Beer Gloves

[mickeyd]

My hands have been attacked by the effects of cold beer for over 50 years. If I were a bit smarter, and consumed fewer brews along the way, I should have invented this item of clothing.

Luckenbach is the site of the almost official "beer glove mania"! The gloves that keep your beer cold and your hands warm! Made of "mica-flex" acrylic, so one size fits all........even Mr. Monster hands! Rubber ink on fabric gives a super grip.............decreases those messy "beer spills".

 

[ERD50]

If you are drinking beer with actual flavor (and you should be!), you never serve it that cold. That kind of chill just wipes out the real flavors of a great beer. Kills the malt/sweetness, but not the hop bitterness. Beer served too cold is one reason why some people claim they don't like beer because it is 'too bitter'. Nope, it's too cold.

My beer fridge is ~ 46F, and for some beers that is too cold, I need to let them warm up.

-ERD50

 

[ls99]

No beer expert, just spent a good bit of time in German beerhalls and beergardens. Preferred dark beers, still do. At near room temperature. In the beerhalls good locally brewed dark beer was often served with a small vial of hot water to stir the beer with. Sure tasted good.

An excerpt form an article in Slate

"But walk into any bar, even one serious about craft beer, and you’re likely to be served beer that’s close to freezing, often in a misguidedly chilled mug. Where did this practice of deep freezing beer come from? While the cold neuters tasty beers, it masks the flaws of flavorless macrobrews. So it’s no surprise that the corporate brewers who make Budweiser, Miller, and Coors fill their ads with images of frosty mugs, snowy peaks, and bikini-clad babes frolicking improbably in fake snow. Coors Light has invested the most in frigidness, famously deploying the dopey gimmick of erecting mountains on its labels that turn blue when the beer is “cold enough.” "

In Alaska a popular beer was Olympia. On the label the slogan said It's the water, we used to say it's water.


Don’t believe Coors and Budweiser, colder isn’t better.

 

[HFWR]

Is that anything like "beer goggles"?

 

[Fishingmn]

eh.. I like my cold Coors Light.

Plus it costs 3x less than craft beers and I'm frugal (hence being FIRE'd).

(16.99 for 24 - 16oz cans at Total Wine vs. $8.99/6 pack for many craft beers)

 

[travelover]

If you are drinking beer with actual flavor (and you should be!), ..........

eh.. I like my cold Coors Light............

Me, too. Is there a self help group for people like us?

 

[gerntz]

I use can & bottle koozies all the time to keep drinks cool. Also protects hand. Net, a glove seems like a lesser idea to me.

 

[HawkeyeNFO]

Here in Germany, the beer actually is the cheapest beverage on the menu at restaurants! Water, soda, and juice all cost more than beer.

 

[Car-Guy]

I've always preferred ice cold beer and will toss out any reaming beer that get's warm. (but that rarely happens). In the past I could/would drink just about any beer but as I got older I've settled into only drinking Corona (actually Corona Light when it's available). The only beer I've found that I like better is Tiger Beer but it's hard to get the Asian brewed variety here in my part of the world.

 

[ERD50]

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Originally Posted by ERD50 View Post
If you are drinking beer with actual flavor (and you should be!), ..........
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Originally Posted by Fishingmn View Post
eh.. I like my cold Coors Light............

Me, too. Is there a self help group for people like us?

Well, if you actually like Coors Light, you probably should be drinking it cold, that's what it is 'designed' for.

It's personal preference, so do as you wish. But for myself, I'll drink water instead of any "light" beer. I'll save the calories for a beer with flavor. Guinness really doesn't have many more calories/carbs than "light" beers, and a LOT more flavor.

But to each their own.

-ERD50

 

[braumeister]

if you actually like Coors Light, you probably should be drinking it cold, that's what it is 'designed' for.

Obviously, we have some folks here who would enjoy making love in a canoe.

 

[John Galt III]

eh.. I like my cold Coors Light.

Plus it costs 3x less than craft beers and I'm frugal (hence being FIRE'd).

(16.99 for 24 - 16oz cans at Total Wine vs. $8.99/6 pack for many craft beers)

I'm frugal too. My standard beer has been Hamm's lager. A 30 pack of cans for $12.29 plus tax, here in Pa. But I also love the craft stuff. Really just depends on my mood, body chemistry, weather, whatever. Sometimes I'd really rather have a Hamms cheapo than the $53 a case stuff.

When drinking a highly rated craft beer, sometimes I realize if it was a blind taste test, it would be similar to a can of Sprite. But then I come to my senses.


My beer store has the craft beer heavily marked down a lot lately, and I have been stockpiling it in my cool basement.

Have not felt the need for gloves yet.

 

[rodi]

I'm frugal too. My standard beer has been Hamm's lager. A 30 pack of cans for $12.29 plus tax, here in Pa. But I also love the craft stuff. Really just depends on my mood, body chemistry, weather, whatever. Sometimes I'd really rather have a Hamms cheapo than the $53 a case stuff.

When drinking a highly rated craft beer, sometimes I realize if it was a blind taste test, it would be similar to a can of Sprite. But then I come to my senses.


My beer store has the craft beer heavily marked down a lot lately, and I have been stockpiling it in my cool basement.

Have not felt the need for gloves yet.

That's because you live in Pennsylvania with their ridiculous liquor laws that created the beer store where you can only buy a case at a time. Sure - you can pay your local pizza joint or deli to get a sixpack - but prices are very high. Between the state store for wine/liquor and the beer store - I really cut back my drinking the decade I lived in PA. I didn't want to commit to a case of beer of a specific brand/flavor, and the state store only carried CRAP tequila brands.

Fortunately I had a fun neighborhood bar with great music 2 blocks from home - so if friends came over we'd walk over there for a beverage and everyone could order what they wanted.

 

[bbbamI]

 

[grasshopper]

No beer expert, just spent a good bit of time in German beerhalls and beergardens. Preferred dark beers, still do. At near room temperature. In the beerhalls good locally brewed dark beer was often served with a small vial of hot water to stir the beer with. Sure tasted good.

An excerpt form an article in Slate

"But walk into any bar, even one serious about craft beer, and you’re likely to be served beer that’s close to freezing, often in a misguidedly chilled mug. Where did this practice of deep freezing beer come from? While the cold neuters tasty beers, it masks the flaws of flavorless macrobrews. So it’s no surprise that the corporate brewers who make Budweiser, Miller, and Coors fill their ads with images of frosty mugs, snowy peaks, and bikini-clad babes frolicking improbably in fake snow. Coors Light has invested the most in frigidness, famously deploying the dopey gimmick of erecting mountains on its labels that turn blue when the beer is “cold enough.” "

In Alaska a popular beer was Olympia. On the label the slogan said It's the water, we used to say it's water.


Don’t believe Coors and Budweiser, colder isn’t better.

When I lived in Seattle my neighbor worked for Olympia Beer so every Friday he came over with 2 free employee cases of Olympia for me, he wouldn't drink it.

 

[grasshopper]

That's because you live in Pennsylvania with their ridiculous liquor laws that created the beer store where you can only buy a case at a time. Sure - you can pay your local pizza joint or deli to get a sixpack - but prices are very high. Between the state store for wine/liquor and the beer store - I really cut back my drinking the decade I lived in PA. I didn't want to commit to a case of beer of a specific brand/flavor, and the state store only carried CRAP tequila brands.

Fortunately I had a fun neighborhood bar with great music 2 blocks from home - so if friends came over we'd walk over there for a beverage and everyone could order what they wanted.

I would kill for Yingling's Black and Tan, having lived in the Lehigh Valley for a couple of years. Back in the days a case of pounder returnables at the beer store 20 miles from the brewery sold for under $8.

 

[travelover]

Obviously, we have some folks here who would enjoy making love in a canoe.

Yup, f'king close to water!

 

[John Galt III]

That's because you live in Pennsylvania with their ridiculous liquor laws that created the beer store where you can only buy a case at a time. Sure - you can pay your local pizza joint or deli to get a sixpack - but prices are very high. Between the state store for wine/liquor and the beer store - I really cut back my drinking the decade I lived in PA. I didn't want to commit to a case of beer of a specific brand/flavor, and the state store only carried CRAP tequila brands.

Fortunately I had a fun neighborhood bar with great music 2 blocks from home - so if friends came over we'd walk over there for a beverage and everyone could order what they wanted.

Now Pa has 12 packs available in the beer distributors. Just a little bit more expensive per bottle than the whole 24 unit case. And lately they are adding a lot of new craft beer that is mostly $50 and up for one case. I even see cases there for $80 and $90. Unbelievable. Must be a lot of rich beer drinkers around here.

 

[John Galt III]

I would kill for Yingling's Black and Tan, having lived in the Lehigh Valley for a couple of years. Back in the days a case of pounder returnables at the beer store 20 miles from the brewery sold for under $8.

A case of Yuengling Lager 12 oz in cans here is $15.99. A case of 12 oz bottles is $18.99 I think. I haven't seen Yuengling Black and Tan offered here for a while. My memory lane beer is National Bohemian Pilsener in 16 ounce returnables for $5.99 a case of 24. Must have been early 1980's.

 

[MRG]

That's because you live in Pennsylvania with their ridiculous liquor laws that created the beer store where you can only buy a case at a time. Sure - you can pay your local pizza joint or deli to get a sixpack - but prices are very high. Between the state store for wine/liquor and the beer store - I really cut back my drinking the decade I lived in PA. I didn't want to commit to a case of beer of a specific brand/flavor, and the state store only carried CRAP tequila brands.

Fortunately I had a fun neighborhood bar with great music 2 blocks from home - so if friends came over we'd walk over there for a beverage and everyone could order what they wanted.

I left the state right after turning 21 just cause of the stupid law. Well that and a whole lot of other reasons.

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[Chuckanut]

That's because you live in Pennsylvania with their ridiculous liquor laws that created the beer store where you can only buy a case at a time.

??!?!?

Are they trying to encourage the abuse of alcohol?

 

[Chuckanut]

Here in Germany, the beer actually is the cheapest beverage on the menu at restaurants! Water, soda, and juice all cost more than beer.

Years ago six of us went to dinner at a small restaurant in Rome. Five of us drank wine so we ordered a liter each of the house red and white. The sixth ordered a big-name cola drink. The bill for the two liters of wine was 4 euros. The one can of cola was 3.5 euros.

 

[Chuckanut]

I would rather drink one good craft beer than a six pack of the big brewery lagers that remind me of sour tasting fizz water. That said, if you enjoy one of these brands, then continue to do so. I make no claim of superior taste buds, etc.

 

[ERD50]

That's because you live in Pennsylvania with their ridiculous liquor laws that created the beer store where you can only buy a case at a time. ...

How come you never see stuff like this on those "places to/not-to retire" lists? I need to remember to investigate local liquor laws prior to any move.

Some places around here let you mix a six-pack from a wide selection. Trader Joes let's you pick a single can/bottle from the six pack, and they just charger 1/6th. Nice way to try a bunch of different things without a big commitment.

-ERD50

 

[ls99]

Yeah the PA beer lobby is powerful. Most are in a cheap warehouse setting, minimal operating expense, huge profit margin.

Unsure if PA hast the most number of convicted legislators. The recent go around on privatizing liquor stores and letting supermarkets sell beer failed.....again. Heh, even the attorney general had her law license suspended.

Yakov Smirnoff was right.