Eh? Tomato ketchup is mostly tomato. The amount of raw tomato put in is more than the actual finished product because they concentrate it.

Ah, don't know why I thought otherwise. Maybe because it's so sugary.


Ah, that's right. She has said she likes those. Thanks for the recommendations.

I just had a nice Eisbock last night. An icebeer, who woulda-thunk-it.

Aventinus Weizen Eisbock from G.Schneider & Sohn. 12% ABV, 500ml. A nice kick in the pants, it was actually the highest ABV I've tried that I've actually enjoyed.

There is a load of sugar and vinegar as well but it should still be majority tomato assuming the brand you're buying or the recipe you're following is a good one.

Because many flavoring compounds are alcohol soluble, but not water or oil soluble.

That's not how they are in the US.

That said, in my opinion, electric stoves, at least the traditional style with the coiled eyes, are lousy because it's so hard to get a pan to sit level on them. Given that contact is necessary for useful heat transfer, and it makes a lousy surface to cook on.

Extraordinary thread :-)

I am pretty much in the camp of "I like almost every alcoholic drink" in the way that I like most soft drinks. Some are very good however, and some are crap - but they all taste different, so in terms of tasting the alcohol - nope, definitely not. You can feel the alcohol, if it is strong, but no taste that is an alcohol one.

In food with alcohol, a steak and ale pie has hardly any alcohol in it, but tastes of ale (a good thing) whereas a vodka jelly tastes of jelly (also a good thing)

Although of course there is a fairly good chance that you wouldn't be able to identify it as steak and ale pie if you were blind folded, were stopped from being able to smell it and not told what it was...

You're probably right :-)

I'm a fan of root beer, but I enjoy a good ginger beer and birch beer now and again.

IBC was my usual brand until I moved where they don't know what root beer is. Sigh.

For root beer, accept nothing but Henry Wienhard's. It's still not real root beer as I knew it as a kid, but it's the best going now.

IBC tastes like the chemical soup that it is. Like all sodas.

As I move around the globe, I never really miss what I can't get any more, as there's always new and yummy things to explore.

I'm partial to Stewart's Root Beer or Ginger Ale, although the reason may be that I share the name.

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Ah, a good Portland label. Crater Lake Soda, Jone's Soda, and Lucky Lab (a Portland brew-pub) also have good root beers.

Didn't HW leave Portland a while ago?

I want to find a true root beer, even HW is just mixed chemicals. Good mixed chemicals, tho!

It was bought by Miller in 1999, and moved out of state, for a while. It came back to Oregon in 2003, though moved up the Columbia to Hood River.


Let me know if you find one.

If anyone is ever in Toronto, I can after sampling tonight, wholeheartedly recommend Beer Bistro. Amazing selection of beer on tap and in bottles, plus a very nice (and tasty) food menu.

I had a Koningshoeven Dubbel and La Maudite on tap tonight. While I've had my fair share of Maudite in the past, this was the first time I'd tried it draught. Different, but very very nice. Quite smooth and maybe a little less malty than in-bottle. Definitely less yeasty, which is neither good nor bad, just different.

If anyone is in Ontario, I'd appreciate the smuggling of some Formosa beer into the usa.

I've heard it's not wonderful beer, but my company's name is Formosa.

Is there a chance that locally it's called sarsaparilla?

Don't think I've ever seen root beer, will have a hunt around as I see it mentioned a lot.

Root beer is a fizzy "soft" drink, commonly found in grocery stores and the like. I've found it in England on previous trips, so have a look around.

Cheers

Shh!

/snigger

I'm very much the same way. I have yet to find any beer that I like. I enjoy wine and ciders, but don't drink often. I did come to appreciate a good Woodchuck Amber Cider while watching a movie from years of going to the Alamo Drafthouse. Most of the Austin locations had it on tap.

And I have a few new root beers to hunt down now. Time to go wander BevMo sometime this weekend.