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[AspenLeif]

I know we recently had a salt in beer thread...but we went out for dinner last night to hang with some friends. The one orders a PBR with 3 olives. I was like What are you getting? ....a dirty beer?The effect is like a lava lamp. The olives pick up the bubbles as the CO2 comes out of solution. Rise to the top, then sink back to the bottom. Sort of a cool effect. He was saying that there is a biergarden in Bangor that where he first saw this...and it's really taken off up in the college town and he's been seeing it around where we live now. I've yet to try this since I was drinking an IPA. I'll have to report back when I get back into the Natty Light.MB

[positiveContact]

I know we recently had a salt in beer thread...but we went out for dinner last night to hang with some friends. The one orders a PBR with 3 olives. I was like What are you getting? ....a dirty beer?The effect is like a lava lamp. The olives pick up the bubbles as the CO2 comes out of solution. Rise to the top, then sink back to the bottom. Sort of a cool effect. He was saying that there is a biergarden in Bangor that where he first saw this...and it's really taken off up in the college town and he's been seeing it around where we live now. I've yet to try this since I was drinking an IPA. I'll have to report back when I get back into the Natty Light.MB

super-ghey.

[brewguy]

Sounds like a PBRtini

[CaptRon]

[texred1]

Sounds like a PBRtini

Is that a cigarette on top. If so, that is greatness!~dustin

[Hines]

I thought that was a mini tampon.There is an old bar bet about getting gum to float then sink or something like that. Same principle with the olives I guess.If you like the dash of salt, I don't see why you wouldn't like some olives thrown in.

[Buscotucky]

Just saw this for the first time last week...it was pbr as well.

[Augie1991]

I think it sounds good. The garlic & pepper stuffed olives would add a little extra mmmmmm.

[beach]

I learnded this long before I got turned on to craft beer. A good way to give an otherwise flavorless bmc a little something. The salt helps and you have a little snack when you're done. Beach

[denny]

Is that a cigarette on top. If so, that is greatnessstupidity!~dustin

FTFY

[JimInNJ]

I was stuck in an airport with a coworker and our boss a few years ago. There was a bar in the terminal with 48 beers on tap, and since we were going to be there a long time we decided to have a drink. So we each pick something interesting, and the boss asks for a couple olives.The carefully selected beers arrive, and my coworker and I are enjoying the appearance, and the aroma, and about to get to the flavor, while the boss is saying something about a neat bar trick she heard about... At which point she plops an olive, pimento and all, into my coworker's beer.He goes semi-ballistic, limited only by the fact that the boss is involved and he wants to keep his job. Fortunately this stopps her from getting an olive into my beer.Oh, and that olive, it just sat resolutely at the bottom of his glass while she was telling us how it was supposed to be doing all this magical floating and sinking.- Name withheld

[positiveContact]

I was stuck in an airport with a coworker and our boss a few years ago. There was a bar in the terminal with 48 beers on tap, and since we were going to be there a long time we decided to have a drink. So we each pick something interesting, and the boss asks for a couple olives.The carefully selected beers arrive, and my coworker and I are enjoying the appearance, and the aroma, and about to get to the flavor, while the boss is saying something about a neat bar trick she heard about... At which point she plops an olive, pimento and all, into my coworker's beer.He goes semi-ballistic, limited only by the fact that the boss is involved and he wants to keep his job. Fortunately this stopps her from getting an olive into my beer.Oh, and that olive, it just sat resolutely at the bottom of his glass while she was telling us how it was supposed to be doing all this magical floating and sinking.- Name withheld

that is completely unacceptable. he should have fired his boss, DD style.