Comments on: Fraudulent Ale Quotations http://zythophile.wordpress.com zee-tho-fyle, a beer, history, pubs, beerstyles, beer-with-food blog Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:19:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: The Zythophile « she eats. http://zythophile.wordpress.com/fraudulent-ale-quotations/#comment-1307 The Zythophile « she eats. Fri, 30 May 2008 14:33:46 +0000 http://zythophile.wordpress.com/fraudulent-ale-quotations/#comment-1307 [...] awesome: Fraudulent Ale Questions, where the author debunks various myths about beer, including some myths that I’ve never [...] [...] awesome: Fraudulent Ale Questions, where the author debunks various myths about beer, including some myths that I’ve never [...]

]]> By: Bob Skilnik http://zythophile.wordpress.com/fraudulent-ale-quotations/#comment-264 Bob Skilnik Sun, 18 Nov 2007 11:12:07 +0000 http://zythophile.wordpress.com/fraudulent-ale-quotations/#comment-264 "But over time a mountain of misunderstanding, myth, fiction and fantasy has been put into print by writers on the drink’s history, all of which continues to be repeated today by the lazy." Like a breeze of fresh air when I saw this sentence. I'm doing my part to battle beer fables at Beer, Plymouth Rock & The Pilgrims—The Real Story http://beerinfood.wordpress.com/2007/11/14/beer-plymouth-rock-the-pilgrims-the-real-story/ “But over time a mountain of misunderstanding, myth, fiction and fantasy has been put into print by writers on the drink’s history, all of which continues to be repeated today by the lazy.”

Like a breeze of fresh air when I saw this sentence.

I’m doing my part to battle beer fables at

Beer, Plymouth Rock & The Pilgrims—The Real Story
http://beerinfood.wordpress.com/2007/11/14/beer-plymouth-rock-the-pilgrims-the-real-story/

]]> By: Ron Pattinson http://zythophile.wordpress.com/fraudulent-ale-quotations/#comment-48 Ron Pattinson Wed, 29 Aug 2007 14:20:34 +0000 http://zythophile.wordpress.com/fraudulent-ale-quotations/#comment-48 What about the claim that the name Alt doesn't derive from the German word for old, but from the Latin word Altus meaning "high"? You can see this absurd claim repeated here: http://www.duesseldorf-tourismus.de/article_en2.php?folderID=10273&sub1_folderID=10278&articleID=476&PHPSESSID=13cb59bd499ac59af http://beeradvocate.com/beer/style/86 http://halfvalue.com/wiki.jsp?topic=Altbier Why go for a simple explanation when a complicated one will do? What about the claim that the name Alt doesn’t derive from the German word for old, but from the Latin word Altus meaning “high”? You can see this absurd claim repeated here:

http://www.duesseldorf-tourismus.de/article_en2.php?folderID=10273&sub1_folderID=10278&articleID=476&PHPSESSID=13cb59bd499ac59af
http://beeradvocate.com/beer/style/86
http://halfvalue.com/wiki.jsp?topic=Altbier

Why go for a simple explanation when a complicated one will do?

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