Monday, June 16, 2008

Welcome to Beercentric

beer:
1.
  • A fermented alcoholic beverage brewed from malt and flavored with hops.
  • A fermented beverage brewed by traditional methods that is then dealcoholized so that the finished product contains no more than 0.5 percent alcohol.
  • A carbonated beverage produced by a method in which the fermentation process is either circumvented or altered, resulting in a finished product having an alcohol content of no more than 0.01 percent.

2. A beverage made from extracts of roots and plants: birch beer.
3. A serving of one of these beverages.

cen-tric:
1. Situated at or near the center; central.
2. Having a center.
3. Of or relating to diatoms of the class Centrales, distinguished by there radially symmetrical form.

beer-cen-tric:
A site about beer!

I am going to be up front and honest right here and now. I, and the people I ask to post here, are not elite beer people who know how to accurately grade a brew and specifically hit on the characteristics that will make the beer snob in all of us go "wha?". I am, however, a normal guy who likes to try new beers, likes to brew a small batch every now and again and loves to go on a beer hunting expedition when gas prices allow. I love the adventure of trying a new brew or an old brew that I haven't had before.

People ask me what I like and I simple say "Everything!". While that isn't necessarily the case, I do like a full rounded amount of beers whether they be cheap or expensive, light or dark OR good or bad in the popular opinion. Its simple. I taste beer, I write about it here. My hope is to do a common guy's look at what beer means to just an average dude who likes a little more than he can get at the local grocer. There are only a few rules:

1. These are opinions and not the law. Drink what you like and enjoy!
2. Budweiser is not to be mentioned unless they come up with a new recipe that does not include lime, clamato or ice.

Thats it! Drink and enjoy and don't talk about Bud. It's simple! :) Right?

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