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Skriven 2009-08-27 23:14:00 av BOB GEARHART (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av DAVE DRUM
Ärende: Re: Beer
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 Dave Drum said to Bob Gearhart at 08-27-09  08:41
 Subject: Re: Beer<Dave Drum>
 
 BG>  I first tried Ashai while on R&R in Kyoto.  Back when a dollar was
 BG>  worth 360 yen, and a steak dinner was 300 yen, and a bottle of beer
 BG>  was 300 yen.  I liked it then, and was pleased while touring during
 BG>  a lull in supervision, the Limey base next to ours.  There I found
 BG>  they had Ashai beer in cases of GIQ's. (Giant Imperial Quarts) So
 BG>  made it a point to take 30 cases back with me.  Loved that stuff, it
 BG>  was so much better than the 2 percent swill the military allowed.

 DD> I dunno how it was in Japanland. We got (at the EM club and Navy
 DD> Exchange) 3.2 beer. But, it wasn't all that far off regular beer - no
 
 Well I dunno about that high tech stuff, just knew that if you 
 drank a case and barfed it up, then you could get a little tipsy 
 on the next one.   And it taste like water too.  We got the swill 
 the Army would provide us with.  Then just before we pulled out 
 of Korea the Navy started feeding us again and life on the chow 
 line improved tremendously. Military feeds though great from 
 the Navy, pales compared to the Air Force. Those guys know how to 
 live.  We stopped at an air base in Irakuska and went for chow. 
 Japanese guy met us at the door wearing a white shirt and bow tie.  
 Ask "how many in your party" and when we said four led us to a 
 table with place settings, like you know real plates and napkins.  
 Brought coffee in real cups and said our waitress would be with 
 us in a few minutes if we cared to browse the menu.  Hell we were 
 sitting in mud eating out of tin cans just 24 hours earlier.  
 Quite a shock..
 
 DD> matter how the "purists" caviled about it. "Regular" beer is under 5%
 DD> alcohol ... most generally 4.5% to 4.75%. The trick is that the 4.5% is
 DD> measured by volume and the 3.2% is measured by weight. And since
 DD> alcohol weighs less than water ... the real percentage by weight of
 DD> 3.2% beer is about 4.25% alcohol by volume.  Not a significant
 DD> difference. 
 DD> I did run across a light alcohol beer in the 1960s (and it may have
 DD> been a forerunner to Sharps or O'Douls) when the beer drivers in Los
 DD> Angeles were on strike. We took whatever beer we could get. My brother
 DD> picked up a 24 pack of 16oz. suds called Harlequin. We split the whole
 DD> thing in about 3 hours and didn't even get a buzz. Just worn out from
 DD> constant trips to the whizzer.   FEH!!!
 
 
 Never heard of that in a beer.  And you might be right on the way beer 
 is measured, I don't know.  I no longer drink beer for the buzz, but I 
 do like a cold one now and then for the taste. Especially with greasy 
 foods like BBQ.


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