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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsWho's drinking America this holiday?
YEAH! AMERICA THE BEER!
what a great idea!
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much better than that stinky Budweiser.
(btw - i don't drink)
Aristus
(66,530 posts)I'm drinking our local micro-brews. Brewed at a craft-pub just a hop, skip, and a jump from here. Buying and drinking local is the only way to go...
rurallib
(62,483 posts)you are simply un-American!
ailsagirl
(22,909 posts)How about some nice, ice-cold Coca-Cola??
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)aidbo
(2,328 posts)Hard apple cider.
http://mentalfloss.com/article/62113/9-facts-tell-true-story-johnny-appleseed
The apples that Chapman favored for planting were small and tart "spitters"named for what you'd likely do if you took a bite of one. But this made them ideal for making hard cider and applejack. This was a far more valuable crop than edible apples. In The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan writes,
Where water could house dangerous bacteria, cider was safe. (And delicious.)
Pollan credits Chapman's preference for seeds over grafting for creating not only varieties like the delicious and golden delicious, but also the "hardy American apple." Since apples that are grafted are the same as the parent tree, they dont change. But by forgoing grafting, Johnny created the conditions for apple trees to adapt and thrive in their new world home. Pollan writes, "It was the seeds, and the cider, that give the apple the opportunity to discover by trial and error the precise combination of traits required to prosper in the New World. From Chapman's vast planting of nameless cider apple seeds came some of the great American cultivars of the 19th century."
THANKS, JOHNNY!
ailsagirl
(22,909 posts)That's the first thing I learned to drink.
Cheers!
aidbo
(2,328 posts)But I catch your meaning.
ailsagirl
(22,909 posts)Later it was a sloe-gin fizz.
Good stuff!!
onehandle
(51,122 posts)Today's beer.
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Amishman
(5,559 posts)skip the Bud, go for a US owned beer and you will be rewarded with more flavor
This fall I will have to get the cider press out if my grandmother-in-law has a good apple harvest. I botched the last batch of hard cider (wrong yeast), need to make amends.
MaggieD
(7,393 posts)Don't laugh - it's actually not bad. Heckava value!
Wolf Frankula
(3,605 posts)Budweiser is not beer.
Wolf
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)rurallib
(62,483 posts)we can do it
(12,222 posts)Only good craft made beers for me.