Do you put Salt in your Beer?

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My Grandpa put salt in his beer. Well, he put it on the can top, and took some salt while he took a drink.


Me, I put some salt into the beer itself, as I drink from a bottle, not a can.



I was just wondering if this was normal, or if it's a southren thing. The salt makes the beer sweeter.

I have never heard of this and voted no (as well as INR are a bunch of boozearoo's). Must be a Southern thing. I'll ask my pops, he's from 'round those parts. Man, salt? Ugh. I know a guy who acts salty when he drinks beer, but that's different.

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Never heard of doing that...

I don't add salt to my food, and I wouldn't ruin my beer with that crap either.
So, I don't do the salt in the beer thing!!

Oh, and Dave, I prefer to have a bottle over a can, any day!

I'm more of a can person. Bottle break. Cans live forever. Unless you drop it hard then that little hole spits out a stream of beer you have to drink really quick as you get it all over your face and shirt and then you wreak like beer.

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Salt sounds gross, but it turns the beer sweet, and you get a full flavor taste, as it cuts down on the alcohol taste and it's more "barley".

If that makes sense.


But don't put more than a small amount, or it explodes the beer and you get beer all over yourself and where ever you are drinking. If you put too much in, you have to thumb the bottle top and hold the pressure, and let a little escape. Which is cool if you are one or two beers in, but if you are full into a 6 pack, it's very hard.

You wind up getting sprayed by the pressurized bottle of beer.

Man, that's like playing with matches.

Another reason I try not to drink bottles is because me and my buddies, since freakin' high school, will 'cap' anothers beer if it's open. By 'cap' I mean take your bottle and hit the bottom on the top of another persons beer rather swiftly, but not too hard. If it's at least half full it will shoot out like a geyser.

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I drink Alone. Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh, with nobody else. And you know when I drink alone, I prefer to be by myself.

I have never heard of putting salt in beer. I also voted that we are a bunch of boozers.

I voted no, but didn't vote for Inreview being full of alcos. We're all very responthible with our alkihole, and all tend to have one or two dinks avder dinner, but do nut aboose alkole in danny vay. Mmm... bee-ah.

yer all a bunch of fregin lush's. I condemn thee with my heart.

I found this on the net just now, the dude is cracking on my heritage, says I'm an oddity.

you kno what? I really luf you guys. sermiously, I luf you all

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Hey you kno waht? I rely ful you guyx. serimously I lof yous all.

Dehydration + water = hydration.

Simple alcohol maths. After getting totally smashed the previous night, drink about a litre of water and take a panadol (or some other headache tablet that doesn't ruin your liver) and you'll feel right as rain in the morning.

We love you too, pink elephant man.

I put limes in Coronas. That's it. No salt. It's not even a Southern thing. It's some crazy Whidden thing.

I put whiskey in my water on occasion.

Only time I mess with a lime is with tequilla. Salt on a margarita, that's about it.

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Pretzles with beer is good.

But peanuts suck with beer. There was this bar in town a few years back that had barrells full of salty, in the shell peanuts that you could eat and throw the shells on the floor. After a few handfuls I would invariably want to launch. Just does not mix.

Take this as a lesson kids. Don't do peanuts with beer, be smart, don't start.

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Sierra Nevada is a sweeter ale, not bad. If it gets too sweet I can't stand it. Any overly sweet alcohol sucks. Spiced Rum and especially those Zima-ish foo-foo drinks. Puke.

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I like ale, but I HATE sweet ales or beer.

Definitely more of an ale fan. I am oddly wondering about this salt thing though. How much do you put on?

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I prefer ale as well. Less aftertaste, and it has a general better taste to it IMO.

OOOO! Kris he is going to call you a poll changer.

I added my vote using superMOD powers.

Poll changer... hehe... dammit Lawless, stop fiddlin' with Lawdog's poll!



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I thought she didn't like fiddling with polls

Salty beers make people loopy.

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The beers that I like:

Rolling Rock
Pete's Wicked Ale Strawberry Blonde
New Belgium Sunshine Wheat (with an orange slice)
Blue Moon Belgian White
Hefeweizen (with a lemon slice)
Raspberry ale (can't think of the brewing company's name)
Samuel Adams Pale Ale
Bud Light (only if there's nothing else)
Coors Light (only if there's nothing else)
Amstel Light
Heineken
St Pauli Girl
Corona (with a slice of lime in the neck... and only with mexican food)
Moosehead

I'm sure that there are a few more... but, that's really the only ones that I will drink.

Hey... I DONT put salt in my beer, or on my food. Unless salt is already in food, I don't eat it. I don't like it.



And I DONT mess with other mens poles! Only their polls.

Pitt pole talk? Exit, stage left!

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You can have the pole position on this proliferating Pitt pole party

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Why thank you, Heck... that's awful gentlemanly of you!!!!

alright, I'm back. Lets just move on, shall we? I'm over it.



---Whizzle, fan of the movie, Jesus Christ SuperStar.

Man, I worked at a McD's in high school, you don't want those things to begin with.

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actually, when I was a kid, they fried them, and they rocked. Then somewhere in my teenybopper years, they went to baked and they suck. I hate them.


Sonic still fries the apple pie, and it's good. Or maybe it's Carl's Jr.'s


I fake boycott Carl Jr.s, because of their gross commericals, but I still eat there on the sly.

You boycott CJ because of the Paris Hilton commercial or the lame fireman one?

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I hear you. Like those new Subway commericals with Jon Lovitz screaming. Want to shove that sammich down his throat.

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Eat FRRREESSHH!!!! For some reason, I love that commercial.

I tell you what, I'm not a fan of the taste of beer. Even though I don't imbibe very often, if there's anything I can do to tolerate the taste of beer more, I'M SO DOWN.

Whizzle, does it really make a difference, or are you just altered by tradition?

to me, it makes a huge difference, makes it taste sweeter, and kills the alchohol tastes. i don't really care for the taste of alcohol, I like to mask it.


I like girly drinks, like Margarittas and Pina Colada's cause you can't taste the alcohol.


The salt makes it smooth. If I drink the can, I put it on top and take it as I drink it, if the bottle, put some straight in it.


If draft, I like the taste already, I don't use the salt too much. Sometimes.

I tell ya what. I'm gonna try the salt thing.

But I'll also tell ya what else. I love the taste of strong alcohol. Feeling it's warmth go from your lips to your mouth to your throat to your stomach... and later in your head... it's great.

--Dekka, Teller of Whats.

okay, I licked the back of my hand and poured some salt on it, tequila-shot style, and took a swig of beer.

It does taste "sweeter" if that's the correct word, but it still tastes like beer, so the salt thing has my approval.

I still think it's rather weird.

However, next time I am drinking with peeps at a bar, I'm gonna grab a salt-shaker and dump some salt in their beer, just to appall them.

I like the taste of a cold beer or a smooth whiskey for sure.

Like on 4th of July a few years back, my parents were having a BBQ so I brought a few dozen friends over, and I remember chillin with good food, great friends on a warm day with a cool beer. Good times. Then the fire department came because we fired this giant rocket into the sky and it was the loudest thing I had ever heard. Then we made a hole in the Earth with a Red Bull can of M80's and various firecracker powder. With beer that might not have been possible. Then I was pushed in the pool and almost ruined my cell phone.

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I think that beating up the liver is one thing, then adding salt in the mix is just too much. Might as well drop a ciggarette and chicken grease in there and call it a day.

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will do

Dammit, now my super secret drink idea is out. Curses.

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set it on fire before you drink it, then drink it as it burns.

don't be a weenie and blow it out first. That's for chicks.

Be a man and drink it burning.

Flamin Dr. Pepper is lit on fire, it's the bomb. Don't make plans the next day though.

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I hate Dr. Pepper, but I would so totally drink it if it got me ****-faced.

Putting salt in perfectly good beer is just wrong. If ya need salt ,or lemon, or anything else to mask the taste, maybe you should try drinking GOOD beer.

well yeah, i started mowing and i drank me a 6 pack of hieni.

now, I figure, why put salt in it if i ma such a werido? So I decide to drin k it wtihout shalt.


about the second dreink, I started my stomach started to hurt, so the csalt did not kil the carbonation, and i gotz me a tummy ache. But trooper I wqas, i kept mowing nad kept dirinking.


as heck would say, hells yaraeh!!!

Sorry bout that. Ok, what I meant to say, was drank some beer, and tried it without salt. As the salt kills the carbonation once it's in your stomach, the un salted beer gave me a terrible stomach ache.


And I had a terrible hangover too.



Call me weird, call me stupid, I lay claim to both, but I'm salting my beer from here on out.

Your body uses water to process alcohol, and a hangover is a lack of water ,so I guess it makes sense that salt would help.

When we were kids we drank Bacardi and Gatorade when it was 90 degrees out for the same reason

Stupid question time from Invisible...

Does the salt thing work in anything other than beer? Or is it just a beer thing. I don't drink beer unless I'm already s**t faced and don't care but have never tried the salt thing.

uh, certain restaurants put salt on the side of your Margarita Glass. So Salt can go with that.


Otherwise, I have never seen or heard salt in anything else. Like Soda or Pop, or Coke, or anything else alcoholic.

I think that Caesars have salt and pepper around the rim... They are GOOD.

I put salt on fries....

I don't add salt to anything. I just honestly don't like it.

I like a little salt on my corn on the cob.

it's good if you take a slice of bread, put salt and butter all over it, then roll the corn in the bread.

Margarita is about the only salty drink I can think of. Bloody Mary has all kinds of crazy crap in it... but no salt.

A Salty Dog doesn't even have salt.

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Inreview is full of Alcoholics.
who get drunk and then post comments and vote in the polls.

What's your point?

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No point, just stating an important fact.
without Inreview being full of Alcoholics, i don't think their would be an Inreview.

Yes. Beer and salt keeps Inreview afloat. And whatever Gaboman drinks. Saki or something.

Well thats what I meant. Gaboman drinks destination tip ends. I don't like them myself, but what are you gonna do? The guy is from Australia, living in Thailand. Or Taiwan. Or Cambodia. Somewhere over there where drinking that kind of thing is in good grace.

Taiwan beer, number one!

台灣啤酒, 世界上最好喝的啤酒


One thing can be said about Taiwan beer, they know how to market to the right crowds:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v230/gaboman/61724297-M.jpg

酒 means alcohol; 啤酒 is beer.

上 means up in Chinese too, but you use it for lots of things like "upon" or "on".

A lot of Japanese characters mean the same in Chinese, as the Japs developed their writing system from Chinese.

Those children on the beer can look absolutely hammered.

Well, I think that's the point. Not enough children drink responsibly here in Taiwan.

good news, Whidden: You're not alone.

The guy sitting beside me at the bar earlier grabbed the salt-shaker and sprinkled some in his beer.

He must have been a very smart individual.

he did win in the Buzztime Trivia game thingy

i don't put salt in it but what about coffee?

OMG... you mean to tell us, Dekka, that there is another "Whidden" in this world?