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Vol.8 No 4
Makes 2 servings:
* 2 living lobsters, about 1.25 pound each
* a loaf of French bread
* ingredients to prepare lobster
- 3 stalks of celery cut in pieces
- 1 stalk of leek cut in pieces
- 1 medium size onion cut in pieces
- 2 red jalapeno hot peppers cut in small pieces
- 4 bayleaves
- 1 thym
- 1 bottle Piraat Triple IPA Ale 11.2 oz
- salt
* ingredients for the sauce:
- 2 scallions, diced
- 1 tablespoon minced garlic
- 1 teaspoon sweet basil
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 1 quarter cup whisky
- 1 quarter cup Piraat Triple IPA Ale
- 1/2 pint heavy cream
- cayenne pepper
- salt & pepper
How to prepare – 45 minutes:
- Start with preparing the lobster by filling a large cook pot with 3 quarters of water and the bottle of Piraat Ale. Add the lobster veggies and
a dash of salt. Bring to boil, and let it boil for a couple of
minutes. Lower the living lobsters, head first in the boiling mixture in one movement. Rubbers stay on claws.
When water boils again let it boil for 15 minutes. Fish
your lobsters from the pot with any handy utensil and
place them on a plate. They should be red to pink in color.
Be careful: don’t dump the liquid until you’re sure your
lobsters are done.
- While the water is coming to a boil, prepare your sauce
veggies, and right after you put the lobsters in, start
preparing the sauce. Melt the butter in a deep pan. Add
all the sauce veggies and pepper and salt, and sauté the
mixture for about 2 minutes. Add the whisky, and immediately flambé. Let it burn for 10 seconds and then
blow out the fire or dose it with the beer. Reduce to half
by boiling and stirring on a regular basis. Add cream, add
a dash cayenne pepper, the basil and salt, and let simmer until thick for about 15 minutes. Lobsters and sauce are
ready at about the same time.
Serve: Split the lobster open in half and put on individual plate, put sauce in individual dipping cup and place on plate.
Add slices of the French bread, and some green salad. Serve each person a glass of Piraat Triple IPA. Cheers!
February 2003 / March 2003 p.297
BIEKEN, Honey ale from Brewery Boelens.
BIEKEN is Flemish dialect for a small honey bee. Pronounced in a loving
manner, it’s often used by the male to address the female when he is
looking to get something from her. BIEKEN, the original Honey ale, will
be introduced for the first time in the USA at the Belgian Beer Festival
in Pasadena during the last two weeks of February 2003. Call for more
details on the festival, which will feature + 80 different Belgian beers on
draft. (800-442-3379)
BIEKEN is one of the only thru honey ales from Flanders – Belgium, brewed
by the very small independent family brewery Boelens in Belsele, near St.
Niklaas located in the North East part of East Flanders.
Hypocrisy about Beer in Hollywood.
Visit www.japander.com and see the foreign commercials wherein some
of our most famous movie stars are not afraid to promote
beer and drink it on camera. As
long as these commercials are
not seen in North America, they
gladly make their millions. Now that
t h e
website is receiving some attention, the
stars are trying to stop the website from showing the commercials.
Imagine the unthinkable: our stars are human, and like a good
brew, or at least the millions to promote it. See Schwarzenegger and
Harrison Ford enjoying a cold beer.
Alcohol Saves Woman Who Drank Antifreeze.
An educating story in the Irish Examiner (12/31/02) taught us again how alcohol saves lives in
unsuspected places. Drinking 100 ml of antifreeze is enough to kill you. The liver breaks it down in
toxins that damage the kidneys and brings the liver to a final stop.
Fortunately the doctors at the Irish hospital had plenty of hard
liquor (whiskey, gin and vodka) available, and forced the victim
to immediately drink large amounts of the booze of her choice.
The liver chooses to work on the alcohol and lets the antifreeze
go by, which is than expelled through the kidneys.
We wonder if the US hospitals have a selection of hard liquor
available in the emergency room.
February 2003 / March 2003 p.298
American Medical Association (AMA)
discovers why Europeans fall behind.
Drinking alcohol kills brain cells and makes you dumb, claims the AMA, in an effort to stop underage drinking.
The AMA must believe that the Europeans are now too dumb to understand Americans, all because they
drank beer and wine when they were teenagers.
The AMA forgets to mention a few things. For example that the engaging in sports of any kind, including
soccer, football, basketball … even dancing, also causes the demise of many brain cell every time we hit our
head against something, or swing our head too abruptly. Fortunately we have plenty of these brain cells to
start with, we only use a very small portion of them, and the brain cells are able to renew themselves.
Cells all over our body die and are replaced constantly. Doctors and scientists without a political agenda,
believe that only EXCESSIVE alcohol consumption over a very long period damages somebody’s intellectual
capacities.
Sir Winston Churchill, one of the most adored political leaders of the last century, at least in the USA, was
known to have alcohol in his blood most of the day and the night for almost his entire life. And he was not
alone! But Adolf Hitler, the most hated political leader in the USA, was a total abstainer from alcohol. We
know that most political leaders over the thousands of years of history, including our Founding Fathers,
enjoyed wine and beer every day from a very young age. Seeing what they were able to write, accomplish,
think and do even at a very old age, makes you wonder just how many brain cells they must have had.
How was our civilization able to emerge and be successful in view of the fact that over thousands of years
the daily beverage of all, from young to old, was beer or wine, since water was not drinkable. Students
in Europe drink beer and wine almost
daily, and accomplish innovative thinking
in every field. Contrary to America,
the European teaching methods rely
far more on good memory. The AMA’s
position on alcohol consumption is
an insult to all these young European
brains, wanted by many American
companies.
The position of the AMA is so ridiculous
that it misses its intention. No thinking
person believes their official point of
view. It’s better to educate teenagers
how to enjoy a good beer or wine with
their meals, to teach them how much
is too much in a protective family
environment before they are offered
their first “illegal” drink. It is time
to lower the legal drinking age in the
USA to 16, and to stimulate parents
to moderately consume and share beer
and wine with their teenagers during
the family dinners. After all, moderate
alcohol consumption is known to be part
of a healthy life style. Why shouldn’t
teenagers be allowed to join?
February 2003 / March 2003 p.299
Beer for Beauty.
“Jane”, a woman’s monthly magazine, suggests to its readers in its
February 2003 issue to douse their hair with beer for shine, and
use beer for styling as well. The beer’s sugar holds hair in place as
good as hair spray. “Pour a can over your hair, dry and style as usual.”
The beer loses
its odor after it
dries.
other guests.
A German spa has
started bathing its
guests in beer. The
vitamin rich beer
seems to have a toning
effect on the skin. The
practice of using more
water than beer, is a bit
of a disappointment. But
then again, an all beer bath
was probably too relaxing,
or made the bathers sing all
the time, and thus disturb the
Fun & Beer Tour: Belgium 2003.
The tour starts in Brussels on Sunday September 21st at 2 PM and ends in Brussels on Sunday September
28th in the morning.
We will visit the breweries Cantillon, Hanssens, Silly, Chimay trappist, Dubuisson, Duvel, Van Steenberge,
Straffe Hendrik, Bavik, Dolle Brouwers, De Snoeck, Westvleteren trappist, and Van Eecke.
We will stay in Brussels, Gent, Brugge and Ieper, and we will savor delicious beer dinners in the best restaurants.
Full details on our web site www.globalbeer.com. Limited seating. Make your reservation now!