{"id":162,"date":"2007-02-08T21:36:57","date_gmt":"2007-02-08T21:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/desert-island-beers-ii\/"},"modified":"2007-02-08T23:22:46","modified_gmt":"2007-02-08T23:22:46","slug":"desert-island-beers-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/desert-island-beers-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Desert island beers II"},"content":{"rendered":"

Still thinking about Alan McLeod’s contest<\/a> when I should be working, which also means without a beer in hand to influence my thinking.<\/p>\n

So the today’s one word thought: Hops. (Yesterday’s was “saison” – these don’t have to be exclusive).<\/p>\n

But I also did a quick search to see what Michael Jackson might have written about this. I knew he did a list on the World Beer Hunter CD-ROM, but you can’t Google that. Anyway, I came across this in a 1993 column<\/a> in wich he laments Guinness marketing decisions.<\/p>\n

\nI would want a Bavarian wheat beer to quench my thirst on a hot day, a Bohemian lager to accompany the fish I would catch on my desert island, a British ale to go with the wild animals I would barbecue and a barley wine to intoxicate me when I longed for escape.<\/p>\n

But one glass of the Dublin stout and I would be transported from my desert island to a pub where the glistening black of the beer reflected the brass barrails, the polished mirrors and mahogany … Two glasses and I would begin to enjoy my own company, three, and I would find myself as entertaining as Joyce, Wilde or O’Casey.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Seems like a fair standard to set for our desert island beers.<\/p>\n

And if you can find a beer that will help me write a few paragraphs of similar quality please let me know.<\/p>\n

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