Like most of you, I have taken notice of how our government’s subsidizing of corn ethanol has increased the price of food, while doing nothing about the price of gasoline. But like everybody else, I have sit idly by and done nothing.
But after hearing about this, I don’t think I can take it anymore. Raising the price of food is one thing, but raising the price of beer? Now that is going too far.
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Any beer that uses corn as an adjunct (in lieu of malted barley) ain’t worth pourin’ out of a boot. Yes, Rolling Rock, Miller, et al — I’m lookin’ at YOU!
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JP, it’s one thing to put down my politics, but don’t you go insulting my Miller beer. That’s crossing a line.
You like corn beer? Sad.
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Are you sure they use corn in Miller and Rolling Rock? I’m not saying your wrong. I don’t know. But the article that Toni linked to cited the fact that fields that once had barley and hops, are being used to now grow corn, and the lack of supply of barley and hops is driving up the cost of beer.
Yeah — it’s actually a relatively common adjunct (brewer’s term for “substitute”), as is rice (all the A/B beers use rice, and some use corn, too). All it does is substitute for malted barley in the wort (pronounced “wurt”), providing starches and sugars to feed the yeast during fermentation. The yeast poop out alcohol. Ain’t nature grand?
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I don’t like rice beer, AKA Bud. I will take a Miller over a Bud any day.
Glen, not sure about those specifically, but corn and rice are pretty common in what I call “fishing beer.” The book Travels with Barley, if I remember correctly, addresses this and talks about beer history and production in America.
Egad. A dislike of corn ethanol, and a like of Miller High Life? Is it possible that Glen and I could agree on two things in one day?
And yes, Miller uses corn (they even say so on the tour), whereas Bud uses rice. Which is another reason why Miller is in all ways superior to Bud.
But I agree with Rachel, except that I classify it as “yard work beer.” Really good beer adheres to the Rheinheitsgebot, but that beer generally isn’t what you want when it’s 90 degrees outside.
And yes, Miller uses corn (they even say so on the tour), whereas Bud uses rice. Which is another reason why Miller is in all ways superior to Bud.
To each their own, right? Corn just assaults my tastebuds in beer,/i> though.
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“Yard work beer”. That’s pretty good, but I hate to put the word “work” anywhere close to something as wonderful as “beer”.