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Genre: Howto & Style
Date of upload: Dec 8, 2023 ^^
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I feel obliged to mention that Abita, being a Louisiana beer, is for Christmas down here on the Gulf Coast -- relatively warm and damp. The brighter, tarter, more bitter beers tend to drink better on a December evening where it's 70 degrees and 93% humidity, as it is today. It doesn't do what a Christmas beer does up north, and that's likely by design. Regionalism in brewing is interesting and says a lot about where beers and ciders come from, and how that plays out with national distribution changes the beer's context.
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Sam Smith's is an odd one over here in the UK. Their beers are typically only ever found in their own Sam Smith's pubs, of which there aren't that many around, but once you're in a Sam Smith's pub, everything available is Smith's branded, including for example, the sodas/mixers. I didn't even know they existed until stumbling across one of their establishments in a London backstreet in my twenties, then learned they're from Tadcaster, a town famous for two bigger breweries that produce much more well known brands. So yeah, then discovering that every American I've met since then grew up knowing the brand is a little surprising.
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When it comes to developing tasting as a skill, the biggest thing is realizing that tasting is simply just recalling things you've had in the past. And the best way to get better at it is to look to try things new to you... the bottom line being, the more things you've tasted, the bigger your tasting 'lexicon' becomes
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that bit on listening to music is so interesting because, as a musician (who also loves tasting things; tea in my case) that's how I've always tried to relate the process to people, "it's like focusing on different instruments in a song, and the different tastes are like different pitches and timbres of instruments and whatnot", but I never made the connection of actually training taste sensitivity (in the way of being able to peel apart tasting notes) by active listening (the term for that sort of focused, specific listening). I'm gonna have to try that out with intention now!
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Fun thing about Christmas beer in Denmark, we have almost a "holiday" around it. The biggest brand of beer in Denmark, Tuborg, releases their Christmas beer on a specific day every year since the 80's. We call it "J-day" and refers to it as the day "the snow falls". Everyone goes out on bars or meet up with friends to get a Tuborg Christmas beer, making it one of the biggest "go out and drink" days of the year.
It is really just a marketing stunt by Tuborg, but at this point is has become something akin to New Year's Eve where people use it as a good excuse to meet up and drink.
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I'm up to 27 Christmas beers reviewed total now, are there more I'm still missing?! Let me know- and the best way to reach me is in my Discord server, which you can access at the $5 level on my Patreon bit.ly/H2DPatreon See you in there! Don't forget to check out Curiada - bit.ly/notbeerbutjustasgood - for spirits you might not be able to find in your local liquor store. Check out the How to Drink Collection for bottles you see on the show. Curiada: bit.ly/notbeerbutjustasgood Moonwalking with Einstein: amzn.to/3taBp3i Twitch: bit.ly/2VsOi3d H2D2: bit.ly/YTH2D2 twitter: bit.ly/H2DTwit instagram: bit.ly/H2dIG Blog: bit.ly/H2DBlog Patreon: bit.ly/H2DPatreon Gear: amzn.to/2LeQCbW I Drank Every Christmas Beer: https://youtu.be/fP6shfbTGIA?si=jQqVfBbwow00gur3 Egg Nog Review and Taste Test: https://youtu.be/KyG93WoVZFY?si=rjk6k-7kevZLIj6u Christmas Cocktails from Hell: https://youtu.be/Rpp1KTmZyoI?si=mxZVT0kTbOeA8Yow
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