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What's in my Fridge? -- Something for Jeffery Dahmer?Dec 06 '00 (Updated Apr 08 '01) Write an essay on this topic.
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The Bottom Line Keep a mix of beers in your fridge -- your guests may not be as particular as you are.
Jeffrey Dahmer, the Milwaukee Cannibal and now-deceased serial killer, would find nothing of interest to eat in my refrigerator. There is nothing in it that would whet his appetite for human flesh: no arms of young boys, no hand-sandwiches, no severed heads, no human blood soup... nothing like this at all. (The police asked Jeffrey Dahmer why he chopped up and ate the body parts of his victims and he replied, "Well, a sandwich is just a sandwich, but a manwich is a meal.") However, he -- as a former Milwaukeean -- might find something to drink: Miller High Life beer. Yep. I keep a couple of cold 32-oz. bottles of the High Life in my refrigerator. When I am busy working around the house -- like I am this week, painting the exterior -- I like to have a big ol’ bottle of Miller beer to quench my thirst in reward for a hard day’s work. Miller High Life is a good beer to guzzle; it is cheap ($1.19 for a 32 ounce bottle), and tastes great cold. Thankfully, my wife doesn’t buy the beer for our household. If she did, we’d only have Budweiser and Natural Light in stock. She does not count beer among her favorite beverages, which demonstrates that she has virtually no taste or appreciation for any kind of beer; she classifies beers in two styles: those lagers that she finds okay (Budweiser and Corona) and all those other beers that she doesn’t care for because there are too “strong” or too “dark.” Other than the standard stock of Miller High Life, the other beers in my refrigerator rotate in-and-out depending upon my beer-drinking mood and also upon what kind of bargains I can find at my favorite little grocery store: Trader Joe’s Market. Currently, the latest crop of beers in my fridge awaiting consumption are: 5 bottles, 22 ounce each, of Bayhawk California Pale Ale -- This great tasting California ale may be the subject of my next beer review. I drank a bottle last night and was very excited by it zesty, refreshing taste. 9 pint cans of Henninger Premium Beer -- My (sentimental) favorite lager beer. Brewed in Frankfurt, Germany. This is a Reinheistgebot beer that is crisp, clean and great tasting. Best of all, it is value priced in the United States: about $4 for a six-pack of 16 oz. cans. Why buy an American macro-brew lager when this great tasting German beer is available at such a great price?! 3 bottles, 500 ml each, Belhaven Scottish Ale -- this is a complex, malt-nutty flavored ale from Scotland. I only drank one bottle so far, and look forward to further swigging a couple of more for a future review. 2 bottles, 25 oz. each, St. Peter’s (Organic) English Ale -- a “natural” beer product made from “organically grown” hops and barley. A “health tonic”? (The argument could be made!) Finally, what’s left in the refrigerator is one bottle of 1999 Hacienda Clair de Lune Chardonnay and one bottle of Chandon California Brut Classic sparkling wine (a highly recommended vintage that I actually prefer to the “Champagne of beers.”) If you were to check my refrigerator next week, you’d probably find an entirely different line-up of beers. I enjoy trying different brands and styles of beer, and have not settled on any “steady” drinkers others than my Henninger and High Life. There are, though, two beers you will never find in my fridge: Tequiza and Bud Dry. I just do not like them. This review is part of the What’s in my fridge? write-off that PALWalrus is hosting this week, the other participants are: Teykaerts / fuche_bu / bruguru / sleestakk / PALWalrus JMARJANCIK / PeterLRuden / mrjtsherman /andaryl Check out their refrigerator reports and other beer reviews - they are all great writers.  |
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