I drink half a beer from a bottle, is there a way to keep the remainder
reasonably fresh for the next day? I don't like wasting it if I don't have
to.

Thanks for any tips.

Buck Turgidson wrote:
> I drink half a beer from a bottle, is there a way to keep the
> remainder reasonably fresh for the next day? I don't like wasting it
> if I don't have to.
>
> Thanks for any tips.

1st Tip: If you don't drink the entire bottle, don't bother to drink beer;
2nd Tip: Buy them big quarts with the screw tops. Be sure to screw the top
back on.

Jill

jmcquown wrote:
> Buck Turgidson wrote:
>> I drink half a beer from a bottle, is there a way to keep the
>> remainder reasonably fresh for the next day? I don't like wasting it
>> if I don't have to.
>>
>> Thanks for any tips.
>
> 1st Tip: If you don't drink the entire bottle, don't bother to drink
> beer; 2nd Tip: Buy them big quarts with the screw tops. Be sure to
> screw the top back on.
>
> Jill

He he he he. I concur, Jill! <beg>

kili

On Sat, 5 Feb 2005 16:44:41 -0500, "Buck Turgidson" >
wrote:

>I drink half a beer from a bottle, is there a way to keep the remainder
>reasonably fresh for the next day? I don't like wasting it if I don't have
>to.

Use the leftover beer to cook pinto beans. You won't be sorry.

Carol
--
"Years ago my mother used to say to me... She'd say,
'In this world Elwood, you must be oh-so smart or oh-so pleasant.'
Well, for years I was smart.... I recommend pleasant. You may quote me."

*James Stewart* in the 1950 movie, _Harvey_

Damsel in dis Dress > writes:

> Use the leftover beer to cook pinto beans. You won't be sorry.

Does that work well with other beans, or just pintos?
--
Mike Kupfer

On 05 Feb 2005 16:04:12 -0800, Mike Kupfer > wrote:

>Damsel in dis Dress > writes:
>
>> Use the leftover beer to cook pinto beans. You won't be sorry.
>
>Does that work well with other beans, or just pintos?

I'm not sure. I've only tried it with pintos. I use the dried ones. I
start them as usual, but when it's time to add more water, I dump in a can
of beer instead. I don't recall how I season it. Changes from batch to
batch, but you want salt, pepper, maybe a bay leaf. Whatever floats your
boat.

I cook them until they're soft, but still look like beans, and I serve them
with shredded cheddar on top. Magnificent!

Carol
--
"Years ago my mother used to say to me... She'd say,
'In this world Elwood, you must be oh-so smart or oh-so pleasant.'
Well, for years I was smart.... I recommend pleasant. You may quote me."

*James Stewart* in the 1950 movie, _Harvey_

Damsel in dis Dress wrote:
> On 05 Feb 2005 16:04:12 -0800, Mike Kupfer > wrote:
>
>> Damsel in dis Dress > writes:
>>
>>> Use the leftover beer to cook pinto beans. You won't be sorry.
>>
>> Does that work well with other beans, or just pintos?
>
> I'm not sure. I've only tried it with pintos. I use the dried
> ones.
> I start them as usual, but when it's time to add more water, I dump
> in a can of beer instead. I don't recall how I season it. Changes
> from batch to batch, but you want salt, pepper, maybe a bay leaf.
> Whatever floats your boat.
>
> I cook them until they're soft, but still look like beans, and I
> serve them with shredded cheddar on top. Magnificent!
>
> Carol

Sounds good. I like using beer in chili or to flavor nacho meat.
Brown the beef or chicken with onion, poblanos, and garlic, add chili
powders (your favorite blend) and cumin, tomato sauce, and beer. Cook
until the liquid has evaporated. Turns out pretty well - and that's
what our Super Bowl menu will be!

--
"Life is hard. Life is harder when
you're stupid". - John Wayne

"Politics is war without bloodshed while
war is politics with bloodshed" - Mao Zedong

'99 FLHRCI

Damsel in dis Dress > writes:

> On 05 Feb 2005 16:04:12 -0800, Mike Kupfer > wrote:
>
> >Damsel in dis Dress > writes:
> >
> >> Use the leftover beer to cook pinto beans. You won't be sorry.
> >
> >Does that work well with other beans, or just pintos?
>
> I'm not sure. I've only tried it with pintos.

I tried black beans with leftover Sierra Nevada Pale Ale last weekend.
Spices were half a cinnamon stick and a couple cloves. The results
were at least promising enough to play around with this some more.

So, thanks for the suggestion!

Mike Kupfer >, if that's their real name, wrote:

>Damsel in dis Dress > writes:
>
>> On 05 Feb 2005 16:04:12 -0800, Mike Kupfer > wrote:
>>
>> >Damsel in dis Dress > writes:
>> >
>> >> Use the leftover beer to cook pinto beans. You won't be sorry.
>> >
>> >Does that work well with other beans, or just pintos?
>>
>> I'm not sure. I've only tried it with pintos.
>
>I tried black beans with leftover Sierra Nevada Pale Ale last weekend.
>Spices were half a cinnamon stick and a couple cloves. The results
>were at least promising enough to play around with this some more.
>
>So, thanks for the suggestion!

You betcha! I'm taking over the world, one person at a time. <EG>

Seriously, I'm glad you liked it. I'll have to give black beans a try with
the beer, too. I love black beans.

Carol
--
"Years ago my mother used to say to me... She'd say,
'In this world Elwood, you must be oh-so smart or oh-so pleasant.'
Well, for years I was smart.... I recommend pleasant. You may quote me."

*James Stewart* in the 1950 movie, _Harvey_

"Buck Turgidson" > wrote in message
news:e7bNd.104357$Jk5.81807@lakeread01...
>I drink half a beer from a bottle, is there a way to keep the remainder
> reasonably fresh for the next day? I don't like wasting it if I don't
> have
> to.

Speaking of beer: Oh, yes, 99% of the time, I drink the entire bottle. The
other 1% I share with my husband.

But I'm posting to say that at this very moment I am drinking a new beer for
the first time. Now, I'm normally a Guinness gal, but a friend/co-worker
brought me back samples of different beers and today I'm sampling "Abbaye de
Leffe" Blond, a Belgian strong beer with 6.6% alcohol. I must say that it
is GREAT! I could get used to this.

He also brought me a Danish one (Tuborg Gold Label Beer -- 5% alcohol) & a
Polish one (Zywiec -- 5.5 % alcohol & the bottle is 500 ml vs. 330 ml for
the other two). Haven't sampled those yet.

Gabby

try beemis or madison wi micro brews they are a nice drink.
Also a pale pale ale from Czechoslovacia is great

In article <e7bNd.104357$Jk5.81807@lakeread01>,
"Buck Turgidson" > wrote:

> I drink half a beer from a bottle, is there a way to keep the remainder
> reasonably fresh for the next day? I don't like wasting it if I don't have
> to.
>
> Thanks for any tips.
>
>

Cork it?
Or use a soda pump.
They have a pump cap now where you can put a cap on it and pump pressure
into a bottle to prevent anymore "flattening" of the carbonated product.

--
K.

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Katra wrote:

> Or use a soda pump.
> They have a pump cap now where you can put a cap on it and pump pressure
> into a bottle to prevent anymore "flattening" of the carbonated product.
>

Those don't work. Pumping air into the bottle won't hold the CO2 in
solution. If you want a scientific explanation of why not, look up
"partial pressures".

Best regards,
Bob

In article >,
zxcvbob > wrote:

> Katra wrote:
>
> > Or use a soda pump.
> > They have a pump cap now where you can put a cap on it and pump pressure
> > into a bottle to prevent anymore "flattening" of the carbonated product.
> >
>
> Those don't work. Pumping air into the bottle won't hold the CO2 in
> solution. If you want a scientific explanation of why not, look up
> "partial pressures".
>
> Best regards,
> Bob
>

Actually, I think the whole concept of diffusion might explain it.....
;-) I s'pose if you used a CO2 cartrige and pumped that in there it
might work.

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Katra wrote:
> In article >,
> zxcvbob > wrote:
>
>
>>Katra wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Or use a soda pump.
>>>They have a pump cap now where you can put a cap on it and pump pressure
>>>into a bottle to prevent anymore "flattening" of the carbonated product.
>>>
>>
>>Those don't work. Pumping air into the bottle won't hold the CO2 in
>>solution. If you want a scientific explanation of why not, look up
>>"partial pressures".
>>
>>Best regards,
>>Bob
>>
>
>
> Actually, I think the whole concept of diffusion might explain it.....
> ;-) I s'pose if you used a CO2 cartrige and pumped that in there it
> might work.
>


I have a big CO2 tank on my aquarium (to feed the plants) and I use it
to repressurize 2-liter bottles of pop that have gone flat, or to make
my own selzer. I put a truck tire stem in the top of a screw-on bottle
cap, and made a CO2 hose with a tire chuck on the end. I usually
pressurize to about 50 or 60 psi.

Best regards,
Bob

In article >,
zxcvbob > wrote:

> Katra wrote:
> > In article >,
> > zxcvbob > wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Katra wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>Or use a soda pump.
> >>>They have a pump cap now where you can put a cap on it and pump pressure
> >>>into a bottle to prevent anymore "flattening" of the carbonated product.
> >>>
> >>
> >>Those don't work. Pumping air into the bottle won't hold the CO2 in
> >>solution. If you want a scientific explanation of why not, look up
> >>"partial pressures".
> >>
> >>Best regards,
> >>Bob
> >>
> >
> >
> > Actually, I think the whole concept of diffusion might explain it.....
> > ;-) I s'pose if you used a CO2 cartrige and pumped that in there it
> > might work.
> >
>
>
> I have a big CO2 tank on my aquarium (to feed the plants) and I use it
> to repressurize 2-liter bottles of pop that have gone flat, or to make
> my own selzer. I put a truck tire stem in the top of a screw-on bottle
> cap, and made a CO2 hose with a tire chuck on the end. I usually
> pressurize to about 50 or 60 psi.
>
> Best regards,
> Bob

Cool!

I actually own a small seltzer bottle and have a couple of boxes of
charges for it.

It's neat because you can carbonate _anything_ with it!
I like to make sparkling apple juice......

--
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Buck Turgidson wrote:
> I drink half a beer from a bottle, is there a way to keep the
remainder
> reasonably fresh for the next day? I don't like wasting it if I
don't have
> to.

Bottled is never fresh. Bottling is a form of food preserving.
Preserved food is not ever fresh... bottled/canned beer is not fresh.
Very likey you've never tasted freshly brewed beer and probably never
will. These days unless one brews their own beer very few will ever
know how freshly brewed beer is supposed to taste... probably less then
99.99% of the world population will ever taste freshly brewed. I don't
care how much you pay for beer or where it comes from, if it's
bottled/canned it's crap, beer does not improve with age in a bottle,
no way, if it's in a bottle it's no different than stupidmarket Bud...
and if you paid some outrageous price you're simply an ass.

On 5 Feb 2005 16:51:33 -0800, "Sheldon" > wrote:

>Very likey you've never tasted freshly brewed beer and probably never
>will. These days unless one brews their own beer very few will ever
>know how freshly brewed beer is supposed to taste... probably less then
>99.99% of the world population will ever taste freshly brewed.

The only beer I've ever actually enjoyed was made by a friend who grew his
own grains and everything. Damn, it was good!

Carol, who generally hates beer
--
"Years ago my mother used to say to me... She'd say,
'In this world Elwood, you must be oh-so smart or oh-so pleasant.'
Well, for years I was smart.... I recommend pleasant. You may quote me."

*James Stewart* in the 1950 movie, _Harvey_

Wow, you sound like a bitter, lonely, old man.

******** !
Having brewed quite a variety of beer at home, I can say that quite a
few kinds do improve in the bottle for the first few weeks. Also, If
you're trying to say that Bud, Guinness, and Fuller's ESB all taste the
same from a bottle, then your taste buds are dead. Your loss. BTW,
technically speaking, the brew phase occurs BEFORE fermentation, so
drinking freshly brewed beer would be synonymous with drinking
non-alcoholic beer. After brewing, the yeast(s) are added, and the
fermentation process takes a bit of time. Drinking beer during this
period would be nasty (low alcohol, still too much sugar, and very
yeasty flavor, as the yeast is still alive and working magic.) Some
beers even finish fermenting in the bottle, so they aren't even
finished until they have spent a bit of time in the bottle.

Dean G.

People who drink light "beer" don't like the taste of beer; they just
like to pee a lot.

Buck Turgidson wrote:

> I drink half a beer from a bottle, is there a way to keep the remainder
> reasonably fresh for the next day? I don't like wasting it if I don't have
> to.

I'd be happy to make a six pack last until the next day :-)

Dave Smith wrote:
> Buck Turgidson wrote:
>
>> I drink half a beer from a bottle, is there a way to keep the
>> remainder reasonably fresh for the next day? I don't like wasting
>> it if I don't have to.
>
> I'd be happy to make a six pack last until the next day :-)

I'd be happy if it lasted more than 2 hours.

kili

Buck Turgidson wrote:

> I drink half a beer from a bottle, is there a way to keep the remainder
> reasonably fresh for the next day? I don't like wasting it if I don't have
> to.

Why not just buy the splits, those little half sized beers. They don't sell
them here in Ontario but they do in NY.

Buck Turgidson wrote:
> I drink half a beer from a bottle, is there a way to keep the remainder
> reasonably fresh for the next day? I don't like wasting it if I don't have
> to.
>
> Thanks for any tips.
>
>

With soda/pop, I will take a piece of saran wrap, fold it twice, wrap it
over the top & then secure with a tight rubber band around the 'rim'
The rubber band needs to be not too large/wide & will probably need to
be wrapped around a couple times.
Takes some practice to get tight, but it works pretty well.