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OMG NOT The Beer!
mogley98
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I read an article implying a CO2 shortage due to reductions in production of Ethanol might cause a BEER shortage! Horrors!
Why don't we go to school and work on the weekends and take the week off!
Comments
Interesting but most kegs I've seen use CO2 to push it down the line? And I believe when they bottle beer they usually "wash" the bottle with CO2 while filling? Anyway I drink bourbon mostly but do enjoy a ice cold beer occasionally.
CO2 or Air is used to charge (pressurize) a keg only, by replacing depleted beer. > keg tap charging plunger.
We have been alerted to a potential shortage of the CO2 we use as a cover gas in the weld shop. Turns out that ethanol production is not very green.
Brad Steele
Did you know that in some European cites - I think Holland and Austria and Germany possibly they have a beer utility that like the water company and gas company and power company placed pipes under the cities infrastructure to deliver beer from the brewery to your kitchen like tap water???
That's a concept I can get behind - who would have thought...
Beer on tap in your house straight from the brewery as a utility...
In France they have tanker trucks that deliver wine to families - though most Americans who enjoy wine would not find the daily use wine the French consume like water very palatable...
My father grew up in Philadelphia and remembers as a child milk and ice and beer being delivered by small vehicles with teamsters - even still some horse drawn conveyance methods...
And that the gasoline companies would drive small tank trucks through the city neighborhoods and deliver gasoline to your car rather then you going to a station to fill up...
He can recall city workers cleaning and maintaining gas street light mantles - coal chutes and delivery of coal from trucks in the street...
Family trips to the navy yard to see the damaged ships having returned after the war...
A neighborhood bar that offered growlers - parents would send the kids to the bar or taproom with containers to bring home aged or going flat or going stale or bottom of the keg / barrel beer...
Random thoughts and observations.
Mike
Despite being on the border between a Jewish neighborhood and an Irish neighborhood and local brewed beer on tap usually dominating sales in local establishments - my father says the family favorite and local lore / opinion was that DAB in pint sized thick heavy glass NR bottles were the choice top option...
And in those days competitive with decent local brewery on tap fodder as far as price goes...
When my father got stationed at fort Lenard Wood as an MP NCO he found that DAB could not be obtained in the area - he had to smuggle cases down from Philly and cut in the sgt with the most time in grade...
Apparently were it not for the ice cold meat locker air conditioned NCO club on post were you could sleep in an armchair when off duty while running a tab and eating peanuts - my father would not have survived summers on the base...
Mike