标题: Hard Cider + White House Brew + Hops [打印本页] 作者: choi 时间: 8-18-2012 12:02 标题: Hard Cider + White House Brew + Hops (1) Mike Esterl, Old-Fashioned Hard Cider Makes Comeback; Heineken Buying US Rights to the Strongbow Brand in the US; Sweeter Brew Appeals to Women and 'Millennials.' Wall Street Journal, Aug 16, 2012. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB ... 89611291535318.html
Quote:
"Hard cider was eclipsed by beer as Americans' alcohol of choice in the 19th century and largely disappeared here after Prohibition. Now the storied beverage made from fermented apples is enjoying a renaissance
"hard cider—which, like beer, typically has about 5% alcohol by volume
"Hard cider still makes up less than 0.5% of beer volumes in the US
"Alcoholic cider was widely available in American colonies by the early 18th century after British immigrants brought apple seeds with them and planted orchards. * * * John Adams, the second US president, reportedly drank a tankard of hard cider each morning. Its popularity waned during the latter half of the 19th century after immigrants from Germany—including Anheuser-Busch co-founder Adolphus Busch—and other European countries began brewing beer. Many built their breweries in the Midwest, where barley proved a good match for the soil.
"Today, consumers in the UK drink about half the world's annual alcoholic cider supply of 1.8 billion liters. US consumption totaled just 59 million liters last year, according to Euromonitor.
Note:
(a) Strongbow (cider) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strongbow_(cider)
(a cider brand "launched in England by HP Bulmer in 1962. It is named after the Cambro-Norman knight Richard de Clare [1130-1176], later Earl of Pembroke, nicknamed 'Strongbow' for relying heavily on Welsh archers during campaigns in Ireland, where at the time the Irish had few bows and relied on javelins")
(b) tankard (n) http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tankard
(c) barley http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barley
(Fertile Crescent; Barley beer was probably the first drink developed by Neolithic humans; section 4 Production)
(d) Magners http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magners
(a brand of cider produced in Ireland, by the C&C Group; brewed in 1935, by local man William Magner)
Note:
(a) Des Moines Register http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Des_Moines_Register
(Founded 1849 (as The Iowa Star))
(b) BYOB probably means bring or brew your own beer, a play on words MYOB (mond your own business).
(c) Henry Louis Gates arrest controversy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Louis_Gates_arrest_controversy
(section 3.2 "Beer Summit")
(d) William Bostwick, What did George Washington Drink? In the spirit of authenticity, a home-brewer attempts to recreate a founding father's beer recipe. Wall Street Journal, Nov 19, 2011 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB ... 38190404341490.html
(a beer recipe: "Scribbled on the last page of one of Washington's journals is a short, cryptic note * * * That was the problem with Washington's otherwise normal home-brew: molasses. Few brewers use molasses these days because when it ferments it turns sour and sharp, but Washington had no choice. Barley didn't grow well in the eastern Colonies, so he had to get his sugar elsewhere")
(e) President Obama is said to be the first to brew in the White House. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House
(built between 1792 and 1800 and Thomas Jefferson moved into the house in 1801; "In 1814, during the War of 1812, the mansion was set ablaze by the British Army * * * Reconstruction began almost immediately, and President James Monroe moved into the partially reconstructed house in October 1817")
(f) President Tomas Jefferson experimented to brew beer, after retirement.
Beer. Thomas Jefferson's Monticello, undated. http://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/beer
(3) Georgina Gustin, Hops Become New Cash Crop as Craft Brewing Grows. St Louis Post-Dispatch, jULY 5, 2012. http://www.stltoday.com/business ... 3-001a4bcf6878.html
("many growers say they're attempting to decentralize a hops industry long dominated by growers in the Pacific Northwest and Europe, where, combined, farmers grow about 80 percent of the world's 120,000 hop acres")
Note:
(a) St Louis Post-Dispatch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Louis_Post-Dispatch
(In 1878, Joseph Pulitzer purchased the St Louis Westliche Post, a German-American newspaper where he had worked, and the St Louis Dispatch, and merged the two papers to be called the St Louis Post and Dispatch, which was shortened to the St Louis Post-Dispatch)
(b) hops http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hops
(Hop resins are composed of two main acids: alpha and beta acids; Alpha acids are responsible for the bitter flavor in the beer)
* For the structures of alpha acides, see
Chappel CI et al, Subchronic Toxicity Study of Tetrahydroisohumulone and Hexahydroisohumulone in the Beagle Dog. Food and Chemical Toxicology, 36: 915-922 (1998) http://www.sciencedirect.com/sci ... i/S0278691598000672
(Introduction)
(c) For Yakima Valley, see Yakima River http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakima_River
(a tributary of the Columbia River; named for the indigenous Yakama people)