The Big Green House

Wednesday, November 06, 2002

 

Won�t somebody think of the cows?

Science Girl had made short work of the rest of the Sam Adams by the time I got home last night, so we�re going to have to put off the re-tasting. (For the record, though, she concurs with my �minimal flavor� verdict.)

Fortunately, I thought that that might be the case � not because SG is a serious boozer or anything, I hasten to add, but rather because there just weren�t many left. When I taste-test, I am thorough. So, I�d stopped by the store on my way home & picked up some Thomas Kemper Happy Cow Winterbrau.

Now, I am nothing if not a sucker for happy cows. Cows take a lot of abuse from the world (except for those Indian cows, of course), so anything that makes them happy is probably OK in my book. Giving them vehicles and weapons would be a mistake, but, say, letting them vote� well, they couldn�t really do much worse than humans � sure, why not?

So it was with visions of joyous bovine suffrage dancing through my tiny brain that I brought the beer home.

For those of you unfortunate enough to be living outside the Greater Puget Sound area, Thomas Kemper is owned by the folks at Pyramid Brewing. Pyramid focuses on ales, and Kemper makes the lagers & various other German-style beers, along with some very good sodas. (Although most of the locals I�ve met, including SG, call them �pops�. Go figure.) I used to work next door to their old soda plant; it always smelled really interesting, even though by the time I was working there they�d been gone from the building for about six months.

But I digress. The point is/was beer. The Happy Cow Winterbrau, to be precise. Remember how I was bitching yesterday about flavorless Xmas beers? Be careful what you wish for. Someone at the Kemper brewery has an affinity for nutmeg. Yipes. Since I don�t really care for the taste of nutmeg all that much, I�m in kind of a bind here, recommendation-wise. The beer is pretty nice otherwise, but I just can�t get past the overpowering nutmeg-ness of it all. If that�s a flavor you savor, then this is right up your alley, down your street, and in your pantry. Or something.

Just as long as the cows are happy.

bmarkey 11/06/2002 09:12:00 PM