Beer and ale that is *literally* dry.

Beer and ale that is literally dry.

Posted by GarageIndependent114@reddit | CrazyIdeas | View on Reddit | 38 comments

As in, it's not a liquid.

I don't mean bread or yeast. I mean, solidified beer.

I guess that's just ice? But I actually meant something that wasn't ice. Like when a sauce dries on your t shirt.

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jerrythecactus@reddit

I wonder how gross beer reduction would be.

Slowly boil the water off, until you end up with a gross burnt syrup or crust.

Bet it would smell like a unwashed urinal.

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Unusual-Ice-2212@reddit

The alcohol would boil off before the water, so you'd just be making nasty yeast sludge.

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DissatisfiedTapir@reddit

I made a PBR reduction a few months ago for a Blue Velvet cake. I thought the smell wasn't THAT bad, but my wife disagreed. The real problem was how it lingered.

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Ok_Explanation_5586@reddit

Palcohol got outlawed like the second it came out, because of course people snorted it.

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IamMrT@reddit

IIRC they had a formulation that would have prevented that, but it wasn’t permitted anyway.

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Ok_Explanation_5586@reddit

Lol, making something painful and irritating to snort does not prevent people from snorting it.

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Oh is that how they did it? I guess that makes sense. I assumed it was a chemical formulation thing requiring reconstitution or stomach acid to work, similar to how they do some pharmaceutical drugs. But idk if that would even work.

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DumbbellDiva92@reddit

Also, wasn’t Palcohol just as heavy and voluminous as normal alcohol? Which would defeat the whole point? There’s no way to make actual alcohol a solid bc that’s not how chemistry works.

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Ok_Explanation_5586@reddit

There are ways to coat droplets from alcoholic beverages with a dextrin film that has gaps large enough to release water molecules but not alcohol and leave it in a powder form. Because you have a very limited knowledge of how chemistry works.

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Gargantuan_nugget@reddit

damn bro. hes not THAT wrong

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Ok_Explanation_5586@reddit

Hey, shouldn't go around, "bc that's not how chemistry works"ing people if you don't know how chemistry works.

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Gargantuan_nugget@reddit

yeah. i guess tough but fair? i thought they were addressing the “dry sauce on your shirt” and just how the dried part isnt alcohol

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Ok_Explanation_5586@reddit

Nah, they were talking about Palcohol.

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Tomj_Oad@reddit

Most of the weight and volume of booze is water. Palcohol was like a third the weight and much less volume.

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ruffznap@reddit

“Dry” has always been such a weird word choice to describe a drink. It makes zero actual sense lol

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Tomj_Oad@reddit

Dry alcohol exists. Literally just add water. Regulatory hurdles meant it never hit the market, but it was a dry powder

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OlyScott@reddit

They could bind up the alcohol in a powder and mix that with a powder that tastes like beer.

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Environmental_Look_1@reddit

read this as beef and almost threw up

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jimbobsqrpants@reddit

Mmmm, powdered cow bits.

Actually, could just go snort a stock cube

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juanzy@reddit

Doesn’t Guinness dehydrate their beer to ship overseas?

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PLANETaXis@reddit

No, there are breweries that make it fresh all over the world.

Possibly you're confusing it with dried & powdered malt?

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Automatic_Mulberry@reddit

I have been a beer guy for so long that my drinking habit is old enough to drink, and that's the first time I have heard that one.

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juanzy@reddit

I only heard it because I have a friend that’s a beverage engineer. Idk if it’s all Guinness, but he said they do dehydrate their kegs for shipment.

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Automatic_Mulberry@reddit

Ah, okay, I think I found the core of that.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinness_Foreign_Extra_Stout

They make a concentrated beer that can be blended with locally produced beer to go be the characteristic color and flavor of Guinness without having to actually ship beer around the beer. But the flavor concentrate wouldn't b "dry beer," as it wouldn't have much (or any) alcohol in it. It would essentially be dark malt extract.

Guinness Flavour Extract, a dehydrated, hopped wort extract made from barley malt and roasted barley, is used for overseas production of the stout. The syrup is shipped from Ireland, where it is added at the ratio of 1:49 to locally brewed pale beer. In most overseas markets, Guinness Flavour Extract (GFE) is blended with locally brewed beer to produce FES.

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GarageIndependent114@reddit (OP)

Maybe it should be sold like that to customers.

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