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This section, apart from being an interesting part on how to make your own beer quite simply and successfully, is a testament to The Miller Man's favourite draught beer, what else but Miller Pilsner, or Lite as it's called in the US. Originally called the same here in the UK before Eurocrats in Brussels decided it couldn't be called that, and had to be called 'Pilsner'. Pathetic isn't it? (Oh no.....Euro!) Those of you outside the UK may not realise that Miller is produced under license in this country. It is true, it doesn't really taste like the original, but the water isn't the same here, which makes a big difference to any beer. This is one reason why bitter can't be made anywhere near as well outside the UK. Swings and roundabouts. I like bitter too and there's one called 'Marston's Pedigree' which always used to be a beautiful pint, but the company was bought out and production has moved to Manchester from Burton on Trent, so I have been told, and apparently it's ruined the beer, and the cause once again, different water. I haven't tried it recently, so I'll reserve my judgement on that. It does show that it's not just moving a recipe to another country which changes it, but it's really the change in the main ingredient - water. Big, bad, different water! Even over short distances the change in water can totally alter the taste of a beer. Imagine, the recipes for most beers, of whatever type, were usually produced by family breweries anything up to four hundred years ago. The brewers relied on a local source of water for brewing their beers and ales, and so the recipes were built around the taste, hardness or softness of the local springs and wells. The majority of people didn't travel far and neither did the everyday local beers. Move the recipe only fifty miles to the other side of a range of hills and all those years of experience is lost, resulting quite often in indifferent or rubbish beer. Nowadays, this happens and it's brewed purely for profit by huge managemant companies which then take us poor suckers for an overpriced ride. It's disgusting! Luckily, the water used for Miller in the UK gives it a good flavour, but it's unlike the original. Even so, very unusually, it has turned out to be very good. So if you're a US Miller drinker and you visit the UK, don't expect to find the drink you're used to at home, but a different and extremely tasty lager combined with a brewing family name you know well. An interesting story I read on an email recently - Beer is great. You drink it, you talk nonsense, you fall down. But soon, thanks to the PC, beer could be better than ever. Rober Muller of Brewing Research International has taught his PC to listen. It listens to the sound of barley being milled. It all works like this: to create beer you need malt. Everyone knows that. You produce malt by milling germinated barley. It's important that the malt doesn't have any ungerminated seeds in it, but until now the only way to do that was to send away samples for analysis - a time-consuming process. Robert Muller runs acoustical analysis software on his PC, which he has calibrated to monitor the grinding sound of barley being milled. By listening in on the process, it can show in real-time how much barley is unmalted. "The quieter it is, the less ungerminated barley," says Muller. As a result of this real-time monitoring, brewers will be able to producer finer beer, first time round. Which means we get to drink it sooner, no matter what that Grolsch man says. Just below you'll find the links through to the next 'Beer' pages plus links to guess what? Yes! Beer manufacturers and brewing companies. (There is a difference. Think about it...) Some pub sites are included too, and also some other very interesting beer related sites. Read on!

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