I live in St. Louis. Maybe you've heard of our local brewery. Or seen the pretty horses in commercials.
In the evening, when the wind shifts a bit or even sometimes when it is dead still in South City, you can smell the hops. This isn't so bad as industrial odors go. But if it is a hot damp sweaty summer night and you take a deep breath, you can taste the air. And it is beer-flavored.
That sounds enjoyable but it's really not.
Air should not have a flavor.
Dad used to brew his own from home. I can attest that hops smell like boiled gym socks.
ReplyDeleteI love drinking hops. But I hate the smell of stale beer (postparty college floors?), and I'm guessing it's a bit like this.
ReplyDeleteUgg. I would hate that.
ReplyDeleteI disagree. Air should be flavoured NZ countryside/native bush flavour. When I fly home on a long flight, get into fresh air for the first time in 15 or 30 hours, breathing in NZ's air certainly has a flavour.
ReplyDeleteBeer-flavoured, not so much.
I don't mind walking into an old bar and smelling old beer, but I would not want to smell it outside an old bar.
ReplyDeleteI remember going to a, now-closed, chocolate/candy factory* in Yorkshire and being able to smell the mints** they produced from the parking lot.
*Rowntree-Mackintosh
**polo mints