why do you salt your beer?

Answer 1

I read some answers before I submitted this. I believe that people buy cheap canned beer and salt it because it takes the bitter taste out of it. Back in the old days, we would see older relatives adding salt to their beer. As we got old enough to buy and drink our own beer, we realized that the stuff our grandparents and uncles and aunts drank, was cheap discusting canned beer. Thank God we live in a world of great domestic light lagers, I live in Oregon and we have some great local brews as anyone will attest. Salt? Not needed unless, your drinking cheap, discounted, crap beer. Life really is too short to drink cheap beer.

Answer 2

I have heard that cheap, crappy beer has salt added to it. But mostly beer has sugar, which isn't great either. No alcohol is great for you. Just drink in moderation if you must. And make sure it's high quality beer.

Answer 3

Though many of you are correct in your assertions: (taste like urine, drown the taste, etc), it's actually to decrease the size of the head of a poured beer. It's not idiocentric to the mid west or mid atlantic. Salt is simply added to kill the frothy head of a freshly poured beer. Not good bar etiquette in my opinion.

Answer 4

for me it just tastes better.. I love drinking beer with lots of lemon and salt.. it's really good that way.

Answer 5

i live on oz and after 15 years of drinking beer and numerous other things ive never heard of salting it

Answer 6

you will get many answers on this, but it is for taste mostly. I remember as a kid in the 60's at family get togethers the 'blue hairs' as we called them would salt the top of the Schiltz cans.

Answer 7

I just like the way it tastes. I usually only do it for lighter beers, I don't mess w/ the dark ones.

Answer 8

I think its a mid west thing. I had a boyfriend from Wisc. once and he put salt in his beer....

Answer 9

It takes some of the bitterness away

Answer 10

It reduces the carbonation in the pint...