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Mayor of NYC, Mayor Bloomberg, cut the ribbon at the Brooklyn Brewery’s opening of their huge expansion in Williamsburg this past Monday, and while he was there said something that probably equates to the sound of nails scratching on a chalkboard to beer drinkers…. He said “I actually put ice in my beer”.  Ice in your beer!?  Sacrilege.  And he apparently got smack for it too from a lot of writers and bloggers (just look up “Mayor Bloomberg Beer”). 

I’ll admit, when I first heard that I immediately thought, “Sweet, funky butt loving what?!  What did he say?!  How dare he?!”.  But then I remembered I used to do weird stuff with beer too… I thought to myself, “hey, didn’t I used drink beer with a piece of gum in my mouth?”.  Yes, I’ll admit, in college I used to drink the beers at parties while chewing a minty piece of gum.  It just tasted better that way.  Granted, I was drinking skunky “Beast” for the most part, but still, it was just something I did.  Just like, I guess, this is just something Mayor Bloomberg does.  I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt.  Maybe he doesn’t really know about beer.  A lot of people don’t even though the craft brew industry is rapidly growing.  Maybe he doesn’t know that putting ice in a great crafted brew can be an insult to a brewer like how putting ketchup on a filet mignon would be an insult to a chef.   It was pretty bad timing on his part to admit that at a ribbon cutting ceremony for Brooklyn Brewery, but I guess it was…. ehhh ummm… relevant?  But hey, the brewery got an $800,000 grant from the state for their expansion, so, eh what the heck, let the man ice his beer!  But then teach him about the awesomeness of what that grant is going towards. :) 

Cheers!

-Cindope

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