eyes!

Mexican beer with lime and salt

Mexican beers are typically served witch a part lime in the neck of the bottle and sometimes a dash of salt, an other way to drink it is to mix the beer with a lot of juice from a lime and hot sauce.

Beer glasses: every beer its own glass

June 23rd, 2008    Subscribe To Our Feed

You might think it is just a simple marketing smartness to design different types of beer glasses, and of course there is a marketing component there but there are much more valid reasons like the foam head, smell and taste. There is for example also a big difference in taste if the beer glasses have stems, a stem prevents the warmth of the hand from warming the beer.

Different kind of beer glasses:

• Wheat beer glass (Weizen)
• Pint glass
• Pilsner glass
• Beer stein
• Flute glass
• Goblet or Chalice
• Snifters glass
• Tulip glass
• Stange and Becher
• Beer Boot
• Bowl
• Dimpled mug
• Guinomi cup
• Kölsch/Altbier
• Lager glass
• Shaker
• Stein glass
• Stem glass
• Thistle glass
• Trappist glass
• Tumbler glass (Better known as the Hoegaarden glass)
• Yard, Kwak, Half Yard

In Europe, and especially in Belgium, each brand of beer will often have its own beer glass. There are many bars that will also have beer glasses for every beer brand they serve, and that could be hundreds. If you like to taste beer, but do not have the space to store all those different kind of glasses we recommend to buy just a few for the different types of beer. We recommend a flute, a tulip, a snifter and a bowl. And for the big thirst a big dimpled mug.

So whatever kind of beer you have brewed, there are beer glasses that will match it. You should try it some time, do you taste the difference?

Product Review Popcorn from Dave and Thomas

June 21st, 2008    Subscribe To Our Feed

Everyone loves popcorn, and Dale & Thomas has the ultimate!

Football on TV, your own home brewed beer and a big bucket of popcorn in your own flavor, what more do you want?

Dale and Thomas have many different flavors, different sizes, popcorn gift ideas. This is not your average movie house popcorn. Oh, no. This is popcorn to the extreme, flavored popcorn that makes your mouth water, gourmet popcorn that makes you want to cry, it’s so good! (OK, maybe that’s a bit much, but you get what we mean!)

Savor the fantastic flavors of Dale & Thomas Popcorn

Irish beer is dominated by Stout.

June 17th, 2008    Subscribe To Our Feed

Irish beer has a long history, as well as Irish beer brewing. In the beginning of the nineteenth century there were in total more than 200 breweries in Ireland, this fell during the nineteenth century to about fifty, and now today there are only about 12 left.

Ireland produced historically Irish beer called ale, made without hops because these were not native to the Irish country. But Ireland did not use them all through the 18th century, almost all other countries did use hobs as an ingredient because of the flavor it gave their beers.

“Most beer was imported from England and Scotland in the eighteenth century. However in 1756 Arthur Guinness set up a small brewery, moving to Dublin in 1759. Having initially brewed bitter, he switched to producing porter, which was a style from London. Unlike the London beers he used some unmalted roasted barley for his Irish beer, as this avoided tax (which was on malted barley only), making it more bitter and dry. In the early twentieth century the Irish beer brewer Guinness became the largest brewer in the world, exporting the Irish style to many countries.” quote from Wikipedia

There are a number of different types of stout:

• Dry or Irish stout
• Chocolate stout
• Oatmeal stout
• Imperial stout
• Porter
• Coffee stout
• Baltic porter
• Oyster stout
• Milk stout

The Key Ingredient

Roasted Barley is the key ingredient in Irish beer like the classic Irish Stout, it gives the beer a dry coffee like taste, a very dark color but still a white foam. This key ingredient is in fact at an high temperature roasted unmalted barley grain, to prevent it from burning the grain is lightly sprayed with water.

At Mr Beer you can buy mixes for Irish beer and the also have an excellent stout called the “St. Patrick’s Irish Stout w/Booster™” This Brew Pack with Mr Beer Ingredients has all the ingredients you need to make a beer that has an impressive richness of chocolate malts and roasted barley. Nearly black in color, this is a full bodied beer that is robust in aroma and silky in texture. In short a wonderful Irish beer you should really try brewing.

Beer batter, if you don’t like drinking it, you might like eating it

June 15th, 2008    Subscribe To Our Feed

Let’s face it, not everyone likes the taste of beer, so that can be a problem if you want to brew your own beer at home and you need to confince some family members who don’t like it. If you still feel strong about this being your next hobby you need to think of other things besides drinking that you could do with beer. The first that comes to mind is cooking, remember that beer batter that cooks use to deep fry the fish or crab with?

When you show your family members all the recipes that are out there that involve using beer in it you might just convince them that this new hobby of yours isn’t that strange at all. Just do a search online using your favorite search engine with keywords like “beer recipe” and you enter a new world of eating instead of drinking beer. To give you a heads up lets take a look at a recipe for beer batter.

Use the following ingredients:

* 1 cup all-purpose flour
* 1 egg, beaten
* 1 teaspoon garlic powder
* 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
* 1 1/2 cups beer

Add the flour in a small mixing bowl together with the egg, black pepper and garlic powder. Stir this while adding 1 cup of beer. If you want the beer batter to be a bit more fluid ad some of the extra beer.

So you see you can cook with beer and it could just save your home beer brew hobby, and this beer batter recipe is just one of the many recipes out there that involve beer with cooking.

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