/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>14164615
cCigarettes and beer, no one gave a shit about taste. Now fuck off with your gay thread

American "porters" and "stouts" back then were just darker malts, they were brewed the same as a lager. Sometimes they didn't even bother with different malts, they'd just add colors. This is beause the am*rican consoomer will believe what he is told, it is perfectly legal to lie and americans will die for their constitutional right to be lied to. Bleach the chicken, fraud the wine, franken food corn. If you want to avoid being Matt Sheparded in am*ristan you act like you love this. Because the consequences of what they call "fag foreign commie treason" would be fatal.

>>14164729
This post is extremely low quality

>>14164615
>1. What was it actually like pre-prohibition?
Very German

>>14164742
cCunt

Prohibition killed off a lot of the alcohol industry in the states that is only now starting to come back, especially in the states where it was cultural and not just the law. Iowa, for example, produced significant amounts of wine that has only started to be produced again in the last decade. My parents' home was built by german immigrants who sold wine and distilled spirits, and the place has a 150 year old wine cellar in the back. We found a guy who put together literally a two volume compendium of every alcohol producer in the state in the 18th century, and it was pretty neat seeing some of their newspaper ads.

>>14164615
TUT TUT TUT

>>14164742
It's typical /tv/ tut tut tut shitposting. But you missed the based laughing guy on the right.

>>14164615
It was pretty much all local with canning in its infancy, so very localized and varying. For example, they couldn't even figure out how to can a beer well into the 60s.

>>14165732
Canning beer genuinely sounds pretty hard. Soda used bottles for ages because of the carbonation problem.

History of american beer: add too many hops to beer. FACT.

>>14164615
1. selling watered down piss
2. selling piss with too much hops and cartoon labels to attract the soy audience.

>>14167140
If you don't know the answer, you don't actually have to reply

>>14167150
go back to r/microbrews or whatever

>>14167159
>what was beer in america like before prohibition?
>duhhh, soyboy microbrews and ipas!

>>14167140
>1. What was it actually like pre-prohibition?
pre-prohibition means before 1920

>>14164615
>>14164615
more varied with regional styles then the subsquent adjunct baron monopoly. but many wouldnt like beer. the alcohol of choice was probably spirits.

people were intentionally directed towards beer after prohibition as a compromise. NA had severe drinking issues in the times of spirits.

a tavern was no place for a lady due to it being a place to go get frittered, not to socialze. the tavern often made there own boos in the

Saw a German documentary some time ago about Miller and Busch and it said that the biggest factor was that they couldn't grow barley very well and had to mix it with corn and other grains, which resultet in a milder beer. Also it was before bitter beers like pilseners were around and it was no need for strong beers like bock, because they haven't had to been shipped through the country.

>>14164615
All American beer pre-prohibition was various ales until like 1850 when (at least in the Midwest) a bunch of Germans came in and started making lager comparable to today’s mass-market lagers.

>>14164615
DUDE
RESEARCH MY PROJECT FOR ME
LMAO

>>14167883
>school project about regional breweries in the 1950s
Do Amerimutts really? Jesus Christ...

>>14167900
Could be a business class, don't be a gay

>>14167789
One of the oldest American beers is the steam beer, aka California common, brewed by guys who knew how to make lager but lacked means of refrigeration. So it's a bit of an ale/lager hybrid. Anchor Steam is one of the oldest US breweries, among the very few that survived the 20th century, their flagship steam beer is decent.

>>14164739

someone's off their meds, but I can help

>>14168057
>their flagship steam beer is decent.

it's actually very good

>>14164615
>1. What was it actually like pre-prohibition?
Most of it was local, and primarily cider, actually (as in, hard cider, not sweet cider). One of the major issues was that you could only transport it up to a certain distance, between refrigeration issues and the big expanses. Pabst was initially a beer limited to Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa and parts of Missouri, for instance. What made Budweiser so big was the fact that it was one of the earliest beers to use refrigerated train cars to ship its beers around the US. That said, you had production based on the locality. Cincinnati was a huge brewing and shipping town for bourbon and to a lesser extent rye and wine (Kentucky Wine was a surprisingly big thing), but it lost most of it come Prohibition.

>Did all of those little regional breweries in the postwar years produce the same cheap swill as the big guys?
Most of the ones you're thinking of fucking died, actually. What you're seeing is the big guys of the small guys. It wasn't quite cheap swill, necessarily, but the main issue is that all the American brewmasters left. Anyone who was good at an alcohol-related business (that wasn't a farmer) left. Bartenders? Left. Brewmasters? Left. Master distillers and blenders? Left. Sommeliers and tasting notes guys? Left. The guys who were leftover were the ones that didn't have enough money to do so, and as such had to become criminals.

>>14167685
In the what?!
IN THE WHAT?!?