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What distinguishes ales from lagers? Some beer drinkers may be quick to name a specific beer if asked to pick a favorite, while others may say they simply prefer an ale or a lager without naming a particular beer. But what distinguishes ales from lagers?
Beer is a subject many people would happily expound on if given a chance. Some beer drinkers may be quick to name a specific beer if asked to pick a favorite, while others may say they simply prefer an ale or a lager without naming a particular beer. But what distinguishes ales from lagers? Flavor is one thing that distinguishes ales from lagers. Lagers are often described as ‘crisp.’ When attaching that descriptor to lagers, people typically mean the lager goes down smooth without too complicated a flavor profile. Ales tend to produce a fruity, aromatic and more complex flavor than lagers. Some, but not all, ales are characterized by a bitter flavor, while lagers are generally not. It’s important to note that these flavor profiles are not set in stone. As a result, it might be possible to find ales and lagers with flavor profiles that are wholly unique to the style. This might be even more possible now thanks to the craft beer movement, which has inspired many talented brewers to experiment with ingredients in an effort to expand the flavor possibilities of their beers, regardless of which style of beer they’re brewing. Popular Science notes that the most fundamental difference between ales and lagers is the type of yeast used to cre-
ate the beers. The yeast used affects the flavor of the beers, so it’s no wonder that ales and lagers tend to taste so different from one another. The yeast used to create lagers and ales is different, but Popular Science notes that the lager yeast genome shares many similarities to the ale yeast genome. So while the yeast is different, ultimately the difference in flavors between the two has as much to do with the fermentation process as it does with the yeast. How the two yeasts behave is a big reason behind the differences in flavor. Lager yeast works best in cold temperatures. If employed in those same temperatures, ale yeast would go dormant. Ales are, according to ‘Beer for Dummies,’ traditionally fermented at temperatures between 55 and 70 F, while lagers are fermented at considerably colder temperatures (38 to 50 F). It’s that cold environment during the fermentation process of lagers that prohibits the production of fruity aromas, producing a lager’s clean, more mellow taste. Beer afficionados tend to be partial to ales or lagers. And while ales and lagers differ greatly in terms of taste, the two are not necessarily as different as some may think. TF199212
Why you should always store your beer cold When buying your favorite beers, you may have noticed manufacturers are using cans to urge customers to store their beers in a certain way. The instructions often advise you to ‘Store Cold’ and/or ‘Drink Fresh.’ Why the sudden insistence on storing canned or bottled beers in such a specific way? The answer has a lot to do with flavor. According to beerandbrewing.com, an online resource offering brewing tips and beer news, light and heat can damage the flavor and stability of a finished beer. Beers contain hops with alpha acids that, when exposed to UVB light from the sun, will contribute to a skunky flavor. Limiting exposure to that UVB light, which can be accomplished by storing beers in cold refrigerators, can reduce the likelihood that the beer’s flavor will be adversely affected. Craft brewers work hard to develop finished products with unique flavors, so it only makes sense that they prefer their customers do their best to preserve those flavors until they consume the beer. Another reason to store beer cold is what can happen to the flavor of beer when it’s exposed to heat. BeerandBrewing.com notes that applying heat to finished beer can result in premature aging. All beers are aged, but craft brewers devote considerable effort to aging beers in a way that allows chemical reactions to occur slowly, ultimately contributing to a flavor and finished product brewers are proud to call their own. By exposing beer to heat, the aging process is accelerated and the flavor changes. Specifically, the hops flavor many craft beer drinkers love tends to fade quickly when beers are exposed to heat. As for drinking beers fresh, that, too, has to do with flavor. Over time, a beer’s flavor profile may change, even if it’s stored cold. By drinking beer when it’s fresh, you are enjoying the flavor the brewers intended. TF199196 4 | PrimeTime
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ALL ABOUT BEER
The first modern craft brewer Over the course of the 1960s and 1970s, the brewing industry in the United States was undergoing significant change. In the past, immigrants who relocated to the United States brought their native countries’ favorite styles of beer with them. However, according to the Brewers Association, as the 1970s wore on, those styles were disappearing from store shelves and bars and being replaced with light lagers. But around this same time a grassroots movement that still resonates today was beginning to take shape. That movement was rooted in home brewing, which became popular as more and more U.S. residents wanted to enjoy styles of beers from other countries that they could no longer find in stores and bars. One man with such
an interest was Frederick Louis ‘Fritz’ Maytag III, the great grandson of the founder of the Maytag Corporation. In 1965, Fritz Maytag III purchased the California-based Anchor Brewing Company, which was founded in 1896 but had, by the 1950s and 1960s, developed a reputation for creating ill-tasting beer. Upon purchasing the brewery, Maytag changed the recipe of its flagship beer and the process of brewing it. The beer ultimately became very popular, and Maytag even helped other brewers in the art of microbrewing. For his efforts, Maytag, who sold the brewery in 2010, is widely credited with being the first modern craft brewer. TF199197
What is ABV?
What makes a brewer a craft brewer?
Read a bottle or can of beer and you will likely come across a percentage rating. That percentage is the alcohol by volume, or ABV. This number tells just how much alcohol is in the beer. ABV will coordinate to exactly how many ounces of alcohol are in the beverage. If a standard size bottle of beer (12 ounces) has a 5.0 ABV, that means the bottle has 0.6 ounces of pure alcohol. A standard drink is typically measured at 0.6 ounces of alcohol. That is why spirits like wine and liquor that have a higher ‘proof ’ or ABV despite their much smaller serving sizes. A beer’s ABV can affect the flavor of the beer and the overall body and mouth-feel, offers, VinePair, a beverage information site. Session beers have relatively low ABVs at around 4.5 percent. Many pale ales have moderate alcohol content. IPAs and some new craft beers can have ABVs of 6 percent and up. Some breweries today are even pushing the limits of beer ABV into double-digits, producing brews that pack a powerful punch. The thinking may be to offer more bang for the buck on higher-priced glasses and pints. TF199202
Craft beer has never been more popular or lucrative. According to The Brewers Association, a trade association that represents small and independent craft brewers in the United States, small and independent brewers collectively realized 4 percent total growth in 2018. The retail dollar value was estimated at $27.6 billion, proving that craft beer is not just flavorful but also a great way for people with a passion for brewing to share that passion while earning a pretty penny. As popular as craft beer has become over the last decade, even the most ardent craft beer enthusiasts might not know just what qualifies a brewery as a craft brewery. The Brewers Association issues a seal that certifies a brewery as a craft brewery. Breweries that earn the seal annually produce six million barrels of beer or less, which equates to roughly 3 percent of annual beer sales in the United States. In addition, a brewery must be deemed ‘independent’ to earn the seal. That means less than 25 percent of the craft brewer can be owned or controlled by a beverage alcohol industry member that is not itself a craft brewer. Finally, to earn the seal, a brewer must have his or her Brewer’s Notice, which is issued by the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau, a division of the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Many craft brewers started out as hobbyists brewing beer in their garages or sheds. Those who take that passion to the next level and end up sharing that passion and their finished product with others may one day earn the right to be deemed an official craft brewer. TF199205
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RETIREMENT SPARKS
SENIOR ISSUES
by ELAINE M. DECKER
Interpreting Retirees’ Dreams A daytime talk show host described a dream in which she was underwater. Penguins encircled her in a joyful way, as though she was part of their family. One viewer told her that penguins in a dream mean you need freedom and crave adventure. Another said seeing fish underwater meant she’s pregnant. The host insisted she wasn’t. Maybe that’s because penguins aren’t fish; they’re birds. All of this prompted me to research what certain dreams mean for retirees.
➜ Dream: You’re about to take a nice, long soak in your Jacuzzi tub. As you reach in to
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Dream: You discover a fire in your workshop. Your projects are all ablaze. The fire department arrives quickly, but the shop is a total loss. Your insurance company cites your carelessness and refuses to pay the claim.
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Interpretation: When you finally have time for whatever hobby you’ve planned for your retirement, it will be a disaster. Every relative and friend who finds out what you’re doing will want you to make something for them. And they’ll expect it to be a gift. Soon you’ll have to get part time work to cover the costs.
turn on the jets, you see that the tub is already filled with water. It’s also full of goldfish.
✔ Interpretation: Your daughter’s triplets are finally walking. Money is tight, and she’s
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✔ Interpretation: You’ll be elected Treasurer of the Social Committee in your commu-
decided to go back to work. She’s also decided that you’ll make a cost-affective alternative to daycare. After all, they so love their nonna, and you certainly have lots of time on your hands now that you’re retired.
Dream: You’re in an unfamiliar neighborhood, searching for lost pets from your younger years. They’ve moved on to the Rainbow Bridge already, but in your dream, they’re still alive. They’ve escaped from the house where you’re staying. You keep calling their names. Occasionally, you catch a glimpse of them, but they run off. You wake up in a panic and a cold sweat.
Dream: You’ve been invited to join the Mah Jongg group in your retirement community. You’re not much of a card or game player, and these days concentration is a challenge. Not wanting to appear elitist, you accept the invite. Your first meeting is a fiasco. You forget how many tiles are in a pung and a kong and decide the Chinese are diabolical. The game goes on for hours. In the background, Brenda Lee is singing: I Want To Be Wanted. nity. Your neighbors have noted the limitations on your social graces and have recognized your facility with numbers and computers. You have no interest in doing this, but you sign on for the gig anyway because… well, you want to be wanted.
✔ Interpretation: You’re worried that someone close to you is going to die soon. Maybe
someone whose name begins with the letter M. Or perhaps J. Or possibly T. For a modest fee, we’ll provide details; you’ll also receive the retirees’ version of our monthly newsletter: The Essential Fortune Teller.
➜ Dream: The stock market has crashed. Really tanked. It’s wiped out almost all your
➜ Dream: You come upon the first car you ever owned. Apparently, you still own it. It’s
✔ Interpretation: This one is a no brainer. You’re worried that the stock market is going
parked near a surveillance camera. Somehow this provides video proof that you didn’t do a smash-and-grab that you’ve been accused of. Your dream provides no information on how you came to be accused of said crime. It plays like a film noir collaboration of Federico Fellini and Michelangelo Antonioni. Fellini directs and Antonioni brings the noir.
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Interpretation: You’re going to fail the eye test when your driver’s license is up for renewal. You’ll need expensive prescription glasses. Regular ones and sunglasses. And a spare pair of the regulars, just in case. I have no idea how this relates to the dream.
➜ Dream: You’re caught without underwear. You can’t find a clean pair anywhere. Your washing machine is broken and you’re out of liquid detergent suitable for hand laundry.
✔ Interpretation: You’re going to be hit by a truck and taken to the ER in dirty under-
wear. Your mother always warned you about this. It serves you right for not listening to her.
retirement investments. You still have your pension and Social Security (for now), but your lifestyle must change dramatically. You’re afraid to tell your wife. She’s just been elected Treasurer of your Social Committee and she’s excited about making new friends. to crash. Really tank. It would wipe out almost all your retirement investments and your lifestyle would have to change dramatically. You’d better start thinking about how you’d tell your wife. She’s excited about the new friends she’s making. Our advice: lay off the spicy food after 8 pm.
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Vermont’s magical touch “What I did this summer,” the school essay assignment invites a backward glance as well as a forward smile to greet the return to seasons ahead. We drove from the ocean state with its beaches to inland vistas of verdant Vermont and I file this report. We stayed at an inn and were the only guests. The lady in charge, Tina, served elegant breakfasts in a formal dining room under a crystal chandelier. Thick ceramic bowls, elegantly sliced bananas and plump purple blueberries for your cereal and deep mugs for the coffee with cream in a pitcher. Out beyond her property there loomed a vast mountain, a deep gorge, and a rolling hillside lawn with clover, not signs declaring the presence of poisons to preserve the neatness of a mere illusion of “nature.” She had a collection of animal sculptures to decorate the grounds, a kitsch touch I found amusing and somehow reassuring. We drove past any number of antique shoppes. I chose a barn with a wide display of a sundry of objects. Not to be an annoying windowshopper, I offered to purchase a few possible choices. One was Irving Howe’s study of the Russian immigrants who became Americans. “But I’m reading it. Come back in a few days when I’ve finished it,” the shop owner declared. “How about that ‘Seabees’ cap?” I asked. “Can’t sell it, it belonged to my brother, who died last year,” he answered. I guess he’s a hoarder, not an antiquarian, declared my wife/travel companion. Decidedly, this Vermont is a strange and wondrous Shangri-La, I mused, to myself. This senior citizen guy was wearing a woman’s hat decorated with lace, speaking with yankee irony and wit, and mixing sarcasm with good-natured hospitality. He asked my name. “Fink,” I said. “A good Irish name,” he responded. I summed up and told my total tale as we packed up and loaded our car for the trek homeward to the shore. “My mother and father were eloping from Montreal in 1926, mid-August. They stopped at Bed and Breakfast inns along the way. I have a couple of snapshots from a box of negatives I discovered in the attic after their passing. Any chance it could have been right here?” I mused to Tina. “Very likely,” she encouraged. My mom and dad met in Montreal at the marriage of his widower father to a widow whose niece was a beautiful guest of honor.
The Fink’s pictured in Vermont, August 1926. My dad fell in love at first sight! The snapshot above tells the tale for me. We were enchanted by Vermont. It had a magical touch with its quality of light and eerie mystical moods. “Look! There’s a dusk hot-air balloon, this must be OZ,” my wife declared in wonderment. The balloon only goes upward bound at dawn or twilight. My beloved mother was born on August 2. She gave birth on August 2. She died on August 2. I light memorial candles for her and for the passing of my father, my brother, and the summer’s last gleaming and glamour. So I look backward sadly and forward hopefully. As Time goes By.
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beer glasses, each custom built to enhance particular varieties of beer. The concept behind beer glasses is that the dimensions of the vessel can impact how the beer is experienced via the senses. The right glassware can highlight the notable aspects of certain varieties of beer. For example, Henry Lau and Rik Sargent of Physics.org’s Cheers Physics explained that, with fizzy beers, a thin, pilsner-style glass can be ideal. Such a glass will cause less liquid to come in contact with the bottom of the glass, causing a smaller head. In other instances, glasses with a tapered top will control how bubbles burst in the head of beer, concentrating the aroma and forcing the drinker’s nose closer to the beer. Spiegelau’s IPA glass has a ridged base that helps agitate hops back into suspension. Its barrel-aged glass features a tulip bowl that focuses complex flavors similar to a wine glass.
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Coffee With Congress The public had the opportunity to speak with the state’s congressional delegation last month at the Alzheimer’s Association Rhode Island Chapter’s “Coffee with Congress” event held at the Warwick Central Public Library. In attendance were U.S. Senator Jack Reed, U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, U.S. Representative Jim Langevin and U.S. Representative David Cicilline. Other featured speakers included Lieutentant Governor Dan McKee, Donna M. McGowan, Executive Director of the Alzheimer’s Association Rhode Island Chapter; and Eric Creamer, Director of Public Policy and Media Relations for the Alzheimer’s Association Rhode Island Chapter. The congressmen described the legislation they support, including implementing the BOLD Act, increasing funding for research, championing the Hope for Alzheimer’s Act to educate physicians, promoting the younger-onset Alzheimer’s Act of 2019, and improving palliative care through the Palliative Care and Hospice Education and Training Act. Numerous attendees shared their personal struggles with how Alzheimer’s disease has affected their lives and those of their loved ones, and questioned the congressmen about the availablity of resources and support. Lieutenant Governor Dan McKee provided an update on the state’s plan to better address the needs of those living with dementia and their caregivers. The Alzheimer’s Association invites the community to participate in Coffee with Congress to discuss the staggering impact of Alzheimer’s disease in Rhode Island and across the nation, and to hear updates about progress on the federal level to improve care and fund research. The Alzheimer’s Association is the world’s leading voluntary health organization in Alzheimer care, support and research. Our mission is to eliminate Alzheimer’s disease through the advancement of research; to provide and enhance care and support for all affected; and to reduce the risk of dementia through the promotion of brain health. Our vision is a world without Alzheimer’s. Visit www.alz.org or call 800.272.3900.
The Alzheimer’s Association Rhode Island Chapter held a “Coffee with Congress” event at the Warwick Public Library recently as an opportunity for members of the public to hear legislative updates and ask questions pertaining to Alzheimer’s disease. Pictured (left to right): Eric Creamer, director of public policy, Alzheimer’s Association; U.S. Rep. James Langevin, U.S. Rep. David Cicilline, Kate Spinella, Development Director, Alzheimer’s Association; Jacqueline Waldon, Board President, Alzheimer’s Association; U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, Donna McGowan, Executive Director, Alzheimer’s Association; U.S. Sen. Jack Reed, and Lt. Gov. Dan McKee. (Submitted Photo)
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