I Don’t Jog

The I Don’t Jog ornament is about 4 inches tall. It has a young man running over a small green mound. Out jogger is wearing blue jeans, tennis shoes and a pull over shirt and carrying a glass filled with beer spilling out. Written on the small green mound in white letters are the words “I Don’t Jog”. Connected to the mound is a light brown sign with the words “I Might Spill My Beer” written on it. Hanging just below is a small personalized sign that you can put the name of your favorite non-jogger on. Select this link to view our Sports Ornaments.

Pale and Dark Beer
The most common color is a pale amber produced from using pale malts. Pale lager is a term used for beers made from malt dried with coke. Coke had been first used for roasting malt in 1642, but it wasn't until around 1703 that the term pale ale was first used. In terms of sales volume, most of today's beer is based on the pale lager brewed in 1842 in the town of Pilsen, in the Czech Republic. The modern Pilsner lager is light in color and high in carbonation, with a strong hop flavor and an alcohol by volume content of around 5%. The Pilsner Urquell, Bitburger, König Pilsener, and Heineken brands of beer are typical examples of pale lager, as are the American brands Budweiser, Coors, and Miller. Dark beers are usually brewed from a pale malt or lager malt base with a small proportion of darker malt added to achieve the desired shade. Other colorants — such as caramel — are also widely used to darken beers. Very dark beers, such as stout, use dark or patent malts that have been roasted longer. Guinness and similar beers include roasted unmalted barley.

Bottles
Most beers are cleared of yeast by filtering when bottled. However, bottle conditioning beers retain some yeast — either by being unfiltered, or by being filtered and then reseeded with fresh yeast. It is usually recommended that the beer be poured slowly, leaving any yeast sediment at the bottom of the bottle. However, some drinkers prefer to pour in the yeast; this practice is, in fact, customary with wheat beers. Typically, when serving a hefeweizen, 90% of the contents are poured, and the remainder is swirled to suspend the sediment before pouring it into the glass. Alternately, the bottle is inverted prior to opening. Select this link to view our Unique Christmas Ornaments.

Cans
Many beers are sold in beverage cans, though there is considerable variation in the proportion between different countries. In 2001, in Sweden 63.9% of beer was sold in cans. People either drink from the can or pour the beer into a glass. Cans protect the beer from light and have a seal less prone to leaking over time than bottles. Cans were initially viewed as a technological breakthrough for maintaining the quality of a beer, then became commonly associated with less-expensive, mass-produced beers, even though the quality of storage in cans is much like bottles. Glass bottles are always used for bottle conditioned beers, so are associated with higher-regarded beers. Plastic (PET) bottles are used by some breweries.

Exceptional-Strength Beers
Some brewers have used champagne yeasts to increase the alcohol content of their beers. Samuel Adams reached 20% abv with Millennium and then surpassed that amount to 25.6% abv with Utopias. The strongest beer sold in Britain was Delaware's Dogfish Head's World Wide Stout, a 21% abv stout which was available from UK Safeway’s in 2003. In Japan in 2005, the Hakusekikan Beer Restaurant sold an eisbock, strengthened through "freeze distillation", believed to be 28% abv. The beer that is considered to be the strongest yet made is Hair of the Dog's Dave — a 29% abv barley wine made in 1994. Select this link to view our Unique Christmas Gifts.