It’s not bad. The version I had was herby with a distinct caraway flavor (can’t remember the brand name). Served cold as a shot at a German club. As I said, not bad, but not something I ever sought out after that one.
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There are many types of Aquavit, highly variable. You might find one you like!
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It’s a decent digestif, if one can ignore the caraway. Serving it in frosty/frozen glasses can alleviate the flavor… like one would do with crappy American beer 
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“… crappy American beer”?
I resemble that remark! LOL!
To make matters worse, i believe that on a hot day at the lake, a huge cooler full of well iced Coors Light can be a very good thing!
As long as the Coors are so cold you really can not taste them…
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No amount of ice can improve Coors Light. You have to be very hot and very thirsty.
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I’ll take a cold German pilsner (even a Warsteiner would do) over Coors, Miller, Bud, etc. any day. And it doesn’t even have to be ice cold
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That’s why you should instead drink a Bud Heavy. Personally I don’t understand the point of light beer. The calorie difference is minimal. The primary difference is the loss of flavor. Hmmm, maybe light beer is for people who don’t really like beer.
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I have a friend who is a very serious amateur baker. He has spent thousands of dollars installing bread ovens in his home. What I learned from him is that most Americans are unlikely to have ever had true pumpernickel bread. What is called pumpernickel is rye bread that’s been essentially dyed to be dark. A true pumpernickel bread takes a long slow overnight (10-12 hours) bake in a low oven. The low even heat caramelizes the sugars in the flour making the bread dark. Very different than your standard grocery store variety.
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Thank you for this. It was an interesting article.
I wouldn’t have thought about masterclass as a resource…
It is interesting what people think about rye.
My understanding is that as far as flours go:
- light rye is the endosperm - the equivalent to white flour
- dark rye is the whole rye grain but with the bran sifted out
- pumpernickel is the whole rye grain WITH the bran
(there is also, apparently, a medium rye which is a mix of light and dark flours)
Breads are much more complex but the standards would match the flours. Processed commercial dark rye is sometimes light rye with molasses or food coloring added.
Marble rye is a loaf with both light and dark rye twisted together.
Pumpernickel would be the whole grain bread as the article you reference suggests.
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It was on my Christmas wish last year, and Santa came through!
My rye and pumpernickel experience is based on my years growing up in New York city outer boroughs. The rye was dark, the pumpernickel was darker, but I don’t know that I could describe the flavors.
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i do like that a random, targeted
missive turned into this thread. anyone remember the original post?
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I’d prefer a hoppy IPA. But a Yuengling will do in a pinch.
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The joys of thread drift.
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I’ll argue you just a little bit. I don’t normally drink light beers. but have been pretty happy with Amstel’s version of light beer the times that I’ve come into drinking proximity with it.
That said, without looking it up I have no idea of the calorie content of Amstel Light. Maybe their “light” version is as caloric as other brand’s regular.
Signing off.
I looked it up for you CCE. 95 calories. Nice chart/list of “light” beers here
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95 versus about 110 for heavy. 15 calories savings. The amount of calories that you burn up in 10 minutes of doing something like breathing. If you drink 6 beers you saved 75 calories which have been more than offset by probably that one handful of nuts you ate. If you really like light fine drink it. Don’t fool yourself into thinking that you’re saving meaningful calories. And often the reason light beer has fewer calories is because it has lower alcohol content so I’ve seen people drink more light beer to maintain that buzz so now you’ve totally negated the calorie difference. I think I’m going to have a Guinness for breakfast now.
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Thanks!
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Generally agree with you that what we eat tends to swamp what we drink, but stuff like Guinness extra stout and Sam Adams lager push 175 cal/12 ounce, so there are variations on a theme.
So going back to “what we eat swamps what we drink”, if someone (like me) drinks 6 beers and eats a bunch of snacks, I could have saved about ~ 500 kcal with a light beer.
Of course, the real answer to that is that someone like me, at my age, shouldn’t be drinking 6 beers (and eating the attendant munchies) anyway!
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Grin - I am such a non-drinker that a single light beer, whatever the alcohol content, gives me more than sufficient effect while still allowing me to get home at a decent hour. When I instead order my favorite (whichever brown ale is available) I’m good until late-evening. All my countable calories come from the snacks.
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