Beer of the Month Club

Beer of the Month Club

Micro breweries have sprung up around the country in the last two decades at a surprising rate.   Twenty years ago beer of the month club offerings were limited to several hundred breweries and now they can choose from thousands of unique recipes offered by these breweries.  With the expansion of brewers making their beers and offering them for sale it is important that you don’t join a membership with a beer of the month club that does not do adequate tasting and sampling before they send you your monthly treasure.

Who Should Join Beer of the Month Club

If you are the kind of person who picks up a case of beer every night after work and polish it off before you leave for work in the morning you need to seek help for your addiction the beer of the month club is not for you and you would not enjoy it.  If you have ever had someone encourage you to try their favorite beer and you tried it and hated it because you always drink Miller Lite then a beer of the month club is not for you.  BOMC is for those people who find something to celebrate in every new beer they try even if they wouldn’t drink a particular label again.  It is not for anyone who loves PBR or goes to fifty cent Schlitz in a can night because it is cheap.   The beer of the month club is to celebrate this ancient rite of enjoying a delicious beverage with its unique flavorings.  It is the sense of variety of the kind and amount of hops and the variety of sweetness and ale.

Kobe Beef Taste Testing

Kobe Beer Uniqueness

Kobe Beef is a rare form of beef from Japan.  Although America has made a name for corn fed beef and grass fed beef that have tremendous flavor, there is nothing compares to the incredible flavor and tenderness of Kobe Beef.  Kobe Beef are cows that are carefully chosen as calves and then raised almost in a nanny state of constant care and nurture.  These small calves are fed a precise diet that is designed to give them maximum health with ideal amount of fat which is where the best flavor is found in the highest quality cuts of beef.    The cows at an age when they are nearing the ideal weight for turning into beef are given massages to keep the muscle in an ideal condition.  They also have beer added to their diet and regularly consume this adult beverage to relax their system to prevent any kind of chemical or hormone build up in their system that would even slightly decrease the best flavor.   They use the most humane method possible to put the cows down so that even at the moment their life ends there is no sudden burst of adrenaline that would influence that great kobe beef flavor.   This awesome way of life sometimes makes me jealous and I wish that I could be reincarnated as a Kobe Beef cow.

Kobe Beef Value

Kobe Beef is priced at a level that is disproportionate to the cost of the same cut of beef at the supermarket or butcher.  You might expect to pay about ten to fifteen dollars for a really good burger at a restaurant or even twenty five dollars for an extraordinary hamburger, but to buy a Kobe Beef burger that might be about a quarter-pounder you can expect to pay more than one hundred dollars.   As you can imagine the amount of human labor and the cost of feed for raising Kobe Beef is so high that the cost to raise this beef is more than thirty times the cost of beef raised in the feed lots of America.