Just curious what people and more specifically BREWERS felt about establishments changing the beer they brewed over to a "Nitro Pour" ? There is a local bar in Maryland that is advertising a new "system" they have – "a new system that enables them to remove carbonation from ANY beer of their choosing and then pour it with nitrogen. This system, however, produces a totally different nitrogen pour experience due to its ability to completely remove carbonation from a beer before the introduction of nitrogen." I personally see a lot of issues with this, almost like "tampering." It is like Best Buy purchasing a load of Apple iPhones and changing the Messenging platform before selling them. I feel a brewer, brews his/her beer to be consumed by the drinker in a perceived way when it leaves the brewery. With this "system" the end consumer gets a "nitro version" that the brewer never intended and that consumer may end up disliking a beer never produced by the brewery and altered by someone else outside the control of the brewery. (Not arguing about Nitro Beers, but rather the changing of the beer by someone outside the brewery) Thoughts?
This can't be good. I agree, unless the brewer intended for it to be a nitro pour they shouldn't be messing with it in this way. Second, we all have a way to remove carbonation...just open it and let it go flat. But adding the nitro back won't do any thing to help the flatness of it after the fact. As I understand it, nitrogen won't dissolve into the beer so you'll end up with a cool nitro effect and then a flat as crap beer.
What? BREWERY MAKES BEER, WHICH IS SOLD TO THE DISTRIBUTOR, THEN SOLD TO THE RETAILER. Fortunately, its nothing like BestBuy tampering with an iPhone at all; is beer a device? No. If you don't like Nitro, get something else or go somewhere else. If the people don't like it, they don't drink it. This kind of example is exactly the mentality that is transforming United States into what it is, a whining tank of incongruent analogies. Having a fit over this is like saying, "No you can't put my beer through a Randall!"
Well, having a fit over a beer is ridiculous, but not wanting your beer to be altered is reasonable. Also phone company makes phone, which is sold to distributor, which is then sold to retailer. I think the analogy to tampering with a device isn't ideal, but if a bar does this they are altering the final product, which I do not care for and I'm sure a brewer would not care for. Who the hell came up with this "system" and why on earth would anyone want this is my question.
