One Corona, please. Oh, and pass the salt.
Last week, the Midnight Sons squeeeealed wheeeels up to Upper Fells in pursuit of awesome Latino bars.
Did we find them? You bet we did. I'm going to be dropping blog posts like bombshells this week, detailing our exploits.
One of the odd things we noticed: Coronas -- and other brands of bottled beer -- were served with a wedge of lime in the top, and a salt shaker on the side.
I'm used to lime and salt when slamming back tequila shots. But beer? Yes indeedy ...
The regulars would poke the lime wedge into their beers, pick up the salt shakers and add a pinch or two to the brews. My mouth puckered at the thought of it. I knew I had to try it, though. When in Rome and all.
So I ordered a Corona, shook the salt shaker a few times above my beer (getting as much on the bar as in the suds) and took a swig. It tasted OK -- like salty beer.
I wasn't sold on it. In fact, it vaguely reminded me of the heinous Bud Light & Clamato Chelada. Gack!
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Erik Maza is a features reporter at the Baltimore Sun. He writes for several sections of the Sun paper and contributes weekly columns on music and nightlife. He also writes and edits the Midnight Sun blog. He often covers entertainment, business, and the business of entertainment. Occasionally, he writes about Four Loko, The Block, the liquor board, and those who practice "
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My father used to dab salt in his beer to watch it froth up. It amused him. Simple things.
Posted by: JTK | May 12, 2010 8:30 AM
Nothing really new about this, and in fact, it's my understanding that this is what Miller is aiming for with their wretched Miller Chill.
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/318950/miller_chill_beer_review.html
Sounds like swill to me...
Posted by: Johnthebodiless | May 12, 2010 8:39 AM
I used to know a construction worker that SWORE by salt in a "lesser" beer ( light colored lager type) as a remedy for dehydration. A true drinker would never stoop to something as lowly as Gatorade, no matter how hot the day. Considering he lived in an unheated warehouse, gin was considered central heating, so go figure.
Can't stomach Corona myself, the urban legend about their water source still bothers me.
Posted by: Baltimocker | May 12, 2010 9:43 AM
My father was a friggin' doctor and he swore the same as baltimocker's construction worker. Weird.
Posted by: Evan | May 12, 2010 11:40 AM
Step 1 - Pop open a corona
Step 2 - drink enough so the neck of the bottle is empty.
Step 3 - fill neck of bottle with Bicardi Limon.
Step 4 - Enjoy
My buddy came back from a business trip in FL with this drink. He called it a Diver Down. It gets the job done.
Posted by: TS | May 12, 2010 1:25 PM
Limon and Corona is definitely where its at!
buyer beware
Posted by: But for Serious.... | May 12, 2010 1:55 PM
@baltimocker the urban legend about Corona is a racist rumor started by a Heineken wholesaler in Reno because they were losing sales. http://www.snopes.com/horrors/food/corona.asp
Posted by: baltimoregal | May 12, 2010 4:37 PM
Hence the term urban legend. I also know that insects do not lay eggs in beehive hairdos and consume various bodily parts upon reaching larval stage. Otherwise, Hamden would have been beset with a plague of ladies with eaten brains from 1952 to currently.
Beehive and super teased coifs still give me the willies. Logical? No. Visceral? Yes.
Posted by: Baltimocker | May 12, 2010 6:40 PM
Baltimocker, you are one snarky dude. We should hang out and make fun of strangers and foreigners.
Posted by: Owl Meat Gravy | May 12, 2010 10:08 PM
@Baltimocker
Beer is hypotonic (thin compared to blood plasma) so you become overly hydrated drinking it (hence the bathroom breaks). Adding salt to your beer makes is more isotonic so you will have less of a desire to urinate.
Whiskey is hypertonic, so you'd get the same effect sipping a shot and a beer. You're actually regulating your fluids better that way!
Enjoy.
Posted by: Boh, MD | May 13, 2010 11:22 PM
Thanks for the science, Dr. Boh.
Here's an experiment for us lot:
What is better to treat dehydration.. Salted Beer or Gatorade?
For the sake of science, i think this may have to be studied in depth on several occasions.
Posted by: Baltimocker | May 14, 2010 11:53 AM