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Xingu beer thread

Lorenzini

Lorenzini

Dec 31, 2004
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#1
Anyone ever had Xingu Black Beer? I love the stuff. Tried it for the first time last night. 3 Xingus & 3 Dos Equis had me quite happy.

It's nice and thick, but not so thick as Guiness, and much stronger than any other beer I've ever had.
It's brewed in Brazil.

Thoughts?
 
#2
Lorenzini said:
Anyone ever had Xingu Black Beer? I love the stuff. Tried it for the first time last night. 3 Xingus & 3 Dos Equis had me quite happy.

It's nice and thick, but not so thick as Guiness, and much stronger than any other beer I've ever had.
It's brewed in Brazil.

Thoughts?
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It's great beer. Do you know what they use instead of yeast to start the brewing process?? :ninja:
 
#3
Found the info.............

Deep within the jungles of today's Amazon rain forest, a scene from the dawn of time is enacted by the women of Stone Age Indian tribes. Seated in a circle, the women slowly chew cereal grains, the enzyme ptyalin in their saliva converting the starches in the hard kernels to fermentable sugars. Spitting the resulting "mash" into clay pots, the first step in the ancient woman's art of beer brewing has begun. For early mankind, beer was perhaps the single most important diet staple. A valuable source of protein and vitamins, brewing was a significant milestone in ensuring our survival as a species. Modern scholars have proposed that beer's combined power to both alter mood and provide nutrition gave early man the notion to settle into village life, forsaking the nomadic hunting and gathering lifestyle forever.
 
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FL Knifemaker said:
Found the info.............

Deep within the jungles of today's Amazon rain forest, a scene from the dawn of time is enacted by the women of Stone Age Indian tribes. Seated in a circle, the women slowly chew cereal grains, the enzyme ptyalin in their saliva converting the starches in the hard kernels to fermentable sugars. Spitting the resulting "mash" into clay pots, the first step in the ancient woman's art of beer brewing has begun. For early mankind, beer was perhaps the single most important diet staple. A valuable source of protein and vitamins, brewing was a significant milestone in ensuring our survival as a species. Modern scholars have proposed that beer's combined power to both alter mood and provide nutrition gave early man the notion to settle into village life, forsaking the nomadic hunting and gathering lifestyle forever.
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There's no way they still do that... :confused:
So what do they do now? :D
 
#7
Lorenzini said:
There's no way they still do that... :confused:
So what do they do now? :D
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I like it. And I think the "they don't it the way they used to anymore" applies to Xingu, unless you are looking for "vintage". :p


No, I don't know what they use. I will try to find something later. I am at work, so the Xingu webpage is blocked here. But I have never heard of any "professional chewer", so I think you didn't drink anybody else's saliva...

:p
 
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FL Knifemaker said:
It's great beer. Do you know what they use instead of yeast to start the brewing process?? :ninja:
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Actually they have always used yeast, it just came from the mouths of the chewers.

They probably don't do it anymore because when you do things like that, the results are unpredictable. Yeast has a big impact on the flavor of beer and if you were to make the same beer with 20 different strains of yeast and try to sell it, it probably would end up tanking.

It's likely that they started out with chewing as a method to obtain yeast (which is how the Chinese did beer as far back as 9000BC) and then once they found a yeast strain which was robust and had the best flavor, they isolated it and maintain the line in a lab somewhere.
 
#14
FL Knifemaker said:
Where do you buy it in Tampa?? I might have to take a drive :D Beer availability SUCKS in Lakeland :mad: Our town is OWNED by Bernie Little/Anheiser Busch :spit:
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Well, across the street from my apartment complex is a little convenience store that has a pretty good selection. Xingu was a new import they got in.

But, on our main drag in Clearwater, SR-60 (Gulf-to-Bay Blvd) right when you cross the Courtney Campbell Causeway, there is WORLD OF BEER!

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Look at the website and their selection.. Ownage.. Might be a good hour and a half ride for you but hey...
 

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