The People’s Pint

3 days of beer from “The People’s Pint” and I am going to combine the tasteyness together.

Sunday:

Went to the People’s Pint, one of my favorite breweries in the area, and had a tasty burger and clam chowder.  For beer?  I chose the Extra Special Bitter.  Chowder and bitters often go well together.  This is true here as well.  The bitter poured a light copper colour with little to no head.  I was there early on sunday and I’m thinking there was a problem with their C02.  It had carbonation just not much and when I read peoples discription on beeradvocate saying “very fluffy almost cloud like, and has great retention that lasted till the last sip with good lacing.” It just makes a dude go, “huh?”

The aroma is incredible.  Hops, and an array of herbs, and really fun malt notes.  I taste some harshness, kinda rye like.  Very nice brew. ★★★★★

While I was at the People’s Pint I picked up a growler of  The People’s Pilsner and a 40oz of their Malt Liquor.

Monday:

Monday night I cracked open the growler.  Again, very little carbonation, odd for a pilsner.  So, I poured a really harsh pour to get some air in there.  Described as, “As our first lager of the season, we’re super psyched about this beer. Pilsner and Caramel malts emit a smooth and supporting malt body while the German Magnum and Hersbrucker hops give an earthy and spicy flavor and aroma. All told, a super easy beer to drink and a lovely addition to our line-up. Prost! (OG: abv 5.5%)”

The description is spot on.  Very easy to drink, smooth, earthy and slightly spicy.  This is not a shitty mass produced pils.  This is not a yellow pee like pils.  This is what I want when I order a pilsner.  Full beer, not overbearing, yet easy to drink.  Crisp, slightly sweet, but earthy.  VERY nice!!! ★★★★★

Tuesday:

Well I couldn’t resist.  The People’s Pint is selling a forty?  Malt Liquor gets a bad rap.

The first widely successful malt liquor in America was Country Club, which was first produced in the early 1950s by the M.K. Goetz Brewing Company, and marketed toward middle-class White Americans. Today, malt liquors are marketed to an entirely different demographic, resulting in a stereotyping of the typical consumer. According to a study by Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science in California, malt liquor is the alcohol of choice of the homeless and unemployed. Beginning in the 1980s, many brands of malt liquor began to aggressively target this market and used popular actors (like Billy Dee Williams) or rappers in their advertisements; Ice Cube, for instance, appeared in radio advertisements for St. Ides. Some rappers vigorously opposed this trend, feeling that malt liquor manufacturers were exploiting the African American community. For example, Chuck D, of the group Public Enemy, took a very strong anti-malt liquor stance and once sued St. Ides over an advertisement that sampled his voice without permission. (from wikipedia)

Playing into the homeless stereotype The People’s Pint advertises Tap and Die Malt Liquor saying, “Paper bag optional”  then, they give me my bottle in, a paper bag.  Homelessness is a serious problem in our country. “According to the US Department of Housing and Urban Development, there were 664,414 sheltered and unsheltered homeless persons nationwide on a single night in January 2008. Additionally, about 1.6 million persons used an emergency shelter or a transitional housing program during the 12-month period between October 1, 2007 and September 30, 2008. This number suggests that 1 in every 190 persons in the United States used the shelter system at some point in that period.” (thanks again to the wikipedia).

Opening my paper bag I noticed that the bottle label is cool, its all skull and crossbones looking but it is really a tap and die!  Ha! Love it.

This is no adjunct riddled malt liquor.  It is tasty as all get out.  It is smooth (I’ve been drinking a lot of smooth beers lately).  This is really just a fine beer?  What is a malt liquor?  It has a higher alcohol volume, well higher than 5%.  Very viscus. Kinda appleish flavours and sweet.  Not overly sweet, crisp too.  Just gotta try this. ★★★★★

I don’t actually recommend watching the video below.  The guys are serious homophobes and burb and swear through the whole thing.  Kinda funny if you like that kinda shit.