Frosted Beer Mugs

Only alone amongst the clueless. Beer brewers (those who brew their own) know better as do true connoisseurs of good beer. Drives me crazy when I go over to my buddy's house, the one who I had to buy beer glasses for, to find all the glasses in the freezer. grrrr...

nb

Yeah, if I notice others' beer served that way before I order (look for the puddles on the bar or the bunches of napkins next to the beer), I'll always ask for an unchilled/frosted glass. Once I was served a beer with some frost on it anyway-

"Sorry, I couldn't find any glasses that weren't frozen."

"Uh, but you DO have running water and a sink behind the bar, right? You could have just *rinsed* the glass with warm water...".

I've trained just about everybody in Casper to reach for the unchilled glasses when I walk in. lol.

Usually the type of beer (budmillercoors) that is served in those frozen mugs, does taste better if your taste buds are frozen until they can no longer taste anything at all.

You are not alone. I hate it too, and I've gotten weird looks when asking for an unchilled mug. With one exception (Joe Jost's in Long Beach, where I go for the atmosphere much more so than the beer), I try not to go back to such places.

And you're right, the chilled mug chills the beer to such a point that it numbs your taste buds, makes aromatic compounds much less volatile, thereby robbing the beer of much of its flavor, unless you want to let it sit for

-Steve

Yes I agree with your in the fact the like wine beer loses it flavour the colder it is, but here in Au ya gotta have ya glass clod to start with or it gets to hot to drink.

Cheers

Who long do let it sit around?

Man, that brought back memories of too many lunches (I used to work in LB) at Jost's. Definitely a good atmosphere, but IIRC, the beers were all served in big, frozen schooners, and the only choice back then was Bud or Miller Lite. And it was the only place I found in SoCal that offered pickled eggs, a delicacy completely lost on the Californians.

dave in austin

What's the attraction?

On Tue, 21 Feb 2006 20:35:26 -0600, snipped-for-privacy@all.please.net wrote (in article ):

If you don't know you apparently haven't tried one!

Is there no explanation?

On Tue, 21 Feb 2006 22:48:44 -0600, snipped-for-privacy@all.please.net wrote (in article ):

I guess pickled eggs fall into that "love them or hate them" category. My only experience with them, quite favorable at that, has been when I've bought them as a snack while having a few drafts in a bar. I've known a number of persons that were hesitant to try them, but I've not known a soul who after tasting one didn't like them.

Here in southeast Pennsylvania, we pickle them with an addition of pickled beets, which leaves the eggs a beautiful purple color and with a bit more flavor.

Hard-boiled egg in vinegar, preferably pickled with large amounts of garlic and jalapenos for extra zing. Same attraction as any sort of pickle.

I've had the red ones in PA. Nifty. And I've had the pickled quail eggs you can get in convenience stores in LA.

I've known a lot of people who have been very hesitant to try a pickled egg, but, like James said, I've never known anybody who didn't like them after having a taste. In that way, it's sort of analogous to GoodBeer.

dave still in austin - 5 kegs of SNCA left in the stash...

There's a bar upstate in PA where I used to get red beet pickled quail eggs, six for 50 cents, to go with a mug of Yuengling Porter that was 80 cents. Ahhh....

On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 09:50:22 -0600, Lew Bryson wrote (in article ):

As one who enjoyed Yuengling for years when living in South Jersey and as one who now lives in Yuenglingless Texas that brings back happy memories.

Here in NJ, the (disappearing) neighborhood bars also did the "beet juice" pickled eggs (I know of one place where they're still available). In upstate PA (the "Twin Tiers" area) I used to find these... well, at first I didn't know WHAT they were. Round, almost pastry-looking discs sittingat room temperature on the bar under glass in a pedestal cake stand. "What are they?" I asked. Turned out to be breaded veal patties, served on napkin. Pretty tasty- wish I had one right now. (They also sold a lot of candy in bars up there for some odd reason. And then there was this dice game they played- 5 or so dice in a leather "bottle" and you won a pool.)

That's a weird Weinerschnitzel. ;^)

Yeah, the dice thing still goes on in some of the bars here.

I've asked for uniced glasses at an Olive Garden once and they said that's all they had.

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