But around England young wrist-spinners have popped up via Twenty20 cricket: Will Beer, aged 20, at Sussex; Max Waller, 21, at Somerset.
Beer production involves malting, milling, mashing, extract separation, hop addition and boiling, removal of hops and precipitates, cooling and aeration, fermentation, separation of yeast from young beer, aging, maturing, and packaging.
It is present in most beers, but when the beer ages and begins to change chemically it can impart a stale or cardboard-like flavor to the brew and reduce the "fresh" aromas in a beer.
As he got better – and bolder – he began experimenting with all sorts of amazing flavors including a beer aged in surfboard wood and beers that are more like wine in their intensity and flavor.
The wine list -- some 150 choices -- has been as carefully selected as the Belgian beers, aged cognacs and brandies, all of which round out the exacting, fastidious menu.
"Brooklyn Brewery and I do a beer-aging project together," he said, proudly, before slipping through a doorway and into the chilly space.
When we came of beer-age five decades ago, the most talked about brew was Rheingold.
Maybe he would grow old and a little thick around the middle from beer and age.
The people who run Waagstuk in Antwerp (Stadswaag 20) are really serious about their beers: they age them like wine.
The word "eis" buried in the name refers to the practice, which started accidentally, of freezing the beer during aging to concentrate the alcohol and flavor.
I'm tired, I haven't had a beer in ages and I just know it's all going to go tits up as it always does and I'll be back to square one.
