Dry Beer

This weeks topic is dry beer

Since beer is wet it is strange that Dry types of beer exist.

Dry beer is available through many brewers and is known for a very unique dry taste.

Everyone who has drunk a beer before should have heard of Toohey’s Extra Dry and the Japanese Asahi Super Dry.

Even the Simpsons have had dry beer

I didn’t know about the reasoning behind dry beer until I decided to write about it for the beer blog. Dry beer is made using a German pale lager process where the sugars are fully fermented into alcohol, the reason for this was to create a beer for diabetics.

I don't know what beer it is, I just wanted to share

From Germany it has been picked up in Japan, America and Australia.

I know of quite a few people though who drink dry beers purely because of the taste, they almost have a cult-like following.

Here are the usual suspects where I come from.

Dry Dock: A beer by Sail & Anchor Brewery based in Fremantle, Western Australia. This beer doesn’t rate high on my beerometer but I have had a few before, it is an average dry beer at best.

Carlton Dry: The Carlton guys in Victoria have put together a really nice beer, there is a standard dry version as well as a lime or lemon infused dry beer. This interesting twist has had me coming back to have each of them time and time again.

Asahi Super Dry: If you drink Japanese brews or spend time in Japan you won’t get far without seeing Asahi Super Dry, this is Japan’s number one beer hands down. I will always have a special place in my heart for Japanese beer but it isn’t the same quality as Australian beer. There is a Japanese-style clothing company out of the UK that is also called Super Dry, it is often confused with the beer but there is no resemblance whatsoever. The Super Dry clothing company sells stylish and semi-expensive clothing among other things and they don’t have a single store in Japan as their target customers are westerners.

Hahn Superdry: This super beer in my opinion doesn’t live up to the name, from what I understand some people do like this beer but it hasn’t been sold over the bar I work at for many years, I haven’t had it in years and I don’t plan to try it again any time soon.

Toohey’s Extra Dry: Now, when you think of dry beer in Australia this should be the first beer that comes to mind, its clean, crisp taste is distinctive and is a good drinking beer, the deer on the label is an interesting choice for a mascot. The initials T.E.D are often used in reference to the extra dry beer. This beer originated in Sydney and is apparently the sixth highest selling beer in Australia.

There are a lot of dry beers out there, try one today and let me know what you think.

Cheers,

- Dave

Super Dry!!!