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[Big Nake]

dorito?  wtf???

I know. Corn chips? No one there was even eating anything... just drinking beer.

[SchwanzBrewer]

chances are most asshole are drinking bud lite or something similar.  it's just straight up statistics.

 

About 50% of beers consumed in America are an ABInBev product. 

[MakeMeHoppy]

I know. Corn chips? No one there was even eating anything... just drinking beer.

did she maybe mean fritos instead of doritos?

[denny]

About 50% of beers consumed in America are an ABInBev product. 

 

Here are some numbers....

 

https://m.theatlanti...utm_source=digg

[codemonkey]

Here are some numbers....

 

https://m.theatlanti...utm_source=digg

So what's up with Lagunitas' huge gain? The bar on the main floor of my office building has the IPA on one of two taps now. $3 during happy hour. My grocery store carries it too, but they carry Belgians and Stone beers.

[Big Nake]

So what's up with Lagunitas' huge gain? The bar on the main floor of my office building has the IPA on one of two taps now. $3 during happy hour. My grocery store carries it too, but they carry Belgians and Stone beers.

I was downtown a couple of weeks ago and went to a place (the line was out the door so we went across the street) and everywhere I looked the Lagunitas IPA was everywhere. We ended up at three different spots and it was the most visible beer in every place we went.

[codemonkey]

Lagunitas Brewing undertakes big expansion

[chuck_d]

Surprised that "When do you add the alcohol?" didn't make the list.

[Mynameisluka]

isn't that illegal?

[Brauer]

I know. Corn chips? No one there was even eating anything... just drinking beer.

Perhaps she was very sensitive to DMS. I recently had a Yuengling Lager that was bit heavy on DMS, which I'm not usually very sensitive to, and I can imagine that coming across as "corn chips" to someone that doesn't know what to expect.

 

On the other hand, it could be that she had never had a beer that had malt flavor before and didn't know how to classify it and associated it with something else that tastes grainy.

 

Or she was just drunk.

[positiveContact]

Perhaps she was very sensitive to DMS. I recently had a Yuengling Lager that was bit heavy on DMS, which I'm not usually very sensitive to, and I can imagine that coming across as "corn chips" to someone that doesn't know what to expect.

 

On the other hand, it could be that she had never had a beer that had malt flavor before and didn't know how to classify it and associated it with something else that tastes grainy.

 

Or she was just drunk.

 

what threw me off is she really meant fritos while i was thinking of something with nacho cheese flavor

 

corn chips makes more sense though if DMS was an issue.

[Big Nake]

... and the beer was made with pilsner malt so if a tiny bit of DMS was there, I could see that reaction. Fritos, Doritos, same thing. She said "Original flavor" meaning no cool ranch, no nacho cheese, etc.

[neddles]

I've tasted a few beers in the past that had a background flavor that reminded me of the Kellogg's Corn Pops cereal I used to eat when I was a kid. All of them were beers that likely had pilsner malt as the base. I've always wondered if that was DMS or what. One of them was a Gose, which was an interesting experience.

[positiveContact]

... and the beer was made with pilsner malt so if a tiny bit of DMS was there, I could see that reaction. Fritos, Doritos, same thing. She said "Original flavor" meaning no cool ranch, no nacho cheese, etc.

 

i don't know that i've ever seen doritos "original flavor". 

[3rd party JKor]

Here are some numbers....

 

https://m.theatlanti...utm_source=digg

 

 

Wow, Kona is in the top 10 craft beer producers?  That is shocking.  I probably would've come up with 100 breweries before Kona.  Are they really that big out west?  They're pretty non-existent around here.

I can see a pilsner-based beer getting a corn chip reference.  The Doritos angle is a little weird, you would think she'd just go straight to tortilla chips, like Tostitos or something.  Maybe the hops gave her a little cheesy note?

[positiveContact]

Wow, Kona is in the top 10 craft beer producers?  That is shocking.  I probably would've come up with 100 breweries before Kona.  Are they really that big out west?  They're pretty non-existent around here.

I can see a pilsner-based beer getting a corn chip reference.  The Doritos angle is a little weird, you would think she'd just go straight to tortilla chips, like Tostitos or something.  Maybe the hops gave her a little cheesy note?

 

brewed right at red hook in NH.

[denny]

... and the beer was made with pilsner malt so if a tiny bit of DMS was there, I could see that reaction. Fritos, Doritos, same thing. She said "Original flavor" meaning no cool ranch, no nacho cheese, etc.

 

I'd guess she was referring to a "grainy" type of flavor.

[matt6150]

I think Ken is just confused with the names of his snacks and really means Fritos. That has an original flavor.

[Brauer]

I've tasted a few beers in the past that had a background flavor that reminded me of the Kellogg's Corn Pops cereal I used to eat when I was a kid. All of them were beers that likely had pilsner malt as the base. I've always wondered if that was DMS or what. One of them was a Gose, which was an interesting experience.

I've tasted DMS in a number of Berliner Weisen, too.

[Big Nake]

i don't know that i've ever seen doritos "original flavor".

I think Ken is just confused with the names of his snacks and really means Fritos. That has an original flavor.

I'm probably older than both of you but many years ago, Doritos came "plain" as well as the nacho cheese, taco, etc. Cool Ranch came later and eventually the Original Doritos (plain) disappeared. Doritos. Not Fritos. Although if you had plain Doritos, it would pretty much be Fritos.This looks relatively new but all throughout Dorito history, there has been a 'plain', 'original' or 'toasted corn' flavor...

Edited by KenLenard, 17 April 2014 - 12:55 PM.