Does anyone else do this? I do it at times. I find it adds a bit of flava flav. Supposedly it also cuts down on the carbonation.

12/31/2008 7:09:22 PM

Don't salt the beer, queer

12/31/2008 7:10:14 PM

LivinProof78 does.

12/31/2008 7:10:16 PM

I don't but I have a friend that puts Tabasco sauce in his.

12/31/2008 7:10:29 PM

salt the napkin that the beer is on so it doesnt get soggy
but thats it

12/31/2008 7:10:59 PM

no it ruins the beer. tabasco? I do that in a bloody mary

12/31/2008 7:11:28 PM

LP78 showed me this trick at EV one time- it helps turn skunked coors light into something slightly more drinkable

12/31/2008 7:12:26 PM

so basically you had salty water ^ lol

12/31/2008 7:13:32 PM

Don't salt the beer, queer

12/31/2008 7:14:37 PM

and party like its twenty-oh-OH-nine

12/31/2008 7:19:16 PM

Don't salt the beer, queer

12/31/2008 7:19:33 PM

who the fuck puts salt in their beer.

thats the most faggoty shit i ever heard.

12/31/2008 7:54:09 PM

i drink beers with flavor.
no salt necessary.

12/31/2008 8:01:00 PM

The only beer this is acceptable with is Red Stripe. A pinch of salt and a lime slice. I can't see how it would be beneficial for anything else.

12/31/2008 8:07:52 PM

12/31/2008 8:08:40 PM

the closet homosexuality in this thread (disguised as faux outrage) is notable. perhaps some
soul-searching is in order.

12/31/2008 8:32:04 PM

one of my friends does it because he says the "essays" do it...i dunno how to spell essay like the mexicans call people ya know... so that works.

12/31/2008 8:42:14 PM

Esse.

12/31/2008 9:01:02 PM

Why the hell would you do this.

Also, why would I want to add flava flav to my beer. That's one fruity barney fife looking black man.

1/1/2009 2:37:08 AM

Well the salt will reduce carbonation- though why you'd want to flatten your beer I don't know. The salt grains provide lots of nucleation sites and cause CO2 to form bubbles and fizz out. It's the same process that happens when you drop a mentos into a soda bottle, just not as fun to watch. Of course, you could just stir it around a bit and you wouldn't be adding salt to the beer- it would produce the same overall effect.

Obviously salt will change the flavor of the beer too. This might be a good thing in some cases- small amounts of salts and other dissolved minerals are why tap and bottled water will taste better than distilled or DI water. Since beer isn't usually lacking trace ammounts of disolved salts, this probably isn't a reason to add it either.

The only good reason to add salt to beer would be to counter any unpleasant bitterness. In the time right after prohibition American beer was particularly shitty for a while so people added salt to cover the bitterness and unpleasantness of the beer. People in some countries also do it to this day to counteract bitterness in some of the shittier locally brewed beers. This may be why it is practiced by a lot of Mexicans and Vietnamese. It's probably how people in those countries improved the taste of their local equivalents of "Natural Light" or "Milwaukee's Best." Given the poverty of those countries compared to ours, imagine just how bad their cheapest local beers might be or might have been 20 years ago.

Anyways, it's probably a "bitterness of local beers at some time + tradition" thing. People also have been known to add a pinch of salt to crappy coffee and oversteeped tea to cut the bitterness. A sometimes better way to reduce bitterness on the pallet is by increasing the acidity of whatever it is. Since alkalinity can be a cause of bitterness, increasing the PH will sometimes alleviate this- hence adding lime to corona, an orange to hoppy belgian white ales, and lemon to tea. This doesn't actually work with coffee and some other things though obviously.

[Edited on January 1, 2009 at 4:12 AM. Reason : ]

1/1/2009 4:08:31 AM

Don't salt the beer, queer

1/1/2009 4:25:32 AM

you don't salt it to add flavor....


you salt it to kill a really shitty flavor


such as the nasty flavor of pbr

1/1/2009 12:12:12 PM

ya fucking weirdos

1/1/2009 12:14:08 PM

hey fuck you buddy

1/1/2009 12:14:26 PM

here's a thought, stop paying for and drinking shitty ass swill

1/1/2009 12:16:21 PM

now that's not nice

1/1/2009 12:16:43 PM

sometimes you just have no other options

1/1/2009 12:18:09 PM

why would anyone do this? doesn't beer dehydrate you enough?

1/1/2009 12:18:35 PM

it's not like you put a tablespoon in it or anything


just a couple of shakes will normally do the trick

1/1/2009 12:19:19 PM

that's my life motto

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"just a couple of shakes will normally do the trick "

1/1/2009 12:21:45 PM

I'm thinking about putting beer in my salt shaker.

1/1/2009 12:21:55 PM