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Olives in your beer?

This is an old old thread that I think I am bringing back to the top, but I just have to say I LOVE olives in my beer. I think it is probably a midwestern thing, but they really make it taste better and provide a little entertainment value. Plus you have something to eat when you are finished with your beer! I just had a Michelob with olives and it was great!!!
 
I drink Mickeys all the time with 5 olives. The salty olives give the malt beer a great flavor. You people that say olives dont belong in beer dont know what you are missing. And the people bitching about warm beer are truely clueless. Yea a malt or pilsner you drink ice cold.... your laugers and stouts should be luke warm or warm.
[doublepost=1489723945][/doublepost]What ive heard about beers like corona is that the salt and lime isnt for flavor but the citric acid helps sterelize the bottles due to poor water and seterlization process.
 
Apple fanboy said:
Olives are vile. Even worse in beer. The very thought. o_O

Next they'll be adding touch screens to Macs.

Just wrong.
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I love olives - especially anchovy stuffed olives which I will happily devour in abundance.

Actually, I love most olives, but in the right place, which is in a small bowl, on a table, alongside a cheese board and a platter of cold cuts. But not in beer......no, thank you.
 
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Tomorrow said:
I've never heard of this, but it does sound lovely!

Not a fan of beer, myself. But I am fond of olives.
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Yes, here are pepper stuffed olives, nut stuffed olives, garlic stuffed olives (which I am more than partial to), and yum, my personal favourite, anchovy stuffed olives. Addictive.
 
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Scepticalscribe said:
I love olives - especially anchovy stuffed olives which I will happily devour in abundance.

Actually, I love most olives, but in the right place, which is in a small bowl, on a table, alongside a cheese board and a platter of cold cuts. But not in beer......no, thank you.
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Yes, I agree with having a bowl of stuff olives with a beer.
 
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JamesMike said:
Yes, I agree with having a bowl of stuff olives with a beer.
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They can really add a certain 'je ne said quoi' to the beer, - possibly that salty hit that they confer - but, yes, I love nibbling them with a beer or with certain types of wine; they work well as a shared starter when attacking the contents of a generously stocked cheeseboard.
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Apple fanboy said:
No, no, no.
A bag of pork scratchings.
Now that's heaven!
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You can have olives, pork scratchings, nuts, and indeed - what we call crisps, and Our Transatlantic Cousins describe as 'chips' - all can accompany beer most companionably.....
 
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Scepticalscribe said:
They can really add a certain 'je ne said quoi' to the beer, - possibly that salty hit that they confer - but, yes, I love nibbling them with a beer or with certain types of wine; they work well as a shared starter when attacking the contents of a generously stocked cheeseboard.
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You can have olives, pork scratchings, nuts, and indeed - what we call crisps, and Our Transatlantic Cousins describe as 'chips' - all can accompany beer most companionably.....
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I should stop reading this thread. Making me want things I don't have in the house!
Maybe I'll go shopping tomorrow. Get the feeling I might need a beer after my day tomorrow!
 
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Tomorrow said:
But I am fond of olives.
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Scepticalscribe said:
Yes, here are pepper stuffed olives, nut stuffed olive,s garlic stuffed olives (which I am more than partial to), and yum, my personal favourite, anchovy stuffed olives. Addictive.
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We're big olive eaters (we consume many, though sometimes they are in fact big), including the stuffed variants - generally when I'm at the fresh market I score a container with all sorts, we just eat them by themselves (or with cheese, whatever).

My wife likes it extra dirty ... her martinis that is :) Maybe I'll mention this to her, but see below :D

willmtaylor said:
Call me a dogmatic traditionalist if you will, but there's only 1 thing that belongs in my beer: more beer.
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Yes. Keep olives, fruit and related citrus _out_ of my beer.
 
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I'm a lifelong olive fan and I also love beer -- and often will have a few olives WITH a beer -- but I've never heard of putting the olives IN the beer! Strange.... I would assume that this would be the salty olives which have spent some time in brine, as opposed to the rather benign non-salty olives? Hm.....maybe next time I have a beer (which will probably be this evening) I'll give it a try, just to see. I've got some Kalamata olives in the house and also some grocery-store garden-variety pimento stuffed ones; I've run out of my beloved garlic-stuffed olives. I don't think the Castelvetrano ones would work too well in beer, and aside from that, they're not always easy to find and os when I'm lucky enough to get them I like to savor and appreciate them!
 
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Apple fanboy said:
I should stop reading this thread. Making me want things I don't have in the house!
Maybe I'll go shopping tomorrow. Get the feeling I might need a beer after my day tomorrow!
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That sounds like a plan. A good one.

D.T. said:
We're big olive eaters (we consume many, though sometimes they are in fact big), including the stuffed variants - generally when I'm at the fresh market I score a container with all sorts, we just eat them by themselves (or with cheese, whatever).

My wife likes it extra dirty ... her martinis that is :) Maybe I'll mention this to her, but see below :D



Yes. Keep olives, fruit and related citrus _out_ of my beer.
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Clix Pix said:
I'm a lifelong olive fan and I also love beer -- and often will have a few olives WITH a beer -- but I've never heard of putting the olives IN the beer! Strange.... I would assume that this would be the salty olives which have spent some time in brine, as opposed to the rather benign non-salty olives? Hm.....maybe next time I have a beer (which will probably be this evening) I'll give it a try, just to see. I've got some Kalamata olives in the house and also some grocery-store garden-variety pimento stuffed ones; I've run out of my beloved garlic-stuffed olives. I don't think the Castelvetrano ones would work too well in beer, and aside from that, they're not always easy to find and os when I'm lucky enough to get them I like to savor and appreciate them!
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See, I knew that the olive lovers would make an appearance sooner or later.

I usually get them from - yes, the olive stall - in the farmers' market on a Saturday; they import olives directly from producers in Spain, Italy, Greece and elsewhere (and also stock olive oil); chilli olives, garlic stuffed, anchovy stuffed, pimento stuffed, olives dressed with garlic, thyme and parsley, plain olives, small sweet green ones, fat green ones, Moroccan olives, black and wrinkled, shiny large black ones.......

Ah, yes. I do rather like olives.....
 
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Scepticalscribe said:
That sounds like a plan. A good one.





See, I knew that the olive lovers would make an appearance sooner or later.

I usually get them from - yes, the olive stall - in the farmers' market on a Saturday; they import olives directly from producers in Spain, Italy, Greece and elsewhere (and also stock olive il); chilli olives, garlic stuffed, anchovy stuffed, pimento stuffed, olives dressed with garlic, thyme and parsley, plain olives, small sweet green ones, fat green ones, Moroccan olives, black and wrinkled, shiny large black ones.......

Ah, yes. I do rather like olives.....
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An olive stall! I guess olives are not popular enough here, I've never heard of an olive stall before.

We don't get many different types either, we have black, queen (pitted or not), pimento stuffed, garlic stuffed, almond stuffed and that's about it :(

I do love almond stuffed ones though
 
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Number-Six said:
An olive stall! I guess olives are not popular enough here, I've never heard of an olive stall before.

We don't get many different types either, we have black, queen (pitted or not), pimento stuffed, garlic stuffed, almond stuffed and that's about it :(

I do love almond stuffed ones though
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Yes, and with the olives - dozens of different types - making a magnificent appearance in large wooden barrels, and served using massive wooden spoons that come with deep bowls; olive oil (from several countries and producers), mustards, cheeses, lavender, smoked sweet paprika, anchovies and sardines from Spain and Portugal (in tins and jars), pesto, harissa, sundried tomatoes, semi-sundried tomatoes, - and, in summer, dolmades (stuffed vine leaves), butter bean salad, hummus, Greek style feta salad, occasionally caponata, all regularly make an appearance at this stall.........

Let us just say that I am a regular customer.
 
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Hahaha, this thread stuck in my head all day, we had a huge lunch so decided to go lighter for dinner last night, just some wine ... and olives! A nice mix of types, plus, scored some amazing cheeses, a nice fresh french loaf, ordered some deli meats like hard salami.

:D

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D.T. said:
Hahaha, this thread stuck in my head all day, we had a huge lunch so decided to go lighter for dinner last night, just some wine ... and olives! A nice mix of types, plus, scored some amazing cheeses, a nice fresh french loaf, ordered some deli meats like hard salami.

:D

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That is my kind of meal, simple, but excellent and most tasty. Enjoy.
 
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