Beer, Glorious Beer
March 24th 2009 02:10
Beer Glorious Beer
I ask you, how many foods do you find that have that glorious perfection of beer? Oh, sure there are the perfect foods, a simple steak, broiled to perfection, with garlic butter sauce, cavier on toast points with onion and egg, a sublime French Onion soup with melted guerre cheese running down the side of the bowl, my grandfather's Sicilian Lasagna, these are perfect dishes but do they match the glorious, simple, clear, perfection of beer? No, I think not.
Consider the ingredients of a simple plain beer; hops, of course; water, good, clear fresh water; malted barley, a rich, full bodied grain; yeast, not just any yeast but a yeast made just for the purpose of brewing the wonders of beer, then depending on what type of beer, perhaps a touch of sugar. The simplest of ingredients but what they are turned into is nothing short of heaven.
Types of beer, normal everyday light golden beer, not to be confused with light beer, which is an abomination invented by some sadistic human to ruin perfection, on the pretense of it being better, healthier, and more slimming than normal wonderful beer. A farce and a lie! It is not healthier, more slimming, and it does not taste as good or better than any other beer, more like pig swill, no I demean the pig, even a well tutored big would not drink a light beer! But a regular golden beer such as a Corona, can have its place in the beer compendium, indeed it has it's place, on a hot summer afternoon, it can be cooling and very refreshing, and add just the right touch to cool without heating the blood as a heavy alcoholic drink can do..
But after these golden delights come the more intense beers, ales, lagers, and speciality beers.
Ales, a richer, darker flavor, as a beerie would say, a fuller and more complex flavor. While your lager is a lighter, drier flavor than an ale, less complex, but oh, so yummy.
I personally like Ales the best, or when all else fails and I can't wait for the blast of a beer full or nuts, yeast and who knows what else, only the brewer, then head for the Stouts. Stout the branch of the beer family that is famous thoughout the British Isles and Boston, MA, and of course Ireland. Stout that beer that no other can compare to, the one so heavy and full of flavor, so wonderfully, well words fail. All I can say, give me a stout, and I will shout with glee at its fineness!
Perhaps you might say, stout shouldn't really be classified as beer, but to you who say this I say, bah humbug, of course they should, they can only be described as the perfection of the darkness of which beer is capable.
Beer, the food of the gods in a previous life, if they, the gods, had known beer rather than mead, that sweet, cloying drink, this world would have ruled by gods with a real taste for life, not just war and after life, but the one right here and now..
Is beer it's own food group, of course it is, what else is made so simply with such a few amount of ingredients into so many complex and delicious flavors and varieties? Nothing I say, and a religion of its own, that is for you to decide, I will continue to worship the gods of beer as they have made life so much more pleasant for so many, how can you not worship at the feet of the brewers of the rightful drink of the gods?
Next, a recipe and a story, maybe.
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