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<topic>
  <id>115550</id>
  <title>Green Beer?</title>
  <published_at>Wed Mar 17 14:54:32 -0800 2004</published_at>
  <post_count>4</post_count>
  <board>
    <id>7</id>
    <name>Chicago Area</name>
  </board>
  <posts>
    <post>
      <post>
        <level>0</level>
        <id>630528</id>
        <content>Egads - I know.  Company from out of town.  Know of a spot in Wicker Park that will be serving this monstrosity?</content>
        <published_at>Wed Mar 17 14:54:32 -0800 2004</published_at>
        <parent_id></parent_id>
        <user>
          <id>0</id>
          <name>Michelle</name>
        </user>
      </post>
    </post>
    <post>
      <level>1</level>
      <id>630531</id>
      <content>Oh, the humanity!!!!!!
 
I think Miller supplies green beer.</content>
      <published_at>Wed Mar 17 15:11:23 -0800 2004</published_at>
      <parent_id>630528</parent_id>
      <user>
        <id>0</id>
        <name>Omnivore</name>
      </user>
    </post>
    <post>
      <level>2</level>
      <id>630532</id>
      <content>How exactly does one make green beer? Does it alter the flavor? Could one take a decent relatively clear beer - Stella, Pilsner Urquell, etc - and just add a flavorless food coloring? 
 
I've long been mystified by the phomenon and, due to my migratory patterns, have managed to avoid it entirely.
 
Rien</content>
      <published_at>Wed Mar 17 15:19:47 -0800 2004</published_at>
      <parent_id>630531</parent_id>
      <user>
        <id>0</id>
        <name>Rien</name>
      </user>
    </post>
    <post>
      <level>3</level>
      <id>630535</id>
      <content>In one of my past lives as a bartender, we would make the beer green by taking normal green food coloring and spraying it into a pint glass with a mini sprayer.  Then just pour the beer and, voila.  You can pretty much make any light colored beer green.
 
Flip  </content>
      <published_at>Wed Mar 17 15:29:30 -0800 2004</published_at>
      <parent_id>630532</parent_id>
      <user>
        <id>0</id>
        <name>Flip</name>
      </user>
    </post>
    <post>
      <level>1</level>
      <id>630589</id>
      <content>Can't resist: last night on Letterman: "Thought today I'd be like everybody else and celebrate St Patrick's Day. Got up, grabbed a green beer, chugged it down. Looked at it: damn, I drank  the Scope."</content>
      <published_at>Thu Mar 18 11:00:34 -0800 2004</published_at>
      <parent_id>630528</parent_id>
      <user>
        <id>0</id>
        <name>N Tocus</name>
      </user>
    </post>
  </posts>
</topic>
