"Jay Honeck" wrote in message news8tUb.228682$xy6.1161467@attbi_s02...
What about Weisse?

As long as it's made following the official German recipe, it's "beer" in my
book.

Then I suspect you haven't had "beer" much in the US. With small exception
NOTHING these days strictly meets Reinheitsgebot and it's probably a good
thing. Most beers use a fairly carefully cultured yeast. Reinheitsgebot permits
only barley, hops, and water. Your beloved wheat beer is also right out.
However corn and rice and (who knows these days in the US, high fructose
corn syrup) adjuncts are an abomination no matter what.

Madison natives Lou and Peter Berryman (no relation), have the essence of
Wisconsin in the following song (although in their defense, they also have one
about Wisconsin in the summer called "Have you heard about the heat?").


Lunch and cheese and dinner and cheese
Fall and cheese and winter and cheese
Chips and cheese and jerky and cheese
Nuts and cheese and turkey and cheese
Cheese with pies and peppers and peas
Snow and beer and cheese

Cheese and snow and hockey and snow
Cows and snow Milwaukee and snow
Boots and snow and dripping and snow
Ice and snow and slipping and snow
Wind and snow, a car that won't go
Beer and cheese and snow

Snow and beer and bowling and beer
Golf and beer and trolling and beer
School and beer and sledding and beer
Love and beer and (a) wedding and beer
Cold beer here, getcher beer here
Cheese and snow and beer

Slush and ale and Monterey jack
Flakes and brie and a cheap six pack
Drifts and curds and a head of good suds
Cheese whiz ice and couple of Buds
All keeps well at thirty degrees
Snow and beer and cheese