On Tuesday, February 3, 2015 at 7:49:37 PM UTC-6, James Silverton wrote:
> On 2/3/2015 8:33 PM, Bruce wrote:
> > On Tue, 3 Feb 2015 16:10:35 -0800 (PST), Bryan-TGWWW
> > > wrote:
> >
> >> No one has ever made a good case why beer shouldn't be poured over ice cubes.
> >> Sodapop over ice is a normal thing. I can see why weak, flavorless ****water
> >> beer would be silly on the rocks, but a 6.5%, highly hopped ale is nice in a
> >> glass with ice. The ice tames both the alcohol and the carbonation.
> >
> > I hope you can find bad enough beer locally to treat this way.
>
I had one bottle of New Belgium Ranger, and two Sam Adams Rebels. Neither
are local. Both were good.
> >
> Budweiser might approach your hopes. It isn't bad served cold enough to
> keep ice cubesfrom melting fast.
>
Budweiser is bad no matter what. The only InBev product that I'd ever buy
is Negra Modelo, and that is too lightly hopped to pour over ice.
>
> --
> Jim Silverton (Potomac, MD)
>

--Bryan