Posts Tagged: Germany and German Styles
Germany: The Week Of Nine German Beers
Posted by on Wednesday, January 31, 2007 in - 20 comments
What an awful photo. The colours are all over the place, the bottles are not straight and I am not even sure that it is in focus. This is sort of how I feel about my understanding of German and German-style beers. I am not a fan and I base that primarily on ignorance. Fortunately I have the Good …
Germany: Kolsch, Gaffel Becker, Koln, Nordrhein-Westfalen
Posted by on Monday, September 18, 2006 in - 8 comments
Kölsch in a land without kölsch. Canada has found a way to be a kölsch-free zone. Why import a rare style when no one could possible understand it. I once saw this style of beer in Petawawa. I see it only in Ithaca now. Or when in Maine. Gaze at Gaffel branded stuff to make it up to yourself …
Bud Bombing At The World Cup
Posted by on Wednesday, June 21, 2006 in - 5 comments
As reported last Feburary, US mega brewer Anheuser-Busch has obtained the exclusive rights to sell the beer at the World Cup in Germany. Reports from across the sea have it that the move to only sell a thin bubbly rice based fluid has not been particularly well received. Unlike German keeper … read more »
Germany: Kölsch, Heinrich Reissdorf, Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen
Posted by on Tuesday, June 6, 2006 in - 6 comments
I know so little about kölsch because it is so hard to find on the shelf. I know it is an ale from Köln and that municipal regulation over time has done its job in protecting the style. Clearly not much of an edjification. I found this one at Tully's in Maine in April for $2.49 each and actually …
Germany: Aventinus, Schneider And Sohn, Kelheim, Bavaria
Posted by on Saturday, February 4, 2006 in - 3 comments
The classic wheat double bock or weizenbock from Munich - and not a dunkel weizen! The high test version of Schneider Weisse. The brewery's bottling hall was on Aventine Street according to Michael Jackson's Great Beer Guide. • This beer has all the moreishness supreme of the mere weisse but … read more »
Knut Travels South to Freising, Bavaria
Posted by on Saturday, October 29, 2005 in - 5 comments
Freising, Bavaria, Germany. A quiet little town dozing on a crisp Sunday morning, an excellent place for a stroll – and a few beers. Why Freising? For a beer lover, it has the obvious advantage of being the home of Weihenstephan, which claims to be the oldest brewery in the world, and that …
Köstritzer Schwarzbier -- black lager
Posted by on Sunday, August 14, 2005 in - 23 comments
I have a flaw — or perhaps it's a virtue — in that I feel unsettled around people or things that are indecisive. Don't get me wrong — I appreciate ambiguity, especially creative ambiguity that forces one to think and interpret. But there is ambiguity, and there is indecision. • I'm not entirely …
Seven Hefeweizens
Posted by on Monday, June 27, 2005 in - 17 comments
Good use of a sideboard - click the images • A real surprise was in store when I hit the LCBO the other day preparing for a dinner party on a stinking hot summer Saturday. They had actually brought in a bunch of extra hefeweizens, southern German wheat ales with a measure of yeast left in …
Germany: Salvator, Paulaner, Munich, Bavaria
Posted by on Friday, June 17, 2005 in - 6 comments
I say from time to that I do not like lagers but what I am really saying is that I do not like the mass marketed insipid pilsners generally passed off as beer by BulkCo's A, B and C. Lager or rather lagering is really just a reference to a period of cold storage, a central European technique from …
